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What? No Weird Al?

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We already know that Joe is, like many of us, white and nerdy. Posting Weird Al would give you what you expected and, as a good blogger, Joe knows when to defy that.

If I didn't have 14 hours of work waiting for me - I'd check all of these vids out.

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If dance is not an art form what is it? You're not like one of my friends who views it as another form of epilepsy are you?

Bearing in mind that what goes on in night clubs around the world cannot actually be called dance; more like bad attempts at foreplay.

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Dance can be art. It can be a cultural event. It can be exercise.

You know why Mennonites don't talk about sex?
It might lead to dancing.

Enjoy. Go Badgers!

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We already know that Joe is, like many of us, white and nerdy. Posting Weird Al would give you what you expected and, as a good blogger, Joe knows when to defy that.

Isn't Joe also a retired marine who is able to kill most of us with his bare hands?

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Isn't Joe also a retired marine who is able to kill most of us with his bare hands?

Indeed. I'm a white and nerdy lethal weapon. ; )

(Also, I got out five years short of retirement, so I'm technically just a "former" rather than "retired" Marine.)

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eclectic:
1. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
2. Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources

Greek eklektikos, selective, from eklektos, selected, from eklegein, to select : ek-, out; see ecto– + legein, to gather; see leg- in Appendix I.

Thanks, Joe

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Isn't Joe also a retired marine who is able to kill most of us with his bare hands?

One of the whitest, nerdiest guys I know is a Marine. Formerly infantry and now and ANGLICO officer. Served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He could kill all of us, with his bare hands; but, until you know that, he's still nerdy.

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Joe, I don't know what it is but ever since the change in the website's "outside style", there seems to have been a change of the "inside style", too. Things just aren't as Christian around here any more. This is getting to be just another "my life" blog. I am VERY surprised at this list of videos. These are all EXTREMELY wordly videos and songs. In fact, the Dead Dog song is either nonsensical (Let all things be done decently and in order) or some kind of (presumably nefarious) slang. In any case, it is both nihlistic and blasphemous and if you don't know what the author intended (and perhaps even if you do know), you certainly shouldn't be foisting it upon your brethren! I used to look forward to your blog every day because it would challeng my thinking as a CHRISTIAN. I used to come here and consistently find MEAT but lately I am starving to death. More and more, I'm stopping by after weeks and not finding anything that either challenges my stinking thinking or girds up my orthodoxy. BTW, here are the lyrics for that song. You tell me if it is something that should be venerated by a Christian (BTW, I did like the treadmill video, for PURELY entertainment purposes):

Got a visit from the dead dog
He slept at the end of my bed last night
He could tell I was fading
And somehow fighting against the light
Everyday when I open my eyes
I see unwanted funerals
Maybe I'll be buried alive
But I've never seen you so beautiful

Oh, I'm staying in today
And watch the others play
Oh, wash my sins away
Like all good children I mean what I say

I guess God has the last laugh
From up on high he lets us kill
And his people die for their faith
And we call it triumph of the will
All the theories in my own head
Fragment and bump into themselves
I'll run instead of taking a walk
Instead of sixes I see twelves

Oh, I'm staying in today
And watch the others play
Oh, wash my sins away
Like all good children I mean what I say

Run where you've never been before
Lest the dead dog chase you home
Run where you've never been before
Lest the dead dog chase you home

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Joe - I'm compiling my "best of 2006" list, too. OK Go's treadmills video tops my list as well.

I didn't watch the "dead dogs" video, but the lyrics, while perhaps nihilistic, do resonate with spiritual themes (much as Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, several psalms and other "nihilistic" portions of the Old Testament). But then again, I used to receive a fair deal of criticism, similar to what you're now hearing, from (now former) visitors to my blog about how I was departing from more "Christian" topics to more "worldly" ones. That was before I sold out totally.

Grace and peace, and rock on,

AC

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