Off to Syracuse for a week. State Fair. Butter sculpture. I don't know if I'll be adding anything here before I get back on the 6th or 7th (but I'll be checking e-mail). While I'm gone you can hang out here, but no parties.

Fuckin' Wonkette linked to me, yo!

• Jesus drops in on another Chosen One: "The only real difference between Me and him is his daddy found a way to forgive Bill Clinton." [Slate]

On the other hand, so did Rightwingsparkle!

Let me know if I'm bragging too much!

Superman soaring in Serbian skies
newKerala.com

London: Authorities in Serbia are investigating reports of a real-life Superman, which was seen flying in the sky by the local people.

Numerous residents in Ljubovija claim that they have seen a cloaked figure flying crazily over their houses.

“As if he had an invisible engine on his back” and changing directions while in mid-air, Fox News quoted a resident as telling local daily Blic.

“It was like something out of Superman or Batman. No one has any rational explanation for what we all saw,” he added.

However, police in the town have refused to give their comments.

"Go To Hell"

I know you're sick of hearing "Slate this" and "Slate that," but I have to tell you the best thing about writing something for them. It's that each piece gets instant reader response on its own page in their forum, The Fray. I'll let my fans speak for themselves:

What kind of sick shit is this?

This isn't even mildly entertaining. The hatred leftists seem to possess for Christians is apparently endless. And this coming from the party that wants all discrimination to end. You are pathetic two-faced idiots that are in the end, going to pair-up with the radical Islamists to kill us all. Go to hell.***Not very funny Laymo. The Lord kisses up to no one. Every knee shall bow to HIM in heaven and in earth. And btw i do have a sense of humor.***I didn't know Slate hired 13-yr.-olds!

You have violated the first rule of good writing: write about what you know. This is especially true for satire. For satire to work at all, you need to know something about what you're mocking.

You've got the politics right, but your total lack of understanding of Christianity renders your piece a satire on your own POOR JOURNALISM.

As a political progressive and a teacher, I am sickened by your middle school level attempt at humor. I suggest you go back to journalism school(assuming you've been there at all) or go smoke a joint with Jayson Blair.

JERK.***It made me want to vomit, and I am not a right wing Christian!***

There were favorable ones, too, but why bore you?

Oh, and this morning, I got the following e-mail from David Grace of Hackensack, NJ:

What if Satan spoke at a Democratic Party fund-raiser?

TRANSCRIPT OF SATAN'S REMARKS AT A DEMOCRATIC PARTY FUND-RAISER, BOSTON, MA, AUGUST 2005

Thank you. And thank you for that heart felt introduction Mr. Dean. (UPRORIOUS CHEERS) Really, I appreciate it. Howard, I really like the way you scream! (CONTINUED CHEERS) Thank you. No really, I'm going to have a hard time torturing all of you for eternity after a welcome like this. Now will all of you please sit down, and shut the f**k up! (LAUGHTER)

David's piece continues in Comments...

TRANSCRIPT OF JESUS CHRIST'S REMARKS AT A REPUBLICAN PARTY FUND-RAISER, by me, at Slate.

Burstin' With Pride!

Great news! The SUPERFRANKENSTEIN Singers have been invited to perform at the assassination of Hugo Chavez!

Oh, Napoleon

Desire won. With a quiet gasp Illya Kuryakin flung himself into his partners arms.

Napoleon Solo caught him, and for the next several minutes there was no sound but the whisper of uniform twill rubbing against parka nylon, and the occasional soft gasp as one man or the other had to surface for air.

"You have time?" Illya murmured between kisses...

You have to be 18 to read Man From U.N.C.L.E. slash fiction at The Raven's Lair, and 50 to want to.

Interlude

It is my great pleasure to introduce The SUPERFRANKENSTEIN Singers: Connie, Betty, DeeDee, and Cissie. These young talents are here to entertain you while I take care of a vital task. Until I return, just close your eyes and let their sweet, wholesome sounds sweep you away!

Two Christian Comics (1973)

PDFs of Spire Christian Comics, including Hansi--but not Landry, God damn it--right here! [Via The Comics Journal Message Board]

Gallery told to drop 'gay' Batman
[Mark Chamberlain's bat-art previously linked here.]