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|12.23.04 @ 11:49AM|#
"Faith felt good, faith always feels good, it probably feels better than heroin"
Uh, yeah, it's really fun, and really easy. Always. Never a burden, never difficult, never a pain in the ass. Just rose petals and warm fuzzies, every single day.
What an ignoramus.
|12.23.04 @ 11:52AM|#
he's the coolest guy in show biz
|12.23.04 @ 11:59AM|#
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, ?This really is what religious people do.?
By that logic, the gulags and various Soviet purges are really what atheists 'do'. Everybody says "Who cares what celebs think about stuff?" ...until the celeb jumps on their wagon. Penn's a way cool magician, but a profound thinker he ain't.
|12.23.04 @ 12:03PM|#
You know, the first thing I thought was "All those people!"
The second thing I thought was "We have to stop this from happening again."
Maybe, more with covering Letterman's watch with fish guts, less with the political musings.
|12.23.04 @ 12:04PM|#
joe:
I think he's referring to the escapism qualities of both religion and drugs. Perhaps "always feels good" is an exaggeration, but his point is still valid.
|12.23.04 @ 12:08PM|#
Funny, my first thought was "that's the price you pay for living in a free society".
My it's just because he's "jumped on my wagon" (wow, that sounds kinda dirty :), but I think Penn's a lot more "profound" than most of the jerk-offs who run their mouth in show business.
joe's just bitter cuz Penn hasn't jumped on his wagon. ;)
|12.23.04 @ 12:10PM|#
"I think Penn's a lot more "profound" than most of the jerk-offs who run their mouth in show business."
Talk about damning with faint praise! Yeah, he's more profound than the Dixie Chicks and Ted Dansen put together.
|12.23.04 @ 12:17PM|#
joe - so be it. Bullshit! is such an awesome show, I can't help but jock Penn and Teller a little bit.
Semolina Pilchard (FKA "Sam I |12.23.04 @ 1:03PM|#
What a difference a decade makes ...
Speaking of which -- something I did last night on my blog, as it so happens -- shouldn't we get around to giving this decade an official name? We're now halfway through, yet everybody seems to have avoided the whole issue, almost like it's too much trouble to figure out.
By 1995, people were certainly using "the '90s" to describe the zeitgeist. But now we're living in this kind of nebulous era, orphaned and nameless. Sniff sniff.
Language provides meaning. Without a name for this decade, it has no definition. I'm a longtime proponent of calling it "the '00s" (say it: "the oh's"), but nobody else much seems to care.
Let's go, already!
|12.23.04 @ 1:36PM|#
I like Aughts or Oughts.
|12.23.04 @ 1:39PM|#
I've gotta stop reading this at work. After I read Penn's solution to the problem of airport security, I inadvertently spewed my Tropicana Ruby Red Grapefruit juice out my nose and all over my brand-new business shirt.
But you've gotta hand it to him; Penn's got the hijacking thing solved (Warning: swallow before reading):
"You know, we have the solution on how to do all the security: Have a man and woman at each gate leading to the airplane strip. They're stripped from the waist down, and every passenger has to lean over and lightly kiss the genitals of the person of the same sex and then have a piece of bacon. And all hijacking just goes away.
You don't have to actually have any sexual contact. Just enough so that anybody that has the sexual phobias of the Abrahamic religions [Judaism, Christianity, and Islam] has to violate that deeply. You probably don't have to pay the two people; they would probably think it was a cool, fun thing to do. You just barely touch your lips with the genitals 'just like that' and you have a little piece of bacon and you get on the plane. There's no searching your luggage. No nothing. We're all set."
|12.23.04 @ 2:06PM|#
"Faith felt good, faith always feels good, it probably feels better than heroin"
Penn should run for president. He's got my vote. Seriously.
(PS: If by some miracle he ever actually did get in, I'd be happy to buy joe a one-way ticket to Canada, heh heh heh...)
|12.23.04 @ 2:54PM|#
"There really is a sock puppet."
Love it.
|12.23.04 @ 6:30PM|#
"Which isn�t to say he�s an anarchist, exactly. �I think the government is perhaps a necessary evil,�"
Well nobody's perfect.....so I guess I'll let him slide since Bullshit! is such a kick-ass show.
|12.24.04 @ 3:58AM|#
First thing I thought: "Glad I am not flying today."
|12.26.04 @ 1:54PM|#
Yes, Penn is wicked cool. But as a nerdly fanboy, I must call a little b.s. myself on this: ...my friend Nell Scavell, who created Sabrina, the Teenage Witch...
Mr. Scavell did no such thing. He merely took the creation of writer George Gladir and artist Dan DeCarlo and turned it into a TV show. He wasn't even the first to do so, as Sabrina was animated for TV as early as 1969.
See: http://www.toonopedia.com/sabrina.htm
Kevin