Away from Bahston

I be in Spain, dudes and dudettes. Will enter info as needed.
Prado was good. Food has been great. We stay out all night and drink like fish.
Excellent.

Next Stop, Barcelona!

Bwana Jr is here.

He hath returned. But for a short while. Next week it's back to West Chilly. (That be Philly)

NO MORE EFFING HOBBITS, PLEASE.

Somebody effing save me from this shit.

The Whitey Bulger Effect

Even though Whitey Bulger has been on the lam for more than a decade, his effect can still be felt here in Beantown. Witness the "Ever-Haunted-Bucket-'O-Blood" that was the Triple O Bar in Southie ...





recently reopened under 'new' management and renamed The 6 House.



Some think it should be renamed once more The 666 House.


There have been repeated stabbings, shots fired, and at least two dead in incidents occuring within a few months of each other.

Bahston Hairuld Columnist Peter Gelzinis thinks so, too. See his recent column.

And, if you are curious about Where in the World is Whitey Bulger, you can follow recent sitings on this cool map that the Hairuld gleefully provides.

I intend to call in a few sightings in Spain and France this summer, just for shits and giggles.

Editor's Note: Recently, I have experienced lots of pain trying to use the Bahston Globule's web sight to get JUST BASIC NEWS. It seems their designers are too precious to operate a useable site. Therefore, I have pulled their RSS feed from the site, and have replaced it with the Bahston Hairauld's, which is shite-load more agreeable to use.

Just don't take their editorial opinion as mine own.

And Even Newton was Figs in the Attic ....

The recently revealed 'document' (which appears to be a scratch paper at best) purported to be Sir Isaac Newton's prediction of the Apocalypse taking the world in the year 2060 (give or take a fortnight?)

See wacko article.

Pound a Nail

What I should be doing, but have not for some time ...

God Hates A Sinner Lost

Last night I screened this documentary at Media Lab for the artsy crowd.


A "Hell House" is the exact opposite of a Haunted House at Halloween. It invites local teens, church families and church tour groups to come walk through the various ways one can enter Hell for eternity: having an abortion, having sex with a relative or out of wedlock, murder ... all these will land you in Hell if you don't repent in time. Suicide in particular is a favorite 'scene'. In each of the rooms you pass through, there is a ghoulish "Death Monitor" who narrates the evil import of the protagonists unthinking actions, and who is also interacting with the 'sinner', who hears their demon quite clearly though no one else in the scene can.

At the very end of the Hell House Tour, each group is led into a room where a stern preacher talks about the dangers of falling pray to Satan, and offers them 10 seconds to decide whether they will enter a further door, and pray for their souls with a team of Pentecostals. It's either Heaven, or the Highway to Hell. No in betweens.


There was much snickering in the audience at first, but as the expostulations of the Hell House participants became more intense, a sort of awed hush filled the room. I think most of those there didn't know any Fundamentalists personally or had ever interacted with them. But the filmmaker did a great job of really allowing each Pentecostal Player really explain their motivations, and I think the jaded Cambridge audience was finally taking them seriously by the end of the film.

George Ratliff made this film, and he takes no position whatsoever on the subject matter. He also does not employ "Voice of God" narration, since he feels even that becomes a commentary. He shows us these congregants of the Trinity Pentecostal Church in Texas as both decent and caring people, and as ... well ... folks who speak in tongues.

From what I heard, the screening for the church folks before release went very well, and they liked how it came out. They even laughed at themselves occasionally, which is encouraging. I'd recommend it to any Comparative Media Studies program.