Fractured Fairy Tales

Funny how stuff works...

I was just thinking this morning that our nation needs a new 'Looney Tunes': something that the kiddies can watch at one level and laugh, and their parents laugh because of the current events and culture reflected in the characters.

When I looked at my FB news feed, my friend Mary from St. Elizabeth Seton parish had posted this reminder from the old 'Bullwinkle' show from the 1960s, which is OUR generation's take and worked its same magic of humor on us and on our parents.  Many of us formed our attitudes towards atheistic totalitarian Communism as practiced in the old Soviet Union from watching Boris and Natasha...

I 'get' the jokes in Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes because I was a fan of the music and movie stars of my father's era, but most folks who see the caricature of Al Jolson or Bing Crosby and have no clue what the joke is. 

I miss the days when we all SHARED in the same TV shows and movies... today's society is much more fractured, just like the Fractured Fairy Tales show, and we garble many of the things we have been entrusted to hand down.

So...  to keep us mindful of our duties to educate our kids and grandkids... a few Fractured Fairy Tales:

 "Beauty had bored all the ordinary people in the kingom into a deep, deep sleep... " by her incessant chattering...LOL.... yeah, this one's a special reminder for me!
 


 








 

Indiana, here I come!

Slideshow of pics & videos - Patrick's last day in Naples

My godson married that 'pretty gal'!!!

Three years ago at Christmas Eve, David brought his beautiful lady and I gave her a gift from the Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux. I told him later that our 'Sister Terry' really liked that young lady, and that he should make sure that he kept her close.

Well, I know how happy my 'Little Sister Terry' was on Sat June 18th:



My beautiful new niece didn't notice at the time (she was a bit preoccupied, if I recall), but had she and her new husband glanced to their left as they knelt before the altar, here is who they would have seen watching with a smile as they took their vows:

In my experience, I recall this Trinity Sunday, the Holy Sprite is like that. I pray that His fire and the communion of Our Lord that this new couple shared as they began their wedded life may always light their path!

Our Faddah

I couldn't say it better myself...

The Nativity Story (told in the digital age)

This is one of the most imaginative Christmas videos that I've seen in a long time... ENJOY!

Bible - Misconceptions

A Yale University course on the Hebrew Bible presented by Professor Christine Hayes, Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University for three years. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, Hayes offers undergraduate courses on the literature and history of the biblical and talmudic periods (including Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Introduction to Judaism). The course's complete playlist is at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C47C268DDAF2B5AC


A Course on Hebrew Bible, Part 4: Bible - Misconceptions

Head-bangin' Capuchin friar...

Even Spud liked this one: