SPANISH INQUISITOR

So far this meme has been flogged by a few fellow bloggers, The Exterminator, (((Billy))), Ordinary Girl , Ridger (I think she started it), PhillyChief, and probably a few others I haven’t seen. Philly’s selections were somewhat arcane, at least to this old fogie. His taste in music and mine don’t seem to overlap. I’m not complaining (unless I happen to be riding in his car for a long trip).

In any event, I thought I’d see if I could stump the panel of experts (so to speak) and put up the first few vocalizations or lines from 25 of the songs on my iPod, set to shuffle. I didn’t strictly pick the first 25, because many of the songs have the title in the first line, but definitely 25 out of the first 45.

So, fuck the meme, Name That Tune!

1. I used to drink a lot in those days you see
2. In the timbers of Fennario
3. I don’t care if Monday’s blue The Cure- Friday I’m in Love -Tommykey
4. Walkin’ down new streets, music is loud
5. Well me and my uncle went riding down
6. No I’m never gonna do it
7. Baby, baby, I’ve been so sad since you’ve been gone.
8. It’s no secret, I don’t care.
9. Is it too much to ask
10. Could not get to sleep
11. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you say (this one’s for Ex)
12. There’s a problem, feathers iron
13. Well the first days are the hardest days
14. You can walk on the water
15. I’m going to rent myself a house
16. Girl of a thousand faces
17. I’m wearin’ fur pyjamas
18. I can’t believe the news today Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2 - Tommykey
    
19. Rita was 16 years
20. Don’t have to humble yourself to me
21. We got the afternoon
22. When I get off of this mountain
23. All the snow has turned to water
24. We were drinking like the Irish
25. Got no time for the corner boys

Looking back at them, they seem very easy. Actually, one of them has the title in the line.

This should be a cinch.

For people my age.

Bob Dylan has a wonderful, and hypnotic song entitled Visions of Johanna which starts with these lyrics:

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks/ when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet.

Continue reading ‘Visions of Mary’

Apparently, those damned homosexuals and other sinners have not learned their lesson from the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. They must be engaging in same gender sexual activities at an alarming rate again. Lots of cunnilingus and anal sex going on, and not just in New Orleans or Florida, I’ll bet. John Hagee must be writhing in delight horror . In fact, given the number of people who died yesterday in Myanmar, I’d have to guess that there are also a solid number of heterosexuals who have taken up non-missionary positions or sodomistic sexual practices of their own.

Continue reading ‘The Gays Have Been Acting Up Again.’

This just in from Fox News (where else?) We may have another virgin Mary on our hands, though mom hasn’t gone so far as to admit to that. A woman in Ohio undertook to have an ultrasound image of her recently conceived baby, and instead of seeing the usual gray and white, ghostly image of a fetus, she found a picture of Jesus, apparently on the cross. At least, that’s what it looks like to me. I certainly don’t see a baby there, but I always have to be shown the fetus when I look at these ultrasounds. But that’s just me. I’ll bet her doctor can see the little thing.

Continue reading ‘He’s Everywhere! He’s Everywhere!’

Call me Ishmael. At least, that’s what my master calls me. He found the name in a book somewhere; he’s always reading books, never has much time for me, other than to throw me a mostly-eaten leg of mutton or some scraps from the table. What kind of name is that for a dog? I’m a pedigree English Sheepdog, (though plagued with a lean and hungry look)! I have papers, dammit! He could have called me Spot, it would have been more appropriate.

Continue reading ‘A Doghouse Of One’s Own’

I try not to blow my own horn, but since I wear only one of a few of the hats at my other blog, Another Goddamned Podcast, I don’t feel too self-conscious about pointing out that we recently interviewed the wonderful and well spoken Chaplain, keeper of The Apostate’s Chapel, on our most recent podcast. She waxed eloquent (while we stumbled along in our usual plodding fashion) as we poked and probed her concerning her recent deconversion, and the subsequent consequences that ultimately led to her creating her blog.

Continue reading ‘Another Goddamned Blogger Interview’

Since this is the beginning of my second year of blogging, this seems like an auspicious occasion to dip into the mailbag and review a few of the letters I’ve received over the past year. (They’re actually emails, but mailbag still works as a metaphor.) Some of them are complimentary, some not so, as you might expect from a blog of this sort, but I don’t shy away from criticism, so I’ll reproduce the good with the bad, warts and all. With one semi-exception (explained below) none of these ever showed up in comments.

Continue reading ‘From the Mailbag’

When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, that’s when this atheist, skeptic, critical thinker and, yes, humanist loses it, thinking it would be a good idea to present the eighteenth version of the Humanist Symposium with a zodiacal theme. It’s downright silly but where does it say that humans have to be so serious all the time? No-one with a brain (or at least one that is switched on) gives much credence to astrology, but sometimes it can be fun. So in the spirit of frivolity that comes with spring, let’s peruse the most recent submissions (and a few that were not submitted) to the Symposium from an astrological perspective.

Continue reading ‘The Humanist (Age of Aquarius) Symposium #18′

OK. Here’s my major problem with the Compassion Forum — that it actually exists in the first place. I truly hope we are not setting a precedent for future presidential elections. From the Forum website, here is the purpose of this vacuous excuse for a national debate:

…an unprecedented bipartisan presidential candidate forum dedicated to discussing pressing moral issues that bridge ideological divides within our nation.

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After reading Bart Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus” a wonderful historical perspective on the textual criticism of the Bible, I looked forward to his next book, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer. In it Ehrman makes even clearer the reasons why he is no longer an evangelical Christian, or any type of Christian for that matter, despite being born again as a youth and devoting his life and education to the study of the Bible, instead acknowledging his agnosticism (though I think he is clearly an atheist).

Continue reading ‘God’s Problem’