** You know what's surprisingly alarming? A dentist coming at your un-numb mouth with a drill-- even when you know he's just sanding down a new filling.
** Why does Radio Shack sell candy?
** I was napping on the trip home from Canada in April. The radio was on. The Husband was startled when I suddenly bolted upright, lunged at the radio off button and screamed "Jesus Christ, it's Madonna!" I think should always be everyone's response to Madonna.
** Werner Hertzog has a new movie about Antarctica (Encounters at the End of the World) that I will definitely see. I don't know a whole lot about him, but my respect was embiggened enormously when I read the following:
Reporter: Much of [the movie] is very funny but what stuck with me most at the end are the sublime aspects of it. The latter part, where you get the sounds of the seals and the underwater footage, to me they suggest not just otherworldliness, but a divine intelligence. Do you agree?
Hertzog: Are you trying to persuade me to become an adherent of creationism?
Reporter: Not necessarily, but to me the sounds of the seals, for instance, suggests something supernatural.
Hertzog: No, it doesn’t. It only suggests the sounds, and they are wonderful and sublime. I wouldn’t read anything God-like into it. However, creation itself, as it is, has something magnificent, and the film celebrates it, the film names it, the films shows it. And the film ends like that. And I like this notion; you do not often have a chance in a movie to show things that are of utmost beauty, and of course the music has a big part in showing a certain sacredness in what we have in front of us. [Emphasis added]
- John Del Signore, interview with Werner Hertzog, Gothamist.com
That's a great response to the "The world is so amazing it has to have a designer" argument:
No. It. Doesn't. Calm, firm and totally right.
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