hair and there

I've got to say I am starting to take an interest in American Idol, specifically the spectacle that is Sanjaya Malakar.

This kid's got guts! Every week he gets up, does his thing... knowing what people are saying and that people think he sucks. He's the best Sanjaya there is or could ever be! That's all there is too it. I hope he wins and I hope Simon quits as he says he would. I plan to start voting for... the worst? Nah. He's not the worst. He's part of the what makes humanity interesting and different and lovable. He's him... and I love his hair!

i'm going to disneyworld

So Anna Nicole's husband is not the father of her baby? I am shocked! Shocked I say!

"Oh yeah... $$... um... like, I gotta be a daddy now? Doh!"

beautiful disaster

As her #1 fan in my age bracket, I was tickled to get my first email from Kelly Clarkson (herself!) since joining her mega web world a few weeks ago... then dismayed to see Wal*Mart in the fucking subject heading.

Beginning Tuesday, April 10th you can head to your local Wal*Mart and pick up a limited-edition Kelly 12 pack of vitaminwater. The special KC variety pack will only be available at Wal*Mart and will include power-c, revive, focus and essential vitaminwater varieties...

Sorry...Wal*Mart sucks. It just does.

Update: the email has a broken link in it. Oops.

Directory Listing Denied

Update2: link all better now.

have you been to the motor vehicle bureau?

I visited that little casino village on the Jersey shore this weekend... and... well... um.... I don't think the pretty models in that pic up there hung out very long after the last camera clicked.

Hypothesis: Atlantic City exists so ugly people won't hang out in South Beach.

OMG! It was way worse than motor vehicle! As Jerry said in that Seinfeld episode, "It's like a leper colony down there!"

the best ever

Occasionally I will decree superlatives in food, music, movies or really whatever the fuck happens to scamper across my doorstep that day. I intend for this to become a regular feature at deniable plausibility.

Today's "Best Ever" comes to us from Nabisco. They covered their Nutter Butter peanut butter cookie with chocolate and as a friend of mine would say in disbelief, "Stop it right now!" This is definitely the best cookie EVER!

lord have mercy

Chris Evans....um...wow.


Update from a friend:

Yessir! He's gonna be in the new "Silver Surfer" - Fantastic 4 movie. Maybe they'll show more skin!

There's more?!?! :P

focus

I asked a friend of mine who's like, sort of a real writer, for some input on this blog thingy...but, its like, hard, the journamalism stuff. He told me to think of my target audience? Ugh! I was thinking more upscale, like macy's. But, hes right about one thing: deniable plausibility totally lacks focus.

I am trying to get some practice putting my thoughts into coherent nuggets but with a bit of zany, me, out-thereness and really just fishing around the google looking for stuff to read, digest and give my take on, and will continue to do that for now... or not depending on when my ADD meds stabilize... OMG! I LOVE THE NEW BMW!

on saturday it's called lunch

Rachael Ray and her climb up the food chain (ooh a pun!) came up over brunch Saturday ...which, btw I always thought was exclusively a Sunday thing, but anyway...Apparently not everyone likes Rachel's shut up and eat attitude and perkiness. I happen to be a fan and love her new talk show, though I always thought her $40/day show was BS! Who sits down and eats just an effin appetizer?

Here is a funny (and strangely erotic) clip of her oohs and ahhs from that show.

don't you get me wrong, now

I consider myself to be a spiritual person. That being said, I have always had trouble meshing my strong belief in scientific principles (evolutionary biology for example, E=mc²!) with "faith" in an imaginary world in the sky that most organized religions require.

This interview in Salon with religious historian, Elaine Pagels, about the Gospel of Judas however, nicely illustrates the contradictions of faith and science and what we can take from each. I have long thought Judas Iscariot (as well as Pontious Pilate and the Jews who condemned Jesus) got a comically bad rap from official roman catholicism...considering the integral role of the crucifixion in Christianity's narrative arc. DUH! Bitch had to die for the story to work...and someone had to turn his ass in!

Thus: (“betrayal” + martyrdom) resurrection=humanity's redemption.

Yes, the Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. So that's quite startling.

The villainous portrayal of Judas (as well as Mary Magdalene, but that's a different topic all together...don't get me started!) by historical catholicism is another example of its subject manipulation and continued wink/nod attitude toward antisemitism. I wonder if Christianity was poisoned, perhaps irreparably, by the exclusion of these “forgotten” gospels. It doesn’t all have to fit into a nice neat story, for Christ sake (hee hee). Different versions of the life of Jesus exist for specific reasons. Acknowledgment of this fact would help people like me accept its core understandings more fully. Don’t ask me to believe a contradiction without a possible explanation for the disconnect.

Anyways, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice said Judas & Jesus was best buds, so it must be true.

it's a pageant

Polls got ya down? Pelosi pissin in yer punch? Wag it!

CNN:

The U.S. government had been notably quiet on the subject from the beginning, but Bush voiced strong opinions Saturday.

"The Iranians must give back the hostages," he said. "They were innocent. They were doing nothing wrong. And they were summarily plucked out of water."