Random dumb thoughts

This page is to put those little weirdnesses of life that don't really fit anywhere else, or aren't worth a page of their own

Saturday, June 07, 2003

I just finished reading an interesting book -- it was humorous, and I'm sure that many would call it blasphemous (Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!), but it was allegedly a lost gospel written by Jesus' best friend Levi who is called Biff. The book is by Christopher Moore, and is called "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". If you're not of the bible-thumping ilk (and I don't think any of the five regular readers here fit into that category), I do recommend it. It accounts for those lost years between Jesus' birth and all the acts accounted for in the Gospels. Although this book is clearly humor, it pulls together a lot of thoughts about some of the possible influences on Christianity, particularly the Eastern religions. There are some bits that clearly remind me of Shakespeare in Love, regarding how some of the lines now revered as Gospel came about. Also, Jesus did veto "Blessed are the dumbfucks" during the drafting of the Sermon on the Mount, which upset Biff (and me) greatly.

So, here's the first recommendation for a good summer read. Although this could account for my position as a blasphemer in the sixth level of hell.

.: posted by Lily Saturday, June 07, 2003

Thursday, June 05, 2003

More musings on trail mix.

Okay, so today I've got the mid-morning munchies, and don't feel like leaving the building. Off to the vending machines! I always look for nuts in the machine, and my choices today are peanuts or trail mix. I'm not a huge fan of peanuts -- peanut butter, yes, but not plain old planters salty greasy peanuts, so I go for the trail mix. This trail mix is sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, raisins and "yogurt chips". Here's what I don't understand -- just what on earth is the relationship between those congealed hunks of sugar and hydrogenated fats and a cultured dairy product? They look exactly like the stuff that goes around under the rubric of "white chocolate" (and we don't need to get into what a misnomer that is, even if the good kind does have some cocoa butter in it). It hacks me off that they're trying to pawn the "yogurt chips" off as a health food -- what a farce. What makes it even worse is that the silly things are so little, it takes me forever to pick them all out. Picking out the raisins are much easier. Even after reading the ingredients -- I'm still not sure what those little white things are really made of. But they're NOT yogurt.

.: posted by Lily Thursday, June 05, 2003

Monday, June 02, 2003

My thoughts haven't particularly random or amazingly particularly dumb lately. The Monday Mission also isn't scintillating. Such is life sometimes, you know? I'll go with this thought... you can buy a suit with different size pants/skirts/jackets, why not shoes by the shoe? For once in my life I'd like a pair of shoes where they BOTH are comfortable and don't require pads, inserts, etc. My toes would heartily thank you.

.: posted by Lily Monday, June 02, 2003

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