Year: 2010
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Comic Con vs. WestBorough Baptist Church
….. Westborough Baptist Church looses. Which is not very surprising, at all. The usual madness that is the Fred Phelp’s clan descended onto Comic Con, USA, only to be faced by a protest held in response. With people holding signs like “Is this thing on?”, and “Odin is God”. The article doesn’t record the response…
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…. and I’m back.
Yes indeed. I have travelled back from the distant land of Lesotho back to good old Blighty. I have to say, I’m very glad to be back. I did indeed have a good time in Lesotho, the people, by and large, were varied and interesting, but like a lot of placements, there were a few…
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To Lesotho!
So, dear and gentle reader, This is it. This is me getting ready for Lesotho. I can’t guarantee that there’ll be any updates while I’m away, but if I do get a change, I will put them here. So, for now, for the next four weeks, I shall be in Lesotho, seeing how the other…
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Birch 0.5.5.1 Beta Released (and new web site)
The new version of the Java IRC client, BIRCH (written by yours truly) has been released. It’s only a point release, but don’t let that fool you, there’s many new additions, updates, and changes that make it well worth checking out. You can find it at http://birch.jara23.co.uk Tell your Friends! ~BX
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Writing and Drawing
Martha let her hands dance over the white piece of paper. She liked blank pieces of paper, they made her happy. It wasn’t long, however, before the pen in her hand began leaving ugly trails all over it. Her hand was trying to capture the images in her head, the noise and the voices. None…
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Send Me To Lesotho!
Hello Friends, Romans, Netizens! I have come not to praise Black Xanthus, but to ask politely for your money! I have been accepted by USPG to go to Lesotho on Mission. This will be a wonderful way to expand my horizons (which is probably why USPG call it the Expanding Horizons Program), but it’s very…
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The Search
James crawled his way through the old metal tube, and stopped at the metal grill that looked down into the dark room below him. From the smell that rose up he was sure he was in the right place. The rank smell of rotting flesh and drying blood. As his eyes adjusted to the gloom…
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A Trip to Section 23
He looked around the dingy train. The seats worn and ripped, the carpet threadbare, the train apparently unable to to travel any great distance without jerking. He let his eyes be drawn out of the window at the grey countryside around him. It was drizzling with rain. Drizzling with rain was what this part of…
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And I Saw Her
She was there, I know, but I ignored it. She walked by, but I didn’t look at her. She glanced at me; and I at her, She walked on by. She was there, I know, but I looked the other way, She walked by, like yesterday, She smiled at me, and I at her, I…
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Don’t Vote Conservative!
If your still unsure who your going to vote for, make sure it’s not the Conservatives. No, really. Don’t. If you’ve been wondering about their motif of family, and this idea of wholesome Britain, and wondering precisely how that’s going to play, well, it’s going to play badly if your Gay. Philippa Stroud claims to…
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Student Nationals, Edinburgh, 2010
It was awesome. Of course it was, it was the nationals. It reminded me of all kinds of things. Why I enjoy roleplaying, why I’m training for ministry, why I like the people I like. My the Nationals forever continue. A lot to do in 48 hours, but then, if you’ve never been, you can’t…
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Batman On an Elephant. That is All.
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American Episcopate ahead of their time?
Amidst calls for another reformation in the Catholic Church, the American Episcopal Church is busy forging ahead on it’s own. The news that’s making the headlines is of course the consecration as Bishop of Canon Mary Glasspool. This is not because she’s a Woman, the presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church is Dr Katherine…
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OK Go’s New Video Outdoes themself
Perhaps OK GO are not known for their music, especially as the the thing that people remember from “Here It Goes Again” is the video. Well, here’s another video by them that is frankly awesome. However, I’d be hard pushed to tell you what the song was, as I spent most of my time, open…
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Nate Phelps Speaks Out
The Westborough Baptist Church, under the stewardship of Fred Phelps have often been in the news, and mentioned on this Blog for their extreeme attacks on people they consider to be against God. Their slogans “God Hates Fags”, and “God Hates America” are well known; they believe that God has cursed America for what they…