It's still hot.

And now it's muggy, too. Joy.

Sadly, deadlines wait on no heat wave. But before I go off to work -- an interesting article on weight, fashion and intellectual anlysis versus emotional understanding, from the New York Times.

"Did I feel that I was a pretender in the fashion world? Feelings of imposture are hardly limited to the girl rackets. Saul Bellow confided to Philip Roth that in his 30's he had experienced doubts about whether, as the son of Russian Jews, he had "the right to practice the writer's trade." And this was after Bellow had written two novels and was about to begin "The Adventures of Augie March." I was merely writing about skirts.

Still, the question of my fitness was relevant, more than relevant. I couldn't fit into the clothes. I weighed 190 pounds when I arrived in Detroit, which would be my weight four years later when I went to The Washington Post. And if I couldn't fit into the clothes I presumed to know about, what did that do to my credibility as a fashion writer and, eventually, a critic?"

BRING IT ON tidbit

*chortle* I amuse myself sometimes.



“You’re Japanese?”
“I am.” Unlike most of the reptilian fatae, Shigenoi spoke without even the trace of a sibilant in his consonants.
“I’ve never met a Japanese fatae before. At least, not a native.” There were a lot of immigrant tribes in the New York area, and she wasn’t entirely sure about the origins of all of them.


It continues to be hot. And humid. I am sucking down iced tea and cheese-dusted popcorn at a frightening rate (the tea to rehydrate, the popcorn to replace salt). Thunderstorm, please? Or at least some thick, dark, highly-charged clouds?

Dude. Respect.

via bonniebluebitch



(Wittenberg, Germany) Crowds gathering in front of the famous Wittenberg Cathedral watched curiously as American theologian Matthew Fox walked to the building's great wooden doors and then nailed up a challenge to the Catholic Church just as Martin Luther did in 1517.

Like Luther, Fox believes that the church is in trouble and in need of a drastic change.

(snippage)

Fox and the new Pope are old opponents who had intensive debates on theological issues in the 1980s. Fox and 100 other prominent theologians were silenced by then Cardinal Ratzinger. A year later, Fox was forced to leave the Dominican Order by Pope John Paul II and subsequently converted to the Episcopal church.

"Jesus said nothing about condoms, birth control or homosexuality," says one of the Theses. Fox said it is time for Christians to choose who the Church will follow: an "angry exclusionary God or the loving God who opens the path to wisdom."

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/06/060905reformation.htm