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Author Archives: Jeff Whittle
Link of the Moment
What’s new here? Well I’ve just placed a new Photo of the Moment online…..a friend pointed out this sign to me last night.
Also you might have noticed the “Link of the Moment” on the main front page of this site. Basically anything I find interesting, unusual, or unique, I’ll link to. I can’t always completely go through the entire site and make sure it is appropriate for all viewers. So with any link to any outside site, the viewer should be aware that a link is not necessarily an endorsement by me. Use at your own risk.
Roy’s Biography….it’s my friend Roy’s
Roy’s Biography….it’s my friend Roy’s birthday today…so what better way to celebrate than to read about him.
A Prayer by Fred Durst??!!
I watched a show last night on MTV called “All Access.” This particular episode was a behind the scenes look at Limp Bizkit’s tour. During the episode they showed kids waiting outside the ticket counter for days (literally) in order to be first in line to buy Limp Bizkit concert tickets. I had seen the episode before, but now more than ever this seems so sad. Limp Bizkit is probably five years away from VH1’s Where Are they Now? segment. I have to wonder if these rapid fans are as fanatic about Bizkit now. Personally I think they are just showing this episode again because Bizkit has a new CD out of lame remixes.
Anyways the part of the episode that I really got to me was the part they showed right before the concert. Before going on stage the Limp Bizkit members got into a big circle while Fred Durst lead a prayer. In the prayer he asked God for a good show. The next scenes show Fred onstage spouting his filthy lyrics. Every other word had to be bleeped out. It’s a bit hypocritical for Fred to lead a prayer offstage, and then go on stage having a potty mouth. Fred, either love God and keep his commandments or don’t. Don’t try to live 2 lives. MTV is trying to show that it is ok to have religion in ones life when it is convenient…while at the same time is it ok to spout filthy lyrics in one’s songs. The whole situation is absurd.
Church News
Ok here is some church news from this weekend.
Apparently Green Hill Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet has changed their name to simply “Green Hill Church.” I’m sure the name change has probably been in effect for quite some time, but I just noticed it this weekend. This is becoming a trend among churches today….dropping denominational names and instead going for the generic sounding names. I guess churches don’t want to be attached to some kind of denominational name which might deter potential members from joining.
Scottsville church’s new building is quite nice. I was given the grand tour yesterday by a friend. The most compelling part of it is that the church has showers. I’ve always thought that churches should have showers. It helps when someone has to stay overnight at the church….or if someone doesn’t have time to go home and shower before services begin again.
Portland Church of Christ Family
Portland Church of Christ Family Retreat….apparently they had their family retreat at Taylor Christian Camp on the weekend of Elizabeth’s death. This shows even though there was tremendous tragedy going on in that county at that time, there were still people having fun.
George Harrison is dead
George Harrison is dead. At this point I have to ask myself if the Beatles were all that great? Or does their music serve as easy fodder for VH1 addicts? Having been born a few years after the Beatles broke up, I never experienced Beatlemania. I don’t remember Lennon being shot and I never thought their retrospective album, “The Beatles Anthology” was all that great. Apart from “Let It Be” and possibly “Revolution” I don’t recall any of the Beatle songs being groundshaking musically or socially. Looking back, the Beatles’ spiritual trip to India could easily be seen as some type of publicity stunt to show their political correctness.
The Beatles were a pop band. “Twist and Shout” and “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” could just have easily been put out by N’Sync as it would be by the Beatles. As far as I’m concerned, I liked the Rolling Stones better.
You can bet that the networks will cash in on Harrison’s death by showing the Beatles Anthology again.
Why I Can’t Stand Garth Brooks
Garth is on Hollywood Squares this week. Everyone knows that when a star reaches Hollywood Squares, then their career is washed up and they can pretty much count on a VH1 “Where Are They Now?” segment. (I mean when was the last time you saw Whoopie Goldberg in a recent movie besides a Sister Act sequel ?). Garth is arrogant. His massive ego gets in the way of everything. Remember when he tried to play ball with the Padres? Come on, Garth. No one really thinks you can play ball. They’re just trying to be nice to you’re supposedly a big star. His supposed retirements from the music business are only publicity stunts to sell more concert tickets. Remember the Chris Gaines fiasico? No one understood it. Alternate identities worked for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. It failed miserably for Garth. How about the time Garth had some executives at Capitol fired because his album didn’t sell as much as he desired?
I first began to dislike Garth when he threatened to pull his album from stores that sold used CDs. He called the practice of selling used CDs “evil.” As far as I’m concerned the owner of a CD can do what he/she wants to do with a CD.
I live in Nashville. Anytime Garth sneezes it make headline news around here. Note to the Nashville papers: no one cares about Garth anymore.
The Allen Arena
The Lipscomb Men’s team won their first basketball game in the new arena by one point. The new arena is impressive. It’s not like McQuiddy anymore….which reminded me of a hyped up high school gym. I took my digital camera with me and got some shots near the goal (which is where we were sitting the whole time). The only problem is that due to the gym being dark, I had to set my shutter for a long exposure. However the game was so fast paced that many of the pictures came out blurred.
Like I said the Allen Arena is impressive. Shows you what money will buy these days. The athletic department gets a brand new arena while the History department is confined to a leaky dark moldy basement of Burton Bible Building. And Lipscomb wonders why I don’t give any money back to them….hmmmm…… Lipscomb’s priorities are definitely out of order.
I also saw several people at the game that I went to school with. Some of them even work for Lipscomb. This is quite sad that they can’t seem to leave Lipscomb. Come on, people it’s time to move on to the real world.
Viral Email
Yesterday I got an email that contained a virus. It was sent to the church’s email address. Luckily my virus scan and my keen sense for peculiar emails caught it before it was opened. When getting mail for the church’s email address, I’m very careful about what attachments I open. Since everyone seems to have the church’s address in their address book, I’ve found that it always gets the latest virus whenever a new one comes out.
The best step for combating replicating viruses is not to use Microsoft Outlook. Virus writers tend to expoit some of the automatic features of Outlook in order to spread the virus.
On my agenda this week is going to Lipscomb’s first basketball game in the new arena on Tuesday night. Our youth minister had extra tickets to it, so I decided to go. I’m a bit surprised that they’re promoting Lipscomb among the church youth group. Lately it seems as if Freed-Hardeman University is the only university for Christians to go to (at least according to certain people at church). The youth group has already made half a dozen trips to Freed Hardeman since the Summer. As far as I can tell, this is the first trip to my alma mata (Lipscomb). Both our youth minister and pulpit minister are from FHU and I’m sure FHU has been heavily promoted amoung the youth.