Welcome to my world where I am all full of that oldtime woe. I got woe the size of Woe on a Texas State Fried Fare Stick, where, of course EVERYTHING known to humankind comes on a Large Stick and very well Fried. It’s a Texas State Fare Tradition. I had to break down and [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Welcome to my Woe-on-a-Stick (Or How My 23 Minutes in Hell Go On & On)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We got male-man bond love for Ray Price, the Cherokee Cowboy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jitterbugger is at home in sick bay today, but it’s OK because we got Ray Price doing Bob Wills swing music to get us through. (You don’t want Ray Price blues music when you’re sick, believe me. He does such blue blues you’ll go suicidal if you hear it when you’re sick or in a [...]
Women we Love (Silver Hair, Honey-Gold Voices Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why, but I was thinking just the other day, that if I could make three wishes and have them all come true, I suppose I would wish for: (1) World peace, (2) An end to poverty, and (3) Happy Hour with Emmylou Harris. Her bio in brief: Emmylou Harris is truly a [...]
Put on your thinking cap and come up with a caption, dear reader
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
OK, you clever jitterbuggers. Write a caption for this picture–which we pulled from the Jitterbuggingforjesus.com Weird Theatre archives–and if we at Jitterbuggingforjesus.com select your clever caption as the best, you will be the recipient of our Piggly Wiggly grocery coupons this Wednesday. Good luck.
Karen Armstrong: Making the case against the “new atheists”
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
***photo ©2009 by Geoff Stamp Karen Armstrong, the one-time nun turned world religions scholar and prolific author, has been highly visible defending God in recent months while promoting her latest book, The Case for God (New York: Knopf, 2009). Whatever anyone may think of Armstrong and her arguments, she’s a formidable and tough-minded apologist. Here’s [...]
Scriptures We Love & Will Now Share with You (Psalms Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Give praise to the Lord, he has heard my cry for help. The Lord protects and defends me; I trust in him. He gives me help and makes me glad; I praise him with joyful songs. – Ps. 28. 6,7 Be strong, be courageous, all you that hope in the Lord. Ps. 31:24 We put [...]
Coping with cancer on the front lines at M.D. Anderson
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times has a fascinating article on M.D. Anderson, the Houston cancer hospital, complete with all the heartache and frustrations that medical caregivers and patients suffer at that world-renowned specialty hospital. The article is made all the more interesting by the fact that two of the cancer patients featured in the piece are [...]
It’s Richard Foster Appreciation Month at JFJ!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simple living has been one of the abiding themes in the spiritual writings and teachings of Richard J. Foster, our jitterbuggingforjesus.com appreciatee of the month of October. In his 1978 classic, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, Foster goes so far as to argue the case for Christian simplicity with the provocative assertion [...]
“The one who showed him mercy” (Scriptures We Love Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Luke 10:25-37 (NRSV) 25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and [...]
How far out was the founder of the Church of Scientology (This far out right here)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hubbard Electrometer, 1968 American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes “scream when sliced.” Church of Scientology’s most famous member and promoter, of course, is Tom Cruise. In this [...]
