Crying Sumo

I didn't dream it! I thought I might have, but it turns out there really is such a thing as "crying sumo" wrestling. Here's more.

Halloween: arrgh!

Perhaps more in a spirit of Fasching than Halloween or piracy, but in some spirit or other, we gathered a few like-minded types for drinks and potluck this week. Here's the executive staff of DSMDB, showing off their finery in the corporate kitchen.

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This year is the 40th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Guevara, better known as "Che." Back in in 1999, the old Wood-Charles News Service had this to report about religion and Che.

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THE ONGOING WONDER OF IT ALL

"Ann Arbor: Some evangelistic group in the UK gets advertising people to donate their time, striving to promote Christianity to -- well, to somebody. This week, The Independent is reporting that the group's latest ad is supposed to make the point that Jesus was not a wimp. Not kidding a bit. They don't want him to be thought of as some kind of easy-going, turn the other cheek, martyr. Nope, he was a real bad ass, and so they're running a poster of Che Guevara in a crown of thorns, over a kind of val-speak headline.

Traditional Church figures are not amused, and one of 'em is calling for excommunication. The group itself admits to being a bit concerned that people will see the poster, go to their local C of E service, and be turned off to discover that the service isn't conducted in camo vestments. Nobody, however, has explained just exactly what audience this is supposed to reach. "