Jeremy Bentham’s Head Fell Off

October 16, 2007July 2, 2008 / Anita Marie / 15 Comments

Jeremy Bentham was an interesting guy who advocated for things like equal rights for women and the abolition of slavery.

Jeremy Bentham also had written into his Will that his body be preserved, stored in a cabinet and brought out for special board meetings.

Then one day his head, which was not preserved well…fell off. So they made a wax one and stuck his real head between his feet ( see picture above) .

Jeremy Bentham’s Head

I’m sorry to say I couldn’t have made this stuff up.

God, I wish I had.

Jeremy Bentham (26 February [O.S. 15 February 15] 1748) – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and fair treatment of animals who influenced the development of liberalism.

God and The Daily Show Effect

October 14, 2007October 14, 2007 / Anita Marie / 10 Comments

Hi God,

Something Strange and Mysterious has happened

and I’m

chalking it up to your

Godly Powers.

Either that or you’re drinking again….

but we’ll get to that later.

Anyway, here’s the skinny:

Over the last few weeks Irregular Bones has gone from an

on-line

journal

where I write about my cats and my friends and family and head hunters and civil rights and

homeless people and what my bus rides to and from work are like

and my hero worship of Rod Serling and Bruce Campbell

NEWS SOURCE.

I kid you not.

So being that I’m trying to get on your good side

( well, at least on Sundays )

I’m prepared to answer your Call:

I have a half a pound of Pez on hand at all times

an endless supply of Jolt cola

a weird sense of humor

and Google at my finger tips.

I am SO going to have fun with this.

Thanks for the Call God,

it’s a good one.

Oh and between me and you

I don’t care what anyone says

YOU ARE FUNNY.

See Ya Next Sunday….

ahhhhmennnnn.

Consider The Twilight Zone

October 12, 2007October 12, 2007 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

It was much more then it appeared to be.

( below is a link to a great NPR interview with Marc Zicree, author )

Weekend Edition Saturday, October 2, 1999 · Scott speaks with Marc Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion, about the sensibility and significance of the landmark television series, which made its debut 40 years ago this weekend. The program, which ran from 1959-64, was created and hosted by Rod Serling, and has been in syndication ever since.

Boo God!

October 8, 2007 / Anita Marie / 8 Comments

Where have I been?

Funny One God.

Let’s Get to it, shall we?

So God, I was surfing the net for Halloween stuff and I kept running across these stories about Christians wanting to ” take Halloween back ” or asking if they should celebrate it at all.”

Here’s the short answer.

No.

Okay God?

Just in case that’s not clear enough here’s the long answer:

No! No! No!

I don’t go into church and make everybody in there read Stephen King and I don’t make the Congregation dress up like zombies or ghouls for Sunday Services and I happen to think that some of those Church songs are nice so I would never make them sing those ” Haunted Favorites ” with the sound effects in the background ( let’s face it though, I bet more people would go if ….never mind ) Okay…so tell them alright? I mean, don’t they have to listen to you? Isn’t that in the ~~rule book~~ Bible somewhere?

Yeah…I thought so.

Now the second thing I want to chat about are these Wonker Heads that sent me hate mail just because I believe in Human Rights.

I know they’re your children God and you love them- probably in the same way I loved that Cyclops Kitten. It was so deformed and helpless and must have been so afraid that you just couldn’t not care about it.

But Christ, could you make sure they use spell check? Like if one of these er, individuals, take the time to write me a letter and threaten me the very least you could make them do is run spell check so that the fake name those Chuckle-Heads use is spelled right.

Yeah, okay it is funny but still.

And forgive me God because in the spirit of Halloween I told someone an Urban Legend was a true story even though I knew it wasn’t.

Which one?

It was the one about the woman who goes to Mexico and after she gets back this boil on her face pops open and hundreds of baby spiders crawl out.

Hey, don’t get all Godly on me, the person I messed lost her last brain cell to bleach about 30 years ago and she always calls me ” Sen-your-eada “

She knows I don’t like her, so why she asked me about this one is weird. I’m guessing it’s because ” Sen-your-eada Ahneeeedah ” ( as she likes to call me) looks like one of them ” Mexican People ” and she probably thinks I’d know all about Mexican Infestations “

Hear My Prayer Lord….please have her ask me another….please?

And see you here next Sunday…got that…here…

Oh almost forgot….

aaaaahhhhmennn.

An Important Lesson From The Twilight Zone:

October 6, 2007October 6, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

It’s one thing to speak your mind,

it’s another to commit those thoughts to paper.

That particular act has never gone by unnoticed.

Sometimes it has a cost .

The Important Thing Is

You find a way to get your story out there.

I’ve learned that from my hero Rod Serling …

full story here

Rod Serling was surely one of the most idealistic, outspoken, and iconoclastic writers of television’s Golden Age. His highly developed social conscience, his strong opinions against bigotry and prejudice, his antipathy toward network censorship, were eloquently expressed in the more than 200 teleplays he wrote and in the many interviews he gave to national newspapers and magazines- by Linda Jay Brandt

amm

It’s All In The Game

October 2, 2007October 2, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

A long time ago

my oldest son played soccer.

Most of the parents insisted outfitting the kids in high cost pro style uniforms, they bought uniform bags, even special water bottles.

All of this stuff was embossed with the team logo…and before the game they’d line this stuff up on the ground and then they’d raise a custom made team banner over it all.

The kids were six years old

Some people take this stuff way to seriously like these guys…

By Associated Press

LACEY, Wash. (AP) – The Black Hills Junior Football League says the parents who brawled after a game in Lacey won’t be welcome back.

Police cited two people for assault after the weekend brawl involving at least 15 people at South Sound Stadium following game. The players are second- through fourth-graders.

The fight between Samoan and non-Samoan parents began with a dispute over loud cheering by parents. One man was treated at a hospital for a neck injury.

The football league president says the penalties against fighting parents won’t affect their child’s status on a team.

Want To See Something Really Scary?

October 1, 2007October 1, 2007 / Anita Marie / 9 Comments

For some

Halloween Reading

visit

Anita’s Owl Creek Bridge

Open from Dusk to Dawn

Civil Rights From The Twilight Zone

September 27, 2007September 27, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

Rod Serling gave this speech back in 1968, just after I turned four years old. (link at the end of this post)

In the wake of Jena, The ICE Raids and the Wars in Iraq And Afghanistan as well as the questions raised by the Patriot Act

one can see that

Rod Serling could have given this speech yesterday.

How sad and how utterly tragic that is.

amm

moorpark college

Suddenly we are a nation whose new battle slogan is law and order.

Last year it won countless numbers of elections.

It’s the great new American euphemism.

Law and Order.

It is now interchangeable with God, Motherhood, the Constitution and the Holy Grail.

But how empty and how suspect is this sloganry when it points up the incredible selectivity on the part of America’s citizenry –how picky and choosey they are when it comes to moral outrage.

Rod Serling

December 4, 1968

Moorpark College

Note From My Mom

September 23, 2007September 24, 2007 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

Dear God

Please Excuse My Daughter From God Chat

This Sunday

She’s out trying to do some good in the world

Sincerely

Anita’s Mom

Dear Anita’s Mom

Tell Anita she’s excused and if she scores one of those

South Lake Union Trolley

t-shirts

for me

I’ll call it good.

Yours Truly

God

Jerry Johnson, foreground, and Don Clifton model the “Ride the S.L.U.T.” T-shirts they created to poke fun at the original acronym of the South Lake Union Streetcar. The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop in the neighborhood. (Note: Johnson was misidentified in the original caption.) (September 18, 2007)

FULL STORY HERE

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Jeremy Bentham’s Head Fell Off

God and The Daily Show Effect

Consider The Twilight Zone

Boo God!

An Important Lesson From The Twilight Zone: