Pinatas - victims of child abuse.

Have you ever had a White Castle "hamburger"? Jeff introduced me to that "food" item on the way home from a trip to Indianapolis for Carb Day (the Friday before the Indy 500). My stomach was feeling better by bedtime on Saturday. I have NO idea why anyone would eat there twice, never mind get married there.

Michael Jackson was 50. Now Billy Mays...at 50. I've never felt this good about being 48.

Dr. Murphy and his Law visited at Pathway this morning. For no apparent reason iTunes locked up halfway through our second song. The preacher doesn't feel like he had his stuff this morning, and something went wrong with the recording system. I had downloaded the Mac version of Audacity, the sound editing program I used before. But something didn't work correctly; I think the message got recorded but Audacity froze and when I got home I couldn't do anything with the file. I admit to thinking the failure may have been God's grace at work, saving us all from a permanent digital record of a poor sermon.
By next week I will have learned Garage Band, Mac's preloaded sound editing program.

I told my class this morning the tentative lineup of songs for my Ruth musical. They didn't seem all that impressed. But I think they liked the song for when Boaz and his workers are threshing the crop:
"Beat It"

Billy Mays, dead at 50. Was it the bump on his head during the plane landing yesterday? Will we learn from an autopsy that he had the same kind of closed head injury that killed Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson's wife?
Pam says these things come in threes. But we've got four: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Micheal Jackson and now Billy Mays. We're either one over or two short.

Why did they make Alberquerque so hard so spell? Then again, how would you spell that phonetically?
What's the weirdest city name in the U.S.? I think Albakerky has to rate in the top ten. But as odd as it is people seem to know how to pronounce it. It's interesting to hear people from other parts of the country try to pronounce city names from Washington, where I grew up. Lots of Native American names like Puyallup (Pyoo-AL-up) and Sequim (Squim). And it's Spoe-CAN, not Spoe-CANE.
Does your home have place names that get mispronounced by the new weather reporter?

It's Sunday night, not the strongest evening on the TV schedule. I don't know that I've ever watched the BET Network, but we heard enough about their mad rush to rework the entire BET Award Show in light of Michael Jackson's death that it seemed like an interesting option. So that's what we're watching as I type this.

We're only 20 minutes into the show, but here are some preliminary observations:

• If a white guy said some of the things Jamie Foxx has already said we'd be hearing "Racist!!" from Al, Jesse and any other Black person who could get in front of a mic.
  
• Apparently Black guys who win an award need their posse to go on stage with them to accept it.
• It is NO coincidence that LeBron James (Best Black Athlete) had a posse member - one of two - wearing an "I Love NY" T-shirt. That was certainly not missed by b'ball fans in Cleveland or NY.
  
• And everybody knows Kobe should have rec'd that award anyway.

What's Al going to do in my absence? I'm feeling guilty for abandoning him for five days.

Tomorrow night's post from Denver, Deo Volente.