Doogie Howser Did It, So Why Not Me?

Jorb Well Done Morgan Spurlock

Granted I haven’t been to McDonald’s in about a week.

This was witnessed first-hand, otherwise I don’t think I’d have believed it.

THE DEMISE OF THE SUPERSIZE

It is now no longer an option from McDonald’s. When I ordered my Big Mac combo, I said SUPERSIZE and I was DENIED!!!!!

I don’t know if this decision makes me happy or sad. I think I’m inclined to say sad. It truly is a sad day in pop culture.

ADDENDUM:

After I had finished my post I started to eat my meal. Buried the fries and some of the drink. Opened the Big Mac box and looked down and saw 2 patties sticking out on the top layer. First thought was “oh score I get an extra patty”. Alas my Big Mac was assembled WRONG. The order went Top bun, 2 patties, pickles, sauce, lettuce, middle bun, cheese, lettuce, sauce, and bottom bun. What the #%@$*#!. Seriously, I realize it was 2:30am (after rolling back the clocks (my McDonald’s happens to be 24 hours)) but it’s not THAT hard to assemble my Big Mac in the correct order.

Dreams are like movies

If you a Christian I highly recommend checking out Nooma.com. And if you aren’t then check it out anyways.

Basically this is a series of videos that was conceived by this guy Rob Bell who is a pastor at Mars Hill Church (you can listen on one of his sermons here).

They are the new medium for presenting Christ’s word. I’ve known about these for the last 3 years and I keep coming back to them, to use and for personal use, because they hit the points so succinctly. His ability to raise questions and direct you towards God is quite amazing. Even High Schoolers and Jr Highers will sit through one of these short 10 min videos. And best of all they will listen and have questions afterwards.

If you are in ministry in any capacity (Katie and Derek (if Derek reads my blog) and Jenny) you should really take a look at these wonderful tools. (the Princeton crowd you might be interested in these as well)

I’ve seen all but one of them and I would recommend any of them. The use of a visual media speaks to people today who would rather watch the projected image of someone rather than the live person in the room (check it out next time you are at a large gathering with monitors, most people will watch the monitor instead of the actual person), and it is able to capture their attention and then God captures their hearts.

I really wish mainline churches would learn from this church in the ways they are in touch with the culture around them, yet so rock solid and unwavering in their convictions. I can only hope that my ministry strives to make sense of the changing world around us and does not fall in to stagnancy and repetition, therefore becoming useless and devoid of the power that resides in the Holy Spirit.

Please check these out if you have a chance. They are only 10 bucks each.

Today is….

All………Link……..Friday

Andrew’s Ghetto Blog

The Link from the Ghetto Blog

www.chickenfight.com

Halloween Toon

24

something to think about

Going Ghetto

Here’s the deal, I have this whiteboard at home and I turned it into my “ghetto blog”. So we were sitting around and thought it would be an awsome idea to actually turn this into an actual real live blog composed of pictures. So I am proud to present Andrew’s Ghetto Blog for your enjoyment.

Enjoy!!!

Better than Val Kilmer

If you didn’t know Val Kilmer is playing Moses in a show in LA. And all the reviews say he sucks. And I quote from the October 29th Entertainment Weekly pg 79

“About 30 or 40 showbiz commandments get shattered by this show at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, but let’s start with one: Thou shalt not cast a celeb non-singer as the lead in a sung-through musical…having a pitch-challenged Val Kilmer as Moses…One waits in vain for Kilmer to break into his old Top Secret! song: ‘How Silly Can You Get?’”

After reading this and knowing that tonight was the Jr. High halloween party I decided to don the attire and become Moses myself. I’d hope that I could possibly put on somewhat of a better performance. So with a little help of the children’s ministry at church, I had transformed into Moses. To the lauds of the kids I accomplished my task. Everyone was impressed with my recreation of the herald man.

Who knows who or what I’ll be next year, but I got to say I had fun as Moses tonight.

Bulking Up

Why I love Costco, let me count the ways.

1 I bought 4 pounds of butter for under 8 dollars (7.99) when conventional grocery stores (non sale) price is around 4.50-6.00 dollars for one (1) pound of butter. I love Costco.

2 I bought 36 packages of Top Ramen for only 3.59. That’s .10 cents a package. Not only will I have enough salt intake for 100,000 people, regular stores only have it for .10 every once and a while. I love Costco.

3 I bought a gallon tub of pickles for 3.39. Granted they’re not the crunchy kind and are somewhat sour. Nonetheless a whole gallon of pickles for what it costs for a few spears in the store. I love Costco.

4 Free Samples…enough said. I love Costco.

5 I don’t pay for my membership because my mom does and with every membership you can get 2 cards. I love Costco and my mom.

6 You can get a hot dog and a refillable coke for 1.50 at the snack shack. I love Costco.

7 Bulk booze. I love Costco.

I only wish they were still called price club. Oh the days.

Never before has such a great promise occurred

Even a greater promise than any politcal party.

I will be glued to the TV for at least the next 2 World Series games (bring out the broom for the Soxs) mainly due to THIS article.

FREE TACOS for EVERYONE (at least in America). I will take the day off of work and go to as many Taco Bells as I could in the 3 hour period. Yes I know the consumption of gas would be higher than the value of the .79 cent tacos, but it’s the American principal of FREEdom.

Everyday (at least that one day) will be Taco Tuesday.

Moving like a sweet old lady on a motorized cart

I was totally impressed by the short amount of time it took me to move some big things today. John and I started around 11 and were done by 2. Things moved: refrigerator, washer and dryer, bed, large bookcase, patio furniture, and a desk. Granted I had spent all week making small trips with my car doing most of the smaller boxes and such, I was really glad that it didn’t take FOREVER. But now I still have to move most of my stuff into my room. But the other roommate that AJ and I are switching rooms with isn’t home right now and that’s pretty much why I’m blogging because there isn’t much to do until I can start moving things into my room and then begin unpacking the boxes.

Did I say how much I don’t like moving? But with the current flux of my life I don’t really know how permanent this move is going to be. So that in its self is fairly frustrating.

We have proof…I can’t tell a lie

Today at the top of the show on The Screensavers, one of the hosts showed his FREE iPod from freeipods.com. It works. I’m still waiting for pictures from Adam about the free iPod that he’s supposed to be getting in the mail soon. This gives me sooo much hope.

Either click on the link in this post or see the link on the left side of the page.

5 Down 5 To Go

I realized today that it’s been 5 years since the end of High School. I know some schools have the whole 5 year reunion thing. But frankly I’m glad that my school decided not to have the 5 year. I’m nervous enough about the 10 year, but at this point in my life I’m definitely suffering from “failure syndrome”. Not in the sense that I hate my life or that I haven’t done anything productive with the last 5 years. But when you go to school with a bunch of people who wanted to be doctors and you (me) are living at home again and kinda without a job and to top it off want to go into ministry, then you start to feel like a “failure”. It’s hard enough to have to tell people that I’m not going to become a “Priest”. Let alone that I just want to develop relationships with kids to tell them about Jesus. It’s not like I’m ashamed about who I am or about my faith. There is just this cultural stigma about those of us who work in ministry. Those on the outside just have a hard time understanding working for little to no money, working well over what little we are paid, wanting to sit in a room with 40 screaming Jr. Highers and liking it. And then there’s the one about how because I work at a church then I am automatically “holier than thou”. No one can say anything bad around me, they cannot be themselves out of fear of judgment, or that I as a person am incapable of having fun. I hate misconceptions. Anyone who knows me, knows I am the last thing from not fun. I just hope that my friends who knew me in High School will be able to think that I have not changed so much that I am no longer capable of having fun if I work at a Church. Maybe I can pull a Grosse Pointe Blank and tell people that I’m a hitman or a used car salesman. I think that would go over a lot better. With the car salesman, at least I’d have pseudo-friends cause they’d all want a good deal. Oh wait, they are all doctors, better tell them I’m a BMW salesman.

Well 5 more years till I have to face the inevitable.