the daily purge 1-31-19

Enemy Unknown? Well, howzabowt shining the spotlight from the other side? Putting the light behind these guys causes a lot of glare not unlike driving west near sunset. That stupid sun keeps poking its head out from trees, buildings, stoplights and the cars in front of you. You lower your visor and scooch a bit……

the daily purge 1-30-19

The Purging Lutheran, My Sweet Rib and The Lad are holed up in the house for the day while Polar Vortex Pearl visits Central Indiana. I don’t have cable access to The Weather Channel (TWC) so I do not know if they’ve named this weather system. TWC loves to give names to weather events. Hurricanes,……

the daily purge 1-29-19

The Purging Lutheran is tossing out one of My Sweet Rib’s pocketbooks/purses/clutches/grips/hides bought long ago. Why does she buy so many fashion accessories? Why do hipsters buy fanciful coffees? Why do baby boomers keep talking about themselves? Why do bees make honey? Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Why do stars……

the daily purge 1-28-19

How does a person ruin two meat thermometers? By aggressive cooking! The beatnik world gave us aggressive ‘poetry slams’ where irresponsible poets spoke, sometimes yelled, other times moaned out irresponsible poetry. Jolly old England gave us aggressive punk music written by irresponsible punks with silly band names such as Sore Throat, The Ducky Boys, Jughead’s……

the view from the pew, holy cross lutheran church, 1-26-19

Saturday 5:30 service, Pastor Sattler This weekend was either the beginning or the ending of Lutheran Schools Week, a time when Lutheran churches shine a light on Lutheran education. I think it started last week. At any rate, it was a wonderful service. Our school’s kindergartners sang three songs for the congregation. It wasn’t so……

the daily purge 1-25-19

Question: How much jewelry can My Sweet Rib give to Goodwill so it’s CEO can make $11,000,000 per year? Answer: Much Although this necklace resembles The Empress Carlotta necklace from a few days back it is even resemblier of The Purging Lutheran’s signature when I pay for meals, Gas O’lean, and bonbons from CVS. My……

the daily purge 1-24-19

The Purging Lutheran grew up in an ethnic society where drinking was part of the triune lifestyle of drinking-eating-smoking. Drinking existed without eating and smoking yet did not exist without eating and smoking. If you want to know more about the triune-ness of my upbringing please refer to The Athanasian Creed and insert ‘drinking’ for……

the daily purge 1-23-19

A self-greeting purge! What will they think of next? The Purging Lutheran was under orders by My sweet Rib to photodocument this digital antenna for our broadscreen television before she tossed it out. One day it worked, the next day it did not. The difference a day makes! What happened to this piece of technology……

the daily purge 1-22-19

  The Bottle of an Unknown Beer. Why does this bottle not have a label? There is no stick’em what says it had a sticker. The cap contains no evidence of its past. The Purging Lutheran does not know icker.   Was it produced this way? Whachoo thinking? Would you, could you, should you drink it?……

the daily purge 1-21-19

If you have ever met My Sweet Rib, she comes across as a pretty normal dame with normal political, religious and medical aspirations She’s a normal height and weight for a normal woman. She reads, watches television and drives her car like a normal person. She wears blue jeans, shirts, socks and jewelry like most……

the view from the snow-bound recliner, holy cross lutheran church 1-20-19

Song – My Savior Loves, My Savior Lives. The praise band is acoustic this week and, as such, has the drummer uncaged. Invocation by Pastor McClean and a responsive reading from Psalm 128 Song – Awesome God Video about thermostats (proactive persons) and thermometers (reactive persons). Pastor McClean leads us in a moment of silent……

the daily purge 1-18-19

The Purging Lutheran is whiling away the hours before our next “snow storm to end all snow storms”. I refuse to use modern scare/humorous words such as “snowpocalypse’ and ‘snowmaggedon’. Those have no place in my parallel universe, thankyouverymuchindeed. If you pay for a movie service such as Netflix and Amazon prime you certainly know……

the daily purge 1-17-19

This is an ingredient leftover from Our Marta’s days of the still she kept with which she made her ‘choop’, her ‘hooch’, her ‘dew’, her ‘shiney’. I’m guessing she has filed those memories under ‘gone and best left forgotten’. Who knows with kids these days? Speaking of aromatic bitters, The Purging Lutheran took my first……

the daily purge 1-16-19

To begin with COULD THIS PICTURE BE ANY LOUDER??!! OK, back to business. If the assertion has ever been made that My Marta is a member of The Mafia let this purge prove undeniably otherwise. While doing time in Muncie, Indiana, MM allegedly operated a speakeasy down the road a holler from Otis Avenue. What?……

the daily purge 1-15-19

The Purging Lutheran has learned the fine art of *wincing!* when it comes to looking back on some of the things I’ve bought for My Sweet Rib. Especially when it comes to jewelry. MSR and I call this ‘Empress Carlotta’s necklace’, a take-off from the Dick Van Dyke Show episode of the same name. The……

the daily purge 1-14-19

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie Took him for all he was worth Now she’s a swinger dating a singer I can’t decide which is worse My sister’s ex-husband can’t get no lovin’ Walks around dog-faced and hurt Now he’s got nothin’, head in the oven I can’t decide which is worse Yer So……

the view from the sick bed 1-13-19

11 AM creative praise worship with Pastors Sattler and McClean with Abbie leading the praise band. Dints I hab uh code I watched worship service, live, from my couch in the living room using the Holy Cross Lutheran Church app downloaded from hclc.info . When I reached the website there was a countdown clock in……

the daily purge 1-11-19

When The Purging Lutheran types the word ‘technology’ your mind probably races to envision all sorts of science fictiony computers, robots and self-replicating viruses. And well it should but did you know that technology is nothing more than the extension of the human body? Computers are attempts to categorize or enhance the creativity/computational skills of……

the daily purge 1-10-19

My Sweet Rib has fashion accessories such as purses, scarves, hair bands and birds which suddenly appear just to be with her. She has a not-Iphone which itself comes with its own accessory, a tan holder with pockets to hold importantables like identification, credit cards and discount cards to local theaters and restaurants. Alvin Toffler……

the daily purge 1-9-19

The Purging Lutheran is a big fan of modern appliances especially ovens, washers/dryer combinations, bagel-optional toasters, coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee makers and air conditioning units. And while my air conditioninger does a fine job spreading the ‘cool’ around the house there are some rooms which need an extra bit of circulating oomph! to optimize human comfort. This oscillating fan was……

the daily purge 1-8-19

“It leaks.” – My Sweet Rib “Things fall apart, it’s scientific.” – Talking Heads “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” – Isaiah 40:8

the daily purge 1-7-19

This guy again? Game designers aren’t unlike Hollywood producers. A game or a movie becomes a hit then you have sequels and the stars become famous but worse yet they usually screw up the main character. Han Solo, of Star Wars fame, began as a rough-around-the-edges, scruffy nerf herder but Hollywood money morphed him to……

the view from the pew, holy cross lutheran church, 1-5-19

Saturday evening service, 5:30, Pastor Sattler presiding The songs we sang these evening were played by Paul on piano. These were “O Christ, Our True and Only Light”, “As With Gladness Men of Old”, “Jesus, Name Above All Names”, and “This Holy Place”. Thank you, Paul. We confessed our sins as a congregation followed absolution……

the daily purge 1-4-19

The Purging Lutheran doesn’t know more about the beginning of life on Earth than I read on political websites. From what I gather there are only two options: The ‘young Earth’ theory where everything was build in six 24 hour days. According to Bishop James Ussher who, by counting the years of the ages of……

the daily purge 1-3-19

The Purging Lutheran doesn’t know which is worse: that companies employ attorneys to pick and poke at the packaging to make certain everything is ‘understood’ or that consumer agencies wantonly look for discrepancies between marketing and reality hoping to file suit against Big Meatball. The answer is both are worse. It’s the way of the……