Chickens
Dec 20, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Waking Up | ITUNES: “Domino” – Van Morrison }
I was waiting in line for coffee at Beaners a few minutes ago when I picked up a copy of The Noise and read this awesome article. You gotta give Matt mad props for his perspective on this story:
Researchers at Michigan State University have mapped the DNA of a chicken named RJF 256, making the red jungle fowl hen the first bird to be genetically sequenced. The scientists said that understanding the chicken’s DNA will help them understand everything from breeding better-tasting birds to fighting diseases that can pass from birds to people. They did not say whether it would be useful in breeding a new master race of brutally intelligent, eerily amoral super-chickens that will crush the rest of the animal world in their steely claws. But, just in case, we’d like to make it clear that we haven’t been to KFC in years and think it’s really terrible the way people use “chicken” as a derogatory term.
Wedding
Dec 19, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Fair | TIVO: Overhaulin’ }
Yesterday Jeremy and Kristen got married. There were a few things that struck me at their wedding.
First, this was a couple that proved that you can make it to marriage without pushing it too far physically. There are so many people who say it is impossible to have sex before marriage. Wrongo, bucko. In fact, these guys didn’t kiss for the last year and a half because they were afraid they were going to go too far. Extreme measures, I’ll admit. But they made it. I bet last night was cool.
Second, their dads got up and prayed for them at the end of the ceremony. This was so cool. I have been thinking about patriarchy a lot lately. And make sure you read me right here. I am not talking about horrible, anti-woman, male-dominated patriarchy. I am not talking about ass hole husbands who treat their wives like objects. I am not talking about inequality. I am talking about positive patriarchy. Biblical patriarchy.
At the conference I was at in Seattle, Mark Driscoll said “Adam didn’t take responsibility…so Eve steps up. Every critique that feminists have had of men, I agree with. But I disagree with the solution. The daughters of eve say ‘there are no men’ and so they step up. But where are we inspiring the men to take leadership/headship etc.?”
I love the idea of dads, in particular, stepping up. Leading their homes. Being strong in their love. Modeling Christ’s love for the church to their wives and sacrificing to lead their kids.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (Ephesians 5:25-33)
Arts
Dec 19, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MEDICAL CONDITION: A little sick | NOISE: Kid’s watching TV }
Thanks to Chuck for pointing out this article. Here’s a bit:
Traditionally, when the Church has been at the top of its game—not burning witches or applying thumbscrews to petty thieves—we’ve had a high view of the pen, the paint brush, the piano and the chisel. Art itself needed no rationalization, and for 500 years, brilliant art emerged from the Church. Orthodox, biblically-based, non-wacky clergy and laity took pleasure in living, the arts, culture, their own talents and the abilities of those around them. They got the message that beauty and culture come from God, and that beauty and culture are good, and they didn’t need a 968-word column, written by a so-so writer, to defend it.
Morrissey
Dec 16, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Thinking | ITUNES: “I Have Forgiven Jesus” – Morrissey }
From Morrissey:
I was a good kid, I wouldn’t do you no harm, I was a nice kid, With a nice paper round
Forgive me any pain, I may have brung to you, With God’s help I know, I’ll always be near to you
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all the desire, You placed in me when there’s nothing I can do with this desire
I was a good kid, Through hail and snow, I’d go just to moon you, I carried my heart in my hand
Do you understand, Do you understand
But Jesus hurt me, When he deserted me, but, I have forgiven you Jesus
For all of the love, You placed in me when there’s no one I can turn to with this love
Monday – humiliation, Tuesday – suffocation, Wednesday – condescension, Thursday – is pathetic
By Friday life has killed me, By Friday life has killed me, Oh pretty one, Oh pretty one
Why did you give me so much desire, When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?
And why did you give me so much love in a loveless world, When there is no one I can turn to
To unlock all this love?
And why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?, Jesus do you hate me?
Why did you stick in self deprecating bones and skin?
Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?, Do you hate me?
Quote of the Day
Dec 16, 2004 Quotes
{ MOOD: Decent | ITUNES: “Mercy Seat” – Michael Roe }
I was just sitting here, whining to myself about how hungry I am. Then, I read a quote from Andy Morgan’s blog and it struck me. What are your thoughts on this? It is from Jurgen Moltmann in “The Open Church”:
Think of our society’s attitude toward the starving people of the third world, the hardcore unemployed, the migrant workers, the prisoners, the handicapped, and the so called unfit. People such as these are ruined not because of their inability but because of our indifference. By our failure to participate or share in their lives, we neglect our own life. we isolate ourselves, we insulate our lives, we imprison ourselves in our own good fortune.
Killer
Dec 15, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: B+ | TIVO: Get Shorty }
When I was in college, I asked a guy I respected to take me under his wing and mentor me. He told me he didn’t have time and it crushed me.
I had to do that to someone today. And it crushed me. It does every time.
Lick My Jesus
Dec 15, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Ecstatic | NOISE: Kid’s “Cleaning” }
Thanks to Doug , for pointing out that I have arrived. I am on the front page of LickMyJesus.com. I’d like to thank the academy.
Gift
Dec 14, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
We went to Emma’s school open house today. A lot of the kids had to complete the sentence “My gift to the world would be…”
One kid wrote “My gift to the world would be world domination.”
Moe’s
Dec 14, 2004 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
{ MOOD: Mo-rific | QuickTime: “Spy Hunter” – Project 86 }
I am wearing a hat right now that says “Eat at Moe’s.”
Ironically, I just read this article that posted this image:
