Cartoonist Doug TenNapel has reached a million hits on his blog, and (if I understand correctly) has retired from posting. Good luck, Doug. I’ll miss you. Your blog was one of my daily treats.
Another treat (though not daily) is Yucky Salad With Bones, a Minnesota blog. It’s not the kind of blog I ordinarily like, being mostly day-to-day reports of family life written by the mother. But this woman has such a mordant sense of humor I can’t resist her. She’s my kind of gal. Unfortunately she’s already married.
I’m not doing Halloween. Instead of putting out a pumpkin I’m hiding my house light under a bushel. I have two main reasons:
1. I consider it prudent for any unmarried, middle-aged man to avoid contact with children as much as possible.
2. The Wiccans have pretty much appropriated the festival, aided and abetted by Christians. As I’ve said before, I don’t believe in magic and I don’t believe in witchcraft. But that doesn’t mean I want to encourage these people. I can remember when Halloween was fun. I can remember a lot of things that aren’t true anymore.
I pretty much agree with Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost. Especially on Jack Chick.
Happy Reformation Day!
Aw. But you could dress up as a Viking and threaten to decapitate people!
We’re in hiding too. Though I was busted by one family who caught me herding my two smallest in from the car (had to go to violin lessons). Unfortunately, they asked me whatever it was they asked me in Spanish and the only word I understood was Aqui’. I fear I was unspeakably rude… Ah well.
Halloween doesn’t sit well with me, and my wife dislikes it a lot. Standing behind a witch in the grocery store a year or so ago and hearing her talk about how wonderful the dark day was for her doesn’t inspire me either.
But I have tried to be brave. One year we distributed candy to several cute kids.