Going Old School - an ode to krispy Kreme

Sitting here in our church lobby surrounded by the "great cloud of witnesses" that is 1,908 Krispy Kreme doughnuts for our youth group fundraiser (a very easy and profitable fundraiser, by the way) I was just reminded by a friend on facebook of the poem I wrote in college about these wonderful cake and glaze objects.

Irresistible Grease

- by Ben Howard

I

Krispy Kremes

Drenched in Grease

Clogging my arteries as I feast

II

My mouth is watering

My heart is beating

Krispy Kremes come for my eating

III

Thinking of you,

You wonderful cake

I dream of you until I wake

IV

Manna from Heaven

Sweet cake and glaze

I wish to devour you until the world becomes a haze

V

Oh Krispy Kremes

My greasy joy

I'm so glad that you're not made of soy

VI

Calvinists are wrong

Arminians are right

Krispy Kremes come to me in the night!

In case your wondering this was written as a joke after consecutive all-nighters in which my friends and I survived on Krispy Kremes, chicken wings, and caffeine. Also, if you can believe it, this was actually published in our college's poetry publication. I still can't believe this fact...they must have really been hurting for some submissions that year.

Big hat tip to Gustav and Moeller for the all-nighters and their help on this.

By the Power of Grayskull!

Yes, I did just quote He-Man. I used to love He-Man so much, in fact, that according to my mom I used to run around the house shouting "By the power of Grayskull!" I guess this is only fitting that I now work in Castle Grayskull.

The other day I was riding in a car with our Associate Pastor and our Director of Contemporary Arts and mentioned off the cuff that our church building sort of looked like Castle Grayskull. The more I thought about this I wondered if I was right and so today in a moment of distraction I did some image comparison and concluded that do indeed work in the Castle Grayskull.

Here is the wikipedia entry for Castle Grayskull, it has about the best image I can find of it.

Compare this with the image of the outside of my church found on our website (here).

If you envision the picture of our church taken from the same perspective the image of Grayskull is drawn I think it fits. Even if it doesn't, I don't care. I am going to continue to think that I work in Grayskull because it is stinking awesome!

On a more theological note:

Western Lent begins in 2 days are you ready? I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to eat all my leftovers in the fridge that have meat in them before Ash Wednesday. I hope to blog quite a bit during Lent since Kristy and I are planning on reading The Ladder of Divine Ascent together (if our copies ever get here). The book is written by a monk for other monks and is suppose to be full of wisdom on spiritual growth. We'll see how it goes.

- Ben