Monthly Archives: February 2007

U2Charist: I Wish I Could Go To This

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Churches sing the gospel according to U2 | Chicago Tribune

On Sunday night the front pews of the Lutheran church will be moved to make room for dancing. On the right will stand a band whose lead singer strikingly resembles Bono of U2. And when the opening hymn begins, worshipers will shout the lyrics to the rock song "Pride": "In the name of love! What more in the name of love?"

In a phenomenon that is sweeping churches across the country, Lutheran Church of the Master in Carol Stream is celebrating a U2 Eucharist, also known as a U2charist, in which traditional hymns are replaced with songs by the Irish rock band to engage young people and encourage social activism.

Dammit! I would love to go to this! And I'd love to be able to help put one on at church, but that won't be happening for a while to come. Also, we wouldn't have the room in the present worship space that we have, but maybe after the building of the new program space we could consider doing it.  

Stick Figure

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Here's the story on this image, which I took with the cameraphone, naturally, a week or so ago. This is one of the motivational posters dotted about the health club at work. At least in the women's locker room, the images are mostly of fit, strong, healthy looking women. The poster above is directly across from where my locker usually is, and I was spending a lot of time looking at it and pondering the message. 

This is not the picture of health I want to emulate. Strong, yes. Stick-figure thin and disturbingly skeletal, no.  

Via: Flickr Title: 02-01-07_1453.jpg By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 11 Feb '07, 10.38am CST PST

Not the picture of health

Norman Lovett – RIP or something like it

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Norman Lovett – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This "obit" from the Wikipedia section dealing with the long-running British sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" deserves to be left "up," in spite of one or two minor factual errors. Also, it's triffic. I hope no pretentious accuracy-obsessed smeghead volunteer editors mess with it: 

Sadly, Norman was killed during the 2006 Dimension Jump. During a question and answer session, he had spent three hours giving reasons why having three more lines in 'Back in the Red' would have made the entire season better. Enraged at how bitter and annoying he was, the audience stormed the stage and smashed his head in with a replica starbug model. Traumatised fans responded with 'He deserved it', 'that was an exciting end to a boring presentation' and 'that model was in mint condition!!' Lovett was unavailable for comment, as nobody wrote a hologram personality for him before his death.

Norman Lovett was the original "Holly the shipboard computer" in the first couple of series. Most memorable line: "Everybody's dead, Dave."

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The Ultimate Spiritual Opt-Out

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Will Pope Benedict become a Mormon after he dies? – Yahoo! News

PARIS (Reuters) – Pope Benedict was baptised at birth and will most likely be baptised again one year after his death, not by his Roman Catholic Church but by a Mormon he never met.

There's apparently no way to avoid it – someone will baptise me after I'm dead someday, too. Irks the hell out of me, too.