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The Night Owl Is Curious

About pranks and hijinks, musings and mutterings. And the door is open all night.

OMG It's Fat Ass Toozdy!

We were supposed to spank us an Ana today and I completely neglected my preparations because I was so worried about a sick little boy I know and now what shall I do, what shall I do?

Looking for an Honest Woman?

So is Blakely Smith, who recently forked over $2400 for a Monique Lhullier wedding gown on eBay and didn't get anything in the mail for the longest time . . .

After Smith had paid her money and received nothing back
. . . she e-mailed "Kate," the supposed seller, told of a coworker's eBay horror story, and outlined why she was growing suspicious. "I am sorry to be this way, but in today's world, it is not totally off base to be wary," she said.

To which "Kate" replied:

"That's true, indeed. I just scammed you, sorry for that, it's nothing personal. ... It's what I do, and it pays well."

Fort Wayne.com via Fark

Behold the Cat Piano

"Designed in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar," according to Neatorama.

The Way of a Pilgrim

The Way of a Pilgrim is the anonymous memoir of  a nineteenth-century Orthodox monk who wandered across Russia, continually reciting the simple, mantra-like Jesus Prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

His observations are fascinating, and to a certain extent mirror the experiences of Hindu and Buddhist mystics in that the constant repetition of the mantra leads to heightened awareness of the eternal now. As the Pilgrim recounts:

When I prayed in my heart, everything around me seemed delightful and marvelous. The trees, the grass, the birds, the air, the light seemed to be telling me that they existed for man's sake, that they witnessed to the love of God for man, that all things prayed to God and sang his praise.

Clearly, the conclusions he draws about the relationship between God, man, and the natural world are Christian, but the experience itself seems to be remarkably universal.

The door is open

Come on in and talk.  Or drop off one of your random bursts of verbal energy -- poem, limerick, story, top ten list, clerihew, essay, alliterative poem, rant, Surrealist or Dadaist poem, parody, cento, dirty joke, amusing syllepsis, dirty syllepsis, haiku, dirty haiku . . . to share.

Come on in and talk.  Or drop off one of your random bursts of verbal energy -- poem, limerick, story, top ten list, clerihew, essay, alliterative poem, rant, Surrealist or Dadaist poem, parody, cento, dirty joke, amusing syllepsis, dirty syllepsis, haiku, dirty haiku . . . to share.

Come on in and talk.  Or drop off one of your random bursts of verbal energy -- poem, limerick, story, top ten list, clerihew, essay, alliterative poem, rant, Surrealist or Dadaist poem, parody, cento, dirty joke, amusing syllepsis, dirty syllepsis, haiku, dirty haiku . . . to share.

The Night Owl Is Curious

About pranks and hijinks, musings and mutterings. And the door is open all night.

About pranks and hijinks, musings and mutterings. And the door is open all night.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep.

Coffee Break

Say what's on your mind and in your heart. But don't break the goddam china.

The Alexamenos Graffito

This anti-Christian cartoon dates from first century Rome. According to Lanciani (a nineteenth century historian):

Our Lord is represented with the head of a donkey, tied to the cross, with the feet resting on a horizontal piece of board. To the left of the cross there is the figure of the Christian youth Alexamenos, with arms raised in adoration of his crucified God, and the whole composition is illustrated and explained by the legend, ALEXAMENOS SEBETE THEON [ΑΛΕΞΑΜΕΝΟΣ ΣΕΒΕΤΕ ΘΕΟΝ]: "Alexamenos worships (his) God."
--from Rodney J. Decker, The Alexamenos Graffito

This graffito is often cited as proof that the divinity of Jesus as the Christ was accepted by Christians long before the Council of Nicaea (4th century).