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[neadods]

I'd credit, but I've forgotten where I got these.

Creation Museum Report Readers must be fond of science and tolerant of the word "horseshit."
Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals (and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat death of the universe. God’s kind of mean.

... But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah

For those who didn't know about "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog" - (LJ feed at chaucerhathblog), ol' Jeffy's talking about the Televisioun Lyne Up of Galfridus Chaucer, Clerke of the Kinges Werkes, which includes "Sectes in the Borough," "Flight of the Lombardes," "The Privy Seel Offyce," and "Doctor Hwaet." “That ys fanTASTick,” he saith yn the rare tymes whan he ys of good chiere. He fighteth many enemyes, includinge the Cybermonks, the Daneleks, and folk who thinke that “Geats” is pronouncid “geetz.”

Dear "Patriots:" If you really loved America as much as you say you do, maybe you should actually LEARN ITS HISTORY. Kentucky Governer Ernie Fletcher tried to dodge posting a church-donated 10 Commandments in a school by making them part of a display "meant as a tool for teaching children civic literacy." Now, it's bad enough that someone in Government was pushing the "our laws were founded on the 10 Commandments" canard, but to teach "civic literacy" by stating that the Stars and Strips flag and the song "The Star-Spangled Banner" were used in the American Revolution is a bit much. Yeah, the War of 1812 was pretty much "American Revolution II: The British Empire Strikes Back" but in 1781, that tune was still a drinking song. Betcha won't teach that to the kiddies!

The latest salvo in the "War on Christmas" is Bill O'Reilly getting his knickers in a knot over christmas trees with white lights instead of colored ones. It's unChristian, y'see. I wonder what he would make of that bastion of blasphemy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, which flanked the alter with two huge trees decorated entirely in white lights and white doves every Christmas when I was growing up.

Dead of adorable.

I find this also adorable, mostly at how matter-of-fact/bored they are when the cameras aren't rolling. Simms looks a little resigned to me; I wonder if this is before or after David dropped him after a take!

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Sick as the proverbial dog, apparently. He pulls it together for the episode shoots, but in some of the in-between stuff he looks like death warmed over.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Poor guy. I always think it's unfair to not let actors take a couple days if they're really sick, shooting schedules be damned. And I always wonder how they pull it together for the camera. I would never have known how sick David was during the filming of Human Nature/Family of Blood if a couple interviews hadn't mentioned it.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

He was sick during that? What fun, particularly when it's such a drama-intensive script.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Horribly ill, apparently. If you go back, you can just barely hear it in his voice. The interview (DWM? I forget) said he kept crawling back to whatever surface on the set was horizontal between takes and tried so just zone out until required.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Awww. :-( *goes back in time to offer Nyquil and hot soup*

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, if you look at him closely in some of the shots- you can tell his sinuses are swollen, ESPECIALLY in that shot where he's looking down at the Family, then lifts his eyes straight into the camera...
The first time I saw that shot - I wondered who the hell that was...