Kevin Mitnick

I found this picture online. This is a business card for Kevin Mitnick, one of the most infamous Hackers and "Social Engineers" of all time. (the tools on the card are lock picking tools).

He credits most of his accomplishments with accessing data bases and security codes to social engineering - which in layman's terms could mean anything from talking up a bus driver so you can find out where to purchase your own bus ticket stamp to ride for free or calling the blond secretary of a large company and convincing her you are very important and need the security codes.

He spent time evading the law and spent time in prison as well. He even had to spend time in solitary confinement because a judge was afraid he would be able to whistle in a phone and start an nuclear war!

There are little bits of truth to the ability to whistle in a phone. (to get free calls though). A man with the moniker Capn' Crunch could do that. He discovered a capn crunch toy whistle that emitted the right frequency to activate free long distance on the phone network - he was then able to mimic that to make free calls any time.

Kevin Mitnick is now on the reformed side of the law and works hard to ensure secure and stable networks and systems are in place.

Huh! Who says crime never pays? (I wouldn't reccomend it though).

Reverend Rick


Also - i heard the coolest radio show once on coast to coast am that had Kevin Mitnick interviewing Steve Wozniack the creator of Apple computers. If you go to coast to coast am's website i believe pretty soon you will have acess to all their archives if you are a stream link member. Definetly worth listening to.

Rollerderby Kicks Ass

I just wanted to say that Roller derby kicks ass. I'm not sure if anyone reads this blog yet, save for people that know me but for those that don't, my wife is a Roller Derby Chick all the way.

With the recent movie that came out on the subject (Whip It) i thought i should mention something on the subject. It's scantily clad fast moving girls on skates + booze + rock n roll. It's a ton of fun and if you've got a league in your town - you should consider going to a game.

My wife needed a hobby a couple of years ago. She wanted something to do after work that would be fun and where she could make friends. She's definitely got that. She's got her time so booked up with practice, games, and fundraisers now, she doesn't have much time to be bored anymore.

I really love the fact that she can do something like this and do really well at it just because she set out to do it. If she had decided to stay at home after work and knit or something like that i don't think she'd be happy.

I think she can take out any aggression she has in the rink, and I don't have to feel any pent up pressure and stress coming out at me in random ways. She's got a place to escape, have fun, set goals and achieve them then come home and not have to unload a ton of problems in my ear.

She's much better about that than me anyway. She just puts it on the track and leaves it there. If you met her you'd be surprised that she does such an aggressive sport, but if you knew her like i do - you'd know she's competitive like hell.

So, keep an eye out for derby in your town or look into starting a league yourself.

here are some helpful links

USA Roller Sports

Womens Flat Track Derby Association

and if you live in Houston, come check out a South Side game...

South Side Roller Derby

Reverend Rick

Tongue Trippin'

Today dear readers, I want to introduce you to the miracle berry or miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum).

Say hello to this weird little bugger.



This is a west African berry with the ability to re-mix your taste buds like a mash up at a nightclub! It has the ability to change acidic foods to sweet - (sour, hot, etc.). In NY city, flavor tasting parties have become mildly popular where people pop some of these culinary chameleons and then down pickles, lemons, hot sauce, or all of the above at once! Any kind of sour/tart/acidic foods are changed to unusual sweet flavor combinations.

The fruit has something called "Miraculin" in it. (Real inventive scientific name huh?) Miraculin is a Glycoprotein that has no flavor in and of itself, but will alter your perception of flavor for up to an hour.

An article in the New York Times quoted tasters opinions as thus:

"limes were candied, vinegar resembled apple juice, goat cheese tasted like cheesecake on the tongue and goat cheese on the throat. Bananas were just bananas."

Times quote is from "A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=1

The berries are available to order over the Internet, but they are very expensive and perish quickly. They sell for about $2 or more a piece, and a freezer pack box of 30 is about $90 mailed overnight to your door.

Before you throw in the towel on "flavor tripping" parties being out of your price range, there are several companies that manufacture the berries in tablet form now and it is much less expensive.

I may have to spring for a box and let you know what it's like. The only question is, what food to try first? Maybe a bottle of Guiness with a Tabasco chaser? What, you don't think chocolate truffles and strawberry jam go together?



Reverend Rick

Zero tolerance for Camping Utensils

In Newark, Del. 6 year old Zachary Christie is facing 45 days in a reform school for bringing a camping utensil that is a fork/spoon/knife to his school.

He was excited about recently joining the cub scouts that he wanted to bring his new utensil to school. The school has a zero tolerance policy on knives, guns, or what may be considered a weapon. They don't have the ability to look at things like this on a case by case basis, so little Zach may be in the pen for a while because of this "crackdown" law.

The law at the school was introduced after a girl was suspended for a year for bringing a cake to school and a knife to cut it. The girls Grandmother had sent the cake and knife to school with her. The teacher even used the knife to cut the cake for the class, and then reported it!

To read the full story below from the NY Times:

www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html?_r=1&no_interstitial

Also: if you want to sign an online petition in favor of letting Zach go, then visit

www.helpzachary.com

Reverend Rick

odd combinations

Sometimes I wonder why certain things come out a certain way in advertising. When there are strange pairings of text and images or ads that seem to be insensitive or downright cruel to the news story presented, i always wonder what greater, weirder thinking could be at work, if any thinking at all?

Below was the intro to a video about "Obama's busy schedule" but the title is greeted with the video of test missile launches. I understand they are not implying that he is just busy firing rockets, but what would someone think right off the bat? Doesn't one thing immediately say something about the other?


I understand that ads that are generated from key words, but this can make for some insensitive advertising. I was watching a documentary one day that was emotionally moving and dealt with poverty and homelessness. Every 20 minutes or so it's abruptly cut by commercials of families dancing in the kitchen making dinner rolls and the like. It just seems strange sometimes don't cha' think?

At least on TV the advertising is done with some thought to the content. Don't believe me? Why don't you see those commercials for the newest toys on at midnight? At least the marketing makes sense...

The photo had a description of this woman being the last face-tattooed woman of Myanmar. They were tattooed as children to save them from being kidnapped and made into concubines...but look at the advertising subject...



This next placement is just plain ?kismet? - is that an accident or ...????



I just started collecting these. I'll share more as i find them...

Reverend Rick

Psychedellic Monday

Sure it's Columbus Day, but who gives a damn about some dead Spanish prick?

Let's devote today to the psychonautical journeys of the inner seas. An introverted look at our conquests and a pirates trove of psychadellic art...




the one below is not so much psychadelic as surreal.
It is of Salome and John the Baptist and is called
Frustration Attraction by Heidi Taillefer

http://www.heiditaillefer.com/

I liked this one so much i sent her and e-mail and it sparked a conversation via e-mail about the nature of good and evil. Maybe the reverend can interview her for this blog.



I remember this man's art from a psychology textbook. He was a schizophrenic that drew cats.



Next one: Alex Grey - http://www.alexgrey.com/



last but not least, an homage to the spirit of the original inner journeymen...

Random Information: James Bond

Hello Loyal Readers,
I'm going to include a segment every so often called "Random Information". I believe it's self explanatory..

This week: JAMES BOND BIRD WATCHER GENTLEMAN SPY!

The Character James Bond was created by Ian Fleming and the name was taken from an American ornithologist who wrote the bird watchers book "Birds of the West Indies".

Fleming once said, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."



rANdOM iNFORmATiOn GEnErAtED BY:
rEV. RiCK

THnKS

Kids for Rent

Here's my idea for a very lucrative business. With all the dreams of social activities and errands that parents wish they could do without having to hire a babysitter and all the guys that need help picking up chicks, why not KidsForRent inc.

It is a social network where a some single chap in need of a date can take your kids for the afternoon to go to the park/mall/bar - whatever - to meet ladies that will coo over his adorable child.

Single (dads) are just so cute to women that carting around adorable Jr. for the afternoon opens up a whole smorgasbord of topics of conversation with the ladies. Things like:

"Why is your kid screaming for his "real" parents."

"You do know that the diaper is not supposed to go on the outside of his pants right?"

"Ummm...so what do you mean he's not really your kid and you don't really know him or his parents...?"


While you're living it up parents, sucking down margaritas at noon, just relax and know that your kid is enriching the lives of others and that eligible bachelors are pretending they had 1/10 of the parenting mojo power that you have...



Reverend Rick

Banksy

I just wanted to share today an artist I like. He is a Graffiti artist but does other work and he also has a gallery. He often uses ironic and humorous juxtaposition of imagery - mixing old idyllic images with war, crime, and poverty. His work is steeped in social commentary; but often not without a sense of humor. He has snuck his art into the Louvre in Paris as well...


check out his site:
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
















And one of my all time favorites...

Readers Question: Where do all the Doggies go?

When it rains it pours! Who could be so lucky as to get 3 real honest to goodness readers questions in a row? We'll not mention that i have been paying my friends to write me and ask silly questions... Please folks, send e-mail questions for the Reverend to richard.kreativekarma@gmail.com


Dearest Rev. Rick,

Years and years ago, before Tonya Harding hired a knee assassin to hunt down and attack Nancy Kerrigan, an animated film entitled All Dogs Go to Heaven was released. The film successfully initiated a whole new school of thought concerning pets and the afterlife. Pet cemeteries began to take on a whole new role in society (compared to when "the back yard" or "out behind the tool shed" was usually reserved for the burial of faithful and loving and dead pets). Now you'd be laughed out of town for even mentioning that pets don't go to heaven--I mean, where the hell else would they go?

My question: When pets arrive at the pearly gates and begin hiking their legs on the lampposts of the golden streets, they each get a set of shimmering, snow-white wings. But what about pet birds? Does Petey Parakeet or Crackers the Parrot get a second set of wings? And if so, are birds allowed within the city limits of Heaven Proper? Because a flock of 10 birds would sound like a flock of 20! And who could jam out on the harp if the sound of bird flapping was blaring at all times of the day and night?

And finally, what about penguins? Their wings aren't even evolved for flight--do they get a second set of underdeveloped wings? If so, that'd just be weird.

Daniel



Dear Daniel,

I hope i don't sound to crass by starting out with: Don't muck up Heaven with Logic. This is a post Harding world. This is a new era, a new dawn and a new beginning all wrapped up in an even bigger new-age cliche`.

In this new age we can have new and exciting ways of thinking about pets in the afterlife. If you particularly get stuck on the whole wing issue, try thinking outside of the birdcage. Possibly all new parakeets, cocateils, parrots and so on have their wings surgically removed and then are fitted with the much larger raptor-like angel wings.



Granted, they are rather large, but there will be no quadruple flap problem. In this new age of gizmos, micro-com-processor-tones, flap-junk, and willy nilly hog-wash-its, it is comforting to know that our thoughts about heaven can be as varied as the science of creating breakfast foods in a lab.

Why not entertain the notion of a personal heaven? A heaven where you and polly and your lovely wife can all share a place basking in the glory of God? And if your wife hated you, or polly, you still have your version of heaven with a perfect version of your wife, while she has a seperate heaven with no polly and a perfect loving version of her husband.

Not possible you say? Nothing is not possible with God! In this new post Harding world, not only did Harding Shatter a knee that day, she inadvertentally shattered our perceptions of what could be.

Like levitates to like in your personal heaven.



That is why everything is perfect. Differences pool far away from each other. If you don't want birds mucking up your jam time with their noisy flapping, say hello to the wonderful cuddly friends you have called penguins.

There is always a solution in a limitless world devoid of set, ridgid laws. This is a world where the bouyancy is set at perfection, all will assume their natural order and place. In this earthly world it is easy and natural to believe in a place of perfect harmony because laws, rules, and order that oppose your free spirit are frustrating, even if those laws are things like gravity, the conservation of energy, and nothing surpassing the speed of light.

There can and has to be a place where All Dogs Go to Heaven as well as cats, mice, gerbels, and yes little timmy's budgie. But that place cannot have any obvious flaws like four winged budgies. So yes, you can have your budgie and eat it too.

And for the penguins, sleep tight tonight because we all know hell is too hot for those little buggers, and if they had wanted to fly they would have just upped the ante and darwined themselves into a new set.


Reverend Rick

Readers Questions: Inefficient Pregnancy / Don't hate the player, the game or the manufaturer!

Joy oh joy of joys! - I've got another reader question.

How did God decide that sex would be the way people procreate? It seems a little…inefficient to me, especially the whole nine month pregnancy thing.

Sincerely,

Curious Christine

Well Curious Christine,

Fortunately for every weird question there is an equally weird answer. Even better, this is a damn good question and not weird at all. As we all know God created earth and man and all earths good creatures, and man created everything awkward, stupid, and strange.

However, what most don't know is that the primary technological copyright for man, plants, and animals is held by the Xerox corporation. That dumb machine that we now know today in every Kinko's is a stripped down version of god's original plan.

He first made man in his own image and then wanted to duplicate him so man could have some friends to hang out with. "His own image" is just legal copyright jargon and in no way indicates Gods actual likeness as God more closely resembles my Uncle Carl who actually looks more like a platypus than a human.

The problem with the "Xerox" method was, as anyone who's messed with copies knows, that at some point the original gets lost. (i.e. for God: the first man was dead and gone). So when you make a copy from a copy from a copy the quality gets worse and worse. Sooner or later Adam's descendants would be as sexually defined as a Ken Doll. (The most important details are lost along the way).

So to avoid losing the most important toy man ever had, he created woman, the best play partner with some kick ass toys of her own.



While the "Xerox" method was instant and created fully formed humans quickly, the ease of use had it's flaws as I've mentioned and God "went back to the kitchen" with a bowl of baby batter to find out how to preserve all the subtle nuances and flavor combinations that are mankind.

God realized he had to break mankind down to his most basic ingredients and give half the recipe to Adam and half to Eve. While Adam and Eve may be too stupid not to eat stuff that isn't theirs, they are never too stupid to procreate. The reason being is that God includes some powerful incentive for swirlin' up some baby batter and baking up a batch of cookies.

What would happen if making cookies were more fun and more filling than taking them out of the oven feeding and clothing them? After all, cookies don't take long to bake and if you had your fun making them you'd be quite disgusted if in 20 minutes you had a batch of cookies that started crying and needed milk.

This would be the Xerox scenario all over again but with the joy of sex. How strange would it be to have a wonderful session of sex with your partner and then standing there in your bedroom was a fully formed man introducing himself as your son?



Efficient as this may be, it would be extremely creepy and uncalled for. A 9 month waiting period doesn't seem so bad now does it?

This is why that God allows people to "live it up" having wild unprotected sex not knowing whether or not they will have a small obligation to fulfill 9 months later. This is the same as the no interest, no payments for 9 months thing. The sex contract could have a small rider that results in rather large balloon payments when the loan gets closer to maturity.

In short, while pregnancy is not literally efficient, true efficiency would be strange and most babies, if conceived as fully formed adults, would be shot by the father thinking they were an intruder.

So, since we want sex and we don't want a huge obligation every time we play the game, God makes it a little like gambling. We can belly up to the table and lay our money down with a chance to win big and get more than what we came in with, but you gotta know when to pull yourself out of the game or you'll bust.

Just like always, we can play all we want, we can even borrow from the house to gamble with, but the house always wins. But in this case, imagine after having a blast at the casino, Harrah's drops a bill in the mail 9 months later showing you actually lost and that you'll be paying on the interest forever - and you still want to go back and do it again!



That sounds pretty sneaky but really effective. The baby making industry will never suffer because of it. God was smart with the buy now pay later incentive - especially when you don't even realize you bought the farm. Talk about great salesmanship!

As for the Xerox baby making device, rumor has it God's got it locked in a storehouse somewhere, along with about a million seedless Adams with less definition around his Tigris and Euphrates than Eve.



Reverend Rick

Readers Questions

Dear loyal readers, Reverend Rick has finally landed a true readers question. I must mention that getting pissy about no-emails must have landed me my first e-mail. I must say anger pays off. So to kick of my first Readers question, here's a big salute to you readers and future readers, may I never get bored of your questions!



Dear Revered Rick,

Why did the color pink get assigned to girls and blue to boys? Why is it when you have two teams if one is wearing red and the other blue, red always wins? Do you think it is because red is similar to pink, and that girls are naturally better than boys?

Sincerely,

Jo Wants to Know


Dear Jo Wants,

I must first comment that it is true that across cultures pink is more often assigned to to girls and blue to boys. You are also semi-correct in the comment about "red always wins". Research shows that teams that wear red win more often. (but not always miss Jo-wants-to-know-it-all).

The reasons for these things are as rich and varied as Aunt Tilly's home-Knit Christmas Sweater, her Christmas punch and Aunt Tilly all rolled into one hob-nobbin' yule log! So Get ready for a SHOCKING (but conveniently sexually biased) TRUTH!

The truth of the matter predates the history of man altogether and goes straight into the history and evolution of Dinosaurs.



Keep in mind that this ribbon on the Dino pic is not ordinary pink ribbon. Strangely enough, it is actually a fungus that commonly grew on the necks of female dinosaurs. It is believed that the pheromones of male or female dinosaurs contributed to the color the fungus that coated the bewildered baby Dino's blue or pink. The fungus had many different color variations, some of them complex, that effected the Dino's in many different ways...




Well, what the hell does this have to do with us as human people you might be asking. Well, as you may have guessed by now, we are not descendants of the dinosaurs. But we are descendants of the proto-geological sludge that became the fungus that mushroomed into mankind...





Science-type intellectuals with degrees spanning the globe have uncovered many quirky things about these fungi, their evolution, and their role in our gender style, preferences, and smartness or dumbnesses.

Smarter people have shown that a particular combination of your "frfa's" or "functioning retroactive fungal anomalies" leads you to your clothing choices, your preferences and a distinct mapping of your "a.w.e.s.o.m.e.n.e.s.s" or "acute, whole, evaluative, summary, of, me, excluding, naysayers , except, sometimes, sally".

The depth and extent of this profound research study has yet to be determined, but it proves to shake the world of science, not to mention the fashion industry, to it's core.



While the "smoking gun" of why women have frfa's that point to smaller amounts of a.w.e.s.o.m.e.n.e.s.s have yet to be determined. We have known that primary, secondary or tertiary colors are more bold then mixed shades like pink.


The unmixed colors like blue or red when taken in the light of a warring and competing fungus from which we evolved show that blue is peaceful and red is warring. It is not gender specific in the realm of all out war (Red) or lasting peace (blue), but when it comes to the watered down version or red (Pink) we understand the nature of this fungal organism to be attuned to small wars and pointless battles which seems to cling to women like a fungus.



The end.

Reverend Rick


P.S. I love's you alls so don't worries.
Not to override my own point, but I'm still giving all my respect to tha ladies fighting breast cancer, as Oct. is breast cancer awareness month. (I'm aware of the irony considering i just bashed the color pink and all women everywhere...)

.....Love you Jo

Readers Questions

Since starting this blog less than a week ago you may remember that I requested to have readers questions that i could answer. I even included a fictional example to warm you up to the idea.

I have not received one as of yet. I am writing this on Friday to post automatically on Monday morning. I am assuming I didn't get fan mail over the weekend either.

May I ask, what did you do over the weekend that was so pressing you couldn't talk to the Reverend?? Hmmm? The Lord has a temper, and how much more is my temper considering how much less of a man/god i am than him....



So. I'm pissed. But that's ok. (this is actually a pre-emptive pissyness considering this was written friday and i expect no mail this weekend.)

I'm going to let it slide though. And just for your benefit I will include one more sample readers question to get the ball rolling....(lets not make a habit out of this).

Dear Reverend Rick,
I have a hole in my jock and I have never worn it. In fact I do not play sports and have never even bought one. Why is this?

Holden McCrotch
Brighton MA

Dear Mr. McCrotch,
What the hell is your question? Are you asking me why you have a hole in your Jock or why you are so ignorant as to believe it is actually yours? If you've never bought one and don't play sports, either it was a gift from someone that doesn't know you very well or you stole it. Either way you are a stinking dirty liar who has a hole in his jock. Maybe you will consider next time that you are the jock and your story is also the jock. The end.

Loves and Kisses,
Reverend Rick

AND REMEMBER EMAIL ME YOUR QUESTIONS!!!
richard.kreativekarma@gmail.com

Sunday Funny

One more comic. Happy Sunday! See you again Monday.

Please Click on comic to see the entire strip...


I made this in Illustrator and it looks like the brush effects got blotchy when i re-sized. I should know better!

Butter Side Up

Every now and again I'm going to start posting some comics i have made. If people like them, maybe they can get their own site some day!

Please click on the comic to see it enlarged.



That's it for now. I'll have one more for Sunday.

Gandi's B-Day / International Non-Violence Day

"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side." - Gandhi



In Honor of Gandhi's Birthday today I am including one more post today. October 2nd is Gandhi's Birthday and International Non-Violence Day, thanks to the courageous Gandiji.

First off i want to say that I deeply respect and love this man. His ability to lead with non-violence set an unprecedented benchmark that future generations should deeply study and emulate. I think people have easily forgotten the message that non-violence is the best way to secure a definite peace for ourselves and possibly an even larger world peace.

He believed facing violence with non-violence is not cowardice but the highest act of bravery. One is not running to hide, but you are quite literally "turning the other cheek". The violence taken upon oneself from the offender is made visible and shown to be grotesque and shameful.

One's will and authority is never lost until one acts under provocation and loses his moral ground by striking back. When your child strikes her brother, you don't teach him to hit his sister until it is solved. We don't allow violence in the workplace, or in our streets, so why is it a national policy to ensure peace?

The parables and precepts that religion offers becomes meaningless paper when everyone takes them as metaphor and idealistic guides. "The Golden Rule" underlies most religions and moralistic codes, but what does that mean if we ignore it when we are angered?

When someone comes forth and embodies our morals as if it were just the most basic thing we have to do to survive, we get a look into the distant future. (I hope and believe this to be true).

Gandhi's biggest flaw was believing that everyone could live with the courage that he did. Perhaps, this is what kept him from giving up. Ultimately though, this can't be deemed a flaw if it is an ability to have a faith in your fellow man that he does not possess himself.

Chinese Typewriter

Well Everyone, here is the moment I've all been waiting for: The Chinese Typewriter!

This is a small educational lesson today. Most likely I will cover this subject with more jokes in the future.

As we all know the Chinese language has tens of thousands of characters. The history and development of the typewriter and the system for mechanically or electronically creating text in Chinese has undergone many frustrating changes.

Throughout the years other, less sympathetic countries, have made fun of the very idea of a Chinese Typewriter. We will not cover all jokes about the device, but I'll give you a little educational lift today.



Below is an example of a Chinese typewriter from about 1970. The tray at the bottom has a few thousand characters to use and that type case can be traded out for other sets if more characters are needed. The typist lines up a grabber for the character than hits a switch to imprint it on the paper. A good typist could average 20 characters per minute.

It seems to me like it would be just as fast to set lines of type by hand then print the whole page at once, but then again you'd have multiple charcacters on a page and so the 1,000's of characters needed would increase 10 fold or more.

There was another design that never was produced commercially called the "Ming Kwai" which means "Clear and Quick". The typewriter could create 7000 distinct characters. It could type additional "words" using combinations of characters, attaining a theoretical total of 90,000 words.

According to the daughter of inventor Lin Yutang the day she was to demonstrate the machine to executives of the Remington Typewriter Company, they could not make it work. The machine was fixed the next day, but Ming Kwai's obituary was already written.

In the digital world the computer can do thinking that a mechanical device can't. While the most widespread method of inputting Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard (standard keyboard) is the Cangjie input method inwhich the typist "builds" the characters. Each letter on the keyboard stands for a different basic construct.

The computer is much more versatile in its abilities to modify your characters, or use alternate input methods like drawing with a mouse or even voice recognition. Other methods are used, but the Cangjie input method took off due to not putting a price on the software that translates/modifies your keystrokes. It is available as freeware and is installed on most (Chinese) computers standard.

Thinking about this too much often gives me a headache. That's why Reverend Rick has to stop every so often to get my groove on. So here is a recipe to rock out. Remember M.C. Hammer? Apparently in "U Can't Touch This" when hammer is breakin' it down, his dance is called the "Chinese Typewriter".

The gist is that he's so fast he's navigating an enormous set of keys on a typewriter with his quick moving feet. Brilliant. Ya got me Hammy. Maybe he was writing a letter to the chinese people. If so, we can guess the words....oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Stop. Hammer Time.

Readers Questions

Dear first time, and soon to be loyal readers. I am starting this blog with the hopes that Reverend Rick can illuminate your night with the store houses of wisdom that he accidentally pre-ordered through Amazon. If you want me to launch a massive amount of this product at you, then stay tuned!

I hope that you, loyal reader, will e-mail me your questions and comments so that i may climb up on my soapbox and preach. Since I created this yesterday, i have yet to hear from you, so please send me an e-mail. Look in my profile for my address.

To get this blog rolling i have included a fictitious e-mail question. You may notice the readers name sounds questionable, but due to the fact that there is a city and state included under her name you may feel more apt to indulge in the pseudo reality of this farce.

Dear Reverend Rick,

I don't have a question for you, is there something wrong with me?

Miss DaPointe

Okland CA

Dear Miss D.,

While you may feel no obvious signs at first, there could be something terribly wrong with your parents. A lack of inquisitiveness runs in families, but since you e-mailed me with a question on why you don't have a question, you may in fact be suffering from an overproduction of irony instead. You might want to stay home from work today to better safeguard yourself from any irony that might occur. Of course, if you are a stay at home mom, don't follow these instructions, as conditions may get worse.

Thank you Miss D. for your mildly interesting question. Please send a better question in the future.

Reverend Rick

So, if you want the Soapbox treatment from Reverend Rick, don't be shy - send a reply!

ALSO: Stay tuned, because Young Dim One's Fortune says: Chinese Typewriter...EXPLAINED!