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I’m gonig with the wind dude that is always blowing in your children’s books talking about the wind with the picture of him there blowing some poor rabbit away from his mommy.
We have a lot of old limestone buildings where I live and I recently noticed the county courthouse is just covered with all sorts of pagan looking carvings. I will investigate more thoroughly with a camera when it is warmer than 3 degrees outside.
I live in Lubbock, TX and they are constructing a new highway here. As part of the design for the retaining wall, they were including the “windy man” character (since, well, Lubbock is so damned windy). Anyway, some zealots here threw a huge tantrum because Windy Man looked a little pagan to them. So, they start pissing and moaning and demanding that the one that had already been installed be taken down, and that no more be put up. When it didn’t happen fast enough, guess what happened in the middle of the night? Yup, someone smashed poor Windy Man’s face in. http://kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?s=2397323
Say it had been pagan, does Jesus really want his fine followers beating its head in? Does Jesus condone this sort of behavior? And so close before his birthday, too. What if he had been celebrating across the street at the time and witnessed such a harsh act?
Jon- Lubbock is home of Texas Tech. This is a pretty conservative town, but probably not as bad as most places in Utah. I’m surprised it came to smashing Windy Man’s face, but I guess every town has it’s psychos. Believe it or not, most of the Christians around here saw nothing wrong with Windy Man and were pretty pissed about the whole “drama” surrounding it.
Mihow- love the Chuck E Cheese comment. Funny, I used to love that place as a kid. Now, when I take my kids, it takes all I have not to claw my eyes out in agony the entire time I am there (although playing Hit the Gopher might help me release some of the anger next time).
They never found out who did the damage, so it is very possible it was a few drunk TX Tech kids. Those whacky kiddos do crazy things like (my personal favorite) paint the outside of their rent houses bright purple with multicolored polkadots to piss off the neighbors that reported them for having one too many roommates.
And yes, this was a big newsmaker in Lubbock. The landlord helped them do it.
That photo makes it look like God’s chortling at you. I bet you think chortling went out of fashion in the eary half of the twentieth century, but God’s bent on bringing it back in the early twenty-first, and he’s starting with you.
Oh, poor Windy Man. It’s hard to be a pagan in Texas.
I thought the photo was a self-portrait of sorts. There’s something about the eye area. Only I guess Column Guy can’t hold the smoke in as long as Jon can.
“Return to Oz”… oh how that movie scarred me. The administration decided to show it to my entire elementary school when I was in first grade. We were all screaming by the end, and I remember being consoled by my teacher. Was there some part with rows of talking heads? So creepy.
I love Jesus, but I can’t understand why some people take things so seriously that they have to resort to voilence in His name. I don’t think He would like that very much…and really - was Windy Man THAT offensive? People! Let’s all get along, shall we?
OMG. THE WHEELERS. I had NIGHTMARES about those things after I saw that movie… and I’m not going to lie, I’m probably going to have a few more tonight just thinking about them, hahaha.
And I just realized that somebody even mentioned the stone king before me, show’s how much i read through all the comments before making one myself. Oops.
December 22nd, 2004 at 4:43 pm
santa!! what happened?
December 22nd, 2004 at 4:56 pm
Santa was frozen in carbonite by Boba Fett.
December 22nd, 2004 at 5:26 pm
Looks like the cowboy in the bowling alley in “The Big Lebowski”
December 22nd, 2004 at 5:45 pm
I’m gonig with the wind dude that is always blowing in your children’s books talking about the wind with the picture of him there blowing some poor rabbit away from his mommy.
December 22nd, 2004 at 6:45 pm
What archeologists would have found if Vesuvius had exploded on Sam Elliot.
December 22nd, 2004 at 9:10 pm
We have a lot of old limestone buildings where I live and I recently noticed the county courthouse is just covered with all sorts of pagan looking carvings. I will investigate more thoroughly with a camera when it is warmer than 3 degrees outside.
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:14 am
Doric, no thanks. Ionic puleeze! Curmudgeon capitals are where it’s at.
December 23rd, 2004 at 8:16 am
Jon.
I dk if the problem is in me or not, but i cannot view your previous >blurb<, instead of it some partial script appears
Anyway the wind dude resembles my Granpa… Following that logic i should be popular too :}
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:11 am
I can see the face. Weird things are afoot at blurbomat for past posts, tho.
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:13 am
Can’t post, get error….what’s going on?
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:14 am
“Pay no attention to that man carved in stone!”
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:14 am
sorry for multiple posts…nothing was working for a while, now they both show up. Strange strange strange.
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:27 am
Maybe Jon is doing the uh, computer stuff he’s been talking about to get the site straightened out with the spam and whatnot.
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:57 am
I live in Lubbock, TX and they are constructing a new highway here. As part of the design for the retaining wall, they were including the “windy man” character (since, well, Lubbock is so damned windy). Anyway, some zealots here threw a huge tantrum because Windy Man looked a little pagan to them. So, they start pissing and moaning and demanding that the one that had already been installed be taken down, and that no more be put up. When it didn’t happen fast enough, guess what happened in the middle of the night? Yup, someone smashed poor Windy Man’s face in. http://kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?s=2397323
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:06 am
How charming. I love how the article mentions that it was right across from Chuck E. Cheese.
I would have taken a hammer to Chuck E Cheese instead. And then claim I got the idea by playing “Hit The Gopher”.
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:10 am
Maria, do they have college or university anywhere near Lubbock? Or have the born-again Jesus freaks taken over?
And I thought Utah was bad…
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:18 am
Say it had been pagan, does Jesus really want his fine followers beating its head in? Does Jesus condone this sort of behavior? And so close before his birthday, too. What if he had been celebrating across the street at the time and witnessed such a harsh act?
People are so weird.
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:56 am
Jon- Lubbock is home of Texas Tech. This is a pretty conservative town, but probably not as bad as most places in Utah. I’m surprised it came to smashing Windy Man’s face, but I guess every town has it’s psychos. Believe it or not, most of the Christians around here saw nothing wrong with Windy Man and were pretty pissed about the whole “drama” surrounding it.
Mihow- love the Chuck E Cheese comment. Funny, I used to love that place as a kid. Now, when I take my kids, it takes all I have not to claw my eyes out in agony the entire time I am there (although playing Hit the Gopher might help me release some of the anger next time).
December 23rd, 2004 at 11:05 am
They never found out who did the damage, so it is very possible it was a few drunk TX Tech kids. Those whacky kiddos do crazy things like (my personal favorite) paint the outside of their rent houses bright purple with multicolored polkadots to piss off the neighbors that reported them for having one too many roommates.
And yes, this was a big newsmaker in Lubbock. The landlord helped them do it.
December 23rd, 2004 at 11:38 am
That photo makes it look like God’s chortling at you. I bet you think chortling went out of fashion in the eary half of the twentieth century, but God’s bent on bringing it back in the early twenty-first, and he’s starting with you.
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:09 pm
Jon,
That reminds me of the Stone King on Return to Oz. A great movie to watch when you’re tripping on acid, or so I’ve heard.
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:34 pm
mark twain meets the holy roman empire
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:42 pm
Oh, poor Windy Man. It’s hard to be a pagan in Texas.
I thought the photo was a self-portrait of sorts. There’s something about the eye area. Only I guess Column Guy can’t hold the smoke in as long as Jon can.
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:53 pm
Has anyone see “Return to Oz” with the pre-Craft not-so-freaky Fairuza Balk? That reminds me of the stone man at the end who sucumbs to…
…eggs. His weakness is chicken eggs, which is a bit bizarre, but I always assumed it was some commentary on premarital sex or something.
December 23rd, 2004 at 2:17 pm
Ganja Claus
December 23rd, 2004 at 7:08 pm
OMG I remember “Return To Oz”
The wheelers freaked me out… and remember Tick Tock the clock man?
Oooh, and the lunch pails hanging from trees.
So weird.
December 23rd, 2004 at 8:01 pm
“Return to Oz”… oh how that movie scarred me. The administration decided to show it to my entire elementary school when I was in first grade. We were all screaming by the end, and I remember being consoled by my teacher. Was there some part with rows of talking heads? So creepy.
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:07 pm
YES! The evil queen tied them on herself with a ribbon. At one point in the movie she is running around with no head and all the heads are screaming.
Now that I think about it, that was a twisted ass movie.
OH! And remember they were giving Dorothy SHOCK TREATMENTS!? Friggin’ shock treatments?
Oh man.
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:11 pm
does anyone else think he looks like phil bronstein, sharon stone’s ex?
http://www.amfar.org/images/data/AMFAR_EVENT_IMAGE/photo/98.JPG
December 24th, 2004 at 10:34 am
I love Jesus, but I can’t understand why some people take things so seriously that they have to resort to voilence in His name. I don’t think He would like that very much…and really - was Windy Man THAT offensive? People! Let’s all get along, shall we?
December 24th, 2004 at 10:37 am
OMG. THE WHEELERS. I had NIGHTMARES about those things after I saw that movie… and I’m not going to lie, I’m probably going to have a few more tonight just thinking about them, hahaha.
And I just realized that somebody even mentioned the stone king before me, show’s how much i read through all the comments before making one myself. Oops.
December 24th, 2004 at 10:47 pm
Remember the flying couch with the moose head? That movie was just one big acid trip.
December 27th, 2004 at 3:13 pm
Dangit, Matt! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!