return to faieirie island beneath the planet of the faierieiries

[davemerrill]

let nothing stand in the way of you experiencing every single possible bit of faeireie-magikc-whickan-beardo wonder and amazement you possibly can! Get out there and grab yourself a great big gooey hunk of faeriye!!



As above, so below at MISTER KITTY'S STUPID COMICS!!1!

This would have all been posted earlier but there was a power outage in our building, which meant there was a serious coffee shortage that had to be fixed by me actually walking the two blocks to the Starbucks. But first I had to take a shower, because I am a classy fella.

Tonight is TRAILER TRASH at the Toronto Underground Cinema; Sunday Donald and David are comin' over to compare notes on Anime North and watch something nutty, Saturday I have no idea what I'll be up to. BUT WAIT WHAT'S THIS

Planet Palmerston Yard Sale (Habitat for Humanity and other local charities) Palmerston community yard sale. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Palmerston from College to Bloor, planetpalmerston.blogspot.com.

We missed the big Parkdale neighborhood sale because of Anime North, but I think this Palmerston one is doable...

Comments

WOW

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

I have the "pilot" half issue of this.
I remember the faerie chewing a rampaging mother bear that was chasing after Katherine. I forgot the rest.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

I think someone should take pages of this and emboss it on leather ale mugs to be sold at Ren Faires.

Holy Hat is the hatred of religion strong here.

[x-expat.livejournal.com]

"Get out there and grab yourself a great big gooey hunk of faeriye!!"

I swear, one of these days, you are going to give me some sort of injury. Or shall I spell it, "injueriye"?

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

No no, just Christianity is evil. All the other religions are fine. Buddhist, Wiccan, whatever. It's only "Jesus" that makes our fairy wither in horror.

[(Anonymous)]

It should perhaps be remembered that between 1993 and 1998 (i.e., in the years running up to the publication of Morning Glory) seven employees of abortion clinics were murdered in the U.S. by self-described Christian activists, including an incident where a doctor and his escort were shot by a former Presbyterian minister. The over-the-top part, perhaps, is the idea of it happening in Mountain View (or the idea that Wicca was an oppressed religion in the Bay Area).

I was thinking it's weird that I was never annoyed by, say, "Big Daddy?" even though I should have been, as I think its message is bad for our society ("It's NUTS like you who should be LOCKED UP! In fact...you're a menace to our society!!"--sorry, that's from "Somebody Goofed"). Maybe it's because I'm a comics fan, and JTC delivered the goods as a cartoonist. It's the same reason I can re-read Mr. A but not Atlas Shrugged. If an artist has accomplished something worthwhile in the expression of an idea, it can have appeal regardless of whether one ends up agreeing with the idea or not. I can admire a propaganda poster without accepting the propaganda. In that case, of course, it has failed as propaganda, but that just goes to show how complicated "art" is.

What this is getting at, of course, is that a preacher--whether they happen to be preaching Christianity or paganism--needs to learn to preach their message with skill. Wicca has been around long enough that I feel it's just like any other religion--in my experience, both likable and unlikable people practice it, and people can go about it in both an annoying and a non-annoying manner.

--C.