Davey & Goliath: The lost episodes

I'm back from the mountains, and kicking myself because I didn't get the chance to post about the most significant media event of the new millennium --the release of the lost episodes of Davey and Goliath last Tuesday.

(Because this happened on the same day that Halo 3 was released by Microsoft, many of you may have missed this news).

Surely you remember the series with a focus on moral quandries, produced in the 1960s by the Lutherans and created by Art Clokey, the guy who brought us Gumby. (A side note--Davey's close friend, Jonathan Reed, was African-American, perhaps the first African-American character to appear in a television cartoon, and one of the first African-American characters to appear as a friend of a television show's lead character.)

Nevertheless, the lost episodes include some that were removed because of political correctness issues--"Ten Little Indians" (withdrawn because of the use of the term "Indians"), "The Gang" (removed for violence), "The Watchdogs" (violence again), and "Down on the Farm" (for nudity--Davey goes skinny dipping, if you can believe it).

Here's a Quicktime movie in which Goliath tangles with a robot.

They don't make 'em like this anymore, unless you include the soulless Veggie Tales.


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A blogging break

Folks, I'm heading to California's Sierras for a week of backpacking with some friends. Manly adventure, male bonding and all that. If I survive, I'll try to post something next weekend. See you then.

--Skippy R.

Video: JewWalking

Just in time for Yom Kippur, which starts at sundown today, the National Jewish Outreach Program put Simmy Kay, narrator for MTV’s hit show Room Raiders, out on the streets of New York City for some JewWalking!

Simmy tracked down some Jews to ask basic questions about the Jewish religion, Jewish history and the Hebrew language. The answers are sure to surprise and intrigue you. Can you spot the kid with a bagel on his head? And remember .... thou shalt not covet your mother or father.

(If you missed Rosh Hashanah, you can watch Comedy Central's This Week in God and celebrate anyway.

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Faith and Fashion, exposed!

Can a fashion model be a Proverbs 31 woman? The people at Paradox say she can.

A story in the New York Observer examines the models, photographers, agents and fashion designers--male and female-- who are members of Paradox, the New York hub of Models for Christ. Besides helping each other survive the debauchery prevalent in the industry, the members discuss struggles with eating disorders and self-esteem issues.

The Idol Chatter Blog at Beliefnet.com points out that a group of male Latter-Day Saint missionaries who've just returned to the U.S. "have turned the Models for Christ concept on its head a bit by releasing a controversial calendar called 'Men on a Mission.'"

Could the hunky Mormon Men on a Mission whip the Models for Christ in a pickup basketball game? Would Cowboys for Christ clobber all of them? Stay tuned.


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The Miraculous Jesus Nightlight

More Jesus Junk:
This "miraculous" Jesus nightlight is a 3-D image of Jesus. "Your children may receive comfort, security, and relief from those sleepless and scary nights," the ad copy says. Or, they may be creeped out by the way his eyes seem to follow them around the room. We're renaming this the Homeland Security Surveillance Jesus Nightlight.

(via the now defunct kindakitschy blog)

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Video: It's a fine line...

Here's a youtube music video by the group Familjen that takes old footage of a Pentecostal worship service and edits it to seem like a rave party. It's all in Swedish, I think. Creepy and fascinating at the same time. All I can say is, do they have a Wednesday night service?

(via BoingBoing.net)


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A late farewell to Ms. L'Engle

Author Madeleine L'Engle died this month. A Wrinkle in Time blew my mind in seventh grade. The Wittenburg Door interviewed her in 1986 and 2000, and we've already noted her passing, but today I ran across a piece of a poem that could serve as her epitaph.

"This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child."

~Madeleine L'Engle, The Weather of the Heart (1978)

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