Paste Magazine recently released what they think to be the 40 best cartoon characters of all time. I’m not going to argue with the list even though it does provide for some great conversation. I was a little surprised to see a lot of recent cartoon characters make the list and even place above such classics as Goofy and Sylvester J. Pussycat but what really made me happy was to see Larry the Cucumber at #30. As a church worker and someone who has seen all the Veggie Tale cartoons a couple times over I actually got excited to see Larry show up on a list that honored both Ned Flanders and Cartman. This is what Paste had to say about our favorite animated cucumber:
“After all the cultural good that Christianity gave us over the last two Millennia, the second half of the 20th century wasn’t exactly a high-water mark. But in the 1990s, Veggie Tales became the exceptional piece of genius pop culture in the typical Christian bookstore. And Larry the Cucumber was the biggest reason why. Don’t believe me? Watch the video below.”
While “I love my lips” is certainly one of Larry’s greatest hits, these next two are my favorites of the silly songs collection. Enjoy!
Hey everyone, here is a list of some great events coming up this May!
May 16th: Annual Kids Musical
This year the musical is all about creation and our call to take care of what God has given us. We are rehearsing every Wednesday at Middle School CHAOS from 4-5:30. This is always one of the highlights of the year and this one is shaping up to be no different.
May 30th: Youth Sunday @ 11am
This will be the first ever Youth Sunday at WPC and I would love for all students (6th-12th grade) to come help lead worship and celebrate my last day at church. We have already started planning what the service is going to look like but we would love to get you involved in what is going to be an amazing morning.
May 30th: Where The Wild Things Are @ 12:30
After the Youth Sunday service we will be showing the movie “Where The Wild Things Are” in Hoffman Hall. This was my favorite film of last year and I will be leading the discussion one the themes and perspective the film offers.
If you would like to be involved in any of the things we have going on please call Steve at the church, 310-474-4535.
I’m all about the twitter references these last couple posts aren’t I? While I was doing my internet rotation this morning I noticed that one of the trending topics on twitter was #Godis. It’s nice to see that other people are thinking about and expressing their feelings about god and it’s even funnier that the subject is sandwitched between Justin Bieber and #iheardyousay. Here are some of my favorite answers that I saw
God is…
waiting for you.
& always will be a trending topic in my life
gonna get me to my destination despite all the tomfoolery that has taken place thus far
reading this trending topic
teaching me something new everyday
trying to tell you something…listen
There were also a lot of one word answers like “Great”, “Awesome”, “Strong”. “Love”, “Everything” and “Busy.” How would you answer? Here’s your chance: God is…
Hey High Schoolers, remember when I freaked out a couple months ago because I had a divine experience watching Daniel Lanois and Black Dub perform “the maker?” Well here is the video of that performance! (and if you look close enough you can see me grooving in the crowd!)
Peter Gabriel is going to release an album, “Scratch My Back”, next month of cover songs including this version of one of my alltime favorite love songs, “the book of love” by the magnetic fields. He is also doing songs by the arcade fire, radiohead, bowie, neil young, bon iver and paul simon… if this song is any indication, the whole album is going to be incredible.
According to Pantone (the company that determines the color palette for all fashion and design) Turquoise is the color of 2010! Their website says that the color combines “the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise inspires thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a comforting escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.” I think we could all use a good dose of escape and well being, maybe I should just paint my room 15-5519 and see how it turns out.
What I found most interesting about this whole thing is that Pantone says the color “is believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky.” I have never really thought of personifying a color as compassion or that it might represent something as fluid as faith and truth. But after thinking about it for a while I began to see how influenced we are by the colors around us and that we are trained to respond to certain colors (red=anger/passion, blue=sadness/cold…). What colors inspire you? What colors would you choose to represent yourself? What color would faith be?
Hey everyone. This Sunday I’m going to be leading our “Movies at Westwood” discussion on the movie Billy Elliot. It’s an awesome story about a boy who decides to take balet instead of becoming a boxer much to the displeasure of his father and family. You should come join us for lunch ($5) and the movie at 12:30 this Sunday. Hope to see you there.
What’s that you say? You want a weird indie-electro-pop song about Christmas? And you want it to have Star Wars figures in it and a bear eating one of the wise men? Well then your wish has come true… kinda.
May 30th: Youth Sunday @ 11am
May 30th: Where The Wild Things Are @ 12:30
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Hey everyone. This Sunday I’m going to be leading our “Movies at Westwood” discussion on the movie