Evangelicals

I've been pretty annoyed by evangelicals over the years. I want to clarify this by saying that I know that not ALL evangelical christians are like this. But I know that over the past few years, especially in Africa, Evang. have been one of leading groups persecuting gay people. Even if I wasn't gay, I don't understand how anyone can view the genocide of a group of people as a good thing. Evangelicals in Africa, I want to say it's in Uganda but I'm not sure, Have been behind legislation in the country that makes it legal to hang gay people; FOR FUN. like it's just something they want to do and have fun, I mean it's literally like an old fashioned Fag Drag or cross burning... do I need to say more? I feel like that demonstrative enough of how dangerous these extremists are.

Don't get me wrong, I'm christian myself, but the types of showy events they talk about seem like they can only lead to trouble, you get people all worked up with showy displays and it can make people crazy, If you had the expression that a single person is smart, but a crowd of people is stupid, this is what I mean, people get this type of group mentality that what they are doing is THE ONLY WAY, and suddenly, enter Adolf Hitler, who can manipulate basically good people into doing things they would never do, I'm just very dis trusting of these types of displays.

A Plague of Ticks

I liked this reading, I read the book 'Naked' a couple of years ago but it was nice to revisit it. my favorite thing about this reading (and the book overall is really good) is that it's hilarious. obviously everyone likes something funny, but I hadn't considered reading the story as a way I could imporve my writing, I read a lot and some things have probably seeped (spelling?) into my writing from this but the truth is, I never really thought about it directly. I think just noticing this kind of thing and being aware of it will drastically imporve my writing, and hopefully it's overall hilarity!!

p.s. has anyone ever read any of the books by Augusten Burroughs? I've read most of his books and a couple of Dave Sedaris' and I get them confused because there writing styles are very similar. in fact when I first started reading 'A Plague of Ticks' I thought there was a mistake and it had been written by Bouroughs. In any case, if anyone really liked the 'Naked' selection, your sure to like some of A.B's books.

Shameless plug: Hey, I just gave a conducting recital and Beth (the other bassoonist in our class) played in it, if you'd like to check out some of our skills check out the videos here: My Recital! all the videos are on there in six parts!... okay, that's my shameless plug, thanks
Dan
the first and the last videos are particularly good... okay, that was yet another plug... haha