Video Blogs
There’s really only one way to discuss Video Blogs. And that’s by making a Video Blog. Thus, The GBOAT presents: … Continue reading Video Blogs
A Post About A Christian Athlete
Today’s post is the first from my good friend Chandler. Chandler is a pastor-in-training who works with college students. Along with being a solid dude, he is also funny sometimes and also enjoys writing. Therefore, it just makes sense for him to start writing semi-regularly for The Greatest Blog Of All Time.
You can follow Chandler on Twitter, and you can read his semi-serious, rarely updated blog as well.
My goal for this year was to write more often, and to write more humorous stuff. I’m thankful for the GBOAT and the opportunity to have a place to do that. I wrote a post about the movie Space Jam for this blog that I really enjoyed writing and hopefully will be run soon. But this whole thing came up, and it just felt way more important to me, so this one is, as we like to say, “real talk.”
So, stop me if you’ve heard this one before – hot shot baseball prospect. Gets drafted, then loses everything – his career, his family, almost his life – because of drugs and alcohol. He meets Jesus, cleans his life up, and becomes an All-Star and wins an MVP award. He lives happily ever after, because that’s what Jesus does, right? He gets you out of a jam and fulfills your wildest fantasies and everything is ok after that…right?
Well, that’s what happened in this story.
Sort of.
Blake Can Jump
In case you don’t follow sports, this happened this week:
Pretty cool, I guess.
Blake Griffin is a big man who can jump really high. A lot of people understand how this concept works. However, it’s rare that this concept works so very, very well when executed.
As well as there being a guy in the way, Blake’s head was at the rim. Sure, Blake is 6’10. He’s no shorty. But the rim is still 10 feet in the air. That means that he had to get AT LEAST three feet in the air.
Think about that. That’s a full yard. A man much larger than us jumped a full yard in the air.
Now the debate has started over whether Blake’s dunk was the greatest in-game dunk of all time. It’s hard to say, really. There are some great dunks to choose from.
Let’s take a look at a few, shall we?
El Camino
Innovation requires sacrifice. This principle has long stood true. To really be an innovator, one must sacrifice what is commonly accepted in favor of something new, sometimes bizarre, and always risky.
Car makers, however, are just awful at this. Instead of sacrificing the norm in favor of things like better fuel efficiency and the ability to fly, they continue to assume that what must be sacrificed is sanity.
And we end up with things like this:
Small Talk For Beginners – A Guest Post By Stephen Haggerty
A few weeks back, I received a Facebook friend request from Stephen Haggerty. I thought, “Huh, I’m not really familiar with this guy. Should I-OH WAIT look at his beard. Okay, we’re friends.”
And that is really all you need to know about Stephen. But here’s more info: he’s hilarious and poignant with his writing at The Bearded Idealist, and he also is half of an awesome musical duo with his wife, called The New Old Fashions. That’s the band name, not his wife’s name.
Today, Stephen has provided those of us with poor conversation skills with this handy guide: Small Talk For Beginners.
Dylan had it right- you don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. And do you know why not? Because odds are you’ll get hit with the weekend forecast before you can make it from your front door to your car in the morning.
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Smart Phones
Communication has finally advanced to a point where communication isn’t necessary.
Since the early days of telecommunication, the goal has always been to bring people together; help them connect. Now it has advanced so far, and people are so connected, that there is no need to deal with people at all.
Surely this was the future Samuel Morse envisioned when he sent the message “What hath God wrought?” to officially open the first telegraph line.
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