Scientology Children's Musical; I'm back!

One of the most interesting news items I read about this week is a musical called, "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant" which started off as an off-broad way production in New York and has since been produced in several more cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. From the above linked article in in the Dallas Observer:

The show unfolds in the awkward, endearing style of a Sunday school nativity play...The intentional impression is that it's all been slammed together in a hurry. That's also part of the joke as the show playfully dissects a carefully constructed belief system based on "thetans," "engrams" and a space alien named Xenu who dropped A-bombs into volcanoes a billion years ago and caused all of mankind's problems.

According to the article, they were threatened with legal action by the Church of Scientology but have since added, "Unauthorized" to their name. And as satirical as the play is, the article points out, the children are never critical of Scientology of all. I guess the truth speaks for itself.

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Where have I been? I've continued my running though I haven't been updating my running log you see at the side there. I completed a 20 minute run a week or two ago but have been unable to do so again. It's mental, though. It's not physically taxing for me at all at this point, it's just that I get bored running around that indoor track. I listen to podcasts but maybe I need to get something really hilarious or otherwise distracting. Otherwise I keep looking at my watch and wanting to go home. And it's not that I don't enjoy running. I do; I just can't wait to get outside again. In fact, I've been thinking about running when it's in the 40s, or even just above freezing as a way to get back to the outdoors. Sad thing is, I can only do that on the weekend because it gets dark so soon.

I picked up my Christmas tree from the 'rents' basement and am putting it together. Read last year's posts about my tree in the December 2007 archive. I plan to post pictures as I progress with my Christmas/Solstice decorating.

Lastly, I was really busy helping out the Cleveland Freethinkers and the Cleveland Skeptics. I helped the Cleveland Skeptics finally launch their website as well as host the first Drinking Skeptically in Cleveland, Ohio. It was loads of fun, and I really look forward to the next one.

Is there an orange flavored drink I can try that will make my blogging more regular?