two things. no, three!

My heart is torn up about what is continuing to happen at church. If the people who made this decision at church could hear people (grown men, even) crying in such a gutteral way from so much grief, I wonder if it would change their minds.

On another serious note, here is this wonderful clip.



On a happier note, David gets back from Japan today! He just texted that he landed. This is what he was filming there.

Big in Japan Teaser from John Jeffcoat on Vimeo.

15 authors

My answers to that thing going round on Facebook.

Name fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

1. Roald Dahl

2. CS Lewis

3. Beverly Cleary

4. Ann M. Martin

5. Flannery O'Connor

6. Dave Eggers

7. David Dark

8. M. Scott Peck

9. John Kennedy O'Toole

10. David Sedaris

11. Lorrie Moore

12. Marva Dawn

13. Aimee Bender

14. Walker Percy

15. Eugene Peterson

Token poet: e. e. cummings

kitties in sweaters

Yesterday I emailed this picture to Jona, Carrie and Simone, and their responses cracked me up.


Jona: "STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!

Simone: "AHHHHHHH! Who can be sad after they saw a kitten in a sweater? I keep telling Gregg that I feel like Marnie needs clothes. She's too much of a lady to be walking around nekkid."

Carrie (who has no link because she deleted her blog to the detriment of society): "IT HURTS SO GOOD! This reminds me of my cat I used to stuff into my 'Hot Looks' doll clothes. They were supermodel dolls and their clothes fit cats PURRFECTLY, even the socks and sunglasses. That cat was so pliable!"

Simone: "We use to put our cat in Cabbage Patch clothes. Their fat arm holes were perfect for a cat, though Tootsie shouldn't have been wearing dresses because he was male."

Jona: said "We used to put our cat in the mailbox. Not to be mean to the cat, to be mean to the mailman."

the acts 29 philosophy on church planting

This is unfortunately all too true. This is their formula.

linkapalooza

1. The most messed up Craigslist ad I've seen in awhile.

2. I am going to watch this today if I can get the kids to stay quietly in another room, it's a 1973 movie John and Yoko funded and it was banned for 30 years, just got rereleased in 2007. My friend Nathan said it was at the peak of the psychadelia movement, before everyone started slouching towards Bethlehem.



3. I can't wait for this to come to Seattle! It contains my beloved Neil Hamburger.

tennis pro in tokyo

fun with foster

Here is a recent IM conversation with Mike Foster. He said he took screenshots too and asked if I would post them, and I will, but he hasn't sent them yet. Anyway, I'm posting this because if anyone thinks I'm a mocker and a scoffer I want them to please let me know. I need people to call me out on that kind of thing.