Day of the Dead or Halloween? Hi, everyone!
The Mountain Room is gearing up for its Day of the Dead celebration on Friday. Please send in photos of loved ones for our altar. All parents are welcome to come by on Wednesday afternoon to help us make candles and decorate skulls. Thanks! Emily Hi again. Because I’ve gotten some questions about my last e-mail, there is nothing “wrong” with Halloween. Parents: Some of you have expressed concern about your children celebrating a holiday with the word “dead” in it.
Dear Parents: In response to the e-mail we all received from Maddie’s parents, in which they shared their decision to raise their daughter dogma-free, yes, there will be an altar, but please be assured that the Day of the Dead is a pagan celebration of life and has nothing to do with God. Hello. Perhaps “pagan” was a poor word choice. The photos should be of loved ones who have passed. Mountain Room Parents: It’s late and I can’t possibly respond to each and every e-mail. Hola a los Padres: Adela Happy Halloween! Emily ♦ Paul Simms: “God’s Blog” UPDATE: Pretty pleased with what I’ve come up with in just six days.
Going to take tomorrow off. Feel free to check out what I’ve done so far. Suggestions and criticism (constructive, please!) More than welcome. God out. Not sure who this is for. Going carbon-based for the life-forms seems a tad obvious, no? The creeping things that creepeth over the earth are gross. Not enough action. Disagree with the haters out there who have a problem with man having dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle of the earth, and so on. The “herb yielding seed” is a hella fresh move. 4:20! Why are the creatures more or less symmetrical on a vertical axis but completely asymmetrical on a horizontal axis?
The dodo should just have a sign on him that says, “Please kill me.” Amoebas are too small to see. Beta version was better. I liked the old commenting format better, when you could get automatic alerts when someone replied to your comment. Why do they have to poop? Demetri Martin: “Who Am I?” Who am I?
That is a simple question, yet it is one without a simple answer. I am many things—and I am one thing. But I am not a thing that is just lying around somewhere, like a pen, or a toaster, or a housewife. That is for sure. I am much more than that. I am a man. And I am a former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. I am “brother” and I am “son” and I am “father” (but just according to one person, who does not have any proof but still won’t seem to let it go). I am trustworthy and loyal, but at the same time I am no Boy Scout. I am concepts and thoughts and feelings and outfits.
To some I am known as Chief. I am he and I am him. People have known me by many titles. To some I am fantasy, and to others I am Frank, mostly because I have told them that this is my name—even though it is not even close to my name. I am everything and I am nothing. Paul Rudnick: “Pick a Number” Alfred Kinsey believed that human sexuality could be charted on a scale of 0 to 6, with 0 being “Exclusively heterosexual” and 6 being “Exclusively homosexual.”
Owing to changing cultural boundaries and advanced research, Kinsey’s scale has recently been expanded: 0. So heterosexual that you think all other heterosexuals should be shot, because they seem a little gay. 1. So heterosexual that when a tax return or a loan application asks your gender you reply, “Straight.” 2.