More Power than I Though I Had

Watch out for me.  I’m powerful.
While filing some receipts this morning, I noticed these words printed on a Subway receipt:
“Thank you for making Subway the world’s best sandwich.”
I would have given Subway the credit, but, okay, they surely know better than I do.
What they mean, of course, is that Subway’s business is up; people are [...]

I’m Through Waiting

Listening to John Mayer’s “Waiting for the world to change” in a nearby office brought clarity to me on a recent matter of discussion.
If you are old enough to ask for ID, you are too old to be trick-or-treating!
For a coupe of years now I have noticed instances of people clearly old enough to be [...]

The Power of Rock and Roll

The Heart of Rock and Roll is still beating.
Do you think Lynyrd Skynyrd had this in mind when they came out with “Sweet Home Alabama” in 1974?

Interesting God Video

I Like My Music LOUD

Got in the Civic yesterday afternoon to get my haircut.  As I backed out of the driveway, a sudden urge hit me to click on my iPod (connected to our car stereo by a Monster).  Of course, when I play music, and I’m alone in the car,I play it rather loud.
So I soon began to [...]

Where do you go?

Trapped in a drain, two girls in Australia updated their Facebook status instead of calling for emergency help.  What does it say about society, communication, and adolescents that social networking trumps 911 (or in Australia’s case, 000)?
I was prepared to blog today about The Journal of Student Ministries report that the average American Teen sent [...]

I don’t think so

In case you can’t read the words in the image next to this, it says:
Men use duct tape to fix all kinds of things.  God uses His Son. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.’ John 3:16
While I am tempted to call this Jesus Junk and move on, [...]

Truth in Advertising

I wonder if this will show up in the “mac v. pc” ads. The new MacBook Pro notebooks with 7200rpm 500GB hard drives have been having problems.
Who doesn’t love those ads?  Cool, hip Mac guy with no problems whatsoever, and poor, hapless pc guy who never can seem to get it right.
Just so long as [...]

Thank You, John Hughes

I was very sorry to see the news yesterday that John Hughes had died. Hughes gave us such classic movies as Home Alone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and my favorite, The Breakfast Club.
Much as I liked these movies, one thing consistently struck me about each of them: adults were generally portrayed as self-absorbed morons. [...]

WDJW

What Did Jesus Watch?
I am reading Shane Hipp’s The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church. Hipps re-tells the story of the West in terms of the rsie of the printed word.  From my perspective, layering this over all the reading and research I have done in philosophy and [...]