I would have to raise my hand to that after today.
A simple mental mistake and 20,000 people see an email from IFCJ that looks like it is for Truth For Life. Basically I entered data into two fields incorrectly and suddenly big mistake Indy, big mistake.
I stayed an extra hour to clean up the mess. Well I won't be doing that again.
Let's all join our pathos as one, what's your biggest at work screw up.
Actually not Mexican radio, since my computer came from China and my microphone is made in the good old US of A. I am now a podcaster.
My college roomate Jim Neely and I are have put together a few episodes of a beer podcast called Your Next Beer. The idea is we talk for less than 15 minutes about a particular beer we think you might like. Then the next week we say if you liked last weeks beer, we think you might like this beer. It is a way for people who think they like beer to drink some new kinds of beer.
It has been a lot of fun to bring together the gadgets and software to record the podcast. I'll be doing the obligatory post later on. Until then head over to Your Next Beer we have two episodes up, subscribe listen and enjoy.
Brenda has a new home. We don't shred the hamster, don't worry.
I'm going to keep this short, because when CNN is doing searches on Amazon for the word "nappy" the end must be near.
They found 160 song entries for "nappy" probably because there is a group called the Nappy Roots, but no one seemed to raise the same uproar when then had a few hits. Nor did anyone say anything when Ludacris' song "Area Codes" that starts of, "I got hoes, I got hoes in different area codes," became a hit.
These songs might be equally offensive to women, but then why does the National Runaway Switchboard honor Luda? And where were the outcries when SNL aired the Racist Word Association sketch? I understand this was aired more than 25 years ago, but what is said in this sketch has been relegated to letter-word status, i.e. the F-word or the N-word.
I'm not defending Imus, what we said was stupid and over the line, but that happens in comedy shows. A few years ago a host down here in Washington, D.C. referred to Jewish people as "Heebs" his two Jewish co-hosts quickly corrected him that "Heebs" is not appropriate. He now has a nationally syndicated show. Where was the anti-defamation league?
If comedians can get suspended for offending a racial or gender group then say goodbye to Chris Rock, Carlos Mencia and Jeff Foxworthy. I would say you would also have to say goodbye to Margaret Cho, but no one things she's funny anyway.
I understand words have implications and it is important we think before we speak, but if there is no room for forgiveness and benefit of the doubt on what amounts to a 4 hour a day, every day improv show, then the words that people will use will start to be lowest common denominator words that aren't fun and don't make us think. We are on the way to becoming doubleplusgood duckspeakers.
The Washington Post sent a world renowned classical musician into the Metro, and some interesting things happened.
Posting some reflections on Holy Week services. We sang, "Crown Him with Many Crowns." I was thinking of the dichotomy between Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his exit just a few days later.
My first thought was that this was the same crowd that calls for Jesus death and ushers him to death instead of a throne. Then I thought a bit more and I think it is yet another example where Jesus did not act according to the World's expectations.
Jesus did leave Jerusalem triumphant, not over temporal powers but over Sin and Death. This was not the triumph the crowd shouting "Hosanna" wanted, but it is the one they needed.
