Buckaroo Johnson and the Murder City Crickets...

I just read a very interesting post from Justin at Radical Congruency about postmodernism and its implications for the church. If you don't read Radical Congruency, you should.

Now.

It follows a post that links to, and references, a site called Communications from Elsewhere that looks like your pretty much standard personal blog, online journal or web-based notebook. But in this blog's sidebar is a list of 'text generators'. One is called 'postmodernism' and uses parsed snippets of real text to assemble nonsensical but quite humorous 'papers' on postmodernist themes. Try it.

That, of course, is the connection to Justin's post at Radical Congruency.

But wait, there's more - including 'adolescent poetry', 'subgenius brag generator' (warning: strong language), 'time cube' (ditto: irreverent themes) and 'band names'. Same idea: take a list of meaningful words and use a computer script to jumble them into something much less meaningful but much more entertaining.

Band names is especially good. I laughed out loud.

And that, just so you know, is how I came up with the title of this post.