Monday, September 13
What I did this weekend
This is the internet equivalent of walking the dog, because I don't have a dog even though I want one. I'm supposed to be writing the first installment of my new column for the Catholic Register, which is due this Friday. So instead of actually starting it (that is, doing more than opening a new AppleWorks doc and typing "A review by Kathy Shaidle") I'm killing time writing what I'm sure will be a very boring post.
On Friday afternoon I taped my first appearance on Faith Journal. It also comes out of CTS, which produces the show I'm usually on, Behind The Story.
The topic was "Do Christians get a raw deal in the media/society?" Richard threw to me first because as he and the producers know, I'll say pretty much anything. That is, anything I believe is true, not "anything to get a rise out of people." I mentioned the Warren Kinsella/Stockwell Day/"He thinks The Flintstones is a documentary" incident of song and story. Blah blah.
Of course, they sit me next to the Muslim Lawyer panelist. A very funny, bright fellow who I could imagine having a beer with if either of us drank. And naturally he thinks Muslims get picked on way more than Christians, especially after 9/11. He says "their rights have been taken away", which comes as a shock. I hadn't heard about the War Measures Act being invoked lately.
Anyway, I said that Muslims were being treated with kid gloves since 9/11 here in multi-culti hell. However, a degree of hostility towards them is somewhat understandable, given that Quakers weren't the ones who flew planes into the World Trade Center. And moderate Muslims went into defensive mode instead of unequivically denoucing the attacks. The host (who has worked in inter-faith dialogue for decades by the way) agreed with me on that last point.
I said a few more annoying things. Protestants don't mind what you say, as long as you don't swear. I slipped and said "boobs" last time, so was a little nervous that my dirty Catholic mouth would run off in all the excitement. The Muslim Lawyer didn't seem too busted up about any of this. In fact, he was very anti-PC, and we all agreed on many things. He said he'd never really noticed how badly Christians were portrayed on tv before. I advised him to count the Evil Preachers during a week of normal tv viewing.
On Saturday I went to get a dress made at Peach Berserk. I have two weddings coming up, plus a big deal company Christmas party, so I told myself it would be "an investment piece." I chose a variation on the Dinette style, in a colour that looks like the purple/red you see if you look at grape juice at a certain angle. Raw silk with a retro rose pattern. Very Far From Heaven.
Elsewhere, I picked up a t-shirt with an iron-on Ronald Reagan decal in neon lime green. A kid leaving the store pointed at my purchase and laughed, just before he set off the security alarm when he tried to leave the store. Ha ha Laughing Boy Shop Lifter!
I also bought too many DVDs: Bubba HoTep, A Touch of Evil, The Passion of the Christ and some others. (I watched Shock Treatment (1964) on tv because I thought it might have something to do with Bubba HoTep, what with the Ossie Davis/nut house thing going on.) But still haven't watched any of these movies so I don't know for sure. Hey, I'm busy writing a column, ya know!
On Friday afternoon I taped my first appearance on Faith Journal. It also comes out of CTS, which produces the show I'm usually on, Behind The Story.
The topic was "Do Christians get a raw deal in the media/society?" Richard threw to me first because as he and the producers know, I'll say pretty much anything. That is, anything I believe is true, not "anything to get a rise out of people." I mentioned the Warren Kinsella/Stockwell Day/"He thinks The Flintstones is a documentary" incident of song and story. Blah blah.
Of course, they sit me next to the Muslim Lawyer panelist. A very funny, bright fellow who I could imagine having a beer with if either of us drank. And naturally he thinks Muslims get picked on way more than Christians, especially after 9/11. He says "their rights have been taken away", which comes as a shock. I hadn't heard about the War Measures Act being invoked lately.
Anyway, I said that Muslims were being treated with kid gloves since 9/11 here in multi-culti hell. However, a degree of hostility towards them is somewhat understandable, given that Quakers weren't the ones who flew planes into the World Trade Center. And moderate Muslims went into defensive mode instead of unequivically denoucing the attacks. The host (who has worked in inter-faith dialogue for decades by the way) agreed with me on that last point.
I said a few more annoying things. Protestants don't mind what you say, as long as you don't swear. I slipped and said "boobs" last time, so was a little nervous that my dirty Catholic mouth would run off in all the excitement. The Muslim Lawyer didn't seem too busted up about any of this. In fact, he was very anti-PC, and we all agreed on many things. He said he'd never really noticed how badly Christians were portrayed on tv before. I advised him to count the Evil Preachers during a week of normal tv viewing.
On Saturday I went to get a dress made at Peach Berserk. I have two weddings coming up, plus a big deal company Christmas party, so I told myself it would be "an investment piece." I chose a variation on the Dinette style, in a colour that looks like the purple/red you see if you look at grape juice at a certain angle. Raw silk with a retro rose pattern. Very Far From Heaven.
Elsewhere, I picked up a t-shirt with an iron-on Ronald Reagan decal in neon lime green. A kid leaving the store pointed at my purchase and laughed, just before he set off the security alarm when he tried to leave the store. Ha ha Laughing Boy Shop Lifter!
I also bought too many DVDs: Bubba HoTep, A Touch of Evil, The Passion of the Christ and some others. (I watched Shock Treatment (1964) on tv because I thought it might have something to do with Bubba HoTep, what with the Ossie Davis/nut house thing going on.) But still haven't watched any of these movies so I don't know for sure. Hey, I'm busy writing a column, ya know!
