From our house:

Ricky the Horrible with a plastic cup.

The Empire of Dallas is back - and has posted an AFV on the kitchen island.

Mtown commandos attempt to drive them off, without success.

Some mercenaries who came along for the ride here...

Feeding time for the kittens, none of whose names I know.

Someone wanted to know:

why religion poisions everything

and came to my blog to find out.

Obviously, because it gives opportunities for the gullible to be sold false religions (c'mon, dudes who somehow lose golden tablets given them by the angel Gabriel aren't exactly the sort you want to follow...) and because it has such disastrous effects on art, as I proved....

Speaking of art, here is a picture.

Please excuse my humanity...

I was sick on Sunday - had some kind of cold which gave me a headache. The bad side was that I felt bad and had to miss Mass. The good side is that I got some reading done - although nothing I haven't read before.

I reread Dune for the fifth or sixth time, and now have decided to inflict you with a review of it. It's going to be long in the gestation, however, as dealing with the freaky pyschology and wacky religion of Frank Herbert (let us not mention the drugs) is certain to be tough. However, the heart of the story - boy forced to save the world at the end of a complicated chain of events, planned and otherwise - is excellent. The best thing is that there is free will - although the hero sees into the future, there are multiple possibilities, and he cannot know all the paths ahead. This is important in the later part of the book.

Darn, I'm giving away much of the book already. Here's a distraction.

It's called "Kitty Looking Out Upon Landscape Illuminated By Burning Trees Causing Global Warming And Bad Grammar Now." Note the symbolism of the box (which originally stored coffee), the near-empty kitty food bowl, and the upturned wagon. It is a powerful of statement. I am selling unsigned prints at $200 each. Add $30 for signatures.

Here's another, showing that hubris is more common than I thought.

God's College is pretty darned good though.

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Sometimes I hate this generation, and tell myself it's the dregs of history, that it couldn't get worse. And then I see things like this, from the 60s.

And I feel better.

I just snagged my cargo pants on the knob of a desk, shaking it awfully and spooking my relatives.

And we mind as well end there.

Various pictures

The Great Depression started in 1929. Coincidence? I think not!

From the movie The Deadly Mantis. Mystery Science Theater 3000 commented on this scene: "Gentlemen, this looks delicious."

One thing the Sucrose Inquisition isn't getting, sure as God made little green apples! Actually....that's a drum aerator, and used for moral purposes - namely putting holes in the ground.

Nothing like strategic insights for bathroom reading!

Pictures

The religious pictures are from the cathedral in Mobile, AL. I intended to post them a long time ago, but I never did.