Another Collection of Funny

I am sure that anyone reading this blog might have found the topics this week pretty heavy. Its been good stuff. I have loved where God has taken my thoughts and led to focus on. I have some good things still in my head that I want to share, but I think that I am going to keep Fridays somewhat light-hearted.

If you haven't ever enjoyed news from the Onion, then you have missed some funny stuff. In this "news forum" they speak of the joy that the new giant crabs will be. My wife and I rented The Onion Movie and watched it, but found that enjoying the Onion in clips like these is much more enjoyable.

I was brought up to be a fan of Star Trek. Of course, TNG was the group that I watched the most, and most of the next couple series (DS9 and Voyager). This is one of Jandrew edit's pieces where Data gives a concert. Its just a bunch of edited footage from the original show, but its worth watching. If you enjoyed that, which how could you not?!, then you can head over here and see all his other works.

Along those same lines, I offer something that isn't a video clip, but rather a very good piece of satire. As a play on similar sounding words, here is Keeping up with the Cardassians. The stuff from McSweeny's can be quite funny. I recommend checking out more of their stuff as you have the time.

I think that gives you a few chuckles. Its important to laugh. I hope that your weekend is full of laughing and joy and worship of the creator of it all. Love you guys!

Brief interruptuion

I am not making excuses, just giving facts. I am tired. I wish I had something funny or insightful to share, but I don't. I am at work right now and I have had a total of about 2 hours sleep since I woke up yesterday morning. I understand that this was my own personal decision to go and watch a movie at midnight (yes it was Watchmen). I also understand that I knew that I had to be at work by 645 this morning thus limiting the amount of sleep I could have. So, I don't want or expect any sympathy. I just write to tell you that I have nothing today.

So, I will just say that I hope that God blesses you and gives you the strength to be examples of His love this day. I also pray that God will work in hearts this weekend, whenever people are gathered to worship Him.

I will be back on Monday with more substantive words. For now, I am not sure if I am making any sense. Have a great weekend!

Writing funny posts....that is my LEAST favorite thing to do

I promised some levity for a Friday and hopefully I can bring that. Mainly I will be doing it the only way that I know how, allowing some one else to take the credit in the form of links and clips.

I have been thoroughly enjoy some Llamas with Hats. If you haven't ever seen the Charlie the Unicorn (part 1 or part 2), then I don't know if we can be friends. However, Llamas with Hats is equally if not even more so amazing. Please take your time and enjoy it for all the splendid things that it is.

I know that as a child I watched some really bad movies thinking that they were good. I am pretty sure that at some point I sat through Mac and Me. However, I don't think there is anyway to truly be entertained by such a movie until today. So, I submit clips like the famous wheelchair clip (the first 30 seconds are just indescribable). Then if you feel like you haven't had enough, you can enjoy the McDonald's dance off because who hasn't happened upon one of these in their trip to the arches?

I will warn you about this next clip. Its from the group Lonely Island that includes Adam Samberg from SNL and Hot Rod (which is a long clip of goodness for those who are interested). Its one of their latest additions called "Im on a Boat". I present the edited version just because I wanted to be somewhat "Christian" here.

I hope that these give you reasons to laugh today. I am probably going to go and watch Llamas with hats again because I got a rumbling in my funny bone that only llamas will satisfy. Have a great weekend and hopefully I will be doing all this again next week.

Thanksweek

I hope that you all have lots and lots of fun the next couple days. I will be family doing the whole "quality time" thing. It is the real kick off to the holiday season. So, instead of being all serious, which I have been it seems for the last few posts, I am going to try and brings a little levity to the reading with some funny and fun links.

Star Trek is one of the movies that I am very much looking forward to getting to enjoy next year. The choice of JJ Abrams seems to have been pretty smart. If you haven't seen the trailer, here that is. Even if you have seen it, its pretty awesome and worth watching a couple times. Plus, it gives you the framework from which the next couple clips are taken. The first is just funny, Star Trek 90210. The next one takes the same idea, but instead uses one of what used to be my favorite shows, Smallville.

I don't know why, but this list of wacky signs just makes me laugh. Maybe its the whole, "Not Allowed to Pregnant". I think that some of them were translated and that is what makes it funny.

Since I brought the whole chimp on a Segway thing (this time with music), I thought it was only fitting to bring another clip of the same chimp. This time, its in a track and field competition. Yes, chimps equal funny (or is it Japanese television?).

We, my wife and I, love the show How I Met Your Mother. Last weeks episode, had a great conversation with two of the characters, ala Dr. Seuss. Don't miss the beginning where the guys console Ted by asking if he wants to take revenge by a unique method. Just to spread the goodness that is HIMYM, here is the "Robin Sparkles" videos, Let's Go to the Mall and Sandcastles in the Sand.

As with most Japanese game shows, cats with technology always makes me laugh. Thus, watching a Cat on a Roomba, very funny.

Since I am putting a bunch of YouTube links, I thought it fitting to include this one. Its a little older, but still pretty funny from the Onion.

Finally, I give you something to kick off the Christmas season, if you promise not to watch it until Friday. I am a big MxPx fan. I know that the straight laced demeanor that I normally display fits right in with the idea of punk music, but I have listened to them for about 10 years now. Their Christmas song is one of my favorites. So, here is that video.

Have a great weekend and Thanksgiving!!!

Wednesday night goodness and a little off topic

We had our second meeting on Wednesday night dealing with freedom and what that can mean to us as Christians. It was another good session. Steven Johnson was talking about some very interesting things. Stuff that I hadn't really thought about but definitely hit home. One of the things that he said was that its the meaning that we give to events in our past that affect our beliefs. If you perceived that you were hurt by a situation, you were hurt. I know that I have struggled with this. I might look back at a hurt in the past and think that it shouldn't be that painful, but still have aches from it. Those are the areas that I need to ask for God to remove that pain. And thats the key, that we have to ask. It is a choice that we have to make about what we want God to do. God wants to help us, but he also loves us so much that he won't force Himself on us. The example of this that Johnson gives is John 5:1-14. It is the story of the man at the Pool of Bethesda. The first thing that Jesus says to the man is "Do you want to get well?" That is the choice that we are given. We get so comfortable with our pain, that changing things, which would be required can be quite scary. Its not that we enjoy being hurt, but that we don't know anything else. I am continuing to look at those areas in my life that I know that I have pains. They aren't fun to visit, but I also know that God's freedom is better than coping with these pains.

One of the other things that Johnson was talking about is that there are 3 areas that are sources of burdens that we carry around. They are anger, disappointment, and grief. I know that there is some anger and grief in my past that I have to deal with, but I know that the disappointment that I keep in my life is far greater. I have many things that I have done in the past that I think that shouldn't have or that I feel like I have let some one down. These are the areas that I don't want to really get into, but I need to. Its not going to be fun, but it will be fruitful to be the man that I need to be.

I want to mention Desire again. One of the things that Eldridge talks about is that we are made for something . He even goes to the extent to say that whatever you get excited about (writing, singing, etc) is what you were made for. I don't know if I completely believe this, but I do know that your desire is where you heart is. My problem is that I don't have an occupation or a talent that gets me excited. Was I made for nothing? I know thats not true, but I wonder about this idea.

Ok, now to step off topic. If you don't want to read this, thats fine, but I am going to talk about politics. I love watching and following politics. I think thats important for people to do that so that they know what their government is doing. I was led to this article about looking at voting as a Christian and how we can base our votes. I think its worth a look as well.

That being said, I will now launch into my personal beliefs. You can ignore them if you want, but these are the things that I think. In that article, one of the things that you are asked to look at is the character of the candidates and thats what I think people should be looking at in regards to our presidential candidates. I might not agree fully with everything that McCain stands for. However, I don't think that anyone can claim that he is not a man of character. While this might end up with people doing searches and trying to put up their ideas in comments, I will say that I can't be sure of Obama's character. There are so many questions about his past. And it would seem that for the most part people don't care. Is it because no one cares about judgement and character anymore? I won't say that if you vote for Obama that you aren't a Christian, because I don't know your reasons. You know one of my reasons for choosing to vote for McCain, but I have others that won't really fit in this blog. I write about this because I think that part of our life as Christians is that we have to be people above reproach. In other words, people of great character. I just offer that, as a Christian, that your idea of who has greater character should be a consideration.

Alright, enough of that talk. I appreciate you letting me stray away for a few. I might not be back this week due to a short day for me tomorrow. I am heading to my parents and enjoying a couple days with the family and will be back on Monday.

PS If you came here due to a search and are about to blast me about Obama vs McCain, please don't. Its not necessary. You can think the way you want and I will think the way I want. At the end of the day, we are still Americans and politics are just politics.