Category: Culture

The Truth about the Flying Spaghetti Monster

It is important to know about where we came from.  We have been pondering this question and killing for it for thousands of years (or more, maybe billions of years)  In Kansas, the public school system was going to bring the Science of Intelligent Design – then there was the Open Letter to the Kansas School Board, writen by a graduated physics student.  As proof that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was valid, this sketch of “Him” creating was provided:

Creation

Creation

His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the ultimate truth in the universe. It is the central point of worship in the religion commonly known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism or Pastafarianism, according to which it is The Creator and Overseer, watching our lives and our world, changing them as it sees fit, by use of his most holy noodly appendage.

Monsterist Sects

The earliest recorded appearance in Europe of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: Italy, 1403.

The earliest recorded appearance in Europe of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: Italy, 1403.

There are various known sects of modern Monsterism, from the tight-knit Orthodox Monsterist Church of West Virginia and Southern Québec, to the loosely associated Pastapharians of the Caribbean, to the Flaspamonists of South Central Los Angeles, the Underground FSMer’s of Westford, the Mystical Order of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Moomin Church of His Spaghettiness of Jersey (channel Islands), the other Moomon Church of His Spaghettiness, and the open-minded, deeply Piratian First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

A heretical sect, the Reformed Church of Alfredo, is in deep opposition to the mainstream Monsterists, as is SPAM‘a (Spaghetti & Pulsar Activating Meatballs) Linuinism, another FSM splinter group. Claiming to have The One, True Letter to the Kansas School Board, SPAM‘a’s founder, Skamfor Prophet, has warned that those who believe in Henderson’s FSM version of the Letter will be sent—with only waxed-paper wrapping to protect them—into the sub-zero void of interstellar space, where they will be subjected to eternal freezer burn. Allegedly, the Ninja-Pirate Assembly of God is loosely allied with the Alfredists, though they have made no official statement.

There also exists a small but increasing sect that broke off the traditional Pastafarians, called Moundarianism. Moundarians believe that the Mound, a sacred lump of mold and accumulated dirt that resides at the end of the 96th St and Broadway (“1″ train) subway station in New York City, is a Prophet of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The Mound is appeased by sacrifices of various plastic-based items. Moundarians also take regular pilgrimages to their Mound, taking photographs and offerings of green-flavored soda.

There is a group of Pastafarian monks known as the Labluegirlists, who seek to bring in the Spaghetti Monster’s Noodly Appendages through sexual intercourse. Those monks are very influential in Japan, and their initiates, known as “kappas”, live in Japanese brooks and streams everywhere and drown people. Over two hundred years, those kappas become full-fleged “poltergeists”, and they seek to seduce the Spaghetti Monster, through His noodly appendages, to have intercourse with them by employing a “Miko Mido”, or priestess.

I have included art from the followers of the religion, spectators and anonymous folk who have captured the FSM in the least expected places!

Boxing

~Fun Facts~



Canadian Boxing Day!!!

The theme of this page is going to be the Canadian boxing day, and how strange of a holiday that it is. To my understanding, the holiday’s roots can be traced to Britain, where Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen’s Day. Reduced to the simplest essence, its origins are found in a long-ago practice of giving cash or durable goods to those of the lower classes. Gifts among equals were exchanged on or before Christmas Day, but beneficence to those less fortunate were bestowed the day after. If you have any other information please comment!

Boxing Day

OH-YA? YA-BETCHA!

Steak and Knobber Day

1st  – I would like to link to our friends at the official website: http://www.steakandknobberday.com/

2nd – Credit where it is due: http://www.dscshow.com/ – Where it all started, in 1998

3rd – A good old fashion Web Plagiarism (from discoverSD.com):

Let’s face it, Valentine’s Day is all about the ladies, with all its flowers, chocolates, romantic dinners and tokens of affection. The guys better come through or they’re in the dog house.

In the spirit of reciprocation, local radio legends Dave, Shelley, and Chainsaw, the morning show on 101.5 KGB, carry the banner high over San Diego for a new international holiday to celebrate the other side of the equation.

March 20th, Every Year
March 20th, Every Year

Steak and Knobber Day, on March 20th, is a chance for women all over this great land to say thank you to their man for stepping up and being men. You say thank you to men by giving them what they like, you guessed it: Steak and Knobbers. Check out our lineup below to discover where to get your steak in San Diego.

Upscale San Diego Steakhouses
Donovan’s Steak & Chop House
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Morton’s of Chicago
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
The Palm
Island Prime

Midscale San Diego Steakhouses
The Butcher Shop
Claim Jumper
Hunter Steak House
Outback Steak House

Grill It Yourself San Diego Steakhouses
Turf Supper Club
The Gaslamp Strip Club

Do It Yourself: San Diego Steak Markets
Bisher’s Quality Meats
Iowa Meat Farms
Whole Foods

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