Dec. 7th, 2008

defrog: (bras from mars)
Yr weekly update of things you’ve always suspected about me that shall be confirmed in 3, 2, 1 ...

1. Am I demon? Yes.

[Via [livejournal.com profile] puffdoggydaddy ]

Which creature of the night are you?
Your Result: Demon
 

Your raging id needs no chemical incentive to break out into a fiery orgy of destruction. When you're not burning, you're brooding. All you need is someone to point the way out for you.

Cthulu Spawn
 
Vampire
 
Ghost
 
Incubus/Succubus
 
Sorceror
 
Werewolf
 
Which creature of the night are you?
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Which should surprise no one, of course.

2. I’m Victoria’s best kept secret.

[Via [livejournal.com profile] popfiend ]


You Are Lingerie



You love to be seen as attractive. Being seen as sexy is important to you.

You drive everyone crazy... in the best way possible.

You love to tease, flirt, and fall in love.

You are the type most likely to be sleeping in someone else's bed.


And you should see what I wear to bed.

3. I’m mostly recyclable.

How much of your body could be recycled?

Carry on.

It’s not easy being green, sexy and evil,

This is dF
defrog: (bettie xmas)
Much has been written about how Christmas seems to come earlier every year, but for my money, the Christmas season doesn’t truly start until Bill O’Reilly begins his War On Christmas coverage.

This time, of course, he has proof that atheists want to kill Christmas forever – they’re taking out ads on buses and placing Winter Solstice placards at Nativity scenes. I mean, honestly, what more proof do you need that these people want to make belief in God and Bible ownership a capital offense? If you actually allow them to speak this hate speech in public, you might as well say its okay to punch nuns and blow up churches, cos that’s what they REALLY want.

Yes, well, we all know about Bill. He thinks the Constitution is based on the teachings of Jesus. (I’m not kidding.)

But I thought this was worth relaying because much of this is at the heart of a Supreme Court case currently in the works. In Pleasant Grove City, Utah, a city park that allows groups to put up displays accepted a Ten Commandments monument given to the city by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, but rejected a monument from a religious organization called Summum that listed the group’s Seven Principles of Creation. Summum sued on 1A grounds, and the US Court of Appeals ruled in their favor. Now the Supremes are looking into it.

This interests me because it’s an aspect of the Ten Commandments debate that doesn’t get enough play. My take has always been that if yr going to allow the 10C in courthouses and Nativity scenes in public squares, then it’s only fair to allow people with other religious beliefs – or those with none at all – the same courtesy. So I’ll be interested in the outcome.

The problem, of course, is that thanks to yr outgoing President and his posse, the hardcore Christian Right has enthusiastically embraced the “yr with us or against us” mentality and deployed it for every single debate on public policy that somehow reflects their religious beliefs. A vote against Prop 8 is a vote to outlaw Christianity. If you want to put yr atheist pagan message in the town square next to a Nativity scene, yr denying Christians their First Amendment right to celebrate Christmas. That kind of thing.

So the Supreme Court ruling probably won’t change anything. If they rule in favor of Summum, Bill will just babble about activist judges again and dedicate his life to fighting the liberal Muslim tyranny of the Obama Gang – which he’ll do anyway.

And people wonder why I hate Christmas.

Bah all over yr humbug,

This is dF
defrog: (roller skates)
Good morning, and welcome to Roller Skate Week.

Why a week’s worth of roller skating posts? You can blame WFMU, which reminded me that once, circa 1979, the most popular craze in America was ... roller disco.

Here’s what’s worse: Hollywood noticed and tried to cash in.

Witness the spectacle that is Roller Boogie. Starring Linda Blair!


It gets better. Released the same year: Skatetown USA. Starring Scott Baio, Flip Wilson and Ruth Buzzi!


Have fun spotting Patrick Swayze in hist first motion picture performance.

If there’s a demarcation point anyone could choose to pinpoint just when Western mainstream pop culture jumped the shark, this just might be it.

FUN FACT: We had a roller rink near where I grew up. We used to go every Saturday. It wasn’t disco, but they played lots of Journey, Skynyrd and Kansas, as I recall. I was so bad at it I managed to roll over my own finger. On the other hand, I rather enjoyed wiping out. So much so that they eventually barred me for life.

And yes, in fact I DO have a week’s worth of material for this.

PRODUCTION NOTE: There will be no in-line skates featured during Roller Skate Week. Fuck in-line skates. I have spoken.

Skate or die,

This is dF

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