No, really. This isn't funny anymore. Who IS this?

[catsittingstill]

It's me.  Honest.  I just have a quick question:  dan_ad_nauseam has set up an InsaneJournal account.  InsaneJournal has the same code as LJ, supposedly.  Do any of my clever techie friends have suggestions on how I could add his InsaneJournal account to my LJ friends page?  When I pull up "Manage your friends" I don't see any way to do it.

In other news, I made my first Wikipedia edit today.  A statue of the Flying Spagetti Monster has been put up on the Crossville Tennessee county courthouse lawn (thanks to Dan for the link to the link to the link), and I felt this important landmark should be added to the "points of interest" section of the Crossville, Tennessee Wikipedia page.  If *I* went to Crossville, *I'd* stop to see it.

I don't know if my edit will be allowed to stand.  I guess we'll see.

Comments

Chainsaw iconography...?

[min0taur.livejournal.com]

Re: the iconography carved with a chainsaw (mentioned in the article), I find myself poised between admiration for all that implicit power-tool dexterity and a sudden unbidden mental replay of the last few seconds of a recent horror-parody Bud Lite commercial:

Guy with an axe who has just been picked up at night by a young couple (because he has a 6-pack of BL), sitting in the backseat, observing that there's *another* hitchhiker with a 6-pack of BL showing up in the headlights: "But he's got a chainsaw!"

Okay, it's Tennessee, not Texas. But still.

Re: Chainsaw iconography...?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Chainsaw carving is like bears dancing. It's not that they carve so well, it's that they can do it at all...

Re: Chainsaw iconography...?

[min0taur.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer the bears. ;-)

The mayor sounds like he's considering whether to be offended by the FSM, sort of like a jihadist looking at a cartoon and wondering how best to demonstrate that he has no sense of humor.

One never wants to be asked, "Are you a Christian/Muslim/Scientologist?" by someone holding a chainsaw or wearing a vest full of lumps and wires.

Re: Chainsaw iconography...?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

One never wants to be asked, "Are you a Christian/Muslim/Scientologist?" by someone holding a chainsaw or wearing a vest full of lumps and wires.

I think I prefer the bears too!

Re: Chainsaw iconography...?

[aunty_marion]

There doesn't seem to be a picture of the chainsaw-carvings, but actually, they can be surprisingly good. I go to a huge craft fair at Hatfield House, about 20 miles north of London, every spring, and there's almost always a stand there with chainsaw-carved stuff, and they often do demonstrations of it. There are mini-totem-poles for garden decorations or bird tables, and chairs and so on; some of it is very intricate and delicate!

What boggles me almost more than the fact that they're doing it with a chainsaw is the way anyone can take a lump of wood and hack bits out of it to make a picture of something. How the heck do they know where to cut? My sculptural talents extend to approximating snake-heads for the tops of knitted-Lucius pimp-canes, and I sweat blood over every one of those!

Re: Chainsaw iconography...?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

The article in the Crossville paper about the Flying Spaghetti Monster (linked to in the Wikipedia article for Crossville, Tennessee) has a picture of another courthouse lawn statue of Jesus carrying a cross. It's not obvious from the picture, but the article states that it's chainsaw-carved (unless there are *two* statues of Jesus carrying a cross on the courthouse lawn, which strikes me as excessive even for Tennessee).