Kathleen and I got married. Many long-time friends were there, the bride was lovely (Kath has a photo up on her website), the weather was perfect, and Harlan Ellison’s best-man speech was…memorable. The following morning the whole family was awake by 4:30 AM and a few hours later we were all on the Disney Cruise for a Brady Bunch-esque Let’s-bring-the-kids honeymoon.
Thanks for being insane enough to marry me, love.
PAD
Kath and I saw it last night at an advance Marvel screening.
Guys, honest injun–I thought it kicked ášš.
I’m discussing it below, and others are free to join in once you’ve seen it, but I’d like to keep this one as spoiler-free as possible, mainly because of the caliber of certain jaw-dropping moments.
Over at the movie theater in Manhattan at 42nd and 8th, I was fascinated to see pickets with people marching around, protesting “The DaVinci Code,” declaring it to be an insult to the Catholic church.
I wonder what would have happened if I’d walked up to them and asked them if they were out protesting with great ire over the way that Jews were portrayed in “Passion of the Christ.” After all, people who demand sensitivity to their religion would certainly want to be supportive of others who feel their religion is being ill used in cinema, right? So were they marching to protest what many felt to be a profound anti-Semitic message in “Passion?” Or were they too busy filling theaters with their church groups?
I wonder if such an observation from myself would have resulted in my being with Christian charity?
PAD
I’m back from the NSF, the National Security Forum. For the last 53 years, the airforce has been having a get together for about a hundred or so civilians from various walks of life who get together with the graduating class of the Air War College (these are generally career officers, Lt. Col’s or better, who spend a year in what is essentially an advance studies college), become part of a seminar class in which we interact with the officers and get to know the humans behind the military, and hear various lectures from professors, scholars, and such administration advisors as the Air Force chief of staff and the Secretary of the air force.
I can’t go into detail about the specifics of what was said, although I will tell you that during one Q&A, I stood up and asked the Secretary of the Air force if the President ever sends him flowers on Secretaries Day. But here’s the amazing thing: I was reading through the bios of all the attendees when I first arrived, and it was filled with people who had Masters Degrees, Doctorates, and listed hobbies such as creating orthopedic limbs. I have a Bachelors degree and my hobby is bowling, so I couldn’t figure out what the hëll I was doing there. So I attend the get acquainted dinner, and I’m sitting there with three Lt. Cols, a full bird Colonel, the president of a moving and packing company and the mayor of Wichita Falls, TX, and what did we all wind up discussing?
The Hulk.
I couldn’t believe it.
PAD
Comments are working again sooooo……What did ya think?
This is the issue that they posted part of on Newsarama that caused all kinds of discussion because of the Angel’s view on G-d
Glenn is working on the problem and with any luck we will have it solved soon.
Update 2 bloody 47 AM, 5/22: We may or may not have them working again, I honestly can’t tell because my cache isn’t refreshing here. I think I’ve got it, though. –GH
I am surprised that no one has asked were he was in the previous thread. I applauded and appreciate your discretion.
I had to wait to get permission to post this photograph of Peter and General T. Michael Moseley at the National Security Conference in Alabama which is held yearly on the Maxwell Air-force Base. General Moseley is Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Peter is there for the conference this year which has been held for over 50 years to allow civilians and the military to discuss matters of national security.
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