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Can't Believe People Enjoy This

One of the most popular songs of the year is Crank Dat Soulja Boy by Soulja Boy and I am completely horrified by it. It's so popular it's started a dancing crave equal to the Macarana. Soulja Boy impressively built his fame through the use of the internet, primarily myspace. Watch the Video, scroll the lyrics after you've check out the definition of "superman that ho" according to the Urban Dictionary. The numerous videos that have been posted with young children dancing to this song... I try not to get offended too quickly by culture, but this is ridiculous.




Soulja Boy - Crank Dat Soulja Boy (Lyrics)
(yoouuuuuu!!!)
soulja boy tell em
ayy i got this new dance fo yall called tha Soulja Boy
(yuaaaaaa!!!)
u gotta punch den crank back three times from left 2 right
(aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh yuuuuaaaaaa!!!)

Soulja Boy Up In dis hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
den Super Man Dat hoe
Now watch me youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Soulja Boy Up In dis hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
den Super Man Dat hoe
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Soulja Boy up In dis hoe
Watch Me Lean And Watch Me Rock
Super Man Dat Hoe
Then Watch Me Crank Dat Robocop
Super Fresh, Now Watch Me Jock
Joccin' On dos Haterz Man
When I Do Dat Soulja Boy
I Lean To The Left And Crank Dat Thang
(Now Youuuuuuu)
I'm Joccin' on yo bitch ass
And If We Get To Fightin
Den im coccin' on yo bitch ass
You Catch Me At Yo Local Party
Yes I Crank It Everyday
Haterz Get Mad Cuz
I Got Me Some Bathin Apes

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
den Super Man Dat Hoe
Now watch me Youuuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me youuuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
den Super Man Dat Hoe
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now watch me Youuuuuuu
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

I'm Bouncin On My Toe
Watch Me Super Soak Dat Hoe
I'ma Pass It To Arab

Then He Gon Crank it up for sho (sho)
Haterz Wanna Be Me
Soulja Boy, I'm The Man
They Be Lookin At My Neck
Sayin'Its da rubberband man (man)
Watch Me Do It (Watch Me Do It)
Dance (Dance)
Lean'N To (Lean'N To)
Nope,You Can't Do It Like Me
Hoe, So Don't Do It Like Me
Folks, I See You Tryna Do It Like Me
Man That Shit Was Ugly

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now I Leave YOOOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

All too clean off in dis hoe
Watch me crank it watch me roll
Watch me crank dat roosevelt den supa soak dat hoe(yooouuu)
supa soak dat hoe(supa soak dat hoe)
supa soak dat hoe(supa soak dat hoe)
supa soak dat hoe(supa soak dat hoe)
supa soak dat hoe(supa soak dat hoe)

All too fresh off in dis bitch
Watch me shuffle watch me jig
Watch me crank dat Soulja Boy
Den supaman dat bitch(yooouuu)
supaman dat bitch(supaman dat bitch)
supaman dat bitch(supaman dat bitch)
supaman dat bitch(supaman dat bitch)
(ahhhhhhhhhhhhh YOOOUUUU)

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now I Leave YOOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Soulja Boy Up In dis Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now I Leave YOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now I Leave YOOUUU
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

(YOOOUUUUU)

(Ahhhhhhhhhh YOOUUUUU)

I love this...

Hopefully you've seen this. I had it e-mailed to me a while back, but suddenly felt the urge to post it here.
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Quoting Other's Quotes

A lot of the other blogs I read have been posting some really good quotes lately. In fact one blog I read is a quote a day, sometimes beneficial for me that day and sometimes not, but lately...
Anyways I thought I'd share a few with you, actually more than a few. Here you go...enjoy:

From Josh Harris’s blog

J. I. Packer's book Knowing God:
"What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it--the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is not moment when his eye is off me, or his attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when his care falters.
This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort--the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates--in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me."--Knowing God, pages 41-42

"God did not teach us the reality of His rule in order to give us an excuse for neglecting His orders." - J. I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God, page 34

"The great weapon with which the disciples of Jesus set out to conquer the world was not a mere comprehension of eternal principles; it was an historical message, an account of something that had recently happened, it was the message, 'He is risen.'" -- J. Gresham Machen, Christianity & Liberalism, page 28

"The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of redemption--both for mankind and for the earth. Indeed, without Christ's resurrection and what it means--an eternal future for fully restored human beings dwelling on a fully restored Earth--there is no Christianity." -- Randy Alcorn, Heaven, page 109

"Someday you will read or hear that Bill Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive then than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God." -- Billy Graham

From Tim Stevens’ Blog

"When we engage with art, whether it be a piece of literature, a painting, or a movie, we have every right, and even an obligation, to read into it truths and insights that go beyond anything that the artist intended." by Gareth Higgins, How Movies Helped Saved My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films

From Of First Importance

“It is a proud spirit, that will not let grace be exalted, but puts self, in the throne of Christ, and his righteousness. It is a filthy and abominable spirit, and pollutes the man more and more: and God abhors it, as that which contradicts his most glorious plot.” - Ralph Erskine, “Law-Death, Gospel-Life”

“To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.” -John Owen, The Glory of Christ (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1994), 34.

“The more we dwell where the cries of Calvary can be heard the more noble our lives become. Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.” - Charles Spurgeon

“We are never at peace with God till we resolve to be loved in Jesus Christ.” - John Calvin, The French Confession of Faith (1559), Article XVIII

“The gospel of Jesus Christ is as wide as human diversity and as deep as human complexity.”- David Powlison, Seeing With New Eyes (Phillipsburg, PA: P & R Publishing, 2003) 162.

“There are differences in the ways the New Testament writers present the facts, but there can be no doubt that for the New Testament writers as a whole it was the cross that was at the heart of the faith. In the literal sense of the term it was ‘crucial’.
We are saved, not by some fine theory and not by some blinding revelation and certainly not by our own best effort, but by Christ’s atoning death.
Therefore, any really serious attempt to understand the Christian way must begin with the cross. Unless we come to see what the cross means we do not understand Christianity.” - Leon Morris, The Atonement

“Fellowship with Christ is so honorable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it.” - Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), 255.

“So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.” - Octavius Winslow, The Foot of the Cross

From J.R. Briggs' blog

"We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world." -G.K. Chesterton

I Want This...

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NFL Picks...Week 12

New Orleans at Carolina = New Orleans
Houston at Cleveland = Cleveland
Oakland and Kansas City = Oakland
Seattle at St. Louis = St. Louis
Tennessee at Cincinnati = Cincinnati
Washington at Tampa Bay = Tampa Bay
Buffalo at Jacksonville = Jacksonville
Minnesota at New York Giants = New York Giants
San Fransico at Arizona = Arizona
Baltimore at San Diego = San Diego
Denver at Chicago = Denver
Philadelphia at New England = New England
Miami at Pittsburgh = Pittsburgh

Happy Thanksgiving

Well I'm sitting fat and happy now.
My momma went all out in her new kitchen this year. This has been the first Thanksgiving in my parent's new home that they had built and moved into only a couple months ago.
We had a turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, corn cassarole, green bean cassarole, monkey bread and even more. Also my mom baked a huge apple pie, a peacan pie, a pumpkin pie (which she forgot to add the sugar...disappointment, but I love you mom), and a cherry pie. Awesome!
Oh and my dad went out and bought a few pounds of shrimp, which I love. Thanks dad.
Chelsy and Cayla were home. Todd and his children, Haley, Jacob and Rebekah were also here (I say here because I'm typing on my mom's laptop while everyone is bloating in the living room).
And my friend William came too.
It's been a good day. Chelsy's trying to talk me into going to see The Mist with her...do I want to go. I guess we'll find out.

Well I going to grab another Dr. Pepper and join the family.

Happy Thanksgiving...God is Good.
-T-

Creative Christmas

Granger Community Church created this promo for their Christmas series. I love it. I can't wait to watch these online.

How cool does Cate Blanchett look as Bob Dylan in the up-coming bio-pic I'm Not There?
I'm on the verge of saying she's the greatest actor, not just of our time, but ever.
There I said it...on the verge.
-T-

Sadness

This story makes me incredibly sad.
Three boys, 8 and 9, charged with raping 11 year-old girl
I'm sure as time passes and details come there might be some commentary on this, but for now there is nothing good in this story.

It's Coming...

Listen to some of the album at Steven's myspace.

Check out this video of "Ruin of the Beast"

The Science Behind It...

Faith and Science have been in the news lately.

First: (click HERE for story)
An astronomer from the University of Memphis, named Gerrit Verschuur, has a theory that would complete with fairly recent studies that were supposed to solidify the Big Bang theory. It deals with hydrogen gases and cosmic seeds. I'm not scientificly gifted so maybe you can think this through better than me, but it seemed significant.

Second: (click HERE for story)
Apparently a student from Oregon State named Bobby Henderson created the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical psuedo-diety. The FSM is growing in pop culture fame and challenges the faith behind the creationist theory. It's actually a great argument. Check it out.

Happy Slaps-giving!

I just watched last week's How I Met Your Mother. A couple of thoughts:

1. I'm still not sure what Canadians celebrate on their Thanksgiving.

2. I've never been slapped on my face in my life nor slapped anyone (not very manly), but for some reason really wonder what that's like. I'm thinking of making a slaps bet with someone.

3. 41 still seems old, so that makes me feel young.

and

4. I want to say "Sugar me baby" sometime. Next date, good or bad (I'm sure if I say this it'll be bad, but totally worth it).

Pure Awesome-ness!

How incredibly cool are these backpacks? I seriously think I might have to buy one of these. I'm leaning towards the Yoda, because it allows one to reminisce about The Empire Strikes Back, whereas I can't recall any of the Star Wars movies where Chewbacca rode around on some one's back.

Yoda backpack

Chewbacca backpack

Drug PSAs

Mental Floss dot com posted some 80's drug PSA's.
One with the Ninja Turtles.
One with Robocop
The classic "I learned it from you!"
And
As you watch the last one can't you hear Leigh Nash singing There She Goes?

Clikc HERE

Hero me this...

I'm not a big Guitar Hero fan, for about the same reason I don't play an actual instrument. But THIS is something I'm interested in.

Best Campaign Video Ever!

Blended Chuck

Model Behavior

Today was a great day. I woke up this morning still on a high from the evening with Rob Bell (which I'll post about probably tomorrow). Actually I woke a little late since me alarm clock had reset due to a power outage/flicker on Saturday and I failed to notice.
Anyways at church our communion time (which I should post about sometime, because I love it so much) involved the presentation of fresh produce by individuals that will be delivered to needing families this week. There was a produce section down the center of our church worship center, spread out on our communion tables. We recognized our shared meal with Christ that must be demonstrated and opened to our community.
The message today was delivered by Randy Frazee (via video as always). Randy is the candidate for the senior ministry position at Oak Hills Church relieving Max Lucado, who is transitioning into our writing and teaching pastor. Randy is coming from Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL where he "oversees the development of community through the neighborhood initiative, as well as overseeing several areas of the church including Community Care, Membership and Spiritual Discovery." I was highly impressed with Randy and the presentation of his story. (More on him in a minute).
After church I went to lunch with William Hass and two friends of his from Midland/Odessa named Todd and Matt. They were in town to help celebrate William's birthday and to attend a NickleCreek concert in Austin. We went to Thai Spice, a local Thai restaurant that just about everyone I know enjoys. I got the same thing I get every time I go there.
After lunch we said goodbye to Matt and Todd who headed back to Midland and William and I went to G.R.A.S.P. A local ministry that the church donated the produce to and with the college/singles (I hate these titles) community group we helped organize and build baskets of food to be delivered this week.
From there William, Chris (our church's associate who oversees the H.S. ministry) and I went to Chili's where apparently William has a tradition we had to fulfill. From there we went back to church, watched last weeks episode of The Office on the big screens, and then reorganize the chairs and tables in the worship center. The online episode of The Office had these really catchy commercials from Target that were stuck in mine and Williams head. Two guys dancing to a song in there head, while moving furniture...why and I sharing this?
This evening we at Journey had some time with Randy, who spent most of the morning at the Crownridge campus. Randy speaks very clearly and with an incredible amount of authenticity. I feel as if I already know him. There was a meet and greet afterwards in the community center. I chitchatted with Max and Randy a little and I'm am unbelievable impressed with their integrity and humility.
It challenges me on the kind of man I desire God to mold me into. Authentic. Humble. Compassionate. Skillful.

NFL Picks...Week 11

Carolina at Green Bay = Green Bay

Oakland at Minnesota = Oakland

San Diego at Jacksonville = San Diego

Arizona at Cincinnati = Cincinnati

Kansas City at Indianapolis = Indianapolis

New Orleans at Houston = New Orleans

New York Giants at Detroit = Detroit

Cleveland at Baltimore = Cleveland

Miami at Philadelphia = Philadelphia

Tampa Bay at Atlanta = Tampa Bay

Pittsburgh at NewYork Jets = Pittsburgh

Chicago at Seattle = Seattle

Washington at Dallas = Dallas

St. Louis at San Fransico = St. Louis

New England at Buffalo = New Englang

Tennessee at Denver = Denver