Saturday, April 05, 2003

TO ALL STATIONS FROM THE DROMEDARY SYNDICATE In light of recent events, and in order to reinforce His position in the miltary industrial entertainment sector, God Almighty announced, through His Anointed Representatives on Earth, a new campaign to update His Image for the hip young consumers of today.  A new nickname, J-HO (short for Jehovah) has been approved, and the release of the Almighty's new CD:  J-HO's GREATEST HITS: Testify This, a compilation of rap versions of the bloodier episodes of the Old Testament, is expected soon. MESSAGE ENDS copyright 2003 The Dromedary Syndicate     5:16:49 PM    comment []

Love During Wartime Look to the links on the left! A very old friend is blogging at Love During Wartime.  James also has a very fine online chapbook, The Saturn Sequence. My favorite poem there is "Still Life with Icons." David Harris, the physicist, writes haiku piquant as peppers. Go see. Read my own "Poetry of the Soul in Machine Translation" at Exquisite Corpse. 4:58:15 PM    comment []

"I have an atheism, but it beams with holiness." "Bush believes he was called by God to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a close friend who talks with Bush every day." The Blogspel according to Joe Conason via Scott Rosenberg.  This brings to mind an interview of a Rabbi, Irwin Kula from the PBS Frontline show, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.  What the Rabbi has to say is still pertinent and moving in this time of war.  A short excerpt: "When the president said, "This is not a religious issue," that's when I knew it actually was a religious issue. At the same time that Osama bin Laden and that group of people were claiming this was religious, we were claming it's not, but finishing every single sentence with "God bless America." I remember every seventh-inning stretch that had a "God bless America," and my body, literally ... I felt like I was repulsed. I was repulsed that basically all we were doing is, everybody was trotting out their own God. So we, in America, were trotting out our God -- that's the God of sports, that's the God who comes in and says everything's good. You'll score a touchdown, you'll score, and your army will win. God bless America. And they were trotting out their God. What really was the difference? Three weeks earlier, everybody was saying it's all the same God. It's all the same God, these monotheist Gods. So if it's all the same God, how come one God kills and one God affirms? I said, "I will never teach about that God again, because that's what that God does." It was as superficial to say "God bless America" at the end of the presidential speech, as it was dangerous to say, "Our God commanded us to fly into the buildings." I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that realization, in all honesty, because I can't even pray to that God any more. [I was] a person who got up every morning, every single morning, and put on ... my prayer garment, and would pray. Now I can't do that, because that God I don't believe in; I haven't believed in that God in a long time. But I really don't believe in that God now. ... I mean, everywhere that I go is this seventh-inning stretch, God bless America. Well, "God bless America" and "God bless Saudi Arabia" is the same thing. God is God. So we're probably all off on this God, and now we see what this God does, or we see what belief in this God does." 4:22:57 PM    comment []

Speaking of manuscripts study the pages of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.     3:55:23 PM    comment []

Speaking of Blake, go visit the Blake Archive You can view Blake's original illuminated manuscripts (including the Marriage) there.     3:42:01 PM    comment []

TO ALL STATIONS FROM THE DROMEDARY SYNDICATE   Today's Fundy Fact   On page 911 of the Gideon's Bible, a volume that can be found at bedsides in hotels, motels, and in jail cells across the USA, in the book of Zephaniah, chapter 1, the following verses appear:   "15: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16: A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. 17: And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung."   Just a coincidence; or proof of God's wrath toward all those infidels, pagans, and sexual deviants?  Well, wrath is so much more fun, isn't it?   (Our thanks go out to the former inmate of the local County Jail who first discovered this miraculous sign during Bible Study.)   Amaze your friends, and confound unbelievers--with Fundy Facts!   MESSAGE ENDS   copyright 2003 The Dromedary Syndicate 11:09:10 AM    comment []