song: Oceanographer's Choice
artist: The Mountain Goats
album: Talahassee
line: well a guy in a skeleton costume comes up to the guy in the superman costume, runs through him with a broad sword
27.2.06
24.2.06
One Year Old
Hey people. The Blog turned one a couple of weeks ago and I didn't notice. I've actually been thinking about shutting it down. Even since I got all "productive" with my time, I just don't blog as much. We'll see. Maybe I'll consolidate with others of you and we can do a joint blog posting thing? Maybe not? I dunno.
But in the meantime, here are some ideas for posts I'd like to write if I had the time:
the difference between nirvana, zen and shalom
that Velvet Elvis book review I've been meaning to write
an article called the four resurrections of johnny cash
a contrast of the philosophies of the nature of humanity and history as seen in the 2005 works "I'm wide awake and it's morning" by Bright Eyes and "Illinoise" by Sufjan Stevens. (Bright Eyes' work is mostly Nietzchian with respect to human nature and the cyclical nature of history, while Sufjan's work is more eschatologically oriented, meaning it sees a forward trajectory to history and his view of human nature is Augustinian)
sanctification & pharmeceuticals
Ancient Mesopotamian & Hebrew Creation Accounts: Was Moses a Deconstructionist?
Authoritative Deconstruction: A Legitimate Apologetic for a Post-Whatever World?
Female and Male as the Image of God
Foucault was right about language being a power play and that's ok for the Christian to embrace because afterall, our God is a God who speaks and our Savior is the WORD incarnate.
Submission as liberation
Means of Grace as a way of life
Maybe a church should measure it's effectiveness by how many programs it cuts each year.
Maybe parachurch is not a legitmitate biblical category or maybe it is but is usally done poorly or maybe not poorly by not thoughtfully or maybe churches should just put up the cash and bring all the parachurch guys on staff so they don't have to raise thier own money and then everyone will be better off.
Why triangles are the answer to everything
Why the local church is the hope of the world
John Frame- Revolutionary Thinker, or Master of the Obvious?
Matt Birt: A Profile in Staying Where you're at and doing something about why where you're at sucks
That's all for now.
But in the meantime, here are some ideas for posts I'd like to write if I had the time:
the difference between nirvana, zen and shalom
that Velvet Elvis book review I've been meaning to write
an article called the four resurrections of johnny cash
a contrast of the philosophies of the nature of humanity and history as seen in the 2005 works "I'm wide awake and it's morning" by Bright Eyes and "Illinoise" by Sufjan Stevens. (Bright Eyes' work is mostly Nietzchian with respect to human nature and the cyclical nature of history, while Sufjan's work is more eschatologically oriented, meaning it sees a forward trajectory to history and his view of human nature is Augustinian)
sanctification & pharmeceuticals
Ancient Mesopotamian & Hebrew Creation Accounts: Was Moses a Deconstructionist?
Authoritative Deconstruction: A Legitimate Apologetic for a Post-Whatever World?
Female and Male as the Image of God
Foucault was right about language being a power play and that's ok for the Christian to embrace because afterall, our God is a God who speaks and our Savior is the WORD incarnate.
Submission as liberation
Means of Grace as a way of life
Maybe a church should measure it's effectiveness by how many programs it cuts each year.
Maybe parachurch is not a legitmitate biblical category or maybe it is but is usally done poorly or maybe not poorly by not thoughtfully or maybe churches should just put up the cash and bring all the parachurch guys on staff so they don't have to raise thier own money and then everyone will be better off.
Why triangles are the answer to everything
Why the local church is the hope of the world
John Frame- Revolutionary Thinker, or Master of the Obvious?
Matt Birt: A Profile in Staying Where you're at and doing something about why where you're at sucks
That's all for now.
23.2.06
Back in Action!
Sorry folks. There for a while, the FP vanished from the blogosphere. Not quite sure what the deal was with that.
22.2.06
20.2.06
15.2.06
Playing With Water
Here's Sam at Cosi playing in the water. Doesn't Leonard Cohen have a song about a blue raincoat or something? Somebody check that out for me.
Anyway, I think this photo turned out nice. Charity snapped it.
Anyway, I think this photo turned out nice. Charity snapped it.
Jack the Artist
Here is a picture of Jack painting a ceramic dinosaur at a pottery filed trip he took recently with one of the homeschooling co-ops we participate in.
Sam the Stunt Man
Here's a picture of Sam precariously balanced on the seat of his tricycle holding on with just one hand.
Any good mother would instinctively rescue him from certain calamity. Any proud father instinctively reaches for the digital camera.
Any good mother would instinctively rescue him from certain calamity. Any proud father instinctively reaches for the digital camera.
Jack the Actor
In this photo, Jack is acting like a dinosaur. He likes acting. Recently he declared himself a director and began work on a film entitled "Murmur Dog". Jack not only acts in the film, but he also wrote it and directs it. He's creative and ambitious.
Jokes Told by Framian-Presuppositional Indie Rock Fans:
Here's one I made up last night at a concert:
Guy walks out on stage. Says:
"Hello, Situational Perspective! We are Existential Perspective! This next song is called Normative Perspective! "
This joke is mostly for Dru Johnson. But I don't think he'll like it.
Guy walks out on stage. Says:
"Hello, Situational Perspective! We are Existential Perspective! This next song is called Normative Perspective! "
This joke is mostly for Dru Johnson. But I don't think he'll like it.
10.2.06
Ha!
An hilarious article from the onion. Reminds me of what a professor of mine once said. Something like this, "It is a sin to preach in such a way that makes God's word appear irrelevant. It is also a sin to do it in such a way that makes his word appear boring".
8.2.06
I AM by Robert Rottet
I Am
I.
I am the forgotten song emerging in you
I communed with your soul when your grandmother sang
My verses are in your veins
my rhythm courses through your heart
Open your mouth and let me out
I will fly back to the place of your birth
I will gather visions of school yards
and adolescent games
I will cross the ocean to the home of your ancestors
I will summon their language within your body
You will hear the echoes of revolution and war
You will feel the passion of love and release
You will know the peace of joy and bravery
Its all here
inside of me
I am the song
II.
I am blues
I am jazz
I am rock and roll
I am Muddy Waters singing "I be’s troubled" on the front porch of
a cabin on Stovall Plantation
I tell you "I never be’s sasafied"
and you say the sorrow sounds sweeter
than sweet potato pie
I am John Coltrane with my tenor sax on a good night in the
Harlem Beat Kitchen
Miles is playing the sad notes
Bird is playing the pretty ones
and I am burning a hole in this ceiling
Art and Monk are sitting there with their mouths wide open saying
"Boy what got into you?"
and I say "No, what got out of me?"
because I got the heroine out of my veins
I am loud amplifiers, headbands, costumes, platform shoes and yes
I can play this guitar
behind my back
and when I’ve strangled every sound out of this Stratocaster
that you couldn’t imagine
and she is destroyed because her message was too wonderful to
hear
and burned like a witch
then you say
"He was our voice and our savior"
III.
I am bald like the eagle
and I glide high above
with succinct movements
exuding regality in all that I am
I screech and my voice
is swallowed in this canyon
where I believe myself to be
king
You admire me
but you smile a smug smile
knowing that one day
the sky will become a mirror
IV.
I am fat and spoiled
like the squirrel who plunders the moldy bread and bird seed
that my mother has left for the blue jays
In the thrill of my theft
I wander into the street
to receive rebuke from an angry Monte Carlo
panic stricken
I turn both to the left and to the right
forgetting my origin and name
V.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made
I am every man and every woman
(no, this is not Walt Whitman)
and I am the LORD’s creation
I am the forgotten song that is emerging in you
I am the inner-city and the country
the soy beans and the section-8-government housing
I am the earth, wind, sky and stars
I am the eagle
I am the squirrel
blues, jazz, rock and roll
rich, poor, wise and otherwise
I am american
I am the world
I am
VI.
I AM the I AM
from the beginning
(as you call it)
and to the end
I am not something you can figure out
with your finite mind
I am very near you
and will never be far
Surrender to me
love me
I am the LORD
I.
I am the forgotten song emerging in you
I communed with your soul when your grandmother sang
My verses are in your veins
my rhythm courses through your heart
Open your mouth and let me out
I will fly back to the place of your birth
I will gather visions of school yards
and adolescent games
I will cross the ocean to the home of your ancestors
I will summon their language within your body
You will hear the echoes of revolution and war
You will feel the passion of love and release
You will know the peace of joy and bravery
Its all here
inside of me
I am the song
II.
I am blues
I am jazz
I am rock and roll
I am Muddy Waters singing "I be’s troubled" on the front porch of
a cabin on Stovall Plantation
I tell you "I never be’s sasafied"
and you say the sorrow sounds sweeter
than sweet potato pie
I am John Coltrane with my tenor sax on a good night in the
Harlem Beat Kitchen
Miles is playing the sad notes
Bird is playing the pretty ones
and I am burning a hole in this ceiling
Art and Monk are sitting there with their mouths wide open saying
"Boy what got into you?"
and I say "No, what got out of me?"
because I got the heroine out of my veins
I am loud amplifiers, headbands, costumes, platform shoes and yes
I can play this guitar
behind my back
and when I’ve strangled every sound out of this Stratocaster
that you couldn’t imagine
and she is destroyed because her message was too wonderful to
hear
and burned like a witch
then you say
"He was our voice and our savior"
III.
I am bald like the eagle
and I glide high above
with succinct movements
exuding regality in all that I am
I screech and my voice
is swallowed in this canyon
where I believe myself to be
king
You admire me
but you smile a smug smile
knowing that one day
the sky will become a mirror
IV.
I am fat and spoiled
like the squirrel who plunders the moldy bread and bird seed
that my mother has left for the blue jays
In the thrill of my theft
I wander into the street
to receive rebuke from an angry Monte Carlo
panic stricken
I turn both to the left and to the right
forgetting my origin and name
V.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made
I am every man and every woman
(no, this is not Walt Whitman)
and I am the LORD’s creation
I am the forgotten song that is emerging in you
I am the inner-city and the country
the soy beans and the section-8-government housing
I am the earth, wind, sky and stars
I am the eagle
I am the squirrel
blues, jazz, rock and roll
rich, poor, wise and otherwise
I am american
I am the world
I am
VI.
I AM the I AM
from the beginning
(as you call it)
and to the end
I am not something you can figure out
with your finite mind
I am very near you
and will never be far
Surrender to me
love me
I am the LORD
6.2.06
"Singles Ministry" According to Belle and Sebastian
If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
Thank him for everything you know
You should thank him for every breath you blow
If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
You should thank him for every day you pass
Thank him for saving your sorry ass
If you’re single, but looking out
You must raise your prayer to a shout
Another partner must be found
Someone to take your life beyond
Another TV “I Love 1999”
Just one more box of cheapo wine
If you find yourself caught in love
You should say a prayer to the man above
If you don’t listen to the voices then my friend
You’ll soon run out of choices
What a pity it would be
You talk of freedom don’t you see
The only freedom that you’ll ever really know
Is written in books from long ago
Give up your will to Him that loves you
Things will change, I’m not saying overnight
But something has to give
You’re too good looking not to live
If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
Thank him for everything you know
You should thank him for every breath you blow
If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
You should thank him for every day you pass
Thank him for saving your sorry ass
If you’re single, but looking out
You must raise your prayer to a shout
Another partner must be found
Someone to take your life beyond
Another TV “I Love 1999”
Just one more box of cheapo wine
If you find yourself caught in love
You should say a prayer to the man above
If you don’t listen to the voices then my friend
You’ll soon run out of choices
What a pity it would be
You talk of freedom don’t you see
The only freedom that you’ll ever really know
Is written in books from long ago
Give up your will to Him that loves you
Things will change, I’m not saying overnight
But something has to give
You’re too good looking not to live
Fighting Entropy
Over the past couple of months I have implemented the following systems to help hold back the ever present onslaught of entropy in my vocational life. It's helping.
1. Man Bag- As you know, I bought a man bag... a murse... a satchel. Whatever. It helps because it holds my planner. It is really just a way of physically attaching my calendar to myself at all times. So I can schedule and check my schedule and store important papers and receipts, etc at all times.
2. Drugs- I went to the Dr and was diagnosed with narcolepsy and add. The drugs are helping somewhat. Now I can concentrate for more than 15 minutes at a time. Which is part of the reason my blog posts are fewer and farther between.
3. Admin Assitant- I hired my wife to be my admin assistant, even though every body said not to. It was the best decision I've made since I married her. I should have hired her two years ago. She does three times the work in half the time.
4. Cell phone clip- Every three weeks I lose my cell phone for ten days. I recently spent twenty bucks on a crappy little cell phone holder that clips to the strap of my man bag (see item 1). Well worth the money, even if the design of the holder totally throws off the aesthetic of the bag. I've not lost my cell phone since I purchased it! I'm going to get another clip to attach my keys to my bag. I think my entire life should be held together with little clips like that. Maybe I'll create a clip system and write a book with a an accomanying work book and journal and go on the motivational speaking circuit. Nobody would come of course, unless a charged 25k per session and called it a "workshop".
Other things I am excited to implement: A prayer system I found out about that helps to organize prayer requests in a systematic manner so you can pray through them in a way that makes some sense. Now when I say I'll pray for somebody there's about a 40% chance I'll either forget, or only pray for them once and then forget. This new system should help greatly. I'll keep you updated. Also, a strategic planning system for the church that will help us align what we do with what we say wwe want to do. I kind of had something like this in effect already, but this system I learned about is much more thorough, yet simple and has less holes in it. It will help keep me and GC on task.
1. Man Bag- As you know, I bought a man bag... a murse... a satchel. Whatever. It helps because it holds my planner. It is really just a way of physically attaching my calendar to myself at all times. So I can schedule and check my schedule and store important papers and receipts, etc at all times.
2. Drugs- I went to the Dr and was diagnosed with narcolepsy and add. The drugs are helping somewhat. Now I can concentrate for more than 15 minutes at a time. Which is part of the reason my blog posts are fewer and farther between.
3. Admin Assitant- I hired my wife to be my admin assistant, even though every body said not to. It was the best decision I've made since I married her. I should have hired her two years ago. She does three times the work in half the time.
4. Cell phone clip- Every three weeks I lose my cell phone for ten days. I recently spent twenty bucks on a crappy little cell phone holder that clips to the strap of my man bag (see item 1). Well worth the money, even if the design of the holder totally throws off the aesthetic of the bag. I've not lost my cell phone since I purchased it! I'm going to get another clip to attach my keys to my bag. I think my entire life should be held together with little clips like that. Maybe I'll create a clip system and write a book with a an accomanying work book and journal and go on the motivational speaking circuit. Nobody would come of course, unless a charged 25k per session and called it a "workshop".
Other things I am excited to implement: A prayer system I found out about that helps to organize prayer requests in a systematic manner so you can pray through them in a way that makes some sense. Now when I say I'll pray for somebody there's about a 40% chance I'll either forget, or only pray for them once and then forget. This new system should help greatly. I'll keep you updated. Also, a strategic planning system for the church that will help us align what we do with what we say wwe want to do. I kind of had something like this in effect already, but this system I learned about is much more thorough, yet simple and has less holes in it. It will help keep me and GC on task.
3.2.06
Do not be alarmed.
I apologize for my extended absence. About ten days ago, I listened to the album "let there be morning" by the Perishers and was immediately over powered by the awesomness. All the beauty of Colplay none of the "what is it about these guys that I find mildly annoying".
Anywho, I am back among the living, as you can plainly tell. Thanks for your concern. And whatever you do, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM.
Anywho, I am back among the living, as you can plainly tell. Thanks for your concern. And whatever you do, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM.
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