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Author: Juli Kearns

  • Elucidating on "run amok"

  • Rational Discussion Expected

    [clear] BATTLE ESCALATES! Tom Delay declares legitimate debate by people of good will against a Judiciary run amok in their War on Faith. The New American Homeland Security Vatican announced its Pope with smoke and bells on the steps of the Supreme Court. “And to imagine, I always thought it was grape juice,” Delay said,…

  • Mystery of the Lost Disaster Twins’ Episode

    [clear] I first came upon Julia and Robbie when we were being told to put plastic over the windows and duct tape our doors if the anthrax was blowin’ in the wind. Julia and Robbie first startled me. Then they made me happy. I read them several times over, delighted with FEMA. A bar had…

  • Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz

    [clear] I’ve been trying to track back down a Laura Bush-approved book for children on the war where kids are supposed to eat a star candy each day until mom or dad returns and send mom or dad star-shaped cookies. I came across it by chance the other night and can’t find it now. Thought…

  • Learning how to honor the truth by being taught how G. W. never told a lie

    First off. Despite the fact I was over at Stone Bridge lamenting the fact I used to love movies and how I hate Hollywood movies and how most have no substance, I got all way too excited when I came upon Arvin Hill’s Carnival of Horrors and his profile giving him as liking “Shakes the…

  • What would a Minoan goddess do–vague thoughts on gratuities and peon empires

    Not doing the Hooters jiggle This is a long post. As long as it is because it’s a subject I didn’t want to occasion any sense of trivialization, which I felt was happening in an initial shorter version. The Maidenform dream and the election train Alicublog makes the post Guy Thing in response to Sex,…

  • Uncanny Valley of the Dolls – Part Two

    My seven-year-old son heard, from the other room, Patty Duke singing the VOD theme and thinking it’s some new CD asked me to buy it. My husband said it made him want to gnaw his leg off. Son comes in and I was playing the robo-mime girl for Husband, had told him robo-mime looked oddly…

  • Uncanny Valley of the Dolls

    Found through Billmon. This new Neely O’Hara which is based on the girlfriend of creator, David Hanson. OK/cancel makes note of what is called the Uncanny Valley, a principle of “robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities.” The idea is the more human in appearance the robot is, the…

  • Two Edward Hopper windows

    There was even hail. Then drizzle. H.o.p. went to the toy store with Marty then the studio. The toy store was a ploy to distract and make him not worry about mom visiting at the hospital. H.o.p. said just this once and I explained I may be spending some evenings keeping company there over the…

  • Ongoing confession of a long-standing party-pooper pessimist

    Back in the early 80s, there was a lower economic area of Buckhead that began to eat itself in the hopes of attaining glory. We lived in the area right before it began to chow down. The name of the apartment “complex” may have been Oak Hill. My husband thinks it may have been Oak…

  • A Radiant Botanist’s Primer: Lesson one, on the weeds and the flowers

    From the NY Times which I see today has an article on megachurches (a subject I brought up in Friday’s post). When you ask people how Radiant has changed their lives, they will almost invariably talk about how it helped open their hearts. But there’s a kind of narrowing going on here as well, which…

  • Shadow Walking

    [clear] Shadow Walking by H.o.p. And here a proud mom struts her son’s stuff. H.o.p. did this when he was 5 actually. I always think he was 6 but he was 5 and had just discovered Photoshop. Was one of his first pieces in Photoshop. At age 5 he is superior here to anything I’ve…