Author: Sal

Popetown canned by BBC

And, I might add, not a moment too soon. I doubt all the contemplatives on the planet couldn’t hold back God’s wrath with their prayer and mortifications if this were broadcast.

“Popetown,” featuring the voices of comedienne Ruby Wax as the pontiff and model Jerry Hall as a fame-hungry nun, was commissioned for the digital channel BBC3. The animation featured corrupt cardinals and an infantile pope who bounced around the Vatican on a pogo stick.
BBC chiefs said Thursday it was too offensive to broadcast.
“After a lot of consideration and consultation, balancing the creative risk with the potential offense to some parts of the audience, we have decided not to transmit the program,” said BBC3 Controller Stuart Murphy.
“Despite all the creative energy that has gone into this project and the best efforts of everyone involved, the comic impact of the delivered series does not outweigh the potential offense it will cause,” he added. “There is a fine judgment line in comedy between the scurrilously funny and the offensive.”

Try blasphemous and sacrilegious, not “scurriously funny.” What the hell is “creative risk” anyway? Why don’t they admit they just want to sell ads and be done with it.

Get BACK on the Peace Train

The Muslim formerly known as Cat Stevens was deported from the US because of potential links to terrorists. -link via Drudge
My older brother used to listen to his hippy crap. I always hated it with a burning passion. Even thinking about “Peace Train” makes me want to staple myself to a burning building so I might have something else to think about. I suppose I hate so much even to this day because a lot of modern liturgical music sounds like his banal style. Even the memory of Stevens singing “Morning Has Broken” gives me the urge to kill puppies and kittens. Yeah, it’s that bad. Maybe I need therapy – music therapy even. I’m going to listen to “The Dream of Gerontius” three times between now and dinner.

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