Zoinky doinks. I love those cakes!

What I love about Ace of Cakes is that, for all that Duff Goldman is a real showman and loves the camera, most of the show is spent with the other people at the bakery, especially the low-key Geoff (I love the quiet-yet-snarky type!) and the completely awesome (said with Dufflike enunciation) Mary Alice. In the commercial for the new ep, which is very Harry-Potteresque, you see her tell Duff, "Hey, Dumbledork, turn the lights back on!", which cracks me up every time I see it.

I try so hard to be tolerant, but then other people are intolerant, and then I am intolerant of them.

I refuse to tolerate intolerance.

I am off work now! t /testing The Secret

Nope. Still here.

Nope, DJ. The universe heard "work now" from you.

I try so hard to be tolerant, but then other people are intolerant, and then I am intolerant of them.

I think this depends on what kinds of tolerance and intolerance. There's a small minority of Christian fundamentalists who think I should be deprived of my civil rights for being an atheist. I don't think I should be so intolerant as to advocate the same thing for them, but I do think I should be intolerant to the point of trying to prevent them from actually imposing their beliefs on the rest of us (through legislation or whatever).

Well, just to show the universe, I'm not gonna do any!

Hey, it works! I just thought to myself, "I wonder if the laundry's done?" and it suddenly stopped! It's the gravy train for me from here on out!

But that's action and not belief, Tommyrot. I am all for not tolerating bad actions, no matter what belirf they spring from.

The universe being a cranky angry toddler explains so much.

Nilly once said to me that "no one knows god's scorecard."

Nilly is one of the few people who make me think there could be a beneficent god. I don't believe in god, but if more people actually acted on their beliefs the way Liese and Nilly do, the world would be a better place.

It's hokey, but my Mom used to read me Abou Ben Adhem.

My problem with the Secret and a number of religious people I know is that implication that if I was more positive or prayed more or led a better life, I could have avoided the ills in my life.

I still can't get an answer when I ask my neighbors to define "the universe" that makes any sort of sense at all.

I'm the jerk who says, "so, when the sun goes all red giant and scorches every shred of evidence that humans ever existed, is that all part of god's plan? And what happens to all those ghosts? Won't they get bored haunting a big smoking rock with no one to scare?"

I'm a JERK. But if they're going to keep insisting on telling me stupid shit about astral projection, I'm going to reserve my rights to jerkhood.