1. Do you remember the episode of Seinfeld in which James Spader guest stars and as part of his 12-step program is making amends to people and refuses to apologize to George for saying that George stretched out the neck hole on his sweater? It helped me be closer to correct during a discussion of Alcoholics Anonymous this evening. It pays to watch television.
2. Which brings me to a two-fer. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is hilarious; Family Guy has become a vapid shell of its former self.
3. I was part of a discussion with another person, a theological student, who doesn’t seem to believe that God has a will or a plan for anything. No critique implied here, just thought I’d throw that out there and let you chew on it.
4. The presence of any pedagogical gifts or abilities often has nothing to do with becoming a professor.
5. Contrary to the rantings of Susan Tompor, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, Detroit isn’t any dirtier a word and no one hates Detroit anymore than they did before. You can’t self-identify as the home of the U.S. auto industry, have every political representative of the area help push it off the precipice, and then whine that everyone hates you when we don’t want to give you billions after billions upon billions of dollars. I mean, she bought a 1997 Eagle Vision, how smart can she be?
6. Many corporations and die-hard capitalists whine about government not getting out of the way and not getting off their backs. But try not bailing one of them out or removing their subsidy or corporate welfare? Good luck not hearing them whine louder than a three year-old at bath time.
7. I don’t care if Don Wakamatsu proves to be a good manager of the Mariners or not, but it is a lot of fun to say his name.
8. I really enjoy using the phrase: (name or pronoun) couldn’t (verb) their way out of a paper bag. If I am simply making a statement about their lack of intelligence it goes: (name or pronoun) couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag with a map. And then sometimes I say sack instead of bag.
9. So far, every time I have titled a blog entry with “part one” I have never written subsequent parts. Will that change? I don’t know.
10. IKEA boxes quickly disintegrate during brief exposure to torrential downpours.
11. Brilliant plan to make lots of money: form football team consisting entirely of people over 80 years old whose only activity is ranting about current events and comparing them to former eras, challenge the University of Washington football team to a game, bet heavily on the geezers, say hello to easy street! (Huskies: 0-10. Average margin of defeat: 26 pts.)
12. This might be the worst post I have ever written, which is probably why it has been so long since I have posted. I forced myself to post tonight. But I am publishing this because I don’t want the time to be a complete waste. Now I know how the writers of The Facts of Life must have felt each week.
Do you have a favorite worst post on this blog? Add your thoughts in the comments!
I too knew a seminarian who thought God had no plan or will whatsoever (quite frankly she really believed God was only a metaphor…I don’t know what happened to her).
By far the best post was why you were more qualified to be Vice President than Sarah Palin.
-Bill
I love it when you just write out your random (that’s at least what they seem) thoughts. Leaves me in fits of laughter imagining the circumstances leading up to the thoughts. Probably what you consider your “worst posts” are what I consider the best!
Huskies lost again today.
By a field goal.
But in all honesty, they should have won by a field goal before it went into overtime.
Don’t tell any cougs I said that.