2006 RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival

Check out my photos from this year's festival in Bell Buckle, starring Extraspecial Chris and Mr. Larry H. Vader.

"That had better be web fluid that just got me all sticky!"

Beau should appreciate this, just for the sheer wrong-wrong-WRONGness of it.

Did I mention I'm getting into comics again in a seriously wallet-assaulting way? Not because of that image I just linked though, I assure you.

XL=eXceptional Lunkhead

Just to prove what an idiot I can be sometimes: All week, I've been wondering, "Why are they calling the Super Bowl this year 'Super Bowl Extra Large'"?

Birthday mocha

Birthday mocha
Originally uploaded by Jubilee Chris.

Fido, Nashville.

The Book of Daniel

I finally got around to watching the pilot episode of "The Book of Daniel" that's been sitting on my TiVo for a week and a half. While it wasn't the greatest thing ever, I enjoyed it. As a lifelong church member, I've been around long enough to know that homosexuality, embezzlement, drug abuse, marital unfaithfulness, alcoholism, and blackmail do exist in the church.

Unfortunately, some churchgoers seem to want to ignore that fact, and because they were vocal enough, I'll no longer be able to watch this show in my market. Nashville's NBC affiliate has taken the show off the air altogether. How revolting. One local letter to the editor read: "[In the pilot episode we] were entreated into the following: homosexuals, lesbianism, adultery, illicit drug dealing, Internet software theft, prescription drug abuse, group sex, pre-marital sex, blackmail, embezzling church funds, discrimination, alcoholism and mocking Daniel, a book of the Bible." Now, first, I totally missed the group sex. Too bad--I love me some group sex! Second, though, how many times have you heard people so up in arms when a show portrays Internet software theft? Or embezzlement, or discrimination, or drug abuse, or even (in this age when Will & Grace is limping along to its long-overdue whimper of a finale) homosexuality? No, the only reason this got any attention at all is because some writers and producers put together a show that dared to suggest that Christians are real people with real 21st-century struggles. Shocking!

Shame on you to everyone who's protesting, and even more to those stations that are caving to the pressure.

Can't sleep. Somehow, after watching Pope Benedict doing his thing at St. Peter's tonight, I was reminded of my favorite apocryphal story about Tallulah Bankhead:

On one Christmas Eve, after she had been to entirely too many cocktail parties, a friend foolishly convinced her to attend midnight mass. Seated next to the aisle, Tallulah squinted through bleary eyes at the approaching procession led by a priest in a long robe, carrying the smoking censer. Leaning into the aisle Tallulah loudly proclaimed: "Darling, your gown is lovely but I’m afraid I have to tell you that your purse is on fire."

Merry Christmas, y'all.

You're a Mean One, Mister Ratzinger

Is it the Grinch? Is it Sir Anthony Hopkins on a bender? No, it's Santa Pope! "(AP) Pope Benedict XVI, sporting a fur-trimmed hat in the rich red colour of a Santa hat, waves to pilgrims upon his arrival in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday for his weekly general audience."

I have to hand it to him, though: not many people can pull off a pumpkin cape. Merry Baby-Jesus-Birthday, Popey.