TEN (OKAY, EIGHT) RANDOM THOUGHTS #10

1. I’m a little surprised that the police had to resort to tranquilizer darts to catch the bear in Wauwatosa the other day. Couldn’t they have just put up goalposts? That usually sends Bears running in the other direction.
2. If you consistently pronounce Applebee’s as “uh-PLEB-ess,” you can almost pass it off as some exotic ethnic restaurant.
3. Pretty soon, every athlete who’s ever been any good at all will be accused of having been on steroids. Well, except for Wayne Gretzky, It’s obvious he wasn’t doing anything excessively biochemical.
4. There are, at most, two other bloggers
   who may be able to relate to this thought: I am convinced that, when I die, I’ll be waiting in line at the pearly gates, stuck behind a Kreilkamp truck.
5. But that’s beside the point anyway, since the road to heaven is currently detoured . . . and even the detour is under construction.
6. How many more months will it be until that song from Kill Bill Vol. 1 (”Battle Without Honor or Humanity” by Tomoyasu Hotel; listen to a sample of it here; it’s track #9) is used as the background for every single radio and TV commercial, as well as being used for bumper music by every program on the radio? Not only is Jaguar using it in their commercials, it’s the bumper for at least three radio programs I listen to. In fact, I wonder how long it’ll be until that’s the only piece of music left on Earth.
7. I’m really upset that the North Carolina pastor who excommunicated all the Kerry supporters resigned the other day. Not because I agreed with him, of course, but, well . . . I already had a great sermon worked up for Sunday in which I was going to excommunicate my entire congregation for a variety of offenses both great and small, and now I can’t use it.
8. By the way, I disagree with the oft-repeated assertion that religion and politics must neccesarily intertwine. If Christians did a better job properly caring for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan, the government would be so much smaller, the president could hold cabinet meetings in a diner booth. Until that day, I think I’ve got bigger things to worry about than school-board elections.