Happy Friday! In today’s quiz, test your knowledge of religious imagery in rock ‘n’ roll. Who sang that? Was it Madonna or Matisyahu? Van Morrison or Van Halen? Cat Stevens or the Pussycat Dolls? TAKE THE QUIZ BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK: HERE The quiz is open until 11:45 p.m. tonite (PST.) Winners will be announced over the weekend. Prizes are … um … MUSICAL. Read more
Homeslice Jason Harrod, an absolutely lovely fellow whom I am blessed to count among my dearest friends, posted a new song on his Web site. “When I Came Down Off the Mountain” is the name of the tune. Have a listen HERE. Jason is touring. Here are his upcoming gigs, INCLUDING A SHOW TONITE IN CUDDEBACKVILLE, NY. Don’t miss him if you have the chance to catch him live. He’s a wonder. 10/1/2010 Benefit for Neversink Valley Area Museum D&H... Read more
YOU ROCK!! Bravo dear readers and quiz takers! GGHQ is very proud to announce the results of this week’s BONUS SWAG BAG QUIZ: Everyone who took the quiz, based in part on the Pew Center for Religion & Public Life’s most recent survey of religious knowledge, scored 70 percent or better. 169 of the 265 of you who completed the quiz scored 90 percent or better! YOU ROCK! In fact, 16 of you got PERFECT SCORES. Woot woot! The 100... Read more
[wpvideo l7uckn7s] Rufus Wainwright’s rendition of “Over the Rainbow” is, according to the consensus at GGHQ, far and away the best out there. Mr. Wainwright is touring and if you have a chance to see him live, you will not be disappointed. Mistersister rules the stage. Click HERE for Rufus’ world tour dates. Read more
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes [slideshow] Read more
the night before last, we had a special overnight house guest. a huge dragonfly, same colors as the one on the cover of sin boldly, was beating itself silly against our patio light. we gently lifted it into the bug box my darling aunt patti made for me when i was a little girl. our winged messenger spent the night in the box until sunrise, when we released it and if flew high and away toward the ocean. listen to... Read more
[wpvideo LhjMaIlC] Tom Waits is among our very favorite artists here at GGHQ. So we were THRILLED to hear this morning that he’d been nominated to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for possible induction this year. Waits is a true iconoclast. We love him so. This is what the RnRHoF had to say about him: Only one songwriter could be covered by the Ramones (“I Don’t Want to Grow Up”) and the Eagles (“Old 55”). Beginning with his first album... Read more
[wpvideo Ov4l5WhJ] I smell another Oscar for the Dude. The film opens nationwide on Christmas Day. Woot! Visit the official film site HERE. Read more
While I’m no militant environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination (I recycle; I don’t compost), I do considered myself something of a tree-hugger. There’s even a sticker on my car that says, “God is Green.” It’s a statement of faith. Still, when talk turns toward carbon footprints and global warming, lately a certain melancholy — almost a vague acedia — has begun to shadow my heart. It all seems so … Sisyphean. We’ve abused Mother Earth and she’s not... Read more
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life today released the fascinating (some might say disconcerting) results of a survey on religion knowledge. The headline you’ll see on most stories about the survey will say something like ATHEISTS KNOW MORE ABOUT RELIGION THAN CHRISTIANS DO. The study’s executive summary begins thusly: Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the... Read more
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