:: Friday, September 20, 2002 ::
Joy in Mudville today: St. Louis Cardinals clinch NL Central! The Cardinals beat the Houston Astros 9-3 Friday night to win the Central Division. Huzzah!
If I were up in heaven today (and I'm not), I'm sure I'd see Jack Buck, Darryl Kile (whose jersey is pictured above in the hands of Albert Pujols), Enos "Country" Slaughter and Darrell Porter smiling down on this year's Redbirds. This team has overcome a season of adversity. Tony LaRussa should be manager of the year. Albert Pujols should get the National League MVP Award, but will probably run second to Barry Bonds. If there's a pitching coach of the year award, Dave Duncan should win it, hands-down. He managed to get the more out of a decimated pitching staff than seemingly possible. And LaRussa pulled this team together. Next up, the NL Playoffs. You know who I'll be rooting for.
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:: Thursday, September 19, 2002 ::
Welcome, English 60 students. I know that a couple of you have stumbled across this blog while conducting research for your obituary assignment. Kind of eerie reading the words of a dead man, isn't it? Muhahahahah.
(Note to regular readers of this blog: I'm not really dead. I assigned students in my News and Feature Writing course to write an obituary about me. In the scenario for the assignment, I died today in an automobile accident. My bereaved widow is expecting phone calls any minute now.)
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Oh, Happy Day! It was 20 years ago today that the "smiley" :) was born. I can't imagine a world without emoticons.
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:: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 ::
I must repent for spewing forth in this place a bit of sarcasm that has caused one of my favorite Reformed bloggers, Gideon Strauss, to sulk. I really need to be more sensitive sometimes. As part of my penance, I offer a link to something interesting Gideon posted from Worldview Foundations: Why do you get up in the morning?
Great question. Today, I got out of bed from a sense of obligation -- work duties that for some reason require my presence. To wit: a telephone conference call at 8 a.m. (in 21 minutes) and an Academic Council meeting at 1:30 p.m. If I'd had my 'druthers, I would've stayed in bed this morning. Scratchy throat from too much singing and teaching last night. After 17 years in a charismatic/pentecostal church, I have yet to perfect the shouting and bellowing, and during praise and worship last night, I did a bit of both, and then did some more singing and yelling during youth group meeting afterwards. My throat is sore this morning. And it's raining. A good day to stay home and read. But I'm here instead.
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:: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 ::
blogs4God logo contest. Enter here.
As a PR professional, I get scared at the thought of logo contests. Because what happens is you get submissions from amateur graphic designers and then you're stuck with having to select something from a crop of mediocre logos. That's been my experience, anyway. Maybe these competitions actually work sometimes. I suppose we'll see.
In other blogs...
Rest in peace, Biz. Narrow-Minded Simpleton's cat, Biz, lost her struggle with cancer. Biz died on September 15, 2002.
That online religion. The Internet Evangelism Coalition has been meeting these past two days in Chicago. I didn't go this year. I went in 2000, when I was an invited speaker, and then I wrote about my impressions. I didnt' get invited this time around, but I'm hoping someone will tell me what big news comes out of this year's gathering. Link via my very own e-vangelism.com.
2 billion Christians and counting. Major religions ranked by size lists Christianity as the world's biggest region, with more than 2 billion adherents. A great resource, linked in a roundabout way from arni@annall.is. (From Arni's place, I followed a link to Religionsource, which looks like a great site for religion writers, and it was there that I stumbled across the statistics on religion page.
Beer Church. A great link from Wade Hodges, who ponders: "I wonder if their motto is, 'What Would Jesus Drink?'"
I keep trying to catch Ganns blinking over his cool shades as I read his blog entries, but I've never been able to witness it yet. It's always just out of my vision. Maybe I should just stare at his picture instead.
WendyCooper.net is now up and running. Which reminds me: Wendy's husband, Jordon, recently wrote me some blather about The Hockey Pundits. Never mind that I haven't followed NHL action since the days of Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Gerry Cheevers and the rest of the great Boston Bruins of the early '70s, but Jordon apparently thinks I need to know all about The Hockey Pundits. I suppose he thinks that, just because I'm a PR flack in real life, that I'll flack for The Hockey Pundits. I dunno.
Lord of the teething rings? I wish I could take credit for that clever title, but I can't. It's from the always irreverent, occasionally offensive, usually entertaining Jesus Museum.
What's the frequency, Don Wildmon? Interesting link from CT's weblog about a battle royal down south for control of the airwaves. The belligerants are Donald Wildmon's American Family Radio and National Public Radio. Wildmon "detests the news that the public gets through NPR and believes it is slanted from a distinctly liberal and secular perspective," Patrick Vaughn, general counsel for Wildmon's AFR, tells the New York Times. So AFR has knocked two NPR stations off the air around Lake Charles, Louisiana.
One of them even sings along with the Replacements! Gideon Strauss goes to great pains to show us just how diverse Reformed Christians are.
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A facelift. Enough putzing around. I've put up the redesign of e-vangelism.com. It's a pseudo blog. As always, your comments are invited. Oh yes, and there's also a bookstore where you can buy stuff from Amazon, and I get a kickback. Count me in on the affiliate bandwagon. I'd love to tell you that I plan to do something wonderful and humanitarian with the proceeds, but I actually don't know what I'll do with that first big, fat affiliate check. I'll tithe, of course, and then probably blow the rest in some self-absorbed, profligate manner. Anyway, please visit the bookstore and buy, buy, buy!
Liberte? Egalite? Fraternite? Gastronomy! I'm the French Revolution! Link via hippy revolutionary Pootlecat.
What revolution are You?
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Simon Dawes, 
