redeeming gossip girl

the hilarious people over at videogum write up a episode recap/roast every week and it's stupendous.  

Click here for every Gossip Girl episode torn to shreds.  After discovering this last week, i tried to predict what they would make fun of in the episode.  Beside the obvious stupidity of Ms. Carr throughout the episode, I called this one: "But then the Dean comes out and announces that cell phone use will no longer be permitted during school hours, because of how major announcements at schools are done impromptu on the steps right before class. This show is basically a documentary about high school and how high schools do stuff. "

They also make fun of these shows every week (Thank you, TV god): Lost, Real World Brooklyn, Friday Night Lights, Top Chef, The Office, Bromance, 30 Rock, Rock of Love, Saturday Night Live, How I Met Your Mother

In other TV/movie parody news, I just learned this past weekend that Mystery Science Theater 3000 has voice-overs available so you can play the two robots and the dude making fun of CURRENT horrible movies, not just old ones.  Yipee! 

paper plane - m.i.a

I want M.I.A. hair. I think I'm going to do a ridiculous dye job. I don't think that I can really "mess up" what I have now.

vid from caroline.

from caroline:

does being redemptive in your occupation matter?

or is just as good to have an occupation and be redemptive on the side (volunteer in ministry, help people/the environment/something else)?

stewardship?  dominion of the earth?  cultivate the land?  sustainability?  

is it God-honoring to work at an un-ethical company but love your coworkers well?

there is not a moral right answer here - it depends on your calling, that is what makes it redemptive?

The Spanglish Sandwich

needless to say, it was fantastic.  a little pricey, but fantastic.

the Spanglish Sandwich

thoughts i have while in class

I went on a krew (our youth group) leader retreat last weekend and my friend DP said that he thinks that the predominate issues of our generation is our power of access.  he went on to say that we can get anything we want at any time, and this messes with our brains.  

i don't have all the arguments straight in my mind yet about whether power of access is necessarily a bad thing.  and i know i'm not saying a very original thought here.  

all i know is that the way i think about my day is very different now that i have access to facebook, my cell phone text messages, email, and wireless internet.  this is to be constrasted with times when i did not have access - like the three months i was at l'abri.  

also, when i have a task in mind and can accomplish it immediately - via fbook, text, etc. - i feel a sense of power that is non-existant the rest of my day.  i am in charge, i am the instigator!

i also have seen that i construct a kind of artificial barrier between myself and these points of connection.  i don't respond to emails, i disable fbook chat, text messages annoy me, i screen phone calls.  these are all "rude" things to do.  

krew is thinking about having a technology retreat for the kids at the cabin we spent the leadership retreat at.  i wonder if the students will even want it or know how much they may need it.

Video from Meghan

"Kaitlin at the mall"

Telephone Booth Aquarium

"Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino have transformed a regular telephone booth into a functioning aquarium for the Lyon Light Festival in France."

From Toxel via Kanye