Lacking Will Heath's idea of muting announcers during athletic events, I've decided to just enjoy making fun of the announcers that make stupid statements. From women's ice skating tonight, we got such gems as "that was a lady skating." Although that one was kind of funny, the highlight of the evening was the "I take this way more seriously than I should" comments by the announcers following Sasha Cohen's program. "Other skaters skate to Romeo and Juliet. Sasha Cohen is Juliet." I laughed at her "being Juliet." Amanda's response was "what, does she have a knife so she can stab herself in the chest?" She has since pointed out that, although it's a lame metaphor, it is an actual metaphor that makes some amount of sense, as opposed to the typical football announcer fare that makes absolutely no sense or is simply wrong.
In other news, Tom Long has the most amazing voice ever. We were sitting in class today, and the presenters had sections of class read different sections of the passage. Dr. Long was on the other side of the room from me, a row in front of me, talking along with 10 other people, and I still heard him distinctly from everyone else and extremely clearly. If you've never heard him talk, you probably think I'm just insane, but the dude has a phenomenal voice.
I had a conversation with Dr. Long last Thursday that helps me claim that I have more random conversations with people chosen as "The Most Effective Preachers in the English Speaking world" than anyone else. I've talked with Bishop Willimon about the whore of Babylon among other things in the past. Thursday, I had a conversation with Dr. Long about Desperate Housewives. In discussing one classmate's sermon, Dr. Long was talking about everyday applications of the concept. "How would this play out on main street, or wisteria lane?" Carolyn replied that "she didn't really know about Wisteria Lane, but I could fill him in." I knew I shouldn't have told her to come the time I preached a sermon using the Desperate Housewives as the primary examples. Now it comes back and bites me in the butt. So now I'm up to 1/6th of the people on this list. Now I'll just have to meet some more and see what random stuff I talk about with them.
3 comments:
So when are you going to work a good guy show (I'm thinking 24) into a sermon? I'll come to Atlanta to hear it.
-D.
We'll have to hold off on that one. I'm not preaching must these days, and the places I am preaching wouldn't respond too well to the kind of scripture I'd be quoting to include Jack Bauer in the sermon. You never know, though, when I might get inspired.
Another intern last year included "CSI: Miami" in his sermon the week after my "Desperate Housewives" sermon. A couple of congregants had a good time teasing us about watching too much TV instead of studying for school.
seriously, you worked a nightime soap opera about slutty older women into a church sermon? you've got to let me read it...
tim
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