In the category of "This makes Mugen's head hurt"...

[telophase]

Apparently Japanese manga will never make it big in America because Americans don't eat rice, among other things.

I think my favorite bit is where he says that Americans don't like teenage angst. Now, please excuse me. I have to go eat sushi while reading Judy Blume and Sweet Valley High.

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a St. Uncumber, who I believe was also known as St. Wilberforce, who was a woman who grew a beard so she couldn't be married off instead of joining a convent? Apparently this story came about to explain why a certain unknown but femme-looking saint in some engraving had a beard. (Because he was a man!)

Nick Cave-- you're familiar with Nick Cave, right? -- has a song called "Christina the Astonishing." It's a great name.

I always enjoyed reading about implausible saints in Catholic school. Plus my mother had this excellent book of fab stories about Muslim saints, Muslim Saints and Mystics, which my Dad called "Muslim Saints and Misfits." St. Hassan was preaching when a woman in the audience farted loudly. To spare her feelings, he pretended he was deaf, and continued the pretense until she died. Hence he is known as Hassan the Deaf.

This is online and you should check it out. Seriously, it's got some beautiful Arabian Nights imagery-- a saint loses his needle onboard a ship, and thousand fishes poke their heads from the water, each with a golden needle in their mouths. The saint says, "I want my own needle."

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:zy-34xUfGUkJ:www.omphaloskepsis.com/ebooks/pdf/mussm.pdf+%22muslim+saints+and+mystics%22&hl=en