Hubbard, Garfunkel and Oates—Sex and Religion

Today’s post showcases two selections from YouTube.

Jamie DeWolf is the great-grandson of the charlatan, L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology. The video features Jamie performing a powerful monologue about his family and the corrosive effect of his great-grandfather’s behaviour.

This second video is definitely NSFW. It’s a very funny take on Christian views on sex before marriage, performed by Garfunkel and Oates—Riki Lindome and and Kate Micucci.

As a little audio bonus, here’s a “love poem” performed by Jamie—also NSFW. It’s on Bandcamp, so I think you should be able to listen without having to join.

Bumpin’ Uglies

It wasn’t me!

This is another hilarious cartoon from the Jesus and Mo archives. I was going to publish this on its own for today’s entertainment, but decided to check out Jesus farting on DuckDuckGo. It turns out that “Did Jesus fart?” is a question that’s been asked lots of times.

The Urban Dictionary had this definition:

fart of jesus: Thought to have been named after the actual farts that the Lord Jesus Christ was reported to have made on many occasions. A fart having a fragrant aroma not dissimilar to that of summer berries with a hint of coriander and wood smoke.

Mmmm, smells like the fart of Jesus.

They also offered:

jebus parp: Nice smelling fart.

Wow! That’s nice. You could say it was quite the Jebus parp.

I found several offerings on YouTube. Here’s a couple: the first dealing with the immediate question, and the second considering the theological ramifications of an affirmative answer.

Of course, for parents this can be an awkward topic as this post indicates, We Don’t Use ‘Jesus’ and ‘Fart’ in the Same Sentence.

My favourite question was from the person who wanted to know whether Jesus’ farts had healing properties like curing asthma. The most popular response was that Jesus would have needed a Dutch oven to do this. I had no idea what this was, but the Urban Dictionary came to my rescue again.

dutch oven: The act of trapping a person under bed covers after releasing vile ass fumes

Dave vomited on the sheets when his wife gave him a white castle dutch oven.

Less Bullshit, More Conversation 2

Another take on my post about bullshit and conversation last month.

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Land of The Free (2): Left Behind – Are you ready?

The most important event in the history of mankind is happening right now. In the blink of an eye, the biblical Rapture strikes the world. Millions of people disappear without a trace. All that remains are their clothes and belongings, and in an instant, terror and chaos spread around the world. The vanishings cause unmanned vehicles to crash and burn. Planes fall from the sky. Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. There is no one to help or provide answers. In a moment, the entire planet is plunged into darkness.

via Left Behind – Are you ready?.

And here’s a piece from What Would JT Do? with a video starring some redneck plugging the movie. He’s apparently convinced atheists will be converting in droves.

 

Play Bach

This is pretty cool, if you are a fan of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Netherlands Bach Society is adding a recording of one of Bach’s 1080 works each week. Why?

Because the Netherlands Bach Society is looking forward to celebrating its first 100 years in the 2021–2022 season, the idea emerged to perform all of Bach’s work.

There’s a new performance added every Friday. As I write the count is 23, which means according to WolframAlpha’s calculations means the last piece will be posted on 01 December 2034.

Click here to go to the All Of Bach home page.

Miracles

Another chuckle from the Jesus & Mo archive—the punchline is somewhat telegraphed, but I still laughed out loud.

 

 

Birth Control

I was browsing the archives at Jesus and Mo and found this cartoon—laughed out loud.

 

Handbagged: a short review

If you find yourself in London with an afternoon or evening to spare, you might do worse than go and see Handbagged at the Vaudeville Theatre on The Strand. It’s a play written by Moira Buffini about the relationship between Maggie Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth. But in each case, you get two for the price of one. There is Maggie Thatcher as she was at the start of her first term as PM (Fenella Woolgar—Mags), and again as she was at the end of her time in office (Stella Gonet—T). Similarly, there is a younger (Lucy Robinson—Liz) and older version of the Queen (Marion Bailey—Q).

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Lo Hai Qu Starts Her Wine Club!

… last time we got some Spanish white wine–first of all, who wants Spanish white wine, man, that’s like Mississippi vodka or something, you just know when you put it in your mouth you’re gonna start playing some albino banjo, and bad enough it’s Spanish white, it’s from some weird grape called Hondarribi, which my Dad used to drive a beat-up 1989 one,…

via HoseMaster of Wine™: Lo Hai Qu Starts Her Wine Club!.

More vinous fun from the HoseMaster.

Serendipity, Sex and Zevon

OK, I admit the title of this post is a little whimsical, but it’s not way off topic, and I like the alliteration.

I’m an Amazon Prime customer. When Amazon announced that free video streaming would be included to ward off some of the criticism of the forthcoming hike in the subscription, I wasn’t particularly bothered. In the UK the price has stayed the same for some time, and delivery is no-cost for Prime items, which is not the case for US customers who have to pay something. Also I don’t watch much video. But anyway, no extra cost is no extra cost, so I decided to browse.

I don’t remember how or why, but I stumbled upon Californication (Amazon UK). I’m not a David Duchovny fan; I know him from The X-Files, but I hardly ever watched that. I was hooked after was the first episode. It’s funny, absurd and sexy. Sometimes all three at the same time, such as the scene in Episode 1, when Hank (Duchovny’s character) gets punched in the face by a naked Mia when they’re in the middle of hot sex. Mia turns out to be the 16-year old daughter of Bill, who is the fiancé of Karen, Hank’s long-time ex-lover. (For the avoidance of doubt, it was Mia who seduced Hank; he was unaware of who, and how old, she was.)

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