Chapel Perilous

Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence
74. ARGUMENT FROM INSANITY
(1) No sane person could have thought up Christianity
(2) Therefore, it must be true
(3) Therefore, God exists

 
posted by Bsti @ 9:27 PM ¶ comments (3)

Hm. Latex Thigh-Highs.

From Lithium Picnic
 
posted by Bsti @ 6:43 PM ¶ comments (9)

I just heard on the news that Geraldo Rivera's convoy came under sniper fire in Iraq.

And they missed.

I say that because you know he's going to be even more of an arrogant creep having survived.
 
posted by Bsti @ 2:40 PM ¶ comments (3)

Valerie, a Domestic Android
 
posted by Bsti @ 2:06 AM ¶ comments (1)

Through the magic of the World Wide Web (and a plug-in from Adobe), take a virtual drive on Mars. 
posted by justis @ 9:39 PM ¶ comments

. : C h a p e l . P e r i l o u s : . chapeler animae gallery updated.
We are still missing both Ben F and Ben H, Toohey, Chelle, Star, Piphy, Maru, AWolf, Pieter, and oC, and really, anyone who reads Chapel frequently enough to consider themselves chapelers can submit.
That avatar link again.

Also, just wanted to say, I'm feeling the love in here. Big Shiny Thank You's to everyone keeping this site alive and lively! Keep up the Good Work! 
posted by Bsti @ 8:04 PM ¶ comments (4)

i do hate toesocks
"Whoever invented them is a complete moron, just like the people who wear them."

Grrrrrrr.

"They are totally uncomfortable, and besides that, look ridiculously stupid. I mean, who wants to look like they are wearing gloves on their feet? Oh, and they ALWAYS come in stupid patterns. always. no plain colors; just obnoxious prints like cows, stripes, poka (sic) dots, frogs, cute little smiley faces, or other random crap."

Grrrrrrowl.
Should I feel sorry for him because he is ignorant about toesocks, or hate him for being a toesock hater?


Rrmumblegrumblegrrrrrrrrr. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:44 PM ¶ comments (17)

Welcome To MeanKitty.com

"This is the place for kitty antics that are *not* so cute, the place where the real face of kitty is revealed."
That's a guy named Toby.
Our guy Phranq is not so much mean as just plain grumpy. He still has his kitten moments, but mostly he just wants to bite me when I pet him. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:19 PM ¶ comments

Anyone care to venture a guess as to how soon these things will be used against us by our own government in the interest of "safety" and "security"?

I keep thinking of that scene in Robocop where ED-209 goes berzerk and pumps that exec full of bullets during the technology demo. Yeah, I know. It was funny at the time, but this time it's real. 
posted by sauceruney @ 7:08 PM ¶ comments (5)

Physicist Puts the Odds of God at 2-to-1
"Stephen Unwin calculates the probability that God exists at 67 percent.
Boldly, Unwin plugs evidence of God into this theorem. He points out, for instance, that giving money to the homeless with no thought of reciprocal reward is evidence of good -- and good is more likely to occur if God is in the universe. At another point, Unwin weighs natural disasters -- such as earthquakes, tornadoes and cancer -- to swing the equation against the probability of God."

A physicist.
"This book is very bad news for anyone planning a career in Evil,"

Actually, it isn't, since Good cannot exist without it's polar opposite.

But this last bit is telling~
"Unwin measures his personal sense of God at around 95 percent certainty. The 28 percent improvement over the mathematical probability is what Unwin calls his faith."

So then he's a biased physicist.
Don't flame me. I don't not believe in a Higher Power, just not the ones described in any religious texts.

 
posted by Bsti @ 7:07 PM ¶ comments (7)

Theron drawn to 'Aeon Flux' at Paramount
Stepping away from the serious dramatics of "Monster," for which she is nominated for a best actress Oscar, Charlize Theron could next find herself playing a franchisable vixen for Paramount Pictures and helmer Karyn Kusama. Theron is in negotiations to topline "Aeon Flux," a big-screen adaptation of the animated MTV series.

Hm. Yeah, I'd see that. 
posted by Bsti @ 6:47 PM ¶ comments (3)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Escape from...



If you get stuck, leave a comment, and I'll give hints.
 
posted by justis @ 6:16 PM ¶ comments (5)

I still have yet to try this beer~

via Grow-A-Brain 
posted by Bsti @ 5:36 PM ¶ comments

Here's a game I really suck at~
Camperstrike
And another~
Penguin Shuffle
Less violent than that Penguin Smack game, but still a form of abuse. 
posted by Bsti @ 5:21 PM ¶ comments

Be sure to check out Mac's "Cydonian Imperative", too. 
posted by sauceruney @ 4:21 PM ¶ comments (1)

 
posted by weirdpixie @ 4:17 PM ¶ comments

MTVI
Mac's other site, tons of shiny stuff to read there. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:07 PM ¶ comments (1)

. : C h a p e l . P e r i l o u s : . Anime Gallery updated.
Five new avatars added.
Don't forget to submit yours! Click my avatar to make your own. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:43 AM ¶ comments (1)

Sounds like what Bsti's been saying for awhile now...

 
posted by shelleopard @ 1:25 AM ¶ comments (3)

Submitted~
Posthuman Blues
This was a damn good read.
I'd say it's pretty much required reading. He thinks like a good number of us.
Well, me anyway

First entry:
"We could be virtually anywhere in a near-endless regression of 'nested' universes, about as note-worthy as microbes at the bottom of a mineshaft -- and that could be glorifying ourselves considerably."

Yeah, man, you got a hook in me~

Second:
"There's a barbed review in this week's Pitch that accuses the movie of gratuitous gore, vacuous characterization and not a little anti-Semitism.
But somehow these things don't bother me as much as my being forced to revise my mental image of Mel Gibson."

Oh, I'm with you on that, line and sinker~

"It's not the historical or scriptural accuracy of 'Passion' that's in the balance: it's Mel Gibson. If I discover that the Road Warrior is a Jesus freak, that's it."

Guess he didn't see the Diane Sawyer interview.
What I don't get is the name of the film.
From I hear it's two hours of Jesus getting the bejeezus knocked out of him. Sound more the Passion of a Mob Rule to me.

Third:
"We're overdue for a good old-fashioned meteor impact."

Throw me in the boat Mac, and off to the Roll you go.
Needs a comments function though. So I can agree with everything I've read so far.

And Mac, if you return here, and I hope you do, when something like this happens, it means you are meant to be with us~
Planet Claire was on the Spinner earlier and since I haven't heard it in so long, it's been stuck in my head all night.....

I once tried to start a group for misanthropes but no one showed up.....
until Chapel came along!
 
posted by Bsti @ 1:21 AM ¶ comments (3)

 
posted by weirdpixie @ 10:29 PM ¶ comments (2)

 
posted by weirdpixie @ 8:41 PM ¶ comments (7)

Anime Bsti

via
Purple Goddess in Frog Pyjamas
You know what to do, Chapellers!
The BG color code is #FF9933
Don't worry about posting above this entry, either, I'll take it and throw it into this gallery.

Anime Niqkita

Anime Livvy

Anime Chasmyn

Anime Sauceruney

Anime justis

Anime Fenderson

Anime Pixie

Animes Shelleopard and cYn

Anime Cait

Anime Balbulican

Anime Mark P

Anime Susan

Update
I've decided to retire the PicassoHead Gallery in favor of these new avatars, so please hurry and submit so it will look nice and uniform.
If you can, please choose a transparent BG for the image.
 
posted by Bsti @ 4:45 PM ¶ comments (9)

Warthog Launch
Level 30, then I went on to other things. 
posted by Bsti @ 2:58 PM ¶ comments

Ordinarily, it is a Discordian practice to allow all the various Kennedy assassination theories to remain unchallenged. Adds to the confusion, don't you know. However, since I feel warmly towards the Chapel and all my virtual friends here, I'll tell you the truth. This man did it:



He is Kerry Thornley, one of the founders of Discordianism. He was one of the FBI's primary suspects early on, and he confessed to being the assassin many years later.

I just felt you all deserved the truth. Shhh, keep it under your hat. It's just between us. 
posted by JohnFen @ 2:23 PM ¶ comments (7)

50 Coolest Apes Of All Time.
Forget the fact that monkeys aren't apes, and neither Snowflake nor BucketMonkey made the list 
posted by Bsti @ 2:10 PM ¶ comments (5)

Yahoo! News - Dog Is Found Alive Month After Boat Sinks
A Labrador retriever has been found alive on an isolated cove of a Southeast Alaska island more than a month after its owner was given up for dead when his boat sank in rough seas.
Two local fishermen found the dog named Brick on Heceta Island several miles from the accident. The men had known the dog's owner, Greg Clark, who went down with his boat in late January.

Brick swam to the men's boat and was hauled aboard — underweight, with an injured leg, fur matted with tree sap, but wiggling with joy, according to friends of the fishermen.

 
posted by Bsti @ 12:47 PM ¶ comments (2)

Don't you think this monkey looks disturbingly like Yoko Ono? 
posted by Cait @ 6:16 AM ¶ comments (4)

Somethin I've rathr held to for awhile~
The Limo Driver Did It.
RIP Mr Cooper. Someday this might be common knowledge, and no one will remember that you said it first, except prehaps me. 
posted by Bsti @ 2:49 AM ¶ comments

Bsti, dAS wanted me to post this here for ya...

Should add all kinds of upbeat humour around here--not like this place is ever short on that anyway ::))

Monkeys!
 
posted by weirdpixie @ 12:42 AM ¶ comments (3)

We just got her today. She's a bundle of energy and curiosity. We named her Sydney after my dad (Sidney) because he was a hunter (Brittany spaniels are bird dogs) and because it will probably piss off My Sainted Mother. She's been mad at my dad for about 15 years. He's been dead the last four.  
posted by Cait @ 11:05 PM ¶ comments (4)

"DJ Danger Mouse melding the vocal tracks of Jay-Z's Black Album with samples of the Beatles' White Album = true genius."

Terribly sorry to say it Stacy, but blech! Last thing I need to hear on a Beatles song is Yo Yo Aiiiiight Putcho hanz in da aiiir. 
posted by Bsti @ 10:50 PM ¶ comments (2)

Mwahahahahahahaha!
Beat that, Justis!
(In fairness, it took quite a long time to get this score. Still, anyone want to try to knock me off my High Horse?) 
posted by Bsti @ 9:29 PM ¶ comments (9)

I am dead.

I've become a word in Shelley Jackson's story Skin. This story is being published on a canvas of human bodies, with each person having one word tattooed on them. The story itself will never be published elsewhere, so if you want to read it you'll have to get all 2,095 people together. And try to figure out what order they go in.

I am thrilled to be a part of this. Perception and symbolism are things that I've always been fascinated with, and this work toys with those things on so many levels that it's irresistible.

I'm also very pleased with the word assigned to me. It could have been anything, but the odds favored a word such as "a", "the", and so forth. They are fine words that I would have accepted happily, but being dead is so much more interesting.

"Dead" has strong emotional overtones, so I put a great deal of thought into where the word was to be tattooed on my body. I didn't want to have to perpetually explain it, or to make people nervous. I did want the placement to have some kind of secondary meaning, or at least to make a good joke. So, I tattooed it on the back of my head.



Fellow Chapellers, I want your contributions. Please, give me your one-liners or tall tales I can tell about the tattoo when I'm feeling mischievous. 
posted by JohnFen @ 8:53 PM ¶ comments (17)

Always a favorite...

 
posted by shelleopard @ 8:40 PM ¶ comments (2)

Chapel needs a dose of Good Will, Happiness, Levity and Optimism.
Please, by all means, post a picture and story of your pet here, or a pic of you in socks or anything to lighten the mood.
We needs to keep the hearth going strong to warm our hearts and uplift our minds. We needs to purge all negative energy from this Sanctuary. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:52 PM ¶ comments (4)

Spider Man
I didn't get very far as I am preoccupied with something else. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:40 PM ¶ comments

Until I lightened up the pic in PSP, I hadn't realized she was wearing the purple long socks~

One of my favorites. I think we are out of stock on them at the moment.
I love those shoes, too.

And a Good Friend of Chapel sent us a pic of a sweet looking doggie with a pensive expression~

 
posted by Bsti @ 2:12 PM ¶ comments (1)

I'm acting like a smitten fool, but I have to share with my fellow Chapelers:

I'd like to introduce the newest addition to the family and a big reason I haven't been posting much lately. His name is Marleau, and he is the best doggie ever (no bias here!):

We adopted him from German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California, and so far he's been a dream. I have much more to say, but I don't want to hog space here. If you want to know more, I'll update this post!

In the meantime, Marleau says "WOOF!"

 
posted by Nathalie @ 12:37 PM ¶ comments (5)

SPIDER SNACKS ON SNAKE!!

Bloemfontein, South Africa - An office receptionist got the shock of her life earlier this week when she found a 14cm long Aurora house snake entangled in the web of a deadly spider. Tania Robertson, a receptionist at an electrical firm in Bloemfontein, came in to work on Tuesday and spotted the strange sight next to a desk in her office. The snake, which had obviously died from the spider's poisonous bite, was off the ground and caught up in the web.

Leon Lotz of the arachnology department at the National Museum immediately identified the spider as a female brown button spider. The brown button spider, easily identifiable by a red hourglass marking on its stomach, is not quite as deadly as a black widow. He said it was only the second time in South Africa that he had heard of a snake getting caught in a spider's web. Rod Douglas from the herpetology department identified the snake as being a young, non-poisonous Aurora house snake. It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night. But it did not take the spider long to bite it.

A red mark on the snake's stomach was evidence of where the spider had started eating it. Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it.

She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it. Even a fly that accidentally landed on the snake was chased off aggressively.

I have more images here. Click for bigger pictures.
 
posted by olivia @ 6:02 AM ¶ comments (8)

I've been away for work, six out of the past seven days, and without Internet access as well. Just stopping in to say hello to all of my friends at Chapel Perilous before I'm off on the road again. 
posted by sauceruney @ 9:43 PM ¶ comments (9)

Hey, Shiny!~
Ultimate Flash Sonic - Presented by Flash Player 
posted by Bsti @ 7:11 PM ¶ comments

Delta Sim 1.5 | The Punisher
Quite difficult to control. 
posted by Bsti @ 6:52 PM ¶ comments

545.7
(weirdpixie, don't click that link!) 
posted by Bsti @ 6:30 PM ¶ comments (8)

Don't forget to check out the Chapel Forum

It's only as cool as we make it, so come on in and say something. Here are a few of the discussions we're having at the moment:

Things to do at the end of the world

Legends of the Delvar Nar

R.A.W. and Chapel Perilous

UFO Sightings

Passion of Christ + Cryptofacism 
posted by justis @ 6:02 PM ¶ comments (1)

 
posted by weirdpixie @ 3:52 PM ¶ comments (3)

Mars Rock Pictures Baffle Scientists

So take a look at this rock. Whatever it is, apparently it is not what the science-types expected to see. The article doesn't give much in the way of clues as to what exactly is so puzzling about this rock, other than to say that the rock has a "highly detailed surface", which it does, I suppose. What are most interesting to me are the two seemingly perfect spheroid shapes in the sample.

Statement: "Once we got close, the images are much more striking, and although the science team is very reluctant to make any decisions about what they're looking at, there's a lot of information in the pictures they've been looking at," Translation: "This looks like something big and important, but we can't tell you about it just yet." 
posted by justis @ 1:50 PM ¶ comments (3)

Put your website (or someone else's) into The Shredder!

The results can be kind of hypnotic to watch, and depending on the fodder used, can be quite artistic to view as well...  
posted by weirdpixie @ 11:30 AM ¶ comments (1)

Erg.
Four Sided Pong Game.
Ever feel like you have to be too many places at once? 
posted by Bsti @ 1:42 AM ¶ comments

I hear this is one of the first women to blog from Iran~
Lady Sun 
posted by Bsti @ 1:37 AM ¶ comments (1)

Check out Grow-A-Brain's long entry~
Sand Sculptures Galore
Fantastic Work there. 
posted by Bsti @ 6:29 PM ¶ comments (1)

 
posted by Bsti @ 4:23 PM ¶ comments (3)

That you, Marsh Hare?
It's a nice sock!

 
posted by Bsti @ 12:27 AM ¶ comments (3)

~~~~~ charlotte church | the official website ~~~~~
Good find, RA. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:12 AM ¶ comments

 
posted by weirdpixie @ 12:24 AM ¶ comments (3)