Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

Here’s an old one I found while going through my Australia files. The old VB. Could go for one of them right about now.

But will the Antichrist be a homosexual? Having seen what the Bible says of sodomy, we have no further to look than the book of Daniel, chapter 11 to find our answer. It says, “Neither shall he [Antichrist] regard… the desire of women….”

- Crazy Alaska Pastor Article

That’s what’s in the book of Daniel? I thought he was living in a lion’s den or some such thing. I may have to read that one over again. Well, the Book of Doom says that Bible interpretations are almost always a reflection of the interpreter’s primal desires. Anyway, good stuff coming out of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin’s old stomping grounds. It all starts to make sense. The comments to this article, which asks with a straight face whether the Antichrist will be a homosexual, are overwhelmingly NOT on the side of author Ron Hamman. More importantly, they are hilarious.

Hamman is pastor for Independent Baptist Church of Wasilla and I can only imagine the crazy that goes on in that place every week.

Friday May 29! Milk at Midnight returns to Darkroom!

It’s more the headline that caught me: “Kristol Ball Fails” Ah, my old buddy, at it again! I don’t hear much from the perpetually wrong Bill Kristol anymore, not since he was run out of town by rock and roll. But it’s good to know someone’s got an eye on him. Go to bed, Bill!

Listening to Jay Bennet’s album right now, “Whatever Happened I Apologize.” You can download it for free over at this site called Rock Proper. Pretty sad. I wasn’t a huge fan and I came to Wilco around “Summerteeth” and the 4th of July show in Grant Park (2001?), but whatever his contributions were to “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” it is still the pinnacle of Wilcoworld. A man dying too young, that’s for sure.

I am often asked by thrillseekers around the world what my actual Booze Cabinet looks like. I travel to all corners and the questions remain: what is inside? Is it real? How does it work? Will you ever show us, Mr. Doom?

Well, today I give you the pleasure of peeking inside the mechanics that make this all possible. Consider it a gift from me to you, the reader. We may have our differences, but in many ways, inside the Cabinet of Booze, we are all the same. Which is to say, drunk.

It’s interesting to hear that Rick Santorum used the word “patrimony” in his Fox News interview the other day, I think it sums up the core fear that lies in the heart of the Right-Wing Man. It is the collapse of male domination, as seen through the lens of a Biblical and political haze. Hence the desire to control what women do with their bodies (birth control, abortion) and get them back in the goddamn kitchen!

Santorum realizes he is losing that grip and so he appeals to the traditional man, the ancient man, the Right-Wing Man, in hopes of stoking fear. That fashionable, cool black guy is going to take all of that away! Kind of like how gay Dan Savage took Santorum’s last name away from him.

Alas, it is no surprise that he praises the people who “knew enough that they didn’t know enough to vote” in California. That’s his base. Or at least, it was.

It’s just too nice and I am too busy to comment yet on Obama’s speech today, which I haven’t seen or heard but only briefly read about. And apparently Cheney gave one too. Why? Isn’t he done? Well, I’ve been pondering a post here in which I complain about what President Obama has NOT done yet, but it is still too early for that, I think. But as Greenwald says in that link, “closing Guantanamo, banning torture tactics, (and) limiting the state secrets privilege” are all at the top of the list. The war in Iraq needs to end, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to end. Obama needs to come out more forcefully (and he may have today, I don’t know) against the way it was under Cheney.

It would be nice if he supported gay marriage with some cool Obama enthusiasm. Snap his fingers and jazz up a little number.

But I am underinformed at the moment, and distracted by pleasant realities to argue about it, and the sun is shining on me and my baby. So it goes when summer comes to Chicago.

UPDATE:

Put it on his tombstone:

Cheney declared, without any equivocation or nuance, that “in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground.” It was less an argument than a declaration. It was a vivid reminder of where he stands, and how he thinks. If nothing else, it is a perfect epitaph for a philosophy, and an era of American history that has, at least for the moment, been thoroughly rejected by the sitting President of the United States.

- Time Swampland

I didn’t know who James Harrison was until I got to the end of this article and then I realized: he’s the bastard who cost me the 2nd quarter in the Super Bowl squares with that 100 yard interception return. So there’s that, and then on top of it he doesn’t want to go the White House:

This is how I feel — if you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don’t win the Super Bowl. As far as I’m concerned, he [Obama] would’ve invited Arizona if they had won.

Um, yeah. What is this guy, a friggin genius? Harrison, I got my eye on you, buddy. I don’t like your style. And you owe me money.

Has the fake outrage over President Obama’s Notre Dame speech passed yet? You know, the one where a bunch of older men came to interrupt the student’s commencement ceremony over a law enacted in 1973 that was never once in danger of being overturned during eight years of George W. Bush, not to mention twelve years previous under Reagan and Bush I, or Republicans Ford and Nixon? Yeah, that fake outrage.

And, by the way, it’s not pro-abortion, it’s pro-choice. As in: When seventeen-year-old Bristol Palin was impregnated by her now ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, she made a choice to keep her baby and was not forced into the decision by her government.

A pretty bizarre moment from the season finale of SNL. I liked it. Tons of people in it too, like Norm MacDonald, Green Day, Artie Lange, Paul Rudd, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hanks and more. And of course, Will Ferrell. More of the best clips here.

Coming off the three-game sweep of the San Diego Fathers, the Cubs are apparently ahead of last year’s pace. Hard to believe, as it feels like a disastrous season for some reason. Could be yet! But anyway, let’s imagine that Old Style put a big Blackhawk on its can instead and celebrate the impending showdown with the Detroit Red Wings. Oh my, it’s gonna be an intense situation.

Lots of interesting questions and theories posed in this column about the “Lost” season finale*, such as:

Maybe it’s as simple as good versus evil. Or the bigger picture may involve the question of free will versus predestination. The question of whether humans can listen to the better angels of their nature or will always be brutes tussling in the muck.

I think I know the answer to that one: we will always be brutes tussling in the muck. Even if it’s just the 20%ers tussling, in the muck they will keep us all. Brutes.

On the issue of free will, I’d say that the show has it both ways. And maybe that’s entirely logical — I’ll leave that to you philosophy majors to sort that all out.

Sorry, I was a Philosophy minor, so I’ll have to hold off on that one. But as an English major I am wondering why Sawyer was not named Romeo instead–too obvious? Or will that be his future name? Probably not, but he seems to name change with the situation. Anyway, great finale, and now the long wait for the final season. I’m gonna forget everything that happened.

* As is to be expected, don’t read this if you don’t want to know stuff about “Lost”!

Has the fake outrage over the Wanda Sykes routine–the one where she hoped Limbaugh’s kidneys would fail–passed yet? Alright then, just checking.

Ha ha! I love this, from Jesse Ventura–former wrestler/Governor of Minnie-soda!

I’ll put it to you this way:  You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.