Kerry, I hope you have seen all the episodes...

My favorite Monty Python episodes are (in order):

1. Picasso on a Bike - Episode 1 - Whither Canada?
2. Ministry of Silly Walks - Episode 14 - Untitled
3. The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final - Episode 35
4. All of Episode 23 after the opening scene of a French Art Film
5. Johann Gambolputty... von Hautkopft of Ulm - Episode 6 - Untitled
6. Dead Parrot - Episode 8 - Full Frontal Nudity
7. Pornographic Bookshop/Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers - Episode 36
8. The Spam Sketch - Episode 25
9. Working Class Playwright - Episode 2 - Sex and Violence
10. The Piranha Brothers - Episode 14
11. Mosquito Hunters - Episode 21
12. Dennis Moore - Episode 37
13. Lupins - Episode 37
14. Agatha Christie Sketch (Railway Timetables) - Episode 24
15. Exploding Penguin on TV Set - Episode 22
16. Bruces - Episode 22
17. 'Spectrum' - Talking about Things - Episode 12 - Untitled
18. Coal Mine (Historical Argument) - Episode 26
19. Housing Project Built by Characters from Nineteenth-century English Literature - Episode 35
20. Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road - Episode 33
21. Rival Documentaries - Episode 38
22. 'Archaeology Today' - Episode 20
23. The Idiot in Society - Episode 20
24. Election Night Special - Episode 19

Per last post

Apology accepted on credit.

On Marriage

It staggers my little mind to think that people care so disproportionately much about what gay people do that they would fight against their right to marry. If currently there were a tradition of stringent laws and governmental guidelines about getting married that caused couples to prove officially that they were fit to what...receive partner health benefits, inherit things, be admitted to see someone in the hospital, whatever it might be, then I could understand that people would make a fuss. But in this country, you can marry anybody for any reason, no questions asked. Oh, well just the one, then. "Opposite sex?" Both say "yes", "I do", "I do", "I now pronounce you, governmentally official." Shit, a lesbian could marry a gay man and profess to never have sex with each other and all the government would say is, “Okay, which one of you is Chris?” It’s insane that the state has to give the go-ahead to something that [some] people hold so sacredly.

Why does the holy tradition of marriage, which joins together two souls to eternal life with only each other, involve the government, anyway? You never see a big ceremony and reception for getting a license to fish? Or to drive? Although, if I were Horace Etheridge, I would have a press conference for it. But to do something so personal and private as committing your spirit and essence of being to another person, Mr. Bains from the courthouse has to have you sign a few papers and make it all legal. It cheapens it a bit, would you say?

As you may imagine, especially if you know me well, I don't understand marriage all that much, although I don't condemn it. I don't even mind when people ask me, "So when are you and Amy getting married?" Well, I do object slightly to the "So" part, as if someone my use it to imply that marriage is the top rung on the relationship ladder and an eventuality not to be overlooked by anyone looking for the "perfect" or "blessed" couplehood. I would suggest that divorce might be the top rung, but only up against 52% of the rooftops. I would support such a line of thinking by suggesting that not all of us (possibly not any of us) are meant to spend our whole lives with just one person. And that doesn't mean that every relationship that doesn't last until one of you die is a failure, either. I think that it is perfectly natural to have different kinds of relationships that are healthy, instructive, constructive, happy and fun. I mean, whatever buoyantly supports your nautical vessel, I always say.

New Bloggers?

I don't know all those who check this blog, but I would like to extend the list of those who contribute. If you, or someone you love, would like to write incredibly insightful and witty things like "in art, emotions play an important part in that they serve to stimulate the creative process and bring genius out of common thoughts and ideas" or "Grant Hill spends more time on the bench than paint" (Hollywood version would replace "paint" with "Judge Judy")*, then please email me at: gowizards@hotmail.com and I will send you an email by which you can gain membership.
* note high standard of both insight and wit

Just the facts...

Incidentally, I was born around midnight on May 15, 30 years ago to two different people. I am doing so-so.

Now you see the violence inherent in the system...

My Score:
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
My political compass is closest to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. I hope that they would be/are as happy to be associated with me as I am to be associated with them in this true existential barometer of significant achievement.

If there was nothing else to the survey/test than statement 15 on page 3, I would say that it definitely entertained me for more than five minutes. Take note that I may incorporate that statement into conversations and writing. There is something whimsically fatalistic in "When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things."

Also, it's times like these (and only times like these) when I wish I had learned more in Geometry, you know, because of the graphs.
Also Also wik... to keep with the Python theme for titles, I would officially recomend "Well I didn't vote for you" for Kyle's entry.

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