Carnival of the Godless #5

Posted in N/A on February 28th, 2005 by The Retropolitan

Woo-hoo! I submitted my blog post “Swayze was the best one” to the latest Carnival of the Godless, and I was accepted. You may now applaud.

Anyhow, go check it out over at Smijer & Buck’s site, for some interesting observations on the nature of religion and godlessness in our society — it’s always an interesting read. You can check out previous Carnivals through listings at Unscrewing the Inscrutable.

New review: Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Posted in N/A on February 28th, 2005 by The Retropolitan

I finally got around to typing up another review, after a two-month hiatus. Read it now so you can avoid seeing the movie:

Reviews to Astonish Presents: Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Be afraid. Be a little afraid.

Business is picking up

Posted in N/A on February 26th, 2005 by The Retropolitan

Hello, four-thousand! I’ve finally welcomed the four-thousandth hit on this site, and in its honor, I’d like to throw a party. Unfortunately, this site hasn’t made me a dime, so the festivities have been cancelled. Please check back around five-thousand.

Hopefully, though, this site won’t reach five grand; I hope to be moved into my new domain long before that, but I’ve still got a long way to go and a lot to learn. Regardless of where I’m located, thanks for stopping by.

Y’all come back now, y’hear?

A Sample

Posted in N/A on February 25th, 2005 by The Retropolitan

Okay, so I threw a little something onto the index at the new domain:

Nineteenthirtynine.net

Just a teaser title that I’ve been using to learn Flash over the past few days, but it’s something. Toss me a comment or two if you’ve got any tips or whatnot. Actually, if you know of any good, and EASY Flash tutorials, please, please, please let me know. The internet is a wasteland of design tutorials that forget to tell you how to do stuff, and they make my brain hurt.

Despite the Hat

Posted in Skepticism! on February 24th, 2005 by The Retropolitan

Once again astounding the believers with infinite truth and wisdom, the Pope John Paul has decided that gay marriage was part of a new “ideology of evil,” apparently suggesting some kind of weird conspiracy wherein homosexuals are part of an “insidious and hidden” plot to destroy family. Not that Christianity as a whole hasn’t been known to have ‘issues’ with homosexuals, but the Pope’s latest manuscript actually went out and connected homosexuality to “evil,” which are what one might consider to be fightin’ words. Until I read this, I had a much higher regard for the Pope, considering that he accepted evolution over Biblical literalism — which is not a small thing; I guess I didn’t realize that the Vatican was a red state.

According to the article at My Way News, the 84-year-old Pope based his latest tome on conversations that he had with philosopher friends in 1993 (and later ones with aides), which may explain why he includes a vicious attack on the third season of “Seinfeld.”

[Also published at American Samizdat.]