Oogle at My Breastfeeding Jesus

[Jeff]

"Oogle at My Mas."

This was an actual title on a spam email I received this morning. Is it a penile enlargement thing, as in mas=more? Or is it a creepy MILF/GILF porn thing? I'm not interested in finding out, so I didn't even open it.

How was everybody's weekend? Anybody else see Wall-E?

[Doctor Rock]

So yesterday I was perusing a big art book that I borrowed at the library.  It was a compilation of early renaissance, late medieval painting, and, of course, there were quite a lot of lactating Virgin Marys.  I was reading the book's author interpretation of the fact that many Jesuses (plural of Jesus, I think) seemed rather large and were painted in rather strange breastfeeding positions.  The author proposed that Jesus was presented that way because he was, you know, Jesus.  R____ happened to look over my shoulder and she read the passage and she went: that's bullshit!  Mary is breastfeeding a toddler, a child who is 1 or 2 years old.  See, toddlers move around and enjoy engaging in breastfeeding gymnastics. Since breastfeeding toddlers has become uncommon in our culture, the author of the book completely missed it.  But it was probably quite common during the middle ages.

It's so damn simple it has to be true! 

[Doctor Rock]

Damn!  Two Monday threads.  Jeff, do you wanna move here, or should this one come to yours? 

[Jeff]

Well, I was first... but they're both good titles and here we are talking here, so who cares?

"Oogle at My Mas" + "Breastfeeding Jesus" = "Oogle at My Breastfeeding Jesus."

Problem solved.

[Jeff]

I'd like to thank Olympian Tyson Gay for his superfast 100 meter dash time, because the headlines are delightful, suggesting a much more interesting and progressive Chinese Olympiad than we're actually getting.

Gay Takes the Express Lane To China With Stunning Time - They just woke up one day and 10% of their dudes were moisturizing. See what happens when you invite in western culture?
Gay flies past the field in 100-meter final - In which a jet pack-aided protester makes a splash for the rights of all those new gay men in China. And he looked fabulous, too.
Gay's dizzying display is hard to comprehend - Me, I find that watching the Style channel helps me understand their rituals.
Gay Makes His Point - But he was heard loud and clear by others. I'm looking at you, Hu Jintao.
Gay Turns Up the Heat - Didn't have that story blocked from Google, did you, Hu?
Gay sends message to Jamaicans - Well, you do hear certain things about Jamaican men, so who can blame him?

And so on.

Yay Gay! 

[Doctor Rock]

Well, I was first... but they're both good titles and here we are talking here, so who cares?

"Oogle at My Mas" + "Breastfeeding Jesus" = "Oogle at My Breastfeeding Jesus."

Problem solved.

I approve. 

[captqitn]

Then I wonder if "blue collar" is now a meaningless anachronism in US culture and if it would be more realistic to expect films to depict angry overeducated and underemployed   service industry schmoes being driven sociopathic by an increasingly dehumanizing and oppressive commercial culture.

(finger on nose)  you predicted Wall-E pretty well.

YAY!!  THAT MOVIE ROCKED!!!!

I think you're right, gocat, I started to try to analyze the individual elements of it this morning
(example: was it clever or lazy to give the evil computer HAL's red eye?) but I'm going to just leave it as a happy experience for a while.

[Jeff]

Wall-E made me happy.

It's so rare a movie actually sweeps me up in its experience anymore, so I am just happy to leave it at that.

The best part for me of seeing it in a theater was being reintroduced to a pre-K view of moviegoing, which mostly seems to consist of constantly checking and reviewing the hero's status.

"I don't see Wall-E."
"Where's Wall-E?"
"I see Wall-E!"
"Look, it's Wall-E!"
"Is Wall-E coming back?"

Lately I am thinking that hearing interjections like these and finding them delightful (rather than gritting my teeth and wishing corporal punishment was still in vogue as I used to do) is a good indicator that now would be a good time to have a kid.

If I have observed this correctly in my family, the next step comes after I have had a kid and am dead to his interjections and cries entirely, and would rather just read my newspaper.

[Jeff]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_48BHx6WU8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/f_48BHx6WU8</a>

[captqitn]

If I have observed this correctly in my family, the next step comes after I have had a kid and am dead to his interjections and cries entirely, and would rather just read my newspaper.

hee.. yep.  I'm catching myself slowly slipping into that mode.   At least when I'm "off duty".  JJ and I trade off nights, and its amazing the volume of blood curdling screams I can completely ignore when its not my night.

Shameful maybe, but a good mental survival tool.

[bebopbalogna]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_48BHx6WU8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/f_48BHx6WU8</a>

i watched the whole damn thing waiting for it to tell me how to get one.   nothin!

[captqitn]

In my defence, (against my own comment)  I'm still pretty good when I'm on duty.   I spent all saturday in the freaking blazing heat filming the principal footage for "Backyard Adventure III: The Time Machine".     Its going to take about a week to get all the CGI in place, but I should have it ready to premiere by next weekend.

[Jeff]

i watched the whole damn thing waiting for it to tell me how to get one.   nothin!

Right here, Pat:
https://www.buytalkingjesus.com/?cid=544908

[Jeff]

In my defence, (against my own comment)  I'm still pretty good when I'm on duty.   I spent all saturday in the freaking blazing heat filming the principal footage for "Backyard Adventure III: The Time Machine".     Its going to take about a week to get all the CGI in place, but I should have it ready to premiere by next weekend.

[bebopbalogna]

i watched the whole damn thing waiting for it to tell me how to get one.   nothin!

Right here, Pat:
https://www.buytalkingjesus.com/?cid=544908