Blogs Tagged With absurdities options | rated: b

  • Righteous Indignation?

    Once again, a trip to the local [big chain bookstore] got me in a tizzy. They have their Christmas stuff out already, which always grumpifies me. I have, of course, given up on the idea that Christmas should be about Christ. (Who even thinks that any more?) So all the non-religious Christmas stu…

  • Never Let a Theologian Out of the Library

    I got really, really annoyed yesterday at the [mega-chain bookstore]. Something in the kids' section caught my eye. It was in the Religion section, and that, too, caught my eye, because it had gotten so much larger. It used to be two smallish shelves, right under the kids' cookbooks and art books…

  • To Be Devoutly Wished

    Today I saw a guy go into a five minute tirade over - of all things - women complaining. This included such gems of wisdom as "it's because of their bleeding vag" and "I have an extra chromosome, so I don't get emotional." That delivered while raging. Yeah, unless you have Down's Syndrome or Klei…

  • First World Problems

    Lowe's sells a suction-cup bird feeder hanger. But all its bird feeders are too heavy to hang on it. Home Depot sells quite a few lighter-weight hummingbird feeders to put on the suction-cup bird feeder hanger that Lowe's sells. But it doesn't sell ant baffles for the hummingbird feeders. Lowe's s…

  • Here Are Some Birds With Arms

    Why? Because. Tumblr is either a wonderland or a minefield, however you prefer to look at it, because you never know when you're going to happen upon a niche-topic Tumblr that just blows your mind. Today that blog is Birds With Arms: A blog where someone decided to turn the idea of "putting a bird…

  • Theology Thursday

    All right, here's a real puzzler for you. Can you make Jesus out of calcium- and fiber-added juice? (My Catholic friends are currently either spitting on the ground and crossing themselves or lovingly clucking, "Protestants, God bless 'em.") Seriously. This is right up there for me with whet…

  • 10 Absurd 21st-Century Food Mashups

    Okay, "absurd" is my word for these things. And by that, I mean they could be absurdly awful, or absurdly awesome. Either way, the era in which we live has found a way of repurposing foods (and drinks) that is sometimes astounding. I mean, hello, the Doritos Taco Bell taco shell? Sometimes these fo…

  • Feeling Grown Up

    Today was my first day of internshipery. There was a commute. There were important things. I felt like a grown up. Unfortunately, I was unprepared. I spent most of my time observing the court. I've decided to keep a journal from now own. I'll call it: "Trey's Guide to Dying." It sounds morbid...but…

  • Fire and fuel are dependently arisen.

    Hence to speak of an “eternal flame” is to partake of absurdity.

  • Stuff and Nonsense

    I don't get how someone can have the unmitigated arrogance to decide that anything which appears absurd or incomprehensible must be stupid. We live in a world bounded by, indeed propped up by, absurdity: Quantum mechanics. Commoditized debt. Corporate personhood. Each of these things has made a hug…