FUN FOR A GIRL OR A BOY
You make a list. You mail it to Santa. You whine and pray and wait for weeks, wake before dawn Christmas morning, run to the tree and buzz-saw your way through paper and cardboard only to find...a spring.
I don't like Slinkies. Actually it's not about affection, or a lack thereof. I just don't GET Slinkies. Who came up with this ghetto toy? Some guy forgot to shop for his kids one year (a boy and a girl of course), walks by a dumpster on the way to work and notices a spring from a busted machine of some kind hanging over the edge. The world's best selling toy and catchiest theme song are born.
Blogs are the Slinky of the internet. According to Business Week (May 2, 2005 p.57)...
...there are about 9 million weblogs, or "blogs", out in cyberspace. 40,000 new ones are started each day. But, like the ever-present Slinky, the blog is having a hard time being understood and appreciated.
Part of that is because, if you're old enough (like me) to know the Slinky theme song by heart, you don't know what a blog is or where to find one - "Is that in Produce or Lawn and Garden?" If I asked my mom to check out my blog - which I'll do eventually - would she know I wasn't talking about a strange growth on my back or a new kitchen appliance for peeling grapes? Would she offer condolences or wrap me in a congratulatory hug?
And if we know what a blog is it's only because we humored a friend once and actually read their on-line rants about politics, waded through detailed descriptions of what time they did what, how many bananas they had for breakfast or how much they looooooooooooove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Justin Timberlake. 99.9% of blogs are as lacking in point as they are in punctuation, spelling and good grammar. They stand as evidence that our schools are cranking out graduates incapable of putting their thoughts and feelings into sentences, using both capital and lowercase letters, without leaning on the ever popular ; ) for expression. (That mini-rant was made possible by Mrs.Gazette, Mrs.Granberry, Mrs.Clark, Mrs.Adams and Mrs.Marshall - my elementary school teachers. Ladies, I thank you and my readers thank you.)
So blogs are new for most of us, have a bad rep and yet there are a lot of them lying about on the information superhighway. Like I said, they're like Slinky. Seems everyone will have one eventually but as yet, few figured out how to put them to good use. I'm not sure I can change that with SHLOG. I'm only doing this blog thing because friends/expert bloggers bugged me to for so long that I gave in and promised to try it for a month or so. If I never take it out of the box and find something useful or fun to do with it I'll trade it in for a new toy like...I don't know...my own podcast.
Until I give up I'm hoping you find something entertaining, amusing, inspiring, or just plain time wasting here everyday. I'm planning on inviting guest bloggers (my road manager, someone in my band, my wife, and anybody else with free time) to fill in for me from time to time, as well as posting new songs as I write them, interviews by me of interesting folks, reviews of new music/books/blogs as I find them and more details about my day-to-day life than you may care to read. Let me know what you'd like to see/read and I'll put it under the tree for you - no whining necessary.
Got thoughts? Discuss this SHLOG on my message-board
posted by Shaun Groves @ 5/03/2005
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man i like your thoughts! saw you support Mike w in belfast a couple years ago! you handled the threats on the cars incident really well man!!lol
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OK, I really enjoyed reading Shlog! If you just keep doing posts like this I'll be back as often as I can just for the laughs. Thanks for your honesty!
Shaun,
You are a very amazing man and God is using you well. By the way, Welcome to the Blogging world. I do hope that you will continue with blogging and show your thoughts on here as well as you do with your songs. Hope all is well with Penelope, take care and can't wait till White Flag hits the stands (by the way, I don't think that Twilight tanked).
In Him,
Kerry
Who came up with this ghetto toy?
I loved my slinky- does that make me ghetto?
It's one thing to say things like that with personal friends who are set in their faith. But when you say you want to stand on a mountain and shout the lords word. That's Great! However it seems like your antagonizing dirty talk from others (who might be on the verge to their faith). Meaning, it's not ok to gossip or bad mouth others because you don't agree with it. Your a man in the spotlight who needs to remember that people who come here are looking at you as a role model for Christianity.
Justin Timberlake blogs are lacking in quality according to you.
FYI- Justin Timberlake is a devout Christian. Knocking others on how they live.......or what road they chose to take....? I don't see any room for this kind of talk, when you are doing so many other positives. Why focus on this kind of blogging? It only sends unbelievers doubt, and or gives them the "OK" to judge others and what they do because you are (and your a man of God). Which defeats your entire purpose.
You say people lie on their blogs....people lie all the time, everywhere.
hmm JT a devout christian?
Mt 7:15-10
15"Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are really wolves that will tear you apart. 16You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You don't pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles. 17A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit. 18A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit. 19So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. 20Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person is by the kind of fruit that is produced.
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