It has been one of those weeks already; and by already it is only Tuesday morning.
I am in the middle of my dieting process and all I want is HomeSlice pizza. Scratch that, all I want is food. Any food would do at this point. My little girls Teddy Grahams looked amazing this morning. I mentioned this to someone, that I thought allot about food now. They’re response was “why? oh no why do you do that to yourself?” Um, it is not like I choose cognitively to do it. I would say this is like an addiction and I am trying to get clean.
I feel sorry for all the addicts out there is Internets land, I do.

So for all of us addicts, me and my  food, you and your whatever is ailing you, drugs, sex or rock-n-roll. I am going to have George Harrison pray over us with this little song that will set the mood.

Also this week: News I already knew about & a Healthcare bill I am interested in and want to know more about sans spin from either party.

We have this controversy now with the uber rightwing republicans, who tend to be most of my audience.

Obama! Obama! Just the mention of his name and noses curl, shivers of cold and tingles go down some of your spines.
Meh, lets try it on me.  Obama! When I say it I don’t think “Oh my God I have got to get out of here!” anymore than I did when Bush was at the helm. However, SS Clinton needs to get on the horn with Benjamin Netanyahu and make sure he knows we love them Jew Boys. No matter how dumb it is that they are jacking with the Middle East peace process from Obama’s perspective. We love you ‘Gods Chosen peeps’ and we would love to think that we are also ‘chosen peeps” by association! Please smile on us as we criticize you!

There were pro-Palestinian rallies in Austin Last week. Almost didn’t make the news. An Israeli band played and people threw things like rocks and insults. WTF! I am sorry, This is my town, you don’t throw rocks. Insults; fine especially if your music sucked! Of cores it didn’t suck but it is cool for you to have that opinion! I mean everyone knows Klezmer Jew rock kicks butt! The church neighbor shouts insults every Sunday morning just about.

It is all fun and games till someone gets an eye put out I am telling you.

(Hand in the air like I don’t want to hear your rebuttal … but of cores I do.
Here is one of the bands from Jerusalem ISRAEL that just played SXSW. Orphaned Land (my dad does this thing when you can tell he is not sold on something, he stretches out the skin between his nose and the top of his lip and says ”Interesting”.. can you see me doing that right now?)

The phone lines are open comment away.
Ok first caller…

OK and now for dumb. I am children’s guy at church. Don’t read “dirty old pervert” into that. No, I am over the Kids area of church, one could say children’s pastor but I think the word pastor should be reserved for one who thinks of them selves as “called” to it or as in “this is my life’s calling”. And for me it is not, and I think the term pastor just sounds dirty. Nothing bad about that, I love what I do but I could do like 27 other things and be just as happy. Sounds like I am making excuses and maybe I am.
I just so happen to not relate to adults very well so they stick me with the kids.
So I like kid type things; NAMELY, ADULT CARTOONS.

And by adult I do not mean like any thing unspeakable. I can imagine if you add “Adult” as a prefix to anything it automatically means all the vice you can handle. No. I like South Park ok. I think it is cleverly written. Some of the topics they approach are just huge and they always seem to do a decent job of poking fun and raising awareness (such a hippie green term, ‘raising awareness’) of the touchiest subject. I also like Family Guy. It is not as clever or outrageous but it still makes me laugh like the honeymooners probably did for someone my age a generation back.
My point and what I want to tell you about. A few weeks back there was an episode where there was a threat of showing an image of the prophet Mohammad. All kinds of bad things were going to happen if this actually happened and the best thing for the community to do was to ignore it, but not just to ignore it. The solution they came up with was to stick their heads in sand. That way there would be no way they could be accused of seeing the cartoon of the prophet. Brilliant writing!

Have you ever been so stinking good at some thing that it turned out to be a bad thing? I don’t like to toot my own horn but, oh who am I kidding yes I do. I think I would rather toot my horn than having someone else toot it for me. I am just kidding. I was never good at being in front of people. Every one is like what that is a crock you are funny as all get out in front of people, Yeah but it is always me acting as another character. The thing is my act would probably be better suited to the Chappell show if it were still on. Not that is that funny but it might be that controversial. So if any one has ideas of how to step off of a character, I am open for pointers. So I mentioned this program we call the Buzz at church. I love the fact that I like what I do at church so much that is to me more of a hobby and a chance to make people say my God how does Karina live with him? It is like my hobby and not so much drudgery. I always hated and I realize Hate the word is big and mean, but yeah hated church for all its rules. Now that I have an inch I think I might have done the Christian thing to do and went the Extra Mile!

I love my church, and for me to say that is a milestone in my Christian development, or so I’d like to think.

So what is my point? I don’t know I just wanted to write something. I want my blog to be a place where you can come, read through and get a kick out of something. Not a place where I just use as therapy, to spill all my angst. I realize that that little confidentiality agreement that the paid therapist agreement includes is really what is the world needs. Somewhere to unload and have the law on your side as far as your crap. So I’ll save all my crap for the Dr. Ha no I wont I am way too cheap for a Dr. I will let it build up and then I will snap one day and I will be found snagged in barbed wire fencing some where in western Kansas. I will be there with my drum and what is left of the pain med’s I got from my last dentist appointment, just rocking back and forth unable to speak, not knowing if what I feel is pain or the lack thereof. At least I know where and how I could end up right? Sweet thanks that is what I needed was that my god this guys on crack look.

No it is not crack. It is some energy drink I got the other day, it tasted like flat soda and it was in a tiny can. Royal Lion or something. I need another one I can tell. This would all start making since if I only had another one. Why did I only buy one? Stink why do I do this to my self. Oh where is my drum? Am starting to feel all primitive and …

I have some new friends! That is a big deal when you are married and rarely get out of the house. These guys are all in a band called the professional Americans. They rock. So James Jason and Corbin have just moved to our fare city to expand the waistline of their bands pants and they are all going to our church. That is great because the new worship guy Eddie needs a great band to back him up. Corbin has blog on here to. Scroll down to a picture of a house I am guessing they seen while here in the ATX finding a place to live. I thought it was kind of back woods MO funny. It is like a house made onto a bus. The whole thing made me think of Bolder City and this place my grandpa used to have out there. I loved this old trailer w/no phone and this big Texaco sign that had been welded into a table. My gramps is buried on a hillside opposite this old place. The trailer has long since been torn down and now I think it has some cows grazing there.

I remember going out there one early fall morning with my Pop in his old truck. There used to be a tiny little store there on the corner and we would get grape soda and Rocky road candy bars. Sweet memories.

It is amazing to me how much I can love where I came from and feel no present connection to it other than the same feeling you get when you see a movie. Every one would have a different movie and mine would have elements O’ Brother where the heck are ya’. Thanks for letting me get all misty for a second. Do you ever wonder though what our ancestors would be like if they were in our situations? I think would my Holiness Pentecostal Grandfather get why I am doing what I am? Could he accept me in my post Christian environment?

Yeah this all goes over like a ham sandwich in a synagogue with my mom. I asked her what she thought in the same context. Maybe my tone was too condescending. I don’t mean to make it like a sci-fi movie and we are crossing the bridge to see the “elders” that are like Zombies that are so just, dead and I wish I could shake them awake. No I wish I could transform my self into a leader they would follow. They follow like Hitler’s Generals, no problem. If I could some how get back into the image. I could even stop wearing my hair cool and I would lead them slowly out. It would have to be so carefully executed as to never reveal what was going on. I would hate to cause a revert. We have seen reversions, * they never go well. It would be bad if that happened it could become Militant. I don’t want to get hurt, heck no I am anti war. Let me say that I did not have either a W or a W-crossed through on my car. It just looks like it is a side taken. Are you Blue or grey? What they freed the saves? Great oden’s Raven! Democrats-Republicans, Sinners-Saints, Super doper Saints – lower case saints. I do what I believe not necessarily what the crowd of people with cars like me do! I have indecently never seen a Volvo wagon with a pro-Busch sticker. And if you drive a Suburban and you are Democrat that is just funny to me.

Ok I have to go now. I am gonna be in so much trouble.

Hey it is the weekend! We are only now 2 weeks away from vacation and man am I ready or what!

I am involved on every level at church and it is just time for a day off that is for dang sure. We wanted something to really do the summer up and make it a little more exciting for the kids as our main Kids deal takes a break over the summer. So we were brain storming and I have this bright idea that we should have a mascot for the kids dept. Right on what kids dept. at what cool church would not want t a freaking cool mascot? We never had one when I grew up. I would have thought that was the coolest ever. So we are thinking about what to have for this mascot and I again am the only one with the ideas come up with the moose! Moose? Yes of course, why not it is totally marketable. Abercrombie has a moose on every thing they make now, J.C. Penny has a moose on some their kid clothing and best of all I frequent a out door gear head website called Moosejaw, and I am constantly wearing the shirts and buying them for the other volunteers at church why not? So every now and then we are all wearing the shirts at the same time. I had people thinking I owned the place, which would be nice but man talk about the free ad space. Any who so we have the Moose as a Mascot. Well you cant call something a mascot unless you have a life sized one? And where the heck are we going to find a moose in central TX? I’ll tell you where up my butt maybe. There aren’t any. Not even dead stuffed ones and who wants that so I said we could get a moose head like a stuffed animal (like a plush toy, not an actual stuffed Moose. Gosh RELAX) so where are we going to find something like that? Well we looked and looked and we can’t find any thing especially not with in our budget. So I say I know I’ll make the damn thing, I need some fur and a batting helmet and a big bouncy ball and I need some SPRAY ADHESIVE!!! Yee Haw. So I make the whole moose head and now guess what. I have to go at least 2 nights every week to kids homes. With the moose being worn by a donor and another person to video. So we do these little promo videos and do them every week and man I am wishing I had Jell-O for brains the next brainstorming party we have I think I am going to stand in the kitchen and eat all the pizza I can fit into my head and then be sick and preoccupied with sports or something, and I hate sports for the most part. Anything to get me and my big mouth out of the way, to keep it from spilling what someone will think would be cool, especially if I took my idea and ran with it and then let them video me. Once you set a precedent it sucks trying to live then up to it and maintain the crazy thing.

So in a second I am off to do two videos in the greater Austin Area. Can’t wait.

Well I love you all and check out my review section I put something on there in the music department that will shake your preconceived ideals of what good reggae should look like to the core. Amen

Well keep whatever faith you have for the weekend. Don’t let the pairs of mildly good-looking men with their pocket protectors and short-sleeved white oxford shirts deceive you. At least not until like Tuesday. The weekend is just a bad time to convert. Better to do it in the middle of the work week.

Ok i am out. Tell yer momma-n-em I said love um, Kay?