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I swear this made me cry. But first, you must suffer through incurable cuteness — and since Wordpress refuses to cooperate with two embeds in one post, you’ll have to click the more tag to see how two cats trilling at one another adorably may not be saying what you think they are saying:
Ok, that was very cute, yes? Now. The translation:
So, my next alma mater, where I’m off to pursue something resembling a study of how new media plays a role in organizational positioning. They have this thing called Technology Across the Curriculum, and they’ve written a bit about it, and so off I go to read it and find (emphasis mine):
Because of the increasingly important role that blogs are playing in so many aspects of our lives it is important that students develop an active deep and critical understanding of how to blog, how blogs function, and what their impact is likely to be. With these goals in mind, the Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) program convened a cohort of faulty who elected to redesign their courses to include the use of blogs as a central feature of the undergraduate course assignments.
Spotted here.
Christ Announces Hiring Of Associate Christ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Overwhelmed by prayers,” Jesus Christ is urging folks to enlist the services of a customer service rep from Tacoma, Washington, who has promised the same level of service as people have come to expect from the Son of God himself, according to the Onion.
Mad Priest should enjoy this one:
Church Announces Different Kind of ‘Comeback’
But it’s not the headline so much as the deck:
The Roman Catholic Church announced that it will exhume the body of Padre Pio, an Italian priest made a saint in 2002, to better conserve his remains.
Since Sarah Dylan Breuer has not been able to find the Next Liturgical Big Thing since unveiling the U2charist in 2004, I’d like to just pitch a few more her way and see if they gain any traction:
The Siouxsie-Sioux-charist (for old-school goths like me)
The Tattoo-charist (for old-school punks I used to date)
The Winnie the Pooh-charist (or Prayer B, the Kanga and Roo-charist)
The Nanoo, Nanoo-charist (for evangelizing Orkians)
If we took up the Brunswick Stew-charist, it might distract everyone from arguing about sexuality as they turned their attention to debating the true source of this Southern favorite. (I have to credit my cousin, Charlotte Hays, with helping me develop an eye for Southern Protestant controversy
The Undo-charist, for everyone who wishes that life had a control-Z (or command-Z, as the case may be)
The Blue Suede Shoe-charist. I’m pretty sure that needs no explainin’.
The Xanadu-charist. We have to believe it’s magic.
The Lulu-charist, where you can publish your own liturgy.
The Haiku-charist, which goes something like this:
The Lord be with you
And also with you, my friend
Lift up your hearts, all!We lift them up, to God
Let us give thanks to Lord God
It’s right to do so
Hunh, that’s not a gigantic leap, really.
(Key: H–me; D–pre-spousal unit; K–son)
*wham, clank*
H: Was that the salad?
D (sheepish): No. (meaningful pause.) It was the pie.
K (hyper): what? what? what happened? (trying to find the scene in serenity we left D. off at last time)
H (comes around to look): Oh. Pie foul.
(The apples are piled under the bottom crust, the pie plate is empty on the counter.) It’s the pie that didn’t want to be anyway; the apples had tried to go south, the crust tried to be overcooked…
K: Is this the scene?
H: We’re not going to be able to watch it just yet; we’ve had a pie foul.
K: What??! (comes over, peers over counter, gapes)
H (leans over): this part didn’t touch the floor…(rescues a bit of the bottom crust)
D: Oh! You’re right! (helps himself to half the bottom of the pie, gestures to K) Want some of the pie that didn’t touch the floor?
K: Oh, yeah!! (this is his third piece)
D: Come on, H, you know you want to blow a few more points.
H: That’s ok. I’ve already blown too many.
D: (guffaw)
H: (realizes what she just said, only to look up and see K and D lifting their pieces of broken pie to their mouths in perfect synchronization): That’s just wrong on so many levels.
D, K: (crack up)
H: I’m writing this down.
D (to K): So is this your first pie foul?
Regarding the book I mentioned on
OMG, this book is flipping hilarious. Not sure I’ll convince my
activist christian friends of the humor, but this man deserves a
medal.
Featuring such hits as…
“Biblical Mass Murder and the Sanctity of Life”
“A Red State Hallucination on the Road to Damascus”
“Divorce and the Conservative Christian Blowhard”
Rafe, sign this man up for the Wild Turkey Party as your spiritual counselor.
10 neat things i did in 2005. no this is not a meme.
1. launched a webzine, and a faithblog, or two, and became published critic of the religious right, interviewed Jim Wallis, and wrote a touching devotional that made my mom bawl. Yes, that’s one item, sorta.
2. became a mother of a teenager, the subject of the touching devotional.
3. knit a bunch of stuff, and created a knitting community for me and Dani (and Xiane if she ever has the urge)
4. got a job as a magazine editor.
5. reconciled with one of the big 5 exes. totally by accident. but hi. that makes four out of five now!
6. had my gallbladder out. found out there were three stones in there the size of ping pong balls. forgot to ask them to save them for me.
7. went to madison, thanks to the kindness of
8. found a kickass progressive church.
9. moved to fairfax. still not sure why I aspired to this throughout my teenage years. but we do have a kickass parks and rec dept and public library.
10. learned a bit of tai chi.
I probably did other things too, but that’s why I keep archives.
Ten neat things I’d like to do in 2006:
1. Join a community agriculture thingie.
2. Get an idea of what I will do for graduate school/seminary.
3. Publish a short story and pitch a devotional book proposal for gen-x liberal faithy-ites.
4. read a book a week.
5. Finish the novel-in-progress.
6. Take up a new (or resume an old) physical hobby. In 2004 it was rockclimbing. In 2005 it was tai chi. I think this year it will be yoga.
7. Lose 30 pounds. I’ve already lost 8 since the new year, so 22 from here on out.
8. Visit New York, Austin, San Fran, and L.A. It may take me two years to do all four, but I’m overdue for NYC and never been to the other three.
9. See how vegetarian I can get without actually going vegetarian.
10. Find a home and a new last name.
Perusing my spam inbox on gmail, I was amused to find the sponsored
link for the page:
“French Fry Spam Recipe: Bake 30-40 minutes….”
Thank heavens he's not a contributor. I nearly spit out my drink when I got to the second sentence, and the third just to reinforce how funny it is:
Please allow me to introduce myself. Like most people my age, I'm 51 years old. I have been a Mensa member for over a quarter of a century.