Chevrolet announced that their 2014 Impala will offer only bucket seats. As a result it will no longer be possible to buy a car in this country with a bench front seat. Impala was the last car with that option.
My '66 Rambler just shot up in value.
A gasoline company (Exxon?) for years used the slogan, "Tiger in your tank."
Based on today's performance at The Masters we could easily adapt that.
Tiger in the tank.
I read this today and thought if I'd had it 24 hours sooner it would have fit with last night's post:
"I feel rather strongly that it is not fear of death that prevents most people from achieving everything they want in life, but rather fear of looking ridiculous." - David E. Davis
The headline read, "Amanda Bynes arrested for DUI after hitting cop car."
OK, be honest. Do you have any idea who that is? I had to look it up. I still don't know.
I'm going to try again this year, although last time I only lasted about two weeks. I'm going to follow the AZ Diamondbacks. I'm going to learn the players' names and track the team's performance. I'll learn the pitchers' names and who the starters are. Maybe even the rotation. I'll start by figuring out which league and division they're in and the other teams in that division.
It's just that baseball plays so many games that any one of them is almost meaningless. Why care about tomorrow's D-backs outcome when it's one of 162 they'll play this season? And the games are soooooo sloooow. Never mind that they can't manage to get their underwear to fit without constant adjustment.
No, wait. I'm going to have a good attitude about this because it's the great American pastime. And I'm an American.
Tim Tebow is going to preach the Easter sermon at a big church in Texas. They're setting up bleachers in the outdoor meeting area to accomodate the 30,000 people they expect to attend.
And I'm going to start at QB for the Jets' season opener.
Why do people think preaching is just a matter of standing up and talking for 30 minutes or so about something religious?
It's called homiletics, the preparation and delivery of sermons. My Homiletics 101 students, college Juniors, spent the first eight weeks of the semester learning about writing good propositions, the three elements of an introduction, the different methodologies for exegetical, textual, and topical sermons, what makes an effective illustration.... They then spent the second half of the semester preaching practice sermons to each other. That was followed by three semesters of Preaching Labs where they learned and practiced some of the distinct types of sermons - doctrinal, life-situation, extemporaneous....
Don't misunderstand. I have no problem with Tebow speaking at a church service. But at the risk of self-promotion, to call what he will do preaching is to demean the work of thousands of us who have studied and learned the attendant skills, not to mention spending years in Bible study, including learning the original languages and the principles of biblical exegesis.
And forgive me for cynicism but it's hard not to see a marketing dimension to this effort.
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