the King George Version...
Not for those who have no appreciation of fine satire...
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
A voice of Reason
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-campolo/being-an-oxymoron_b_22895.html
Tony's been one of my heroes ever since I read about his birthday party for a hooker in Phillip Yancy's What's so Amazing about Grace.
Tony's been one of my heroes ever since I read about his birthday party for a hooker in Phillip Yancy's What's so Amazing about Grace.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
I wish I could find a picture of this...
We have this great new sculpture in town. Right between the two cities of the Texas Microplex, on the border, we have an arch way, with the sculpture smack dab in the middle. Two sisters, releasing doves. That's their story and they're sticking to it.
New people can be swayed by the nice story of two sisters releasing nice peaceful doves.
But there's trouble here in the Twin Cities. Trouble that starts with "T" and that rhymes with "B" which stands for...
Birds.
We have major bird issues here, and I'm not talking about the influx of Birders who think they would get to see some rare species here and come in droves in the summer. (I don't know if they come in droves. If they do, it's hard to distinguish them from the cheerleaders, firemen, soccer, football, softball, and tennis players who are all here for one thing or another. And the incoming freshmen with their over protective uber-parents. But we're talking Birds here.)
I believe Mr. Hitchcock was inspired by our bird troubles here. Sure, the birds are supposed to be crows in his classic film, but don't they bear a striking resemblence to our beloved grackles??
the Bird Problem solved...
Of course, we have tons of bird experience. Remember the egrets? read about them here.
My first grackle experience was my freshman year at A&M. The dorm at spring break. An explosion rocked my modular dorm, shaking the window. I went to the hall and found the neighbor, a senior engineering major, studying in the hall. She looked up and said, "Bird bombs. It's quieter out here."
Yep, even in 1983, the campus sent trucks with cannons around to discourage nesting grackles.
But the thing is, this statue? It's supposed to be two little girls releasing doves?
If you drive by really slow and look carefully, I swear it's two little girls fighting off a grackle attack.
New people can be swayed by the nice story of two sisters releasing nice peaceful doves.
But there's trouble here in the Twin Cities. Trouble that starts with "T" and that rhymes with "B" which stands for...
Birds.
We have major bird issues here, and I'm not talking about the influx of Birders who think they would get to see some rare species here and come in droves in the summer. (I don't know if they come in droves. If they do, it's hard to distinguish them from the cheerleaders, firemen, soccer, football, softball, and tennis players who are all here for one thing or another. And the incoming freshmen with their over protective uber-parents. But we're talking Birds here.)
I believe Mr. Hitchcock was inspired by our bird troubles here. Sure, the birds are supposed to be crows in his classic film, but don't they bear a striking resemblence to our beloved grackles??
the Bird Problem solved...
Of course, we have tons of bird experience. Remember the egrets? read about them here.
My first grackle experience was my freshman year at A&M. The dorm at spring break. An explosion rocked my modular dorm, shaking the window. I went to the hall and found the neighbor, a senior engineering major, studying in the hall. She looked up and said, "Bird bombs. It's quieter out here."
Yep, even in 1983, the campus sent trucks with cannons around to discourage nesting grackles.
But the thing is, this statue? It's supposed to be two little girls releasing doves?
If you drive by really slow and look carefully, I swear it's two little girls fighting off a grackle attack.
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