Flannelgraph Jesus is not sure he has the “secret message” down yet.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The Adventures of Flannelgraph Jesus
Flannelgraph Jesus has been reading some new books and visiting some new blogs. He heard something about a “secret message” he was supposed to have, and he wants to make sure it gets shared with all the people.
Flannelgraph Jesus is not sure he has the “secret message” down yet.
Flannelgraph Jesus is not sure he has the “secret message” down yet.
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You forgot - "Blessed are they who Emerge with facial hair for they shall birth a movement." or maybe - "blessed are they who sport Gotees for they shall be Blue, Like Jazz."
Guys, get with the progrum.
Everybody knows that the Soul Patch is the new Gotee.
It would be helpful to know more about you so others could successfully mock you with sarcastic whit. I like your stuff, but your hidden identity doesn't say much for your use of satire which is quite good. Step up, show yourself and open yourself up for a little satire yourself.
Greg wrote, "It would be helpful to know more about you so others could successfully mock you with sarcastic whit."
How often to I get such an offer? Now there's a man who knows how to motivate!
He also wrote: "I like your stuff, but your hidden identity doesn't say much for your use of satire which is quite good."
Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not sure how anonymity either adds to or detracts from satire in any way or on any level. Is satire better when we know who wrote it? Was the 1996 political novel "Primary Colors" in any way improved when we all learned that it written by Joe Who-The-Heck-Is-He Klein?
The history of anonymous and pseudonymous satire is long and storied. One thinks especially of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver’s Travels" in this regard, which was at first published anonymously, various now-forgotten sequels by others were published both anonymously and pseudonymously. I'd like to consider my miniscule contribution but an unworthy homage to this honorable tradition.
Greg finally wrote, "Step up, show yourself and open yourself up for a little satire yourself."
And this from someone who does not yet use even a fake picture of himself on his profile.
Well, I'm torn between disappointing you by disclosing my identity so you can discover that I'm actually a nobody, and disappointing you by declining your generous offer to roast me over a fire of my own making. But since my fear of the former is greater than my fear of the latter (I can't bear the thought of watching people try to satirize someone as boring as myself), I feel that I have no choice but to opt for the latter.
At least for now...
Keep the mystery. I vote no for coming clean. But I vote yes for changing the moustache into a sexier--I mean, more spiritual-- form of facial hair.
"Blessed are the Geeks for they shall inherit the church."
Ummm...Dude, I hate to tell you this, but you write extensively on a blog, have an avatar of Inspector Clouseau (Which is not "hip", no matter what you are telling yourself, and I realize that I may have spelled his name wrong, but that would only make me cooler for not knowing), and spent at least an hour creating the advetures of Flannel Graph Jesus in Photoshop. You, my friend, are a geek. Welcome to the club.
AE
perhaps you should read something before you open your mouth.
I miss flannelgraphs. I wonder if there is space for them in the emerging church...
Ish,
I will work on adding a fake photo of myself sometime soon. You are actually one of my favorite bloggers, because I am very involved in the emerging church and think that satire and well thought out criticism are always the ways we grow the best. I just feel bad that you would miss out on such growth opportunities. And I sadly do not have your whit or abilities. I guess I will have to leave you only with your own commentary on yourself. If you could write some satire on yourself, or critics of Emergent, you would certainly riase yourself even higher in my book.
Blessings-
Greg
Adam: your point is well-taken.
Josh: Consider my comment (dated 03.17.06 - 10:44 am) on Carla Rolfe’s March 16 blog post, “On growing weary,” as well as much of what Carla herself said, to be my reply to you.
Roger: PowerPoint is the new flannelgraph.
Greg: Thank you very much for the kind compliment. And you’re right, of course. I should be an equal-opportunity satirist. And I really want to be. And someday (soon) I hopefully will be. But I believe something far more essential is at stake here: the word “whit” means “the smallest part or particle imaginable.” And yet I doubt that you meant to say anything like “I sadly do not have your sub-atomic particle or abilities.” I think the word you were looking for is “wit.”
Dude, this is a great blog! Loved it a bunch. I will definitely be back.
Ish,
Thanks for correcting my spelling, darn blogspot and its lack of spell check.
Peace-
Greg
josh said, "perhaps you should read something before you open your mouth."
I don't get it...
What did he say? "Blessed are the modems?"
AC
No, he said "blessed are the cheesemakers"
Hilarious!
Those are much better than the flannelgraphs I remember as a kid!
I must point out, dear Greg, that if your misspelling is an actual word, spellcheck won't be useful for you.
Thanks, Ishmael, for correcting him. I was trying really hard not to scream.
And, Inspector Clousseau totally rocks. Totally.
Well I get the jokes...
Not sure I understand why you do the secret identity thing. But who cares, your points are well made.
PEACE from the South SIDE!
too bad...unless i'm missing something, i just think this is in poor taste.
Ishy... where have you gone??? COooome BaaAaAck!
Ish... have we seen the last of you? I do hope not... I'm in need of a good laugh these days, help us out! :)
See...I'm still checking!
missing your witicism...
I don't remember saying that stuff but it kinda sounds like Me.
call me Ishmael, where are you??
Return to us Ish with your whit or wit or whet or whatever
You see, Ish, I'm not the only one begging you for another serving! :)
Blessings,
Escher's Emulator (who wrote you a private email a few minutes ago)
I hope to see you back soon. I don't even know if you are checking the blog still for replies, but I wanted you to know I still hadn't forgotten.
Still Waiting.
why did you stop blogging? this is great satire. more!
Count me in the ranks with missing your brilliant satire. May you have a blessed year and please post again.
I just hate it when people's real lives get so important that they begin to step away from why we were created...viva la blog
love this blog, glad to see other people are thinking in this way: www.uncontainablegeneration.wordpress.com
Yeah, c'mon Ish, post again! The world is merely a construct without your brilliant satire!
personally, i can do with you not blogging again.
how much dumbass "satire" do we have to put up with from folk who don't make change, just make fun of those who do?
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