MooPig Re-Run :: from 07/23/2009 -- MooPig Presents the Devil and the Mullet

Today you play Golf and follow the Links for a joyful eighteen holes of:

Imus was invited to comment, but has yet to acknowledge our request:

Cliches of Television

by the Herd and Tail

Question: Why do television scenes concerning an Occult Gathering most always look something like a Presbyterian Sunday 11 AM Morning Service? Answer me that MooPig. [FAQ by Paul Beareh]

REPLY: Baruch at'ai adonai --and-- [HERE] Hey, thanks for the question, Mr Beareh, we were just talking about that very aspect of TV shows this morning in our bi-decade'l meeting of MooPig Presents. We have often thought that the meeting of Pagans at their Pagan Temple of Choice to exercise their powers stored in their various relics -- should be like the spinning of a Dreidel. There should be childlike glee and gay merriment, and Charlie Daniels on hand to bust a demon's chops with his saw horse... no?

Television invariably presents Ceremonial Pagan Gatherings as boring, stiff, and fake. It seems to some of us that Pagan Wiccan Rituals and such, more resemble a JCPenney White Sale, as all the congregated are wearing bed sheets and linens. The chanting is call and reply led by usually the head Honcho Witch-man who has an Alpha Witchy-woman named Zelda Glitch at his side. There is some tension there because the Witch-man has brought along a Nubile Princess Witchy-girlwho will be eventually burned, zapped or bled out. And it turns out, the Nubile's restless, randy spirit has attracted the Sun-fresh Handsome Devil Stud-muffin Manwich who of course will not let her die this way. He had searched the world over and pfffft she was gone... left him with six children.

Pagan rites of passage are already frowned upon in most modern cultures. If occult members are going to recruit young folk into their numbers, MooPig might suggest making services more like a Quidditch Match at Dalhousie's University Stadium... with plenty of blood sport.

Magick is everywhere: and so is TV...

Remember what Joel Osteen says; and may be 100% right -- "A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

-- and --
A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
-- and --
A merry heart is good like a medicine.
-- and --
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
-- and --
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
-- and --
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
-- and --
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
-- and --
God wants to bless us where we are.
-- and --
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
-- and --
I don't go down the road of condemning.
-- and --
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
-- and --
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
-- and --
I have always believed in God.
-- and --
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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-- and --
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
-- and --
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
-- and --
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
-- and --
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
-- and --
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
-- and --
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it..."
-- and -- THAT'S ENUFF, JOEL, YOU CAN STOP TALKING NOW!

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Today you play Golf and follow the Links for a joyful eighteen holes of:

Imus was invited to comment, but has yet to acknowledge our request:

Cliches of Television

by the Herd and Tail

Question: Why do television scenes concerning an Occult Gathering most always look something like a Presbyterian Sunday 11 AM Morning Service? Answer me that MooPig. [FAQ by Paul Beareh]

REPLY: Baruch at'ai adonai --and-- [HERE] Hey, thanks for the question, Mr Beareh, we were just talking about that very aspect of TV shows this morning in our bi-decade'l meeting of MooPig Presents. We have often thought that the meeting of Pagans at their Pagan Temple of Choice to exercise their powers stored in their various relics -- should be like the spinning of a Dreidel. There should be childlike glee and gay merriment, and Charlie Daniels on hand to bust a demon's chops with his saw horse... no?

Television invariably presents Ceremonial Pagan Gatherings as boring, stiff, and fake. It seems to some of us that Pagan Wiccan Rituals and such, more resemble a JCPenney White Sale, as all the congregated are wearing bed sheets and linens. The chanting is call and reply led by usually the head Honcho Witch-man who has an Alpha Witchy-woman named Zelda Glitch at his side. There is some tension there because the Witch-man has brought along a Nubile Princess Witchy-girlwho will be eventually burned, zapped or bled out. And it turns out, the Nubile's restless, randy spirit has attracted the Sun-fresh Handsome Devil Stud-muffin Manwich who of course will not let her die this way. He had searched the world over and pfffft she was gone... left him with six children.

Pagan rites of passage are already frowned upon in most modern cultures. If occult members are going to recruit young folk into their numbers, MooPig might suggest making services more like a Quidditch Match at Dalhousie's University Stadium... with plenty of blood sport.

Magick is everywhere: and so is TV...

Remember what Joel Osteen says; and may be 100% right -- "A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

-- and --
A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
-- and --
A merry heart is good like a medicine.
-- and --
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
-- and --
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
-- and --
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
-- and --
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
-- and --
God wants to bless us where we are.
-- and --
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
-- and --
I don't go down the road of condemning.
-- and --
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
-- and --
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
-- and --
I have always believed in God.
-- and --
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
-- and --
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
-- and --
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
-- and --
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
-- and --
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
-- and --
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
-- and --
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it..."
-- and -- THAT'S ENUFF, JOEL, YOU CAN STOP TALKING NOW!

Gustav and we'll be Right Barack: but "Michelle" WINS !!

The Buck stops here. Only in America can you get the most for your buck. We can split the night with DNC skaters entertaining from Mile High City, with gales threatening to bury everyone below sea level -- all in a twenty second news brief the morning after.

Imus said: "Gustav is on its way, this morning, and Mayor Nagin is on his way back from Denver this morning to close up New Orleans." (Imus, Don, para; 08.28.08)

Mayor Nagin's progressive policies resolved to erase the image of New Orleans as place where graft is part of the old world charm.

Sort of all runs together like: "Barack Bill Gustav Nagin Obama Michelliary Fay Denver Debutantes Joe Bid in Imus."

Pundits solemnize the evening sort of this way:
-Andrew Sullivan, however, is no longer cranky: “One of the best, most moving, intimate, rousing, humble, and beautiful speeches I’ve heard from a convention platform. Maybe she [Michelle Obama] should be running for president.”

"...If Jason is disappointed that Michelle did not feel she was able to discuss her own formidable accomplishments in her professional life, well chalk it up as an stinging indictment of American politics in the 21st century as prosecuted by the Republican Party." — Posted by Robbo the Yobbo

"..Gee, I wonder if her appearance on the cover of The New Yorker with an Uzi slung over her shoulder (it was “ironic” - I get it) had anything to do with Michelle’s emphasis on her life as a parent, daughter and sister. "(ibid)

“But those identities don’t reveal her full person–the Princeton and Harvard Law grad, the corporate attorney, the hospital executive–which were parts of her [Michelle's] life that she barely mentioned.” Zengerle later adds, “It almost makes you long for the days when politicians’ wives were seen but not heard. After all, if they’re not permitted to really say anything, what’s the point of having them speak?” By Chris Suellentrop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pSFrHfMWs

Aahhh... Endings are the most difficult to come up with

I, don

I don’t like being tossed aside
as I am fretting my fate
Kitchen spills are oft' small
But too many broken hearts
Simply, do not repair my plate.

You hear distant voice
A fond soundtrack pall
Predestined of choice

Must you crack and fret
as I reveal my full heart ache?
do you listen as you abate?
but heart-strings leave slack

Difficult flats to moderate
...even for hummingbirds
who easily trans-navigate
through bright wind tack

'Specie of Strength, I' we hear youth say;
‘Don’t be codger to me old man
I am not interested if you stay
You are not beautiful,
besides you are in the way..'

‘Or, as you don famously,
always to point out the way
to clues of nerve chords
to invert our shameful play..'

‘Thanks but no thanks –
You play too many tricks –
I loathe your blood anger
like piñatas beat with sticks,

'attack ribbon flag festooned..
Seeds of salvation are rand
and not in your hands, ole’ man;
Nor in the works of your hands!'

From raptors talons
I howl back to challenge --
‘Into this imbalance,
...youth threw me too soon!’

REPORT: The Celestial Monochord; Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues

TOM WAITS (photo: Anton Corbijn)----}

Refer to the Celestial Monochord:

Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues for more information... "But it would be absurd to say I've finally been "proven right." Waits has often been pretty generous in acknowledging his debts to other musicians, and folk has always been in the mix.

The Anthology at Tom Waits Concerts

from "KPFK Will Air Folk Fest"
The Pasadena Star Bee, July 3, 1974

Tom Waits is on tour — a rare enough news story in itself.

But note that the music piped into the theater before and after the shows, to date, has been The Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Harry Smith.

I've often pointed out the folk lineage of various Tom Waits songs, showing connections between:

Cold Cold Ground and Stephen Foster,

Georgia Lee and Blind Willie Johnson,

Swordfishtrombones and Bascom Lamar Lunsford,

Better Off Without A Wife and Chubby Parker, The Carter Family, and John Lomax, and,

Down There By the Train and Uncle Dave Macon and Henry Thomas (although I really "buried the lead" on that one — scoll down).

... I have a lot more of these up my sleeve and I may get more of them written up some day ... (06.25.2008 4 AM Retrieved at: http://www.celestialmonochord.org/2008/06/the-anthology-at-tom-waits-concerts.html)

Examples of a No News Day... standby

No News? That's okay; we look around for big names from the past to plug with keywords that will attract your younger hunger, greed and avarice. It's all good.
-- and --
Current status of Humanity: still crawling, but a much faster rate of repetition. See below what Mars, Wine, House, Naked, Steroids, Knockout, Female, Emphysema, and Mixed Martial Arts all have in common. And more!
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I sure wish today I had bought that pharmaceutical stock back in the 60's... damn!

Standby: for Following Ripped and burned throughout Internetdom today: "So, Say We All!!!!"

_____First up No News 06.24.2008
By DAVE HOLLANDER, AOL

Posted: 2008-06-23 20:57:26

Gina Carano: By the Looks of Her

In her first interview since becoming the first female fighter to capture a victory on prime-time network television, Gina Carano reveals her little known street fighting roots, admits that she’s not so tough that critics can't hurt her feelings and shares humorous stories from her dating life. The Elite XC MMA star, also known as "Crush" on American Gladiators, currently holds a 6-0 MMA record, and is fast becoming one of the most searched names on the Internet.

Carano Takes On All Comers

DAVE HOLLANDER: When was the first time you knew that you enjoyed punching someone in the face?

GINA CARANO: I think the first time was probably in a basketball game in high school. You know how you go down for those loose balls? We were all on the ground. And we’re like this Single-A Christian school. And this girl had a problem. Because you know, I guess we were both being really way too aggressive. She stood up and called me and explicit name. So I overhand-righted her. We both got thrown out of the game. (pauses) Actually, she started charging me first, then I over-hand righted her.

DH: How did it feel?
GC: I felt wonderful. Except the embarrassing part was I didn’t know how to throw a punch. The overhand right just came natural. But then I just started bonking her on the top of her head all awkwardly. So me and my friends had a really good laugh about that. They were like “Why were you bonking her on her head?” And I was like “I don’t know!”

____Next CONTACT SPORT No News for 06.24.2008
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 6:17PM by Michael David Smith
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw said in a radio interview with Dan Patrick last week that he used steroids during the 1970s, when he was leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl titles.

Will the REAL Terry Bradshaw Please Stand Up????

Bradshaw indicated that he obtained the steroids with a doctor's prescription, and that his primary motivation in using them was to recover from injuries, not to build muscle.

Terry Bradshaw Says He Used Steroids

"We did steroids to get away the aches and the speed of healing," Bradshaw said. "My use of steroids from a doctor was to speed up injury, and thought nothing of it. ... It was to speed up the healing process, that was it. It wasn't to get bigger and stronger and faster."

It's been well established that several players on the great Steelers teams of the 1970s used steroids, but this is, I think, the first time Bradshaw has said he used them.

____Next CONTACT SPORT No News 06.24.2008

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, AP

Posted: 2008-06-23 21:44:08

Burck sued to protect trademarks he had obtained as he appeared in television shows, movies and video games, including a Chevrolet commercial that debuted during Super Bowl XLI.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said a jury would have to decide whether Mars' advertising campaign left the impression that Robert Burck, who became a tourist attraction for strumming a guitar while wearing just boots, underpants and a hat, had endorsed the product.

Chin tossed out claims that Burck is owed compensatory and punitive damages because the M&M video advertisement that appeared on two electronic billboards in Times Square and a mural violated a New York State law protecting privacy rights of individuals.

Naked Cowboy vs. M&M's Moves Forward

The judge said the law protects the name, portrait or picture of an individual but not a character created or a role performed by the person.

______Down on her Luck No News Story 06.24.2008

AOL

Posted: 2008-06-24 07:33:44

Emphysemic Winehouse Caught Smoking...

A fan responds: imagemedgeorge 10:33:45 AM Jun 24 2008

HOPEFULLY SHE WILL KILL HERSELF AND THEN WE WONT HAVE TO SEE THAT UGLY FACE ON OUR COMPUTER SCREENS ANYMORE SINCE AOL CONSTANTLY PUT[s] IT THERE...AOL, YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

__And, on a day Paris Hilton gets out of Jail, Imus gets back in hot water
Imus resurrected his radio career six months ago with a pledge to mend the wounds caused by a racist and sexist comment he made about a women's basketball team.

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR,

AP Posted: 2008-06-24 10:24:17

NEW YORK (June 24) - Don Imus said Tuesday morning on his radio show that he was trying to "make a sarcastic point" in his latest on-air remarks about race, but that they had been misunderstood.

On Tuesday he said he was following the spirit of that promise by calling attention to the unfair treatment of blacks - in this case the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones.

"What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason," Imus said. "I mean, there's no reason to arrest this kid six times. Maybe he did something once, but everyone does something once."

Imus Defends Remarks as 'sarcastic'

...called the flurry of criticism surrounding the comments "ridiculous" and said that his program's cast is now more diverse than ever - and includes a black producer and two black co-hosts.

"How insane would I have to be? What would I be thinking?" Imus wondered aloud.

Co-host Karith Foster - who is black - came to Imus' defense during Tuesday's broadcast, saying, "People who interpret what you said as racist clearly didn't hear the whole thing, and they don't know who you are and what the program is about - and they obviously haven't been listening."