Bryan Jarrell

TLDR:

Typo = fast typer and bad proofreader, which is true of me.

Misspell = dumb and ignorant and a bad proofer, which is less true of me.

But when someone says "you mispelled 'that,'" smoke erupts from my ears. I know how to spell "t-h-a-t." I have known how it is spelled since kindergarden. It's so clearly a typographical error, and not a spelling error.

Reading the word "taht," it's very clear that the average person understands that the word should be spelled "t-h-a-t," and that speedy typing made for a typo instead of a misspelling.

All I could think about was the crap I would get from people who would assume I didn't know who Norman Rockwell was, or people who thought that I believed his name was actually Normal.

I was proofing my Thanksgiving edition of my newspaper column, and I mentioned the artist Norman Rockwell. Through either typo or a poor autocorrect, upon my proofread, I saw that it had been typed out as "Normal" Rockwell.

Pet peeve: when a clear and obvious typo or auto correct is mistaken for ignorance, stupidity, or spelling error.

Yes! Same director in fact! It's a trilogy of films, with The World's End being the third. All three are excellent and among my favorite movies of all time.

I've been watching Shaun of the Dead most Halloweens with my wife since 2012. That's 13 years. I still notice little details a dozen times in that I didn't notice before. It's such a great movie.

I love my pentecostal friends. But also, why do they always try to sell me vitamin supplements on a pyramid scheme? Yinz know that the Holy Spirit can bring healing through the work through a medical professional, right?

Pat McAfee's Corgi, Chuck, Competed At An NFL Game?! YouTube video by The Pat McAfee Show

I respect @patmcafeeshow.bsky.social even more knowing that he has a morbidly obese Corgi. My golden retriever perpetually needs to lose five pounds. Corgi bro should get in some reps with Pete Herbstreit on Saturdays.

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One of life's little joys: encountering a new word.

For years, I was told that the torn in Paul's flesh was some unknowable mystery. Nobody ever told me that the theme of a "thorn in the flesh" is found in Judges and Numbers. It's been a fun afternoon exploring that rabbit hole.

"It’s hard for me to take seriously economic predictions that resemble a kind of secular Rapture, in which a god-like entity descends upon the earth and makes whole categories of human activity disappear with a wave of His (Its?) hand."

@dkthomp.bsky.social on the AI apocalypse.

To be fair, the last big false rapture debacle was that one guy in 2012 with billboards in NYC and all that. I'll say now what I said then: I hope he's right but I doubt it.

This is also me tempting fate to have WVU climb back from a 34-3 deficit and win in the last 17 mins of the game and leave me with a sour grapes record of my fickle fandom.

Me last week: "Dear Jesus, I don't care if WVU loses all the other games this year, just give us a win over Pitt please."

::Monkey's Paw in the corner of the room overhearing my prayer curls::

The double James Juke is subsequently also throwing Luther under the bus in the process. It's the ::chef's kiss:: of semi-pelagianism.

The James Juke: using a handful of verses from the back of the Bible to prove that your preferred social program, moral value, or good work is somehow the exception to the idea that we are saved by grace through faith.

Let's Go Mountaineers!!!

#BackyardBrawl #WVU

(Wasn't sure it would happen after last week's debacle but beating Pitt means the season isn't a total loss.)

WVU losing today has really set me back. Unexpectedly so. I had high hopes for the RichRod era, but man, we're off to a rocky start. There goes gameday for next week in Morgantown too, which I would have loved to see.

Not happy that sports socials are going to be posting gifs of one athlete spitting on another for the next three days. Gross.

I'm excited for a day when we can have extended ethical conversations without resorting to Stephen A Smith levels of faux indignation.

I'm also excited for a day when we can talk #NFL and not get into an extended conversation about projectile saliva.

I can't get the Eagles/Cowboys game streaming, so I thought I'd check in on reddit and see how things are going. Penalties, punches, spitting, fighting, and a weather delay. A disappointing way to start the season, but on the bright side, GP is the Cowboy's problem now.

Are we done pretending tiny homes are a thing yet? Lmk.

"Despair is guilt with no place to go."

DZ, The Big Relief, Pg. 94

Just checked in on a beloved bishop in my tradition, Fitz Allison in South Carolina. He's 98 now, a year and a half away from the honorific "centenarian." His book "Cruelty of Heresy" remains a favorite, as does his immortal quip "Jesus isn't just some catfish in the Mississippi 'rivah.'"

Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later - Mockingbird For better or worse, I always think of the storm as a kind of before/after moment in my life.

"I was dumbfounded by my own judgmental uselessness. It felt like heaven put me in a dunce cap and sat me in the corner for a while."

Sarah condon is one of Mockingbird's great patients, so free that she can tattle on herself in the most relatable ways.

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If you're in the upper decks, the stuff that gets online views- the dancing, the silliness, the trick plays - is so distant... They don't even stop the music while the players are hitting. It's like spending 2 hours on YouTube shorts at a baseball game... the baseball comes second.

Took the family to see the Savannah Bananas last night. In a word: exhausting. Maybe even manic. We had a great time but it was like living in a real TikTok for 3 hours, with new distractions every fifteen seconds. It's entertainment for an online world, but what if your world isn't online?

The only people who watch Disney's The Little Mermaid are preschoolers and parents of preschoolers. But man, it is a gorgeous film.