"Bernard, this is no time to play in the snow!"

Well, most of you on the East Coast know that we got some snow and ice over the week. Well, what you don't know is that Messiah College was closed on Wednesday. Yeah, it's true.



So I went outside in the snow with my friend Linda and here's some pictures.









































Hope you like them.

--Brandon

"Broken branches trip me as I step"

"I need an exit, I need an exit..."

Well, I've got a bone to pick with the city of Boston.

This'll be old news to most, but recently their was a bomb scare in Boston over some suspicious looking black boxes that were attached to some support beams on Interstate 93. City police and firefighters were tied up for many a minute while working on addressing the issue.

Well, in the end, the day was made safe from...an advertising campaign. That's right, people, the city of Boston was up in tizzy over black boxes which displayed an LED image of the popular Mooninite characters from the Cartoon Network show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It was blue, too. Bright blue.

Here's a photo:

Authorities said it looked threatening. I'll let you be the judge. They also said that it has an external battery source and had wires protruding, just likea homemade explosive. Wow, it seems that those are also the characteristics of grassroots-advertised LED displays! Whoops!


Also, these LED displays were placed in 8 other cities.......who had pretty much no idea that they were there. also, they didn't care. So when they were notified, I'm pretty sure that they just laughed and said, "Huh?" Even LA didn't wig out, and I'm sure that those people are just paranoid that someone will nuke their city and hope that Jack Bauer rears his head to save the day.

Needless to say Cartoon Network has since apologized and offered to pay compensation to Boston authorities. Also, just a few days ago, the head of Cartoon Network quit. He quit!!! So I just want to go on record as saying: "City of Boston, you owe this man his job."


I also wanted to post a video. This is a band called Guillemots. They are kind of a big deal.





--Brandon

"What does it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?"

"We can wipe you out anytime"

So funny story from today.

Still being psyched out of my brain from last night's Lost premiere, in my Genetics and Society class today, my professor asked what was up and going on with all of us. I mentioned some offhand comment about Lost being back on, to which he replied in a sort of unimpressed manner and he asked if I was a fan.

Then being in a bit of an argumentative mood, I replied that I thought it was the best show on TV, to which a few people in the class mumbled, "No....I don't think so."

Well, come on, people! You don't think it is, then tell me what you think is? Don't just mumble at me. Is it Grey's Anatomy? Bah, that show is proof that people will suck down dirt and drivel as long ABC can come up with as many "McDreamy, McSteamy, McDorkey, McHumpy" nicknames as possible. Maybe to reel in more viewers they can change the name...you know something like McRipoff...or McRehash.

Now if anyone had said "24", I may just be willing to recant my previous Lost statement.

I'm really such a snob sometimes. it was all in good fun honestly. You wanna watch Grey's Anatomy, then fine.


--Brandon

"Take my hand, 'cause we're walking right out of here"

"We're on a bridge, Charlie!"

Wow, 24 is a great show.

Also, in the ever continuing saga of compiling "Songs That Can Save The World" we have another entry. Let's recap for a bit.

Here are the songs so far:

1. "Bike" -> Pink Floyd
2. "Big Trucks" -> Pedro the Lion
3. "Killer Queen" -> Queen
4. "The Trapeze Swinger" -> Iron and Wine
5. "Made Up Lovesong #43" -> The Guillemots
6. "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!" -> Sufjan Stevens
7. "I'm a Cuckoo" -> Belle and Sebastian
8. "1000 Times A Day" -> The Early November



And now the new entry is......

"Dogs" by Damien Rice

She lives with an orange tree
The girl that does yoga
She picks the dead ones from the ground
When we come over

And she gives
I get
Without giving anything to me
Like a morning sun
Like a morning
Like a morning sun
Good good morning sun

The girl that does yoga
When we come over
Girl that does yoga

He lives in a little house
On the side of a little hill
Picks the litter from the ground
Litter little brother spills

He gives
I get
Without giving anything to me

And the dogs they run
And the dogs they
And the dogs they run
In the good good morning sun

Side of a little hill
Litter little brother spills
Side of a little hill

Oh and she's always dressed in white
She's like an angel, man
She burns my eyes
Oh and she turns
She pulls a smile
We drive her round
And she drives us wild
Oh and she moves like a little girl
I become a child, man
She moves my world
And she gets splashed in rain
And turns away
and leaves me standing

She lives with an orange tree
The girl that does yoga
Got a wolf to keep her warm
When he comes over

She gives
He gets
Without giving anything to see
And the day it ends
And the day it
And the day it ends
And there's no need for me

The girls that does yoga
When we come over
The girls that does yoga

Enjoy!


--Brandon

"Throw me in the fire, throw me in the fire."

"Now I'm free, now I'm free"

So I am continually humbled by the way that God continues to bless me.

He blessed me with 8 days of work ove the month of January, which was just about enough to let me be able to make it confortably through this semester. He blessed with some great roommates to live with until May. He blessed with parents who offer to dish out money on things that they really don't need to and who provide good examples for me with how they trust God to provide in their lives.

He's also blessed me with a great school and a great education that allows me to interact with facets of Christianity and really apply it to my life and the culture and environment that I live in.

Also, I read this verse today.

"If any man wishes to save his life, he will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake, he will find it." matthew 16:25

I think that that verse pretty much speaks for itself.

--Brandon

"This is really happening, happening"

Chuckle. Leave it to SNL to point out exactly how stupid Abigail Breslin's Oscar nomination is. Watch this video.

The skit comes at about halfway through, after Dan Radcliffe.



Dakota: I starred opposite Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds and I played a kidnapping victim in Man On Fire.

Abigail: I did a funny dance.


Awards shows are a joke. I mean, we are talking about the people who let Titanic and Return of the King sweep the awards for no other reason than because they were popular.

And don't even get me started on the Grammy's. Meaningless. They gave one to Milli Vinilli. MILLI.....VINILLI!!!!!!

--Brandon

"Your kung fu is not strong."