September 18 2008
Heavy Drinkers And Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 11:39 am
Jehovah’s Witness door-to-door god botherers and their latest Watchtower magazine warn of modern temptations for teenagers … “A well-intentioned teacher urges you to pursue higher education at a university” (thus, encouraging you to think for yourself and see through our religious dogma) Via Best Week Ever.
Oddest book titles: As celebrated every year by Booksellers magazine includes The Joy of Chickens, Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual and How to Avoid Huge Ships. Full list here.
Art or design: Fake mouldy sandwich bag as anti-theft device.
Zits in the city? As if the movieSex in the City, wasn’t hideous enough, now author Candice Bushnell is trying to ring out more cash from her soppy dated franchise with a series of books, The Carrie Diaries, a pair of teen novels exploring the formative years of Carrie Bradshaw.
Lists worth reading: Nerve magazine’s list of the 50 blog posts that caused the most buzz is a good read for those who like politics and American culture, but for those more comfortable with gerbil yarns, lady lovers and Prince Harry’s real dad, here are the 40 best celebrity rumours.
Brain food: An interesting article by Tim Wise, a prominent anti-racist writer, defining “white privilege” in America by using Sarah Palin and her family as an example.
“White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges”, even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.”
Booze news: Heavy drinkers fall into one of nine categories. (Depressed drinker, De-stress drinker, Re-bonding drinker, Conformist drinker, Community drinker, Boredom drinker, Macho drinker, Hedonistic drinker, Border dependents) Which are you?
Video: ‘Jesus Is My Friend’ by early 1980s Christian Ska band, Sonseed.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
The comments on the Hovah page are funny:
“I have a JW pamphlet that depicts heaven. It involves humans lounging around a gorgeous field, just hanging out with lions. Because things are so peaceful in heaven that lions no longer want to maul you. “
September 19th, 2008 at 6:52 am
“Once I tried to run, I tried to run and hide. But Jesus came and found me and touched me down inside. He is like a Mountie, he always gets his man and he’ll zap you anyway he can.”
September 19th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Geez, lucky my teacher never told me to pursue a higher career, I did that all by myself. I am such a rebel in society.