Wednesday, February 2, 2005
even the square and the yellow, the dinosaurial and the purpleI'm sure half the blogs have a link to this, but I can't resist: Spongebob is loved by the UCC! You may recall the United Church of Christ being in the news a month or so ago for its ad campaign stressing its acceptance of everyone. And they do mean everyone: For that matter, Thomas explained, the 1.3-million-member church, if given the opportunity, would warmly receive Barney, Big Bird, Tinky-Winky, Clifford the Big Red Dog or, for that matter, any who have experienced the Christian message as a harsh word of judgment rather than Jesus' offering of grace.
(Thanks to Salon.com, from whom I pretty much stole this story, but it was irresistable.)
8:34:02 PM
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girlie girlsI have a terrible 9:30am class that has a whole basket of girlie girls in it. The class is required for everyone, so you get both LS and IS people--and they are definitely LS. Nothing wrong with that, but they're like a cross between social workers and librarians: we want to make readers feel good! They chat about clothes and things before class until the teacher stares them down because everyone else is silent.
I could see that one of them was doing a knitty pattern and I asked her which one, and when she told me I felt terrible that she'd put all that work in using a completely inappropriate yarn that wasn't showing the pattern. She seemed pleased, I guess.
12:08:05 PM
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profiles of the racially stupidSo yesterday I go up to this guy from the dept. whose name I know is Hailie and say, "Happy name birthday!," and he looks at me like I'm crazy. I explain that it's Hailie Selassie's birthday and that I thought he might be named after H.S., and then I explain that "Hailie Selassie" just sticks in my head whenever I hear it, for some reason--I just like the sound of it. Dude was named after his dad, but he said he'd always meant to ask his grandmother where she got the name.
I'm actually pretty embarrassed, like I've been caught racial profiling, but I kind of have. Okay, black guy with lots of dreads named Hailie...see where I'm going with this? Then I compound the problem when I start reading the "Life" section of the paper. "Look, it's Black History Month! But they don't have anything for the 28th except an Oprah quote...It's only 28 days, and they couldn't find 28 notable events? Wait, there are more quotes--even fewer days are filled." We're kind of having a back-and-forth on this, but in my mind I'm thinking, shut up, shut up, what are you thinking? Luckily, he didn't seem offended.
12:00:03 PM
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