Ok, sports fans, here's my line up for the 2005 season. Tell me what you think...
QB
Michael Vick
Matt Hasselbeck
Kurt Warner
RB
Deuce McAllister
Rudi Johnson
Reuben Droughns
Ricky Williams
WR
Javon Walker
Darrell Jackson
Jerry Porter
TE
Jeremy Shockey
K
Matt Stover
Def
Buffalo
WR/RB
J.J. Arrington
31.8.05
30.8.05
Top 10 of the 1st 2/3rds of 2005 (feedback welcome)
In no particular order:
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Spoon- Gimme Fiction
BRMC- Howl
Damien Jurado- On My Way to Absence
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise
Decemberists- Picaresque
Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Iron & Wine- Woman King
Over the Rhine- Drunkard's Prayer
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses
Honorable Mention: Coldplay- X&Y, Beck- Guero
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Spoon- Gimme Fiction
BRMC- Howl
Damien Jurado- On My Way to Absence
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise
Decemberists- Picaresque
Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Iron & Wine- Woman King
Over the Rhine- Drunkard's Prayer
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses
Honorable Mention: Coldplay- X&Y, Beck- Guero
If you aren't a Christian...
Answer this question:
If you converted to Christianity today, do you think your life would be larger, fuller, richer, more attractive and creative, more involved with the people, circumstances, art, and culture around you? Or do you think your life would be smaller, narrower, more withdrawn, judgmental, and negative, less winsome and creative, less involved with the people, art, circumstances, and culture around you?
If you are a Christian ask yourself this:
What would your friends and family members answer?
What's wrong with the way we are living?
If you converted to Christianity today, do you think your life would be larger, fuller, richer, more attractive and creative, more involved with the people, circumstances, art, and culture around you? Or do you think your life would be smaller, narrower, more withdrawn, judgmental, and negative, less winsome and creative, less involved with the people, art, circumstances, and culture around you?
If you are a Christian ask yourself this:
What would your friends and family members answer?
What's wrong with the way we are living?
New IPod to be released?
This from ipod lounge...
Apple plans special event next week
08.29.05 | iPod | 72 comments | tell-a-friend
Apple appears to be set to introduce an all-new iPod next week as the company will hold a special event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Apple has used similar events in the past to make such major announcements.
In an invitation sent to select media, including iLounge, Apple hints that it will unveil a significant new product at the event. The invitation reads in part: “1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again.” The slogan “1000 songs in your pocket” was first used by Apple when the original 5GB iPod was introduced in 2001.
The invitation-only event will take place on Wednesday, September 7 at 10:00 a.m. iLounge will be in attendance to bring you coverage.
Apple plans special event next week
08.29.05 | iPod | 72 comments | tell-a-friend
Apple appears to be set to introduce an all-new iPod next week as the company will hold a special event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Apple has used similar events in the past to make such major announcements.
In an invitation sent to select media, including iLounge, Apple hints that it will unveil a significant new product at the event. The invitation reads in part: “1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again.” The slogan “1000 songs in your pocket” was first used by Apple when the original 5GB iPod was introduced in 2001.
The invitation-only event will take place on Wednesday, September 7 at 10:00 a.m. iLounge will be in attendance to bring you coverage.
29.8.05
FOR SALE
Authentic Denver Broncos football jersey. Like new. Never worn in game. Motivated seller. Name your price. Will consider trade for NFL contract.
Or time machine.
Or time machine.
Coffee drinkers unite!
Matt U. sent me this link to an article about the many fabulous health benefits of drinking coffee. This explains why Iggy and Tom look so healthy in the photograph.
Must... resist urge... to buy... useless... crap...
I realize a double-barrelled, stainless-steel breakfast cereal dispenser is highly unnecessary and is probably some sort of sign of the excess of our age and our culture's increasing preoccupation with all things trivial - heck, it may even be a sign of the apocalypse or something (I'll have to re-read Revelation) - but I cannot deny my inner, visceral reaction to such a device. It is neat. And I want one.
28.8.05
27.8.05
Devil Child
We went to the Great Darke County Fair this week and the boys had a great time as indicated by the photos below.
In addition I was surprised to find that the Great Darke County Fair hosts asome sort of performance by the son of Satan, himself. You'd think with family connections like that he'd have a better gig that county fairs. He must be a real slacker. I bet during Holidays he never hears the end of it. "Why can't you be more like your brother, Legion?!"
In addition I was surprised to find that the Great Darke County Fair hosts asome sort of performance by the son of Satan, himself. You'd think with family connections like that he'd have a better gig that county fairs. He must be a real slacker. I bet during Holidays he never hears the end of it. "Why can't you be more like your brother, Legion?!"
A quarter to play, a quarter to win.
The form! The technique! The prowess! It's been a decade and I still got it. There was a time when carnies ran in fear and bowling balls trembled at the sound of my name. If bowler roller had been a competetive sport, I would be a rich man.
26.8.05
24.8.05
23.8.05
Televangelist seeks to assassinate world leaders.
I'm not joking. Have you heard about this? Follow the link to an article. I don't even know what to say.
And by the way...
Ever notice you never see Pat Robertson and the Brain from Pinky and the Brain in the same place at the same time? Hmmm. I wonder...
19.8.05
Hip Tip of the Week: Penguins.
This week it's all about the Penguins.
1. Film: March of the Penguins- Saw it tonight. Amazing. See it. Now. I'll wait....
2. Book: I'm reading the Penguin classics collection of John Donne's poetry. Very good. Slow reading, but that's because I'm dang near retarded when it comes to poetry. And I've recently been informed by a professional educator that "retarded" is no longer politically incorrect and is the preferred term to be used. Go read a book in the Penguin classics series.
3. Fashion- Penguin is a clothing line and they sell a fabulous brown plaid trench coat with orange buttons for, oh... about three benjamins. Doh!
4. Song- "Penguins" from Lyle Lovett's 1994 album entitled I Love Everybody. Apparantly penguins are very sensitive to Lyle's needs. That's more than Madonna can say for her equine friends.
5. Bird- Penguins strike me as the most professionally competent of all the birds. If you want flash and pizzaz, call an eagle or a toucan. Maybe a parrot. But if you want somebody who's going to show up on time and get the job done without all the drama and attitude, well then the Penguin is your bird.
1. Film: March of the Penguins- Saw it tonight. Amazing. See it. Now. I'll wait....
2. Book: I'm reading the Penguin classics collection of John Donne's poetry. Very good. Slow reading, but that's because I'm dang near retarded when it comes to poetry. And I've recently been informed by a professional educator that "retarded" is no longer politically incorrect and is the preferred term to be used. Go read a book in the Penguin classics series.
3. Fashion- Penguin is a clothing line and they sell a fabulous brown plaid trench coat with orange buttons for, oh... about three benjamins. Doh!
4. Song- "Penguins" from Lyle Lovett's 1994 album entitled I Love Everybody. Apparantly penguins are very sensitive to Lyle's needs. That's more than Madonna can say for her equine friends.
5. Bird- Penguins strike me as the most professionally competent of all the birds. If you want flash and pizzaz, call an eagle or a toucan. Maybe a parrot. But if you want somebody who's going to show up on time and get the job done without all the drama and attitude, well then the Penguin is your bird.
Mission & Context
If you are interested in topics of mission, context, culture, and the like then you'll want to read the dialogue between kdny and me in the comments section of the Johnny Cash post. Feel free to add your two cents... or pesos... or mites... or whatever is the appropriate monetary denomination in your culture.
(Look people, you'll have to do a little of the contextualization yourself here. FP can't do everything, you know).
I've included the picture of black Jesus just to complicate matters. Enjoy.
(Look people, you'll have to do a little of the contextualization yourself here. FP can't do everything, you know).
I've included the picture of black Jesus just to complicate matters. Enjoy.
18.8.05
This explains why my ordination exams were so difficult!
Shout out to my homeboy C-Mac who emailed me this today. Apparantly it's a screen still from a Chinese bootleg of Star Wars Ep3. As it turns out, when "Jedi Counsel" was translated by the Chinese they went with "church of the elders" which, when translated back into English for the subtitles was translated "Presbyterian Church". Presbyterian comes from presbuteros, the greek word for elder, so actually it's quite acurate!
Thanks SCM, for the hilarious email It made my day.
Thanks SCM, for the hilarious email It made my day.
Pain & Grace in the Life of Johnny Cash
My denomination is mostly southern, mostly conservative, and often out of touch with the general culture of my generation. Most of the time I feel like I don't belong. But then from time to time (and more frequently now I've noticed) they throw me a bone like this little gem from the PCA's official webzine. Reminds me that I'm in the right place and that God is a Johnny Cash fan, too.
17.8.05
Back from Vacation.
Island Reading: A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), 2 Corinthians (Saint Paul)
Island Listening: Baja Sessions (Chris Isaak), The World of Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole), Wildflowers (Tom Petty), In the Wee Hours (Frank Sinatra), At Last (Etta James), In Case We Die (Architecture in Helsinki)
Island Drinking: Corona
Island Activities: laying by pool, laying on beach, laying in bed, reading afore mentioned books, sleeping, drinking corona, various combinations of the above simultaneously
Island Films Viewed: Born Identity, Born Supremacy, The Notebook
Island Suprise: scores of lizards, thirteen blue and green parrots, two Germans in speedos, (sorry ladies, no photos)
Island Listening: Baja Sessions (Chris Isaak), The World of Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole), Wildflowers (Tom Petty), In the Wee Hours (Frank Sinatra), At Last (Etta James), In Case We Die (Architecture in Helsinki)
Island Drinking: Corona
Island Activities: laying by pool, laying on beach, laying in bed, reading afore mentioned books, sleeping, drinking corona, various combinations of the above simultaneously
Island Films Viewed: Born Identity, Born Supremacy, The Notebook
Island Suprise: scores of lizards, thirteen blue and green parrots, two Germans in speedos, (sorry ladies, no photos)
7.8.05
5.8.05
Get Free Stuff From Me! It's a contest.
Alrighty peepholes. Here's the deal: I'm am going to be away from my email account for 10 days. Whoever can guess the amount of spam I recieve in my hotmail account during those ten days wins. Just to make it exciting, whoever comes closest to guessing the number of pieces of junk mail I get will win something cool. If you guess exactly you will win something VERY cool. If two contestants guess the same we will go by whoever guessed first. Only one entry per reader. I'll make sure my junk mail filters are turned off!
And as always, no wagering please.
And as always, no wagering please.
3.8.05
Bono & the Gospel.
Salty dogma
Bono gives an explicit confession of being saved by Grace, not Karma | by Gene Edward Veith
Is Bono, the lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2, a Christian? He says he is and writes about Christianity in his lyrics. Yet many people question whether Bono is "really" a Christian, due to his notoriously bad language, liberal politics, and rock star antics (though he has been faithfully married for 23 years). But in a new book of interviews, Bono in Conversation by Michka Assayas, Bono, though using some salty language, makes an explicit confession of faith.
The interviewer, Mr. Assayas, begins by asking Bono, Doesn't he think "appalling things" happen when people become religious? Bono counters, "It's a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma."
The interviewer asks, What's that? "At the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics—in physical laws—every action is met by an equal or an opposite one," explains Bono. "And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that. . . . Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff."
The interviewer asks, Like what? "That's between me and God. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge," says Bono. "It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity."
Then the interviewer marvels, "The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe in that."
"The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death," replies Bono. "It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven."
The interviewer marvels some more: "That's a great idea, no denying it. Such great hope is wonderful, even though it's close to lunacy, in my view. Christ has His rank among the world's great thinkers. But Son of God, isn't that farfetched?"
Bono comes back, "Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn't allow you that. He doesn't let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I'm not saying I'm a teacher, don't call me teacher. I'm not saying I'm a prophet. I'm saying: 'I'm the Messiah.' I'm saying: 'I am God incarnate.' . . . So what you're left with is either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. . . . The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that's farfetched."
What is most interesting in this exchange is the reaction of the interviewer, to whom Bono is, in effect, witnessing. This hip rock journalist starts by scorning what he thinks is Christianity. But it is as if he had never heard of grace, the atonement, the deity of Christ, the gospel. And he probably hadn't. But when he hears what Christianity is actually all about, he is amazed.
Bono gives an explicit confession of being saved by Grace, not Karma | by Gene Edward Veith
Is Bono, the lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2, a Christian? He says he is and writes about Christianity in his lyrics. Yet many people question whether Bono is "really" a Christian, due to his notoriously bad language, liberal politics, and rock star antics (though he has been faithfully married for 23 years). But in a new book of interviews, Bono in Conversation by Michka Assayas, Bono, though using some salty language, makes an explicit confession of faith.
The interviewer, Mr. Assayas, begins by asking Bono, Doesn't he think "appalling things" happen when people become religious? Bono counters, "It's a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma."
The interviewer asks, What's that? "At the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics—in physical laws—every action is met by an equal or an opposite one," explains Bono. "And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that. . . . Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff."
The interviewer asks, Like what? "That's between me and God. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge," says Bono. "It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity."
Then the interviewer marvels, "The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe in that."
"The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death," replies Bono. "It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven."
The interviewer marvels some more: "That's a great idea, no denying it. Such great hope is wonderful, even though it's close to lunacy, in my view. Christ has His rank among the world's great thinkers. But Son of God, isn't that farfetched?"
Bono comes back, "Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn't allow you that. He doesn't let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I'm not saying I'm a teacher, don't call me teacher. I'm not saying I'm a prophet. I'm saying: 'I'm the Messiah.' I'm saying: 'I am God incarnate.' . . . So what you're left with is either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. . . . The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that's farfetched."
What is most interesting in this exchange is the reaction of the interviewer, to whom Bono is, in effect, witnessing. This hip rock journalist starts by scorning what he thinks is Christianity. But it is as if he had never heard of grace, the atonement, the deity of Christ, the gospel. And he probably hadn't. But when he hears what Christianity is actually all about, he is amazed.
Technology at work!
Did you hear about this?
SPACE CENTER, Houston - A spacewalking astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery’s tile belly with his gloved hand Wednesday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.
Apparantly something was sticking out of the bottom of the space shuttle that shouldn't have been there, so they send a guy out to "repair" it. Of course by "repair" they mean he grabbed the little pieces and yanked on them until they came off. It is comforting to know that NASA repairs the multi-billion dollar space shuttle with the same highly specialized techniques I use to repair my 2000 ford focus.
After the repair was made, I wonder if the astronaut threw the removed obstructions into the back seat of the space shuttle with all the empty starbucks cups and taco bell wrappers.
SPACE CENTER, Houston - A spacewalking astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery’s tile belly with his gloved hand Wednesday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.
Apparantly something was sticking out of the bottom of the space shuttle that shouldn't have been there, so they send a guy out to "repair" it. Of course by "repair" they mean he grabbed the little pieces and yanked on them until they came off. It is comforting to know that NASA repairs the multi-billion dollar space shuttle with the same highly specialized techniques I use to repair my 2000 ford focus.
After the repair was made, I wonder if the astronaut threw the removed obstructions into the back seat of the space shuttle with all the empty starbucks cups and taco bell wrappers.
2.8.05
Three things that disturb me:
3. When you're talking to someone and they proceed through the conversation by asking themselves a series of qestions and supplying their own answers. For instance: "Does it annoy me when people ask themselves questions? Yes. Do I think it makes them bad people? No. Do I wish they wouldn't do it? Yes. After reading this post will you now have a heightened sensitivity to this phenomena? Probably."
2. When you're listening to NPR or some expert of something or other on tv and they keep using synonyms and saying "if you will" at the end. For instance, "When people speak that way I find it disturbing... or annoying, if you will". See what I mean?
1. Gilmore Girls. The dialogue on this show makes me want to puke. I literally cannot watch it. I actually have to leave the room. I'm not even sure what it is. I will give you no examples.
2. When you're listening to NPR or some expert of something or other on tv and they keep using synonyms and saying "if you will" at the end. For instance, "When people speak that way I find it disturbing... or annoying, if you will". See what I mean?
1. Gilmore Girls. The dialogue on this show makes me want to puke. I literally cannot watch it. I actually have to leave the room. I'm not even sure what it is. I will give you no examples.
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