La Voyage Dans Les Simpson Did you catch the Itchy & Scratchy reference to Georges Méliès’s La Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) in the recent episode of The Simpsons? If you’ve never seen the original, I recommend that you watch it first before you enjoy this cartoon adaptation. The Méliès brothers released the 14 minute film over a century ago, and it continues to pop up from time to time. Loosely based on the novels of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, it has the distinction of being the first science fiction film ever made. I don’t recall when I first watched it, but I had the pleasure of seeing it again last fall in my film appreciation class when the professor played it as an example of early cinematography. It was a treat to see this reference in one of my favorite animated series. (In case you don’t know, Itchy the mouse and Scratchy the cat are the two characters of the incredibly gory cartoon which is played during the Krusty the Clown show that the children of Springfield love to watch on Saturday mornings. It’s a cartoon within a television show within a cartoon.)
I agree. We should run him out of the church so that he becomes popular in Persia.
— Responding to a comment from a classmate comparing R. C. Sproul’s negative opinion of the hymn “And Can It Be?” to Nestorius.
First Ontario St. John Calvin the Reformer United Orthodox Reformed Presbyterian Covenantal Sovereign Grace Particular Redemption of the Totally Depraved Saints Irresistibly Called and Persevering to the End Amillennialist Regulated Worship Inspired Infallible Bible Church of the Western United States
— Since most saavy pastors these days are borrowing secular marketing techniques to brand their churches with a bland, seeker-friendly name, I’ve decided to give my new church a very exclusive name. Members just say that they attend “First Ontario St. JC the R UORP CSG PR of the TDSIC and P to the E A RW IIBC of the WUS”.
Phew… almost midnight. Made it safely through another Ides of March.
Oh, the Ides of March. The one day of the year when your best friend has society’s permission to stab you to death.
me: howdy ho!
me: actually, that came out wrong.
me: i don't mean to imply that you are a "ho".
Some poor woman (@nancwithants) on Twitter has confused me (@claysmith) for her friend (@smithclay). She has already commented twice with my name about the antics of my globe-hopping doppelganger. I’m starting to wish I was this other Clay Smith, because he’s in Paris taking a knife class. That sounds like more fun than what I’m doing…
Part of me wants to stop losing weight as I have only just discovered that right now I’m exerting against the Earth a force of about 1 kilonewton. That’s a nice round number.
(You’ll definitely have to click to view the large photo in order to see what I’m talking about.)
This evening I watched “Without a King” (on Netflix), a documentary about Swaziland, the last absolute monarchy in Africa. In one final scene, I noticed something awesome. When HRH First Princess Sikhanyiso goes out to see an HIV/AIDS orphanage, a crowd of children gathers around her. For a brief moment, you see a kid wearing a white t-shirt with the words, “CLAY SEX”, emblazoned on the back. That’s all.
Anyway, I recommend this film. The country is predominately Christian, and for all of the complaints the people and the international community have about the king, the filmmakers follow his first wife to church where she worships with sincerity. Plus, the First Princess attended Biola in the mid-Naughts. Be warned that a few scenes have National Geographic-style nudity. (Some people may recognize my appreciation of this film to be the result of my interest in monarchy.)
IM-rony
me: hey
her: hi
me: sorry, firefox froze
me: so, i figured i'd move from the desktop to my laptop in the meantime
her: ooo
me: we never have complete conversations
her: yeah that's true
me: one of us is always leaving
her: yeah
her: speaking of which, brb
me: k
