Carnival of the Godless and Circus of the Family
I’m going to start participating in The Carnival of the Godless. Number 70 is up this weekend over at Friendly Atheist. This is a good way to drum up new readers. This, of course, is all part of our master plan to turn more people away from Christ and toward Atheism (Atheism, after all is just an anagram of our secret agenda: “Ah Smite”. Getting people smote is what this is all about!).
Reading the Carnival of the Godless is also a good way of finding some excellent blogs. For example, it pointed me to The Greenbelt, who has a post about The Family Circus. I’ve always found that comic to be disturbing on many levels.
For example, I once had a dream that I was reading the comics page in my local newspaper. After reading such brilliant strips as The Lockhorns and Cathy, I then turned to Garfield, which was very funny (That’s right, only in your dreams is Garfield ever funny.).
Finally, I got to The Family Circus. I had been saving it until last, for it was my favorite! It’s the dessert of the comics page! Oh, Family Circus! The anticipation is killing me! I felt like the dog with the Milk Bone on his nose, trembling with discipline and desire, just waiting for his owner to give the command, so that he might snatch it and devour its milky goodness! (Milk Bones do have milky goodness, don’t they? I can think of another bone that gives milk, which leads me to…)
At last, I allowed my gaze to fall upon the Holiest of Holies. I rejected Indiana Jones’ plea to not gaze upon the contents of the Ark. I gleefully ignored Lot’s command not to turn around and look upon the city. I finally allowed my eyes to fall upon The Family Circus! With all proper reverence, I read the strip: It depicted Billy giving his father a blow job.
I don’t know if that dream says more about me or The Family Circus.
Anyway, head on over to The Carnival of the Godless, then be sure to visit The Greenbelt. I’m sure you’ll find his description of a real Family Circus to be even more distressing than my dreamworld version.
July 9th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Thanks! I’ll be checking out your blog, too.