Archive for September, 2006

Tower of Babel

Gensis Chapter 11
So when I was a kid, the first album I ever bought (other than CCR Down on the Corner that my sister sold me for $3 when I was 5 – I was about 15 before I figured out what a ‘pinhead’ was.) was Elton John’ s Captin Fantastic and the Brown Dirt [...]

Nimrod…what’d you just call me?

Genesis Chapter 10
This is the chapter that sits between the end of the Noah drunk and naked debacle and the Tower of Babel debacle.
Yet another vaguely boring recitation of the generations of Noah…We’ve already been down this road a couple of times, so I’m skimming through, giggling at the exceptionally funny names…Gomer made me snortle [...]

A sign from God?

The other day, I was putting some boxes of my father’s books in the attic. In his day, he was quite the amateur theologian, hence, piles of religious books now in my attic. I picked up one particularity heavy box and it slipped a little and two books popped out. I left them where they [...]

Rainbows & Drunk, Naked Noah – Bible Story or Queer Bar?

Genesis Chapter 9
So, the flood is over, everyone’s out of the Ark, the world starts over…
First, you get the lovely little story about how the Rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant with mankind that no matter what we do, or how debauched we become, or how board God gets with his little “Earth Experiment” [...]




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