Lenten Foundations

preciosos momentos de guadalupe

She loves you thiiiiiis much! Seen at Cowtown Rodeo and Flea Market, Sharptown, NJ

Santiago de Sangre

Francisco Calvelo sent me a link to his new short Santiago de Sangre or, Vampire Prison

While I have embedded it below, it's site, with links to other films from his group is here.

As Hillbilly Joe would say, "Them Spaniards, they're always cuttin' eyeballs!"

Production values are very good, the Spanish culture is used to good effect, and it's damn creepy at times. Enjoy.


Santiago de sangre (Vampire Prison) 12' - ENG SUB from babeco on Vimeo.

God Fever

My daughter showed me this: (click on pic for HUGE but not giant, version)

They feature many highlights of religion, like:

Son killing as bluff-

The mass killing of those who failed to toe the line, or as god looked at it a "do over":

Infanticide based poker style conflict resolution:

The creation of countless widows and orphans:

Moses gets found featuring Margaret O'Brien:

Susan Hayward and Victor Mature:

Menacing Egyptians (a "don't touch my lunch !" sticker)

...and my fave Station of the Cross, Veronica !

This is Butter

Just screwing around:

Independence Day 2008 in GlyphJockeytown

An exhausted giant.



Children's programming legend Sally Starr.



My daughter went and got Sally's autograph for my wife - a tearfully sweet moment for all. We were ready to take the "I will not do what the Three Stooges Do" pledge right then and there.



This year's parade was neck deep in Jeebus. It was like a parade in The Handmaids Tale. Not a stem cell in sight. The Ba'Hai quit marching years ago.



Mummer color:



Caledonian kneebones:



Wheelie poppin' badass lawnmowers:

U-S-A ! U-S-A ! U-S-A ! ....... 2

Thanksgiving

Link to last year's post, which contains some lovely cards and transcription of the messages on their reverses.

Decay

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them become defiled through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.Ezekiel 20:25-26


God did tempt Abraham, ... And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest ... and offer him there for a burnt offering...
Genesis 22:1-2


Some small boys came out of the city and jeered at [the prophet Elisha], saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And ... he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
II Kings 2:23-24


....in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. Deuteronomy 20:10-17


If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.Leviticus 20:9