tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post5634156296534982016..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Being American: Cheetos and ArroganceFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-48674161733122499392009-09-19T08:43:51.342-05:002009-09-19T08:43:51.342-05:00BETH: Thanks for commenting! Nice to "meet&qu...BETH: Thanks for commenting! Nice to "meet" you. (Thanks to Deanna.) I'm glad you liked the post. Great idea about selling your husband's T-shirt when the BVM appears on it. That's the spirit! : )<br /><br />ART SPARKER: Wonderful point about American Exceptionalism--thanks! <br />I'm sure Karen Armstrong has influenced my thinking over the years, even without me knowing it. I never read her "Story of God," but she was in town for a couple talks a few years ago when she gave an overview of some key points in her world view. And I was probably most fascinated, though, by what she said about her own life and her autobiographical book "The Spiral Staircase."Frexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-90043960487148220612009-09-18T14:58:00.234-05:002009-09-18T14:58:00.234-05:00See Karen Armstrong's "the Story of God&q...See Karen Armstrong's "the Story of God" for the adaptation of Calvinism in North America to form the basis for American Exceptionalism - That the maker blessed us with all the good stuff, and third world people are supposed to suffer cause they're not, you know, us.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-88330697064353520392009-09-17T13:50:52.017-05:002009-09-17T13:50:52.017-05:00Hi from the Florida piney woods, Fresca -- I just ...Hi from the Florida piney woods, Fresca -- I just discovered you via Deanna's blog. (Thank you, Deanna.) <br /><br />My husband has an old blue Cool Max t-shirt that he wears all day and also to sleep in. It has gotten so threadbare, it looks like one of those burned-out velvet paintings. I told him the other day that as soon as the remaining threads start to look like the Virgin Mary, that sucker is going on E-Bay. <br /><br />Loved your post. (I guess I am not the only person who goes around with a sticky, day-glo orange steering wheel.)Beth W.http://www.switchedatbirth.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-75997143915303010612009-09-17T07:19:22.611-05:002009-09-17T07:19:22.611-05:00Great comments!!!
I'm leaving for Montana in 1...Great comments!!!<br />I'm leaving for Montana in 15 minutes and still have to pack, so only have time to add that I'm pretty sure Louis Vuitton has set up a bed net-making factory in Darfur. Also manufactures novelty donuts....<br /><br />I'm thinking the Montana movie may be titled<br />"The Alien and the Anchorite.<br />We shall see... Taking the laptop so may report from there (for my column in the International Herald).<br /><br />If I should, however, be bit by a rattlesnake (they live out there) and die, I just want you all to know I LOVE YOU! : ) (But really.)Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-37850359144695202662009-09-17T02:17:53.910-05:002009-09-17T02:17:53.910-05:00Obviously US munificence to the poor Africans is i...Obviously US munificence to the poor Africans is in the zeitgeist. I read this this morning: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/bc-dup091409.php<br />but can't, for the life of me, work out where the bednets are being made. Because if they were being produced in factories in Africa by workers in Africa then that would be, like, really cool. But if, as I strongly suspect, that is not the case, then yes! let's all pat ourselves on the back for creating a MARKET among the POOREST. Because hey, that's what life (er, sorry, capitalism) is all about isn't it.<br /><br />GRRRRRRRRR.<br /><br />(PS I'm being sucked back into the internetting after some time out of its clutches!)rrhttp://www.twistedrib.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-4978669419866074942009-09-17T00:56:37.349-05:002009-09-17T00:56:37.349-05:00...and that particularly Cheeto is surely Godzilla......and that particularly Cheeto is surely Godzilla! Expect to see Mothra in doughnut form before too long! Its the end of days, I tell you!ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-79523627245985254032009-09-17T00:50:44.276-05:002009-09-17T00:50:44.276-05:00Ahh...they are called Wotsits in the UK.
And...wh...Ahh...they are called Wotsits in the UK.<br /><br />And...what a post, Fresca. You should have a column in the Herald-Tribune...ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-68706998125881820282009-09-16T19:13:38.688-05:002009-09-16T19:13:38.688-05:00Laughing so hard, every time I see that picture. T...Laughing so hard, every time I see that picture. Thanks for the whole post; I mentioned it in mine today. And thanks for making the page-loading go much more quickly for my elderly compy thing!deannahttp://deannahershiser.com/stories-glimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-15321992543581064892009-09-16T14:42:25.147-05:002009-09-16T14:42:25.147-05:00I love your closing line "Cheesus wept"....I love your closing line "Cheesus wept"... I couldn't stop laughing! <br /><br />Pork enzymes in Cheetohs? What a bastard food! But as carving material for little saint statuettes they might really have a useful life... I could see them glued to car dashboards.<br /><br />Your UK readers should know that the texture of cheetohs is pretty much the same as styrofoam. So if you like your styrofoam chemically cheesy, salty and porky--you'll love cheetohs!<br /><br />Couldn't agree more about the rest of the post.binknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-12288719549360891802009-09-16T13:24:30.688-05:002009-09-16T13:24:30.688-05:00Fresca, I would pay to read a book by you.Fresca, I would pay to read a book by you.momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.com