her father died in childbirth

The warped picture below is Dina Martina–fashion model for the braille edition of Vogue. Scot and I had the pleasure of seeing Dina perform tonight. She has a tenuous, but very funny grip on reality, and a bag full of Christmas gifts for lucky audience members. One person received Touch Me, a book of poetry [...]

open invitation to evil spirits

Several years ago one of my co-workers said she’d had a dream about me, but was reluctant to tell me about it. It wasn’t a happy dream, so she was afraid I wouldn’t want to hear it. Of course I was curious, and despite her show of being hesitant, she obviously wanted to tell [...]

stay on the scene

He ascended on the alleged birthday of Jesus, just to show who’s really the boss.

Pan’s Labyrinth

I had the opportunity to see a preview of Pan’s Labyrinth when Scot offered to share a pass for two. It’s a brilliant film, but don’t go unless you can handle excruciating violence. In post-civil war Spain, a girl and her sick, pregnant mother go to live with an army captain whose squadron is stationed [...]

down the bunny hole

Carol sent me this link to an 8 1/2-minute animated video and, as they say, it kicked my butt. After watching, I felt like I’d just had a weird, scary dream.
Rabbit
From the description on the intro page: “A young boy and girl discover a strange, gift-bearing god in the belly of a bunny [...]

if you’re reading this, you admit your guilt

We received a message on our answering machine recently– a wrong number, but intriguing. It went something like this: “This message is for John Doe, if you are not John Doe, please hang up or disconnect now. If you are John Doe, please continue listening. By continuing to listen, you acknowledge that you are John [...]

tribulation

Why did nature pound Puget Sound with an enormous atmospheric club? Because God doesn’t like the way we celebrate Christmas here. He was especially ticked about the Christmas-trees-at-the-airport debacle. That’s why He knocked down so many trees with high winds. Get the message? Trees? Christmas trees? He speaks in code, but we can understand it.
He’s [...]