Archive for October, 2009
And now for something completely different (Cool, Clear Water Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Birthday Adam & Megan McKay
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adam McKay is 26 and Megan Joy McKay is 19, both on Sunday, Oct. 25. Have a happy one, Meggles & Mo!
Jitterbug is “Goin’ Mobile” with The Who all the way to College Station!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, me and The Who are mobile, southbound to College Station for a night out with the McKay kids: Beep! Beep!
Wisdom from my main man the mystic monk Merton
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Merton is more popular than ever because Merton is more relevant than ever. Keep in mind that these excerpts from the book Love and Living were writ in 1968, not long before Merton died while on his tour of Asia. I think that if you didn’t know it was written all those decades ago, you’d [...]
Albums You Hope Your Mama & Daddy Never Owned (From Our “Boogie Baby!” Files)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, I’ll never forget that night when your Mother and I sipped on Ripple and danced all night to “All My Friends Are Dead.”
Proof there’s worse things than being “treated like a dog”
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A mom and her dog, headed to McDonald’s for a Happy Meal and playtime, no doubt.
A few random thoughts about that do-gooder guy Jesus
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
St. Peter once summed up the life of Jesus succinctly when he told a crowd, “He went about doing good” (Acts 10:38). Doing good is one of the favorite spiritual flavors of we the people called Methodists. We eat it up not only because we yearn to please God by doing good, but also because [...]
“God is dead set against all unnatural deaths”–William Sloan Coffin on “God’s will”
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eulogy for Alex Ten days after his son, Alex, was killed in a car accident–and a few weeks after the death of his own mother–the Reverend William Sloane Coffin delivered this somewhat famous sermon to his congregation at Riverside Church in New York City in the early eighties. It’s been reprinted many a time, and [...]
The endless rumormonging of Christians (From the Lies & Damn Lies Files)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Deanie McKay always said that a lie can run halfway around the world before truth can get its shoes on. And my dear old dad always said it long, long before the Internet and supersonic communications that we enjoy today came along. The Texas-published Baptist Standard–one of the best and most moderate religious publications in [...]
Rush Limbaugh has outdone even Rush Limbaugh (News from the Far, Far Out There Side)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Even if you think global warming is a bunch of hooey–even if, like me, you’re repulsed by the militant Greenpeace–this stuff from Rush Limbaugh is waaaay over the top. It’s from the blog of Suzanne Goldenberg, the US environment correspondent of the British Guardian. Based in Washington DC, Suzanne has won several awards for her [...]
