MISSOURI FRIENDS

A good friend's brother posted this on myspace.  I should note that I have edited some of it.  If you want the original post, track down this man. 

MISSOURI FRIENDS

OTHER FRIENDS: Never ask for food
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.

OTHER FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Call your parents Mom and Dad.

OTHER FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Cry with you.

OTHER FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.

OTHER FRIENDS: know a few things about you.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.

OTHER FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds butt that left you.

OTHER FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, "I'm home!"

OTHER FRIENDS: Are for a while.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Are for life.

OTHER FRIENDS: Will say bad things about you behind your back.
MISSOURI FRIENDS: Will knock them out!!

OTHER FRIENDS: deny this
MISSOURI FRIENDS: repost this

BBC NEWS: Life as a secret Christian convert

Here is an article from the BBC about the struggles that Malaysian Muslims face when they convert to Christianity.

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Life as a Secret Christian Convert

ON READING

Zadie Smith on reading

Zadie Smith tells it like it is. These are useful, useful words for any student of literature:

But the problem with readers, the idea we're given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, "I should sit here and I should be entertained." And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don't know, who they probably couldn't comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That's the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It's an old moral, but it's completely true.

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Orange Crate Art

SPIRITUAL CRAP

Here's a pretty humorous article about an unconventional theological perspective.

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The OOZE: A Parable that is Full of Crap

IN JAIL

Hundreds of people keep finding this blog because of my frequent references to Kent Hovind (or "Kent Hoven" as I once misspelled it).

This will probably be my last post on the subject, because Kent and his wife are going to jail.

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Dr. Dino' guilty on All Counts

Word of the Day
Gish-Gallop- a "shotgun" approach to presenting many arguments, bouncing from one issue to another by continually throwing out new claims without bothering to answer previous objections, each of which would require considerable time and information to refute.

SINGLISH VIDEOS

These guys were my students last year. I was able to see this performance live.



This video is a Billy Joel parody giving a rundown of Singapore's political history. You've got to wait past the introduction in order for the song to start.

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

I told my friend and fellow teacher that I would participate in Singapore's Verticle Marathon. The event is a well organized mad dash to the top of the Swisshotel, The Stamford.

Unfortunately, when I went to sign up two weeks ago I found out that they had already accepted the maximum number of participants. I'm just masochistic enough that I would have tortured myself by running up the 1,336 steps that lead up to the top of this 73 story building.

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Vertical Marathon 2006