A Book of Mormon Film

I can say this: I like the art. A lot. This project apparently died with investor fears after the most presumptiously titled THE Book of Mormon Movie. And of that movie (which I emphasise was a separate project from that link) - truly, was it THE one and only Book of Mormon movie? Can there only be one? Because if there could only be one, would that not have been IT? And if IT was and must be the only one, must it also, like God, be the one and only True Film?

I hope there will be many Book of Mormon films and many different lines of those films.

If they had changed "The" in the title to "A", would the whole thing have flown? If they had the mind to observe and change that problem they'd have observed and changed a lot of other problems - it would be an entirely different film. For example we would not persist in this virtual worship of Arnold Freburg's art. I like Freburg's work, but not all of it, and it isn't the end all to begin all. Can we get BEYOND Freburg?

Robot Feelings

All your Hollywood cars and all your Hollywood women have large, plastic bumpers. There are also exotic coverings for both - have you seen those fancy leather bras for cars? I always think it's very exciting when I see an owner taking one off for a car wash. But do we really protect our actresses and cars with these? No, we send both of them into high speed chases, and the coverings, besides not really being coverings, always come off. Then we are talking about full on, bare-bumper collisions.

That we think of our machines as attractive people (usually women) is especially apparent in our comics with huge humanoid robots. Someday we'll really have these, and then we'll really need those plastic bumpers. Which raises a question: if we think of robots as women, don't we also think of women as robots? I think the folks who made Baywatch have made up their minds, and I'm warning my children not to waste time with dirty robots. They'll understand when the real robots show up, them and their robotica.

At the same time, we should respect these hopelessly dirty, pathetic, mindless robots, and allow them every privelege they deserve. I am very upset by the term "robo", disparaging of homosexual robots. It shows an emerging "us vs. the robots", mentality, and I don't at all doubt that robots, like so many other oppressed people, will have a long fight against robot inequality. Clearly, robots need full citizenship like the rest of us, which is why I support the following quoted constitutional amendment for robots.

PROPOSED.

Section 1. All robots created, manufactured, imported, or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of robots of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any robot of programming, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any robot within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Rights of citizens of the United States shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of manufacture, programming, program release or revision date, or date of manufacture.

Meridian on Mobsters and Mormons

This Meridian review of Mobsters and Mormons was right, I thought, except it didn't take it far enough. It says the film's criticism of Mormon culture went "a bit too far" - but I thought the film went way too far! It presents Mormons as going to great measures to avoid contact with outsiders! Okay, some of the Mormons include the Mobsters, but the ones that don't - that just doesn't happen in Mormondom. That is a completely incorrect depiction - Mormons are the most inclusive people and embrace everyone and everything, so you should not see this movie, and you should make sure no one else sees it, either!

Right undertakes subliminal blitz campaign

I have learned from a source beyond reproof that a secret commitee has been called by executive order to intercept media before publication and insert subliminal messages: images in films, cyphers in text media, and sub-aural screams and dialogues in radio and music. My informant passed many of these messages along to me - they are reassuring, and some of them follow.

THE SUN SHINETH AND THE RAIN FALLETH ON BOTH THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE LIBERAL

THE RED SCARE WAS THE FAULT OF THE INDIANS, AND WE DIDN'T SCARE THEM ENOUGH

Listen up, stinko-man: if all your absolutes are belong to Sith, why are Jedi make absolute saying this absolute? Jedi say all Sith must die - so absolute! Why Jedi say absolutes bad? If so then all your everything are bad, because Obi-Wan say absolute bad but make absolute self him say by saying!! This Lucas never say!! Maybe Jedi bad for Lucas? When Yoda say: "Maybe we understand all prophecy wrong." Lucas, what you are saying! Is Lucas not see absolutes of Obi-Wan? If absolute make Anakin bad like robot, why not Obi-Wan if bad absolute like Sith then bad like robot, too? Why Vader fight like robot all evil, and Obi-Wan fight like man all good? Are Lucas want fight like good man or like evil robot?? If bad Vader say all your good are all evil and Vader destroy all good, and good Obi-Wan say all your evil are all evil but not destroy all evil, when is good win over evil? Good let evil kill all good forever end of time and then blink and fuzzy happy bye-bye but forgive??!! And still, why Obi-Wan not see self-same absolutes then think himself bad? If all your absolute are no absolute what are your absolute? Every absolute! And if every absolute all your absolute, Obi-Wan do everything what everyone say and not destroy evil, Obi-Wan programmed, Obi-Wan is robot, not Vader! Vader think by self against what others say, and Obi-Wan think by what everyone say! Vader not robot but thinking all by self, whatever others say, but Lucas say Vader all bad robot! Then Lucas say Vader sometime future good, while Obi-Wan maybe sometime good but not destroy bad unless Luke child of immaculate robot-child make all good by programing father Vader robot not to be robot? If Obi-Wan robot make highest hero for Lucas, is Lucas say that all your non-absolute every good like program all everyone for everything? Then everyone all program everyone and all absolutes again like making nothing where all your absolutes are absolute against themselves! That why all people make everything but not do anything, so no one say destory evil like good men and not like robot who not fight when people say no war? What are you think is message, Artoo??!!

ALL YOUR ABSOLUTES ARE BELONG TO REPUBLICAN JEDI

ABSOLUT WRONG SITH LIBERAL

LIBERTY IS 'CUZ LIBERTY DONE GOT VINDICTIFIED

'CUZ YOU LIBERALS TOLERATIN' ALL, YOU IS WHAT YOU AIN'T

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT IS WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

And so on..

Lawmakers soon to decide whether Mother Nature is racist

"The issue is not about race right now," said Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio. "There will be another time to have issues about color."

If you don't have an identity of suffering, you are not black. Therefore, I am black.

But seriously.. the assertion that relief was slow to come to some victims because they are black and poor! This is a statement of utterly unreasoned hatred. It is creating and playing up enmity to garner power with many who have been well trained by this lot to view themselves as victims. It is shameless, despicable demagoguery, and it tears at the fabric of the United States. These are not representing America, they are dividing it with a shabby, hate-shodden content of character. So long as we go with this kind of representation - no, we can't all just get along.

This is the situation. The expanse of America is huge. Huge. And this disaster obliterated entire cities along all of our southern sea and more. And if enough food and personell to support exiles of a destroyed metropolis and more isn't transported across our entire nation in three days, somebody is racist? To say so is a more than monumental missapropriation of cause - the failure of the grasp of reality - may I say stupidity? - is unquantifiable.

As Orson Scott Card wisely observes, the disaster was prepared for as much as we thought it ought to be, and we were wrong. Twenty-twenty hindsight is easy, foresight isn't, and the kind of foresight we so often demand is not really a request for leadership so much as Godhood.

Also, these legislators contradict themselves on the "charge" of racism, and really they are making the charge. Their complaint is that supplies are moving slowly because the relief subjects are black; that the exiles are being ignored because they are black. The intended inference is glaringly loud: that America (and really the executive branch of it - FEMA and Bush) hates blacks! They don't care if they die! Pathetic. At the same time, they deny this message - "There will be another time to have issues about color". And this statement of denial is still further absurd - so you aren't charging racism now, but you will? When? If you're going to have another press conference in one month to charge racism, we know you hold the charge right now! Not that they actually plan any such conference or open charge - no, what they plan is to stir up the muck of hatred right now for sympathy from black voters, to maintain power through division and fear - while doing everything they can to appear not to be doing this. It is an imagined vomit which they heaved and now sychophantically ingest. It should be spoken out against. Now. Loudly. Or perhaps regurgitated upon. Figuratively. Yes, America should throw up on such politics. It misrepresents good black folks.

Mother nature has lashed out against the lot of humanity, and only God may know why, but everyone down there deserves all the help that can possibly be sent their way.

April 4th

Casey Austin Sheehan was killed in the service of Liberty, April 4th 2004.

I died on April 4th. I met the eternal host gathered to honor risen soldiers. From among them came my long waiting forebearers, embracing me! Then came the free spirits of the race of my enemy, thanking me for my death in the name of their living. I could not tell them I was glad because I had not thought them brothers.

But gazing on the earth, I saw the great cords of Hell wound tight and strangling the enemy. The enemy forged their cord longer, grasping to bind all. My own cord now broken, where it had bound my brothers tight, they were loosed and came free! The heavens shouted a loud Halleluhah! - the chorus rang around the circuit of the sun! And as my brothers' cords released, I saw the bound of my enemy also coming free!

Returning my gaze to the earth, I saw my mother, my country, unmoved beyond the memory of my death. I saw my war now a passion for the world, and she sought reason for my death! But let passion be your reason, great mother, tell the world I am sorry I did not die sooner, to free brother and enemy in Honor! I cry for her to hear - Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! I wait for her. I died on April 4th.