The Rodeo

Stuff Christians Like.

RodeoClown: likes this.

If you are a lady who gets surgery to make you look like a dude downstairs, and then the government gives you a bit of paper that says they will pretend like you are really a dude, and not just a lady with a beard and some dangly bits stuck on, and then you decide that you want a kid and stop taking the dude-pills, so you can get pregnant…

I think that pretty conclusively proves that you aren’t really a dude. Just a lady who really wants to be a dude - and I mean, what lady doesn’t?

RodeoClown: is a real dude.

I’ve been mucking around behind the magic blog curtain this morning, so if anything breaks, please let me know.

RodeoClown: wonderfully wizard-like.

This is awesome. Really, really awesome. Spontaneous musical numbers breaking out at a food court? Just like Real Life(tm)!

You can read all the details at the Improv Everywhere site.

Update: if the video doesn’t play, click on the link and you can see it there instead.

RodeoClown: would also like a napkin serviette.

I thought this was quite insightful: Andrew Barry’s Blog: Matthew 5: Jesus on adultery.

I’ve pasted the entire post here (it’s pretty short).

Read Matthew 5:27-30.

I think Jesus wants us to link two words together: adultery and hell. If we think of adultery the first word that should come to our minds is hell.

If we ever think, “will I commit adultery?” (of the heart or otherwise)then we should ask ourselves, “do I want to go to hell?”

RodeoClown: doesn’t.

Baby #2 is no longer a baby. But he is still 2.
2 awesome that is!

Happy birthday Jester!

RodeoClown: also fighting the man. But not too much.

We recently had our aerial reconnected (neither at my request nor desire). After two years of not having television, suddenly it has re-entered our house and reminded me why I can’t stand TV.

There are six things Ian detests, seven that he hates:

1 - Ads. I’d forgotten how annoying they are. And how frequent. And now they are on SBS too - in the middle of the news. If you really must advertise, than use Google’s advertising method: show ads at least tangentially related to what you are viewing. Makes a lot more sense to me than throwing ads for feminine hygiene products into the path of this twenty-something male with a wife who does her own shopping.

2 - Sex. It’s far too easy to find myself watching something with far too much skin. I’m trying hard to make my wife the sole concern of my sexuality, and shows concerning themselves mainly with sex make this much more difficult than it needs to be. SBS, you are a prime contender in this arena - especially with your Friday night soft-core pornography ‘documentaries’.

3 - Sloth. It’s disgusting, but I can’t stop watching it. Moving from the lounge is hard, and often more than my work-abraded willpower can take. I’ll do the dishwasher later. I’ll take care of my wife’s needs once this show is over. I’ll just wait till the end. Even if it’s boring me. To death. Slowly.

4 - Speed (specifically the lack thereof). I can’t speed up TV. I can read things faster if I choose to. I can skip to the next song on a CD or the next chapter on a DVD. Sometimes I just want to know the outcome of a show, but have to sit through till the credits to see it. I couldn’t be bothered going online to find out what is going to happen (see previous point).

5 - Seduction. Even though I don’t like it, the longer the TV is available, the more I find myself wanting to just “see what’s on” when I walk past. Intellectually I don’t care, but the call is strong.

6 - Social Norms. Everything going on in TV-land seems to have a set of values that clashes with just about everything I believe. Adultery ‘Affairs’ are commonplace, and a bit of harmless fun. Everybody fornicates* on the first date - if they even get around to ‘dating’. Living together, sure, why not? So many kids think that this is how the world really works, and they are going to get burned. I don’t want my kids to think that commitment is meaningless.

7 - Seven. Did I mention I hate Channel 7? My two most recent reasons: Today Tonight and Heroes. One of which they keep showing, and the other they stopped. I’ll let you, discerning reader, figure out which is which.

RodeoClown: watching.

*Replace with a synonymous F-word for a more accurate description. It’s not love.

…”be the change you want to see in the world”.

I would like to see this blog updated more than once every month so I nagged Ian to let me do a guest post.

So once Ian said he would be happy for me to do a guest post I started pondering what radical life changing things I could share with you all…

…and after watching Terminator 3 on Sunday night this is what I came up with.

Best Movie Car Chase Scenes:

1. Blues Brothers – “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.” “Hit it” What can I say this is easily the best car chase scene ever. It had it all, police, Nazis, police, country and western guys and a few more police just for good measure.
2. The Rock – It had a Hummer. That is good enough for me. Also the fact that it was up and down the streets of San Francisco also added to the awesomeness.
3. Terminator 3 – I liked this movie. Not because it will go down in history as a genre defining epic, but because it was fun. I consider it a “check your brain at the door” kinda movie, which brings me to the car chase; John Connor and Katherine Brewster are chased by 3 unmanned police cars, an unmanned ambulance and the female terminator driving a TWELVE WHEEL CRANE TRUCK! (just for the record Arnie joins the chase by riding on the hook of the crane and then commanders a fire engine)

Honourable Mentions:

• The Matrix Revolutions - “The Freeway Chase”
• Gone in 60 Seconds - I love the GT Shelby Nic Cage Drives
• The Italian Job - because like Hummers, Mini Coopers are awesome!!

Use the comments to highlight any that I have forgotten…

Dez!: Realises the obvious difference in awesomeness between a Mini Cooper and a Hum-Vee.

I lost nearly two hours sleep last night thinking about the opening line to the Tiny Toon Adventures theme song.

We’re tiny, we’re toony, we’re all a little looney

- Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song

If the original lyricist had changed the word ‘all‘ to ‘each‘ in that opening line, then it would have meant the same thing, but also added an additional layer of meaning, as each of the characters would also be correctly identified as a smaller version of the original Looney Tunes characters.

It was two am. And I was tired. And I have no idea why my brain chose that time to dredge up the theme to a show I haven’t seen in over a decade, and force me to analyse nine words for over an hour and a half.

RodeoClown: this is how my mind works.

I spotted a scrawled-upon roadwork sign yesterday: “Americans are racists!”

I wonder if the irony was intentional.
Probably not. All vandals are idiots.

RodeoClown: every generalisation is wrong.