Jan 31

Podcast update

Progress on the upcoming podcast is moving forward, albeit slowly. I have had to order a USB headset, as my Mac is one of the few models to ship since 1984 without a microphone jack. I have also setup the feed and gotten it listed on iTunes. However, I quickly found out that The MadCast is not nearly as original as I originally thought.

The mic should show up next week, and then we will have some testing to do before we can record our first show. Look for the Yet To Be Named podcast to debut by the end of February.

Jan 29

“Sorry to burst your pig bladder!”

The best possible closer to an already interesting article at NPR on the surprising success of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography, published last year.

Jan 21

Supercalawhatever

“Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious”

It takes a bold lyricist to admit when his song is obnoxious in the very lyrics of said song.

Jan 09

Quotable: John Piper on William Mackenzie

“…a lover of books and a lover of people. That’s an unusual combination, you know. Most people who are bookish don’t like people–they just tolerate them.”

Dec 29

Quotable: Gavin Ortlund

“Promise is empty without fulfillment; but fulfillment is meaningless without promise.”

From his excellent article on the Bible here via Challies.com

Dec 23

Quotable: Edmund Clowney

“Certainly Satan does not find it necessary to offer all the kingdoms of the world to the average sinner. He can buy most sinners for small change.”

Dec 19

Quotable: Edward “Mick” Mannock

“Flamerinoes – four! Sizzle sizzle wonk!”

Nov 25

One More Ride: Chapter 6: Keys

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Velma drove Norville back to his car parked at the cemetery. The rain had largely abated and was nothing more than a heavy mist. Norville prepared to retrieve his spare key from beneath the car.

“Can you hold this a minute,” Velma asked, practically shoving the pizza box full of leftover pizza into his hands and reaching into the back of the Jeep.

Before he could figure out what to say she had already slim-jimmed his door open and replaced the tool back in the Jeep.

Norville stood there, dumbfounded.

“If you could do that, why didn’t you do it earlier?”

“It was raining earlier, and besides, you looked like you could use a bit to eat,” she said, smiling as she wiped the mist from her glasses.

“I guess I owe you one,” said Norville, smiling.

“I guess you do,” Velma smiled back as she got into the Jeep “so go talk to Daphne!”

Velma put the Jeep in gear and pulled away, waving goodbye.

Norville wasn’t smiling anymore.

Nov 24

Quotable: C.S. Lewis on Bultmann et al

“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.”

–from Lewis’s Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism

Nov 17

There’s Things You Don’t Know

A hilarious excerpt from M.D. McMullin’s visit to Walmart:

Recently, I had the privilege of overhearing a conversation in the shoe aisles.  I was looking at flip flops and couldn’t help but catch the conversation in the next aisle over.

Woman A:    We done talked about this before we got here and I said “NO.”
Man:                 Why not?! You never let me push the cart cause of that ONE TIME.
Woman A:    We’re not talking about this.
Woman B:    Just let him, it’s not a big thing.
Woman A:    Mama, No. There’s things you don’t know!

 

You can read his whole Walmart post at his blog here.