No longer telling us how to live

This is a sad day. Not only is my favorite mad cap rock star cum Green Party pacifist no longer blogging:

Due to the 3 1/2 hour daily commute to my new job, RATYHTL will be shutting down indefinitely.

In the meantime, please DO NOT clutter up either my inbox or my voicemail with messages.

But aparently I could have called him up and talked to him . . . until now. Damn.

Perhaps a more tragic loss for the world at large, though, is being denied Rodney's gift for de-rose-colored-glass-ifying history's facade of austerity.

This week alone he posted three brilliant portraits of Popes the Holy See would rather forget:

Fabulae Pontificalis (Today's episode: Does this miter make my ass look fat?)

Fabulae Pontificalis (Today's episode:I was a teenaged Pontiff)

Fabulae Pontificalis (Today's episode: Pope 9 From Outer Space)

Prior to that flurry, he had recently

• Created a flawless overlay of the shroud of Turin on Terri Schiavo's CAT scan
• Speculated that newly dead Andrea Dworkin "will be buried with an apple stuck in her mouth"
• Demanded a Black pope, if for no other reason than to document the reaction of his [racist] Irish and Italian neighbors
• Written a perfect synopsis of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or [either life is full of torment, or the afterlife will be]
• Invoked Ward Churchill as proof that

today's college students are a bunch of pussies. [And that] many collage administrators are out of their fucking skulls.

• Given this free piece of advice:

"Electra is pissed."

"Well she did sleep with her father…"

A bit of free advice, if you'll allow me: NEVER make an obscure
mythological reference to someone who is angry at you. They will NOT find
it endearing.

• And written this:

where is the ire that non-fire and brimstone Christians should have for the "God Hates Fags" branch of the Jesus worshiping family? If you Peace and Love Christians would reign in your outhouse dwelling, Bible thumping, Fag hating bretheren, I could go back to writing about the Ancient World.

Among other funny things.

Hopefully he finds himself a new job soon. Until then, here are some of his photoshops: