gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

Resurrections

A little bit of public shaming can go a long way.

A week ago I did a little bit of technical housekeeping, a mild closet-cleaning of my blogroll.

Nothing major - just pruning the dead and dying branches. I considered just doing it, not blogging about it, but then I figured there's nothing wrong with sending some props to the fallen. Plus I had nothing interesting to say, so I posted a little blurb (what Ouimet once referred to as Boring Administrative Notes.)

Well, I have the Lazarus touch, or something.

My first victim, Sinister Dan, suddenly came out with a shiny new WordPress blog, full of the irascible insight, political poignancy and grumpy goodness I've come to know and love (in an abusive sort of way.)

His latest offering of wit and self-admonition is, like Congresswoman Katherine Harris' breasts, equally attractive and repellent.

Time to put him back on the blogroll - and not just because I'm on his. (But it helps.)

Then there's fellow CBC'er Dan Misener, who I put on warning for not posting in a month. Sure enough, he's back at it too, with three posts this week. Give him a visit too. I should go visit him too, actually - one of the few CBC bloggers I'm not in touch with.

My "influence" (read: coincidence for which I claim credit) is not restricted to the faltering alone. I added active blogger Peter Janes to my blogroll, and he responded with a public shaming.

His main complaint: "If this sort of thing keeps up I’ll have to change my 'theatre bio' from 'writes an unpopular weblog' to 'writes an only slightly unpopular weblog'."

And then there's Joe Mahoney. Vowing to steal all my ideas from now on (which is, in turn, the worst idea ever) Joe whipped up a Great Purge of his own, much bloodier than my own.

Glad to see some survivors, and even some that have come back from the dead.

Speaking of resurrections... here are two completely kooky religious items I came across on the internet this week. No idea what to do with them, so let's put 'em here.

The Brick Testament is the complete Bible... as acted out by Lego men.

It comes complete with all that biblical nastiness, too - adultery and beheddings galore.

Then there are the Armor of God PJs, pajamas "inspired by Ephesians 6:10-18".

Now your little ones can look like little crusaders and smite heathens in their sleep!

I recently started taking my kids to Sunday school (more on that later), but this stuff sort of creeps me out.

Nothing wrong with teaching kids about Jesus, but just I can't picture this being the sort of thing He was talking about.