{"id":722,"date":"2012-06-02T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:39:42","slug":"always-been-a-fan-of-the-movie-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/06\/02\/always-been-a-fan-of-the-movie-dogma\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Been a fan of the movie Dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/51hDRCYEF0L.jpg\" alt=\"51hDRCYEF0L\" width=\"349\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the movie it&#8217;s well worth your time.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of pious religious folks that really hated the movie because they didn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s portrayal of the church, angels, and it&#8217;s generally irreverent take on God.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I suspect that God was sitting in the audience laughing right along with the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this whole thing up because I&#8217;ve been really ill with a cold \/ sinus \/ allergy? thing for going on 7 days. God created the world in 7 days&#8230; I&#8217;m done with feeling lousy!<\/p>\n<p>As I was sitting in my favorite chair last night flipping aimlessly through TV channels all I could think was &#8220;When is this going to end?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which led me to Alan Rickmans line &#8220;<em><strong>It never ends<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; as he&#8217;s wiping the blood off his jacket with the hem of Gods clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Strange what you think about at 3 am when you realize that your body is putting up a good fight. In the process the bug that you&#8217;ve caught is finding all new ways to inflict pain. Then you realize that \u00a0the bug in question hasn&#8217;t any clue whatsoever that it&#8217;s making you want to stick you head in a microwave.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that your teeth could hurt in such exquisite ways. Not a toothache per-se but a whole palate of pain that would make what Dustin Hoffman endured in the movie &#8220;<em>Marathon Man<\/em>&#8221; seem like Sunday at the park with Ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Much later last night, I noticed that every time there was a breeze through the house or indeed if I moved the comforter on the bed I&#8217;d start coughing violently. This led me to ask why?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d noticed a lot more pollen than usual in the air over the past few days. I started wondering if part of the problem was that there was so much pollen my body was simply trying to expel yet more foreign bodies.<\/p>\n<p>When I say pollen&#8230; I mean that everything that can bloom is blooming. There are clouds of the stuff so thick at times it looks like dust storm. Everything in the house is covered with a pale yellow dust.<\/p>\n<p>You want to talk sick??? Think of the pollen this way it&#8217;s cum!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah you read that right it&#8217;s plant spooge, and you&#8217;re breathing it, eating it, and you can&#8217;t get away from it. Makes what you do in the bedroom seem pretty tame don&#8217;t if?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t even try to tell me you don&#8217;t swallow!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LCARS.gif\" alt=\"LCARS\" width=\"208\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this point I was actually thinking about sleeping in the back seat of my car. \u00a0I could even program it to fire up the fans and suck filtered air into the cabin \u00a0ever 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been in the garage for the past week. Sealed like a space capsule, all the cabin filters in place. A beautiful leather clad oasis of clean air oh my!<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping in the car was looking better and better. The space craft metaphor is strangely true in the case of that car.. There are times when I expect to hear\u00a0Majel Barrett Roddenberrys&#8217; voice saying something like &#8220;<em>Warning you&#8217;ve entered a personal hazard zone<\/em>.&#8221; As I drive through Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>Ok yeah it&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me you&#8217;ll do better after the 6th consecutive night of getting 2 hours of sleep and coughing so hard your&#8217;e tasting blood then wondering if your lungs are coming up next. I double dog dare you!<\/p>\n<p>As the morning light dispelled the insanity of the witching hours a simple plan began to gather like the light in the East.<\/p>\n<p>It dawned on me that an experiment to find out if it&#8217;s the pollen or if I have a cold would be to close the house, (limiting the introduction of more pollen) and turn on the A\/C.<\/p>\n<p>The recycled air is filtered albeit not well, but limiting the introduction of additional pollen might go a long way toward removing the irritants. Much as I hate to have the A\/C on this early in the year I figure I can run the experiment for 48 hours and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me back to &#8220;<em>Dogma&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a scene where one of the demons says <em>&#8220;<strong>No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater&#8230; than central air. <\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So here I sit having a cup of coffee house darkened by drawn shades the sexual sinning hum of the A\/C compressor occasionally heard from outside. And You know what? I&#8217;m not coughing as much. The real test will be tonight when I try to get some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Dogs are more than happy with the A\/C being on. They&#8217;re snoring loudly on their beds.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;ve been through part of the rabbit hole that is my brain.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve incurred no permanent damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bonus question&#8230; The control panel shown above, what fictional species does it belong to?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211; <em>Update &#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Running the A\/C &amp; keeping the house closed seem to have helped. I also got a whole 6 hours of sleep. It was restless sleep but sleep nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: right; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-BMW-i8-Concept-Spyder.jpg\" alt=\"2012 BMW i8 Concept Spyder\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\" \/>I haven&#8217;t braved the big bad world outside yet today. According to the weather reports it&#8217;s supposed to get windy in the valleys starting today so I&#8217;m guessing we may see the wind pick up a little bit here. More blowing pollen oh joy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the restless sleep was that I kept dreaming about driving through Germany after having picked one of these babies up in Leipzig . If you&#8217;re going to have restless dreams you should at least make them worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>This is the BMW i8. I know I&#8217;ll never be able to afford one even if it makes it out of the concept stage. I can dream though can&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the movie it&#8217;s well worth your time. There are a lot of pious religious folks that really hated the movie because they didn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s portrayal of the church, angels, and it&#8217;s generally irreverent take on God. 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