PurpleRain

used to be my favorite song as a kid. Yeah, the one by Prince.
I just found out today that purple is a new gang color here. How weird. And how sad that teens here grow up in a world where gangs are a real part of everyday life. Every day I hope they know that this is only one very small part of a very big world. Violence, dissension, and enemies have always existed, AND so have love, peace, and true friendship.

I have the monopoly on God's Will.....

Found on www.sojo.net (a favorite website of mine): "Last week, televangelist Pat Robertson offended Jews and fellow conservatives with speculations that God was punishing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for withdrawing Israeli settlers from Gaza. Now, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has apologized following Martin Luther King Jr. Day remarks that "God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country."
God is displeased with our government as well as with divisions in the African-American community, asserted Nagin, who said that God "doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely [God] is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
In response to predictions that New Orleans' black population - once 67% - will not be able to return, Nagin generated further contoversy by saying, "It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.... This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be." He later attempted to diffuse those comments by telling a CNN affiliate, "How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about."

I'll comment later, but really, does that even NEED a comment? sheesh.

Confessions

I realize now that hating technology (see yesterda) is soooooo year 2000. Forgive me for my sins. I've seen the light.

I have a blog...

but i'm not telling anyone I know.

Ironies:

• Last year at this time I was in seminary studying to be a minister. A typical day: reading old white theologians and criticizing them for being old and white; reading new theology by anyone more politically correct and postmodern and worshipping them together with my classmates. This year I am work in the sex ed field. A typical day: showing teens how to put condoms on penis models and explaining what a dental dam is. "Please don't open and lick the flavored condoms just to see what they taste like!

• I hate technology; our IT consultant at work told my boss to get me a typewriter or be prepared to go out of business spending all her $ on my computer snaffoos. I have kept journals religiously since I was 15 (I'm almost 27...3 weeks!) and shunned those who spend any free time at all in front of anything with a glowing screen. I now have a blog.

• I am becoming either less ironic or less creative, because that's all i can think of right now. guilt has set in for staring at a computer screen. and reruns of law and order beckon. ha ha.

I have a blog...but please don't tell anyone I know, in case I want to bitch about them here.