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Programming Note

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Glenn over at re-dreaming the dream is hosting another synchroblog this Monday, May 5. It’s open to anyone who wants to participate. I want to participate, so Monday I’ll be, um, participating.

The questions for the synchroblog are these:

How are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you learning?
What are you dreaming about?

Kind of an appropriate theme for me to take stock on where I’m at…since Monday happens to be my birthday. (Blatant, shameless hint.)

(Hope this doesn’t trigger a mid-life crisis or anything.)

I might post more later today, but wanted to let you know about this in advance. The synchroblog, that is….not the birthday. 🙂

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Subversive, subversive, subversive…bwahahahaha

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WARNING: The writer’s tongue is firmly inserted into his cheek for this post.

So I got this Subversive Bloggers Award the other day, and true to form, I played it up like I’d won an Oscar. Then I find out Shawn apparently thinks this whole thing is a crock. Oh, well.

Seriously, though, he brings up the question: If you say you’re subversive, how can you really be subversive? Almost like, If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound? It’s one of those questions that can just bounce around in your brain and go around and around and you can’t really answer it, but you think about it for days.

I didn’t sleep well last night. Thanks, Shawn.

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About a Dog

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This is Jordy. He is our dog.
The Wild One took this nature shot of Jordy in his natural habitat.
Here are some truths that Jordy lives by:
  1. Everyone wants to pet me.

  2. All birds and rabbits must be stopped.

  3. When other dogs in the neighborhood are barking, I need to bark too. This is just how it is done.

  4. When kids are playing in the playground beyond the backyard fence, I need to bark. This is to let them know that I am trapped in the backyard and need to go play with them.

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People Who Want to Talk to Bono

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Categories: fun, music, What the heck was THAT?

I have a friend I meet with regularly at Starbucks–a musician friend. A couple of times he’s talked about how he’d like to sit down with Bono of U2 and ask him a few questions sometime. I chuckle inside when he tells me this because he sounds so matter-of-fact about it–like the biggest rockstar on the planet is going to sit down with him and have lunch or something.

But the other reason I’m chuckling…is that I feel exactly the same way. I would absolutely love to have lunch with Bono and pick his brain sometime. When I make it big in the music biz, he’ll probably come knock on my dressing room door after a concert sometime, and he and I can go get some coffee, and…

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Why I’m Not Really Celebrating Easter This Weekend…and How I’m Not a Heretic Because of It

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Umm…I am seeing so many fellow bloggers posting about this Good Friday/Easter weekend, and here I am posting about music and movies. I feel a bit carnal. Actually, I am barely aware that it is Good Friday today, and it took the bloggers to remind me. So I thought it might be good to explain why.

There’s no protest going on here; no doctrinal disputes, no heresy, no “Easter-has-pagan-roots” thing going on. This year it’s simply a matter of what will carry the most meaning for us.

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A Funny Thing Happened the Other Day When We Were Leaving the House to Go Buy My Guitar

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(The McQuilkin family is in the car, backing out of the driveway. The garage door has just closed.)
The Wild One (searching her purse): “Where are my sunglasses?”

The Director and Me: ……

The Wild One (to The Director): “Josh, here’s my keys. I left my sunglasses inside. They are on the desk just inside. Go get them, okay?”

The Director: “Okay.”

(The Director exits the car and goes into the house through the front door.)

(We wait………a cell phone rings.)

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Guitar

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I did it…I bought a guitar.

I started on guitar when I was four. (Remember that I wanted to be Johnny Cash when I was about that age.) But when we moved to a small town, we couldn’t really find a good teacher there. And when my mom bought me a piano at age nine, I pretty much forgot about the guitar.

But I am remembering….bwahahahahaha.

In anticipation of the many questions you will no doubt be asking, I have created a FAQ for you below.

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Questions I Have Been Asked as a Pastor

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  1. “____ [insert child’s name] has a temperature. What should I do?”

  2. “I was thinking of going to the theater to see ________, which opens today. Is there any bad stuff in it?”

  3. “Which pizza place is offering the $5 medium pizzas?”

  4. “Can you watch ______ [insert child’s name] for a few hours?”

  5. “Would you rather lose your thumb, or would you rather lose a foot?” (asked by an 11-year old boy)

  6. “Is it supposed to rain today?”

  7. “What would happen if I dropped this on the floor?” (asked by the same 11-year-old boy)
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