Viral Video
Betty Bowers – America’s Best Christian – Breaks Down Bible Based Marriage
Jan 3rd
This has got to be one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s hilarious, thought-provoking, and oh-so-detailed! You can tell so much work went into it!
You need to watch it more than once, to focus on the different parts. Once to watch it and get the overall impression, one time to pay closer attention to the graphics, one time to read the Bible verse citations, once to read the snarky captions…and then a bunch more times to just laugh and laugh!!!
Gotta give props where props are due. Deven Green plays Betty Bowers, and the killer illustrations are by Steve Hogan.
ENJOY!
In case you wanna read along, here’s a transcription:
BETTY BOWERS: Here’s a well-known fact. All you unsaved trash out there have no idea what constitutes a Bible-based marriage, and here’s a little known secret – neither do Christians. And that’s why the Lord has called upon me, America’s Best Christian, to teach all of you his definition of marriage. Pay close attention, because he’s rather inventive!
In the beginning of time, say…6000 years ago, God created one man and one woman. They had two children, both had penises. You might inquisitively ask, “Lord, if Adam and Eve only had boys, where did the grandchildren come from?” Trust me, you’re not going to like his reply. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, one woman, and the son she seduces after he’s killed his only brother.
A family that slays and lays together, stays together.
True story: Abraham, the father of three faiths, two of them total rubbish, married his sister. As if that wasn’t sordid enough, slutty sister Sarah invited Abraham to have sex with her maid, someone named Hagar, such an appallingly butch name! A Bible-based marriage is between one man and his sister…and the help! Goodness me, Lord, the help? Doing the help? I don’t even speak to mine.
Quick, what’s the Lord’s favorite way to punish a man who rapes an unmarried virgin? Anyone? Marriage! Yes, a Bible-based marriage is between one woman and her rapist! Mazel Tov!
Remember how God turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of Kosher salt? So a Bible-based marriage can sometimes be between one man and a kitchen condiment. Bon Appetit!
So what do you do if you run out of close relatives or servants to marry? Well, the rather crafty Lord has a fabulous tip – just drive over to the nearest town and murder everyone who either has a penis or has seen one. Then just round up all the virgins who are left. Of course, you don’t need to take a big truck if you try this in, say, America. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, a gal who’s kidnapped and raped right after her mother, brother, and slutty sister are slaughtered.
Remember – in the Bible, it’s not rape if the man says, “I do.”
King David had a fabulous collection of wives and a harem absolutely chock full of athletic concubines, whom the Lord had raped by David’s son, because the Lord was in a snit over some drama concerning that little troublemaking tramp Bathsheba. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, a woman, another woman, yet another woman, a few more women, an adulterer, and a pack of raped whores!
In a galling show of one-upmanship, David’s son King Solomon had 700 wives, and because God loves to round up, 300 concubines. Which are really just live-in whores. A Bible-based marriage is between one man and, frankly, enough booty to make a Mormon compound seem quaintly understaffed.
So what do you do when you can’t afford even one wife, let alone a pack of in-house hookers, but you still have your little heart set on having a son? Well, the Lord shrewdly suggests that you inveigle a slave into raping your daughter. Voila! Problem solved. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, Daddy’s little girl, and the slave Daddy hired to rape her. Try getting a Hallmark card for that.
The whole concept of marriage apparently bored bachelor Jesus to tears, other than encouraging his buddies to abandon their wives, about all Jesus said on the subject was that once you do it, that’s it. No running off to Babylon to get a divorce. So, clearly, in the Bible you can have as many wives as you want – just as long as you have them all at once.
So, let’s recap the Lord’s idea of the perfect marriage. It is between one man and his sister, and a rapist, and a kitchen condiment, gal who’s kidnapped and raped, a few more women, an adulterer, and a pack of raped whores, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and the help, and a son who has murdered his brother.
But it is NOT between one man and another man. Because, well, that would be immoral.
ANNOUNCER: Survey says: 4 out of 5 evangelical divorcees believe marriage is sacred.
Happy New Year 2010 from the Good Folks at Google! :)
Jan 1st
Saw this pointed at Mashable! (thanks Pete Cashmore, you digitial hottie you
) and had to try it for myself.
It’s cute!
Kathy Griffin – D List, F Bomb
Jan 1st
Kathy Griffin’s all about the letters.
Watch her here dropping the F bomb on New Year’s Eve to Anderson Cooper, discussing Balloon Boy. As he says, “You’re terrible. Really terrible.”
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Hercules, Cookie, Trixie, and Zoey All Dressed Up for Christmas
Dec 29th
Yes, my family loves dogs. A LOT!
Just to get the doggie family tree straight – Hercules (AKA, Santa Claus) is my baby (but you all knew that!). Cookie and Zoey belong to my sister’s family, and Trixie is my Mom and Dad’s.
Here they are, check out their Christmas spirit!
Brittany Murphy’s Death – What a Shocker!
Dec 21st
I can’t believe Brittany Murphy is dead. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like she was great or anything – but she was cute, and she seemed nice, if a little ditzy.
A lot of people didn’t know she had a pretty good singing voice, in addition to her acting. Take a look at this video from the 2002 MTV Movie Awards. She sings at 2:30.
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R.I.P. Brittany Murphy Autographed 8X10 photo-COA
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Bank Deposit from Your iPhone
Nov 17th
This is enough to make me not only want to have an iPhone, but also bank with this bank! LOL
I frickin hate going to banks, post office…errands of any kind bore me to tears.
Anything I can do from the internet (or even better, my phone!) is a step in the right direction in my book!
Soldier Reunited With Dog – The Clip that Was Shown on the Today Show
Nov 16th
OK, so I wish I had seen this by veteran’s day, it would have been such a sweet post.
Take a look at this clip of Capt. Andrew Schmidt (AKA – Andy) being welcomed home from Kandahar in September of 2005 by his Golden Retriever dog Gracie. It will probably make you cry. I mean, not like, SOB – but tear up, you know?
It’s also an interesting commentary on how a video can sometimes go viral in a way that’s not totally organic, but rather involves the mainstream media.
I’m posting Capt. Schmidt’s commentary about the rising popularity of the video right below the actual video, because he didn’t feel like he got to say all that he wanted to on TV – so I want to make sure people that see the video here have the opportunity to know what he thinks!
I’m uploading this for family. This was the day I came back from Kandahar in Sept. 2005. Life has changed since then. But Gracie is still a good dog.
UPDATE: (11-13-2009) – This is crazy. I posted this years ago along with three other clips of wife in Haiti for my parents to see. They still have like 400 hits a piece.
This clip had like 30,000 hits two days ago. I’m not quite sure where this attention is all coming from.
Oh, and it was filmed by my wife Jen in our front yard in Springfield, VA.. Gracie is six now. She’s asleep at my feet as I’m typing this.
Take care, all – A.S.UPDATE (11-14-2009). O-kaaaaay. This is getting crazy. They ran this on the Today Show today. I’m not a public person … this is getting a little intimidating.
I’m glad that this clip of Gracie has made so many people happy. If it makes you smile, it’s a good thing. But please remember the men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. My buddy Steve Taylor who is in Iraq wrote me to say that it bummed him out, because it reminded him of how much he missed his dog …FINAL UPDATE (11-15-2009) Again, thanks for everyone’s kind words. Yes, we did a short (2-min) spot in the Today Show this morning. They were nice, but I didn’t get to say what I wanted to say about my friends deployed or the many Guardsmen overseas right now. But it went well (do a Google for Capt. Andrew Schmidt to see it).
We were contacted by another news outlet, but we declined. We’re 17 minutes into our 15 minutes of fame. We’re private people, and these things can get out of hand. For one, I am a staff officer in the Air Guard (even though I am past enlisted) … there are tens of thousands of combat arms soldiers and Marines on their third+ 12 month deployment down range; I’m only gearing up for my second. I don’t want to be made a symbol for something that I don’t deserve to be. You have to be careful, because you have no control when you go on TV unless you are very, very savvy (I am not). Or you get crazy and end up building a UFO weather balloon in your back yard.Take care. This was a fun week, but it’s over now. I have to go change a diaper, then walk Gracie.
Andy and family.
YouTube Partner Account Offer for Acousticvids!
Nov 15th
So, this is good news.
YouTube made an offer to the acousticvids YouTube account to become a YouTube partner. Which is really cool!
Of course, I can’t take them up on it, sadly. The videos are all of artists performing their work, so I can’t make money on that. But still, it’s such a great validation of all my hard work over these last three years of taping, promoting, interviewing, web building…phew! I’m making myself tired just remembering what I’ve done.
It made me feel so good!
College Humor’s Classic Internet Commenter Business Meeting Series
Oct 29th
I saw the first of this series well over a year ago – possibly even as long as two years ago – and yet it still cracks me up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I watch it. No wonder they produced sequels!
If you’ve never watched this series, it’s a must see. However, I will warn you. It’s not for the faint of heart, language wise. There’s some cussing. And some raunchiness. We ARE talking College Humor, after all. But in my opinion…SO worth it! ![]()
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CORONA THE GULP OF MEXICO Beer College Humor Poster
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Beer bear + deer hunting fishing funny pong humor beer? cool T SHIRT college
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