why can we not be sober

"Do you want to take a test for me?"

"Sure, if you don't mind my failing it. Do you want to finish my SMP for me?"

"Sure, I've got lots of ideas."

"You can't use the word 'yellow'."

"..."

"That just took away fifty percent of your ideas, huh."

"More like seventy five."

I wonder what it would have been like if I told her she couldn't use 'Oriental' or 'bamboo'. I don’t think she'd have anything left to say at all.

Went to a lecture tonight about the significance of performative language in the Markan gospel in relation to invoking the divine, and how the Markan transfiguration story is all about Otherness and-- Okay. There was a lot of good stuff there, and I caught some of it, but my mind derailed right around the phrases "boneheaded disciples" and "zombie Jesus" because I started to imagine the rock band those two would form, and I never got quite back on track.

In other news, the Pope lives on. In comicbook form.