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PZ Myers carried through with desecrating a host, as well as
a Quran and The God Delusion by Dawkins, just for good measure. I'm more than a little tired right now, and am having difficulty composing coherent thoughts, but I wanted to get this up here. The lengthy essay preceding the photo of the event is what is really worthwhile about the whole shebang. Most interesting so far are the folks commenting that it must be a hoax, that he merely got unsubstantiated wafers online, not that it was actually a really real transubstantiated bit of the Body of Christ. A couple of weeks ago, when Myers first started receiving wafers from people, these commenters were certain that these wafers were in fact consecrated. Not that anyone can tell the difference between a consecrated and unconsecrated communion wafer at a glance, which of course is part of Myers' point. I may have more about this later, when I'm not so exhausted.
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I was answering a question concerning "songs about Paris" over on Yahoo Answers and included "Les Champs-Elysées" a frequently heard number that almost everyone knows and sings along with whenever it is played.
I realized I knew nothing about the song and the singer who popularized it, Joe Dassin, and decided to check him out.
Now look at that video. What's your impression of who this guy is?
Were you thinking a Jewish kid from New York City with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan? Well, that's who he is.
Born in 1938, Joe's father is movie director Jules Dassin and his mother and Béatrice Launer, a virtuose Hungarian violinist. He enjoyed considerable success in Hollywood before the Black List of the McCarthy years drove him into exile in Europe. His parents divorced and his father married Greek Actress Melina Mercouri who he would direct in Never on Sunday.
Joe went to high school in Geneva and Italy but returned to the USA for college at the University of Michigan.
At loose ends after college, Joe returned to Europe and worked at a radio station. he was convinced by a girlfriend to submit a tape of his singing to the new CBS records office in Paris. After some false starts doing covers of Americam songs he broke though and became one of the most popular entertainers in Europe. A talented polyglot, he recorded songs in German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Greek, as well as French and English.
Sadly, he died of a heart attack, the result of a congential heart condition, while vacationing in Tahiti in 1980, several months short of his 42nd birthday.
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