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More bad ideas from our friends over at failblog.org

Ask for grace, not for instruction
ask for desire, not for understanding
ask for the groaning of prayer and not diligent reading
ask for the spouse (God as lover), not the teacher
ask for God, not man or woman
ask for darkness, not for clarity
and do not ask for light
but ask for the fire that carries us to God
- St. Bonaventure

So many times we are fixated on answers and knowledge that we don’t embrace the mystery and wonder that is God.

When I first heard that they were going to make a movie version of Where the Wild Things Are I was skeptical at best. I am pretty tired of how a lot of popular movies are either action sequences spliced with nudity or depressing make-you-hate-life drama epics and so I was afraid that one of my favorite childhood stories would be stripped of the beauty and simplicity that has made it a classic. I remember reading the book and being able to imagine myself in the land of the Wild Things with nothing but my imagination to limit our adventures. Looking back at the book it is amazing that a story that is only ten sentences can be made into a full length movie, which is why I’m still a little worried about the film. One of the best parts of reading the book is imagining what the characters are doing in each of the pictures and creating new stories with each read.

However this first trailer has given me great hope for the film and has made me excited to see a big screen adaptation of one of my favorite stories. I can only hope that the movie can capture half of what comes from a childish imagination.

Not all ideas are good ideas. Here are three bad ideas that I saw this week:

1. Fake your own death facebook group. I was sent an invite to join this group and was absolutely dumbfounded at how self indulgent and ridiculous this group is. The general purpose of this group is to encourage people to fake their death via facebook in order to see what people would say about them if they died. How conceited must you be to do something like this? Making people think you are dead just so you can get a couple complements about how wonderful you are seems to be one of the most shallow things I can imagine.

2. The Fritos Chili Cheese Wrap. Gross and gross. There was a commercial advertising this thing and it almost made me throw up. The nutrition facts are just as horrifying, with 670 calories and 38g of fat for one of these things I almost have a heart attack thinking about it. I know there is a lot of nasty fast food out there (like these) but I can’t imagine anything worse than this.

3. Ruining a classic. Poor Johnny Cash, no one deserves this…

I agree with both!