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Imponderable #123: Vancouver

13 Sep

September 13, 2014

Well, isn’t that special. (Cliché but expected Church Lady joke? Check. Now let’s move on.)

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Be glad I didn’t post an uncensored picture. I found a couple online and Satan’s shlong is pretty disturbing. It is more spiky than you’d expect.

Anywho, (no, that’s not a typo, I meant “anywho”) it says that “The appearance of the statue came as a surprise to just about everyone as it was not commissioned by city authorities.” So in other words, no one would have been surprised had the city authorities commissioned it. In which circle of Hell is their city located?

I found a few articles on this story, but I posted this one solely for the headline “Nude Satan statue erected overnight, shocking citizens.” You don’t find puns like that on the NBC Nightly News!

I can understand how a statue of Satan with an erection might be considered just a tad scandalous. And that’s the problem with Satanists: they just don’t try to fit in. If they really had to, they should have put up a statue of Satan that no one would object to.

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Why can’t Satanists be more fun? The question is Imponderable.

 

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Gaze Into Mr. Blog’s Tepid Crystal Ball

7 Sep

September 7, 2014

This is a classic Elvgren painting. You can search this blog for more.

This is a classic Elvgren painting. You can search this blog for more.

September: End of summer
September: Back to school
September: The month before October

Yup. If you run in the circles I do, September means that soon the stores will be getting rid of the notebooks, folders, and pens they’ve been pushing and will soon be putting out Halloween decorations. It won’t be long until bats and ghouls have their way. (And then we’ll be inundated with Christmas stuff, so enjoy it while you can.)

Coming up in October, you can expect some annual features to rear their Halloween heads and rise from their graves for your enjoyment. I’ve already got my Rise of the Pumpkins tickets so a new Picture Postcard with all sorts of amazing pumpkins will be featured. I’ve also already got my Chiller Theatre tix. Will Greg “The Hammer” Valentine be drunk again? I’d bet on it. Guests this year include the Bionic Man Lee Majors and The Soup Nazi. (“Worlds are colliding!”)

And interestingly, Comic Book Men returns on October 12th.

Why is that interesting? Last season, about a year ago, Allan Keyes and I travelled to Red Bank New Jersey and filmed and episode of that show. It’s the truth. Unfortunately, that episode never aired, but if you go back about a year in this blog you’ll see a few posts (cheese shop, war memorial statue, Buddha) about things we did around the shop during a break in filming that day. I’m not sure why it didn’t air (though come October I’ll talk about it) but I’ve been sitting on an Allan Keyes blog for a year. I signed a contract stating that I couldn’t talk about my backstage experiences until the show aired, but I think I’m no longer bound by it, so I’ll run the Keyes blog and my own posts. But here’s a not-so-spoiler: It is pretty fake and Kevin Smith is never there. After October 12th we’ll tell all.

I haven’t forgotten September, though. You’ve got a lot of good stuff coming up, I promise.

 

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