Comments on: Dear God,

By: Daniel Edlen

Daniel Edlen — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:41:35 +0000

My dad liked to say G’od is a contraction for Good:
http://vinylart.blogspot.com/2008/07/human-being-good.html
This cartoon is another brilliant one, Hugh.
Peace.

By: Joel Kelly

Joel Kelly — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:57:52 +0000

Kurt Vonnegut quoted his uncle as saying, “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
And Hugh Macleod says, ‘and remember, this moment will never happen again.‘
I mean, fuck… If that doesn’t make you think about appreciating every moment I don’t know what would.

By: God

God — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:31:19 +0000

Yeah, it’s no problem if you call me that. I’m going bowling with Superman later on, if you want to come.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:56:57 +0000

Hi Hugh,
Thought you’d enjoy this poem. Cheers, Joe
Poem: “Heaven on Earth” by Kristin Berkey-Abbott from, Whistling Past the Graveyard. © Pudding House Publications, 2004.
Heaven on Earth
I saw Jesus at the bowling alley,
slinging nothing but gutter balls.
He said, “You’ve gotta love a hobby
that allows ugly shoes.“
He lit a cigarette and bought me a beer.
So I invited him to dinner.
I knew the Lord couldn’t see my house
in its current condition, so I gave it an out
of season spring cleaning. What to serve
for dinner? Fish—the logical
choice, but after 2000 years, he must grow weary
of everyone’s favorite seafood dishes.
I thought of my Granny’s ham with Coca Cola
glaze, but you can’t serve that to a Jewish
boy. Likewise pizza—all my favorite
toppings involve pork.
In the end, I made us an all-dessert buffet.
We played Scrabble and Uno and Yahtzee
and listened to Bill Monroe.
Jesus has a healthy appetite for sweets,
I’m happy to report. He told strange
stories which I’ve puzzled over for days now.
We’ve got an appointment for golf on Wednesday.
Ordinarily I don’t play, and certainly not in this humidity.
But the Lord says he knows a grand miniature
golf course with fiberglass mermaids and working windmills and the best homemade ice cream you ever tasted.
Sounds like Heaven to me.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:41:20 +0000

Or is Hugh adressing us?

By: JTH

JTH — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:26:14 +0000

Skipping the nomenclature topic, on to the “zen” of the “cartoon“
Just back from Nihon (Japan) for cherry blossoms
They “worship” the blossoms for their transient nature, here today, gone tomorrow
As I live in a commercial cherry production area, it’s a much much different experience.

By: Julia R

Julia R — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:34:30 +0000

My mentor emailed me this the other day:
“‘HaShem’ — (neither masculine nor feminine and absolutely no plural); the word means, literally, ‘The Name,’ and it is the way that Jews refer to God when not in a Prayer or Torah Reading or Torah citation context.“
So God has a nickname! I think that’s pretty cool.

By: Hanna Back

Hanna Back — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:28:58 +0000

God is the generic name, Super F*cking Amazing almighty, is more like it.

By: Frank Patrick

Frank Patrick — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:17:48 +0000

According to the last few bits of dialog in Battlestar Galactica, it doesn’t like being called god.

By: Michael C. Neel

Michael C. Neel — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:05:23 +0000

I think he's cool with "Jehovah" - at least that's what I learned from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That, and in the Latin alphabet, "Jehovah" starts with an "I"...