Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
Then you go to the place where you've finally found
You can look at yourself sleep the clock around

Artist of the Week - Andrew Bird

This blog is place where fleeting things chase immortality. Ideas, opinions, emotions, etc are all captured like photographs and preserved forever. Right now I'm blossoming with delight. Yes there's a ski trip this weekend, but this is something bigger - an emotion much beyond my control. Still trembling with excitement, the emotions contained within are far stronger than I ever could have anticipated. Let me just explain...

About twenty minutes ago I was at Burger King, where I feasted on a Jr. Whopper and small fries for an incredible price of $2.54, yes, I know - it's incomprehensible. The sheer magnitude of this still hasn't completely set in, so I'm bracing for impact. How rarely does food-purchase gratification come so easily?

Thank you Wiki

On September 21, 2007, U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead used Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" in his court ruling after receiving an egg in the mail from prisoner Charles Jay Wolff. Muirhead ordered the egg destroyed as he stated in his judgment[8]:

I do not like eggs in the file.
I do not like them in any style.
I will not take them fried or boiled.
I will not take them poached or broiled.

I will not take them soft or scrambled,
Despite an argument well-rambled.
No fan I am of the egg at hand.

Destroy that egg! Today! Today!
Today I say!
Without delay!

Word of the Day

You know that feeling when you're searching desperately for just the right word and it's stuck in the back of your head? There's a word for that, lethologica.

But what about that gratifying moment when the perfect word is delivered to exactly suit the idea or expression you intend? We have a term for that. It comes from the French, le mot juste.

How exciting...

Andrew Bird

has a new album out, "Noble Beast".

Listen to the entire article, courtesy of NPR. The New York Times also had an article written by Bird about the developments in his music. Quite interesting. I recommend you listen to "Oh No" and the later song "Souverian."

Word of the Day

My blog is feeling kind of stale and crumbly; it has the texture of feta cheese left on the counter overnight. It's hard to be inspired with that kind of environment. But I did find a neat word today, used in a recent New York Times article.

I debated whether to introduce the context of this word. Maybe you'll understand why. It's from a disheartening article about this contemporary pastor who seems to have discovered the secret formula to attracting large crowds. Hollywood spearheaded the art, and now it is obvious that desperate christian "workers" are now introducing similar trash in their sermons. If you are genuinely seeking God, I am guarantee your time would be much better spent somewhere else. But that's a different story for another day. Here's the context of the quote:

Mark Driscoll is American evangelicalism’s bête noire. In little more than a decade, his ministry has grown from a living-room Bible study to a megachurch that draws about 7,600 visitors to seven campuses around Seattle each Sunday, and his books, blogs and podcasts have made him one of the most admired — and reviled — figures among evangelicals nationwide.

And now, without further ado:

bête noire
  –noun, plural bêtes noires
a person or thing especially disliked or dreaded; bane; bugbear.

Origin:
1835–45; < F: lit., black beast

Joe the Plumber

Remember that guy? Now he's working as a news correspondent. Interesting...

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New Zealand Day

Some YP from NZ came to Atlanta recently, and their visit reminded me of that little comedy group, Flight of the Conchords. They made a movie recently, which I haven't seen. Anyway, I'm on another FoC binge; here are my two favorites:

Word of the Day - Pertinacious

adjective

1. holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
2. stubborn or obstinate.
3. extremely or objectionably persistent: a pertinacious salesman from whom I could not escape.

Public Accounting Report 2008

27th Annual Professor’s Survey
Top Undergraduate Accounting Programs

1 University of Texas-Austin
2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3 Brigham Young University
4 University of Notre Dame
5 University of Southern California
6 The Ohio State University
7 University of Georgia
8 Indiana University Bloomington
9 Pennsylvania State University
10 Texas A&M University