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With this coronavirus scare taking over the world and sales of face masks increasing, I thought I’d make a list of movies and songs with “mask” in the title, or if they’re about wearing a mask, etc. I’ve also made a list of 10 movies, songs, and books about pandemic viruses, check it out here. Alrighty, here’s my list of movies and songs with “mask” in the title…
The Mask of Zorro – starring Antonio Banderas
The Mask – starring Jim Carrey
“The Masked Singer” – TV show
The Man in the Iron Mask – starring Leonardo DiCaprio
“Ski Mask Way” – 50 Cent
“Behind the Mask” – Michael Jackson
“Drop the Mask” – Diana Ross
Paper Mask – starring Paul McGann
Honorable mentions: “Can’t Feel My Face” – The Weeknd, The Purge movie trilogy, V for Vendetta, “Face to Face” – Daft Punk, Face/Off
I’ve somehow managed to watch most of the Democrat debates and thought I’d list some of the most entertaining moments. Maybe that’s why I keep tuning it… because there are enough of these funny, sometimes unbelievable, encounters that can’t be made up.
Mama said knock you out. Joe Biden suggesting we need to keep punching, punching, punching to make a difference in violence against women.
White and nerdy. If Bernie Sanders tries out a clever line and no one’s there to hear it, is he still white and old?
She bangs, she bangs! Amy Klobuchar’s bend but don’t break bangs.
Amy Klobuchar telling people to go to her website without spelling her name for us.
No one said you can’t be clear, candidates… no one. We must know you really want to be clear with us, a go-to line being, “Let me be clear.”
Tulsi “Hotness” Gabbard. Enough said.
Bloomberg was dis-close to winning the nomination, that is, until his nondisclosure agreements came up in a debate and he had this to say.
I’m sure there are plenty more unforgettable moments ahead, so stay tuned.
It was a strange semester to say the least way back in the 1998. One of my roommates was in the class with me and it didn’t take long for he and I to pick up on this teacher’s quirky mannerism.
Surely it was just a random day where he wasn’t using the word, or he just misspoke a few times, right? Nope. All semester long this guy would skip over the word as he taught us the higher knowledge.
That was over 20 years ago, so why am I sharing this with you now? Well, I guess it just seemed like a story that needed to be told. Because who does that? The use of ‘the’ dates back to almost 1100 years ago so needless to say it’s an important word in the English language. I mean, can you imagine trying to form serious sentences without this word?
I dare you to try going an hour without using the word. As best you can, edit the word out of your normal comments and conversations and see how weird it sounds.
Now imagine you’re trying to get a good grade so you can graduate from college! You see how hard it can be for an innocent little college student trying to navigate world around him and teacher starts doing stuff like this? My roommate and I should’ve gotten A’s for all shenanigans we had to deal with 🙂
The title of this blog might lead you to believe I have some deep revelation to share with you today. If we think of God in Heaven up above, maybe I’m about to dive into a subject like, “When we don’t hear God speaking,” or “Where is God when we need Him most,” or “Is Heaven real?”….
Nope.
I’m talking about when it’s literally quiet in the airspace above my house. You see, it’s rarely, and I mean RARELY, quiet in my neighborhood because we’re right in line with the arriving and departing flights of Nashville International Airport. In the morning, just about every 2 or 3 minutes there’s a plane coming in. In the afternoon, planes are flying out on the same path as those arriving in the morning.
Not on purpose at all, but I’ve become aware of different types of planes coming or going, whether they’re small, medium, large, or even helicopters, jets, or these things:
So when there is virtually no noise coming from above, I know something’s up. It’s only happened a handful of times that I can remember, when I’ve been at home, at least. The first was when President Obama flew over years ago. He was visiting Nashville, I can’t remember why. I had come home for a lunch break to let my dogs into the yard. I looked up and there was the majestic Air Force Once, a behemoth of a plane gliding past to touch down at the airport minutes later.
It happened again recently when President Trump came to Nashville to tour the tornado damage from earlier in that week.
On this particular morning, there were other signs that something was going on. First, the silence… no other planes landing. Then there was a police helicopter circling the area over and over, leading up to AF1 approaching. When I saw this helicopter, I felt sure I’d have a good view of the President’s plane in a short amount of time. I had even heard on the radio that the plane may be approaching the airport from a different side of town, but because of the silence and the lone helicopter, and hearing aircraft faintly from waaaaay above me (some kind of support/security/protection detail, perhaps even a drone of some sort), I still felt sure of the probability I’d get to see AF1.
I’ll be honest by saying I don’t love the noise all these planes make, though. Southwest Airlines has the loudest ones. But there are so many times I look up into the sky and stand amazed at what I see. Other times, I stand amazed at what I don’t see, but I’m sure is there… the God of the Universe! OK, OK, that was as deep as I’ll get!
The coronavirus is now reaching the Heavenly realms! I guess this tiny little planet just wasn’t enough, was it, you little rascal?
I found out the church I attend will not be having services to prevent large gatherings of people. I totally understand.
Can you imagine if this happened during the NFL season? Would they cancel the whole season? Talk about riots in the streets.
The first time I remember a church service being cancelled was in 1992. I was a middle schooler and my family had just moved to Miami, Florida. We got up to go to church Sunday morning, trying to find a regular church to attend and the one we went to had signs on the doors saying there was no church that day. Andrew blew through Miami about 12 hours later.
Now, instead of going to church on Cancellation Sunday, I’ll be listening to part 2 from Loui Giglio’s sermon about temptation. I was in his church for part 1 during my Atlanta road trip.
I guess this post is just a random list of thoughts, after all.
How do you feel about naps?
One of my favorite songs right now is “Welcome to the Wonderful World of” by Sia…
Out of the Wilderness 