Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He loves Jesus. His wife. His daughter. His son. His other daughter. His dog. Coffee. And the Internet. He is the pastor of City South Presbyterian Church, a church in Brisbane, a graduate of Queensland Theological College (M. Div) and the Queensland University of Technology (B. Journ). He spent a significant portion of his pre-ministry-as-a-full-time-job life working in Public Relations, and now loves promoting Jesus in Brisbane and online. He can't believe how great it is that people pay him to talk and think about Jesus. If you'd like to support his writing financially you can do that by giving to his church.

Spellbinding art

I love books. The idea of defacing them kind of hurts… but maybe if you find an old copy of something atrocious like Joel Osteen’s “Your Best Life Now” it would be worth turning it into something truly wonderful and edifying… like these sculptures that were used in an advertising campaign in Prague…

I love gangster books. Both novels and the “true” confessions of mob informers who use their tell alls to fund life on the run. I was going to write a gangster novel once. Then I got distracted.

By medieval books… I love medieval books – all those swords…

But swords get tired pretty quickly… what really gets exciting is undersea monsters… and pirate ships…

There are heaps of other creative book based artworks here. Well worth your time.

October 1, 2009

Pet peeves

Losing a family pet is never easy. I should know. I once had about nine pet birds die in one day, and then there was the night of the long flush this year when I said goodbye to four fish in once morning. I can understand wanting to preserve the memory of the good times shared with a pet dog through the miracle of taxidermy….

What I can’t understand is why you’d then try to sell your dead dog when you move house…

October 1, 2009

Broadening your culinary horizons

I haven’t had fast food from a major chain for more than three months. I stopped on July 1. It’s a pretty big effort because I love fast food. Especially KFC.

I was just reading an article about “secret menu items” that I’d kept in the blogging queue for a couple of months. I just hadn’t got around to posting it yet.

But the point of this post is to share with you my infinite fast food wisdom… some of you may know this already, but other people I’ve spoken to don’t…

You can literally create whatever you want at Maccas from the available menu items – and they’ll make it for you.

Some of my favourites included the Chicken Patty Big Mac, the Flake Shake with chocolate sundae sauce, double bacon cheeseburgers (before they were put back on the menu), and the legendary “pounder”… used in Christian bucks parties around the country.

If you really want to broaden your fast food horizons though – check out the Fancy Fast Food website I posted about a while back.

October 1, 2009

Block knock offs

An artist/photographer named Mike Simpson has taken a series of classic photos and recreated them using lego. Check out the gallery here.

He’s done everything from major political and cultural events…


Through to sport…


October 1, 2009

Merrie Maladies

Cartoon characters have all got a little something wrong with them. But perhaps you’ve never diagnosed just what was wrong with your favourite…

This little chart does the hard work for you…

October 1, 2009

Comical dinner party

Comics are fun. I wish life was a comment. Filled with speech bubbles for my words and every thought…

That dream is a step closer. Dinner time can now be a comic conversation with these comic plates. Perfect for your next comic convention.

October 1, 2009

Happy Coffee Day

October 1 is Coffee Day in Japan.

Here’s my photographic tribute from the farm to my cup…

October 1, 2009

The Jelly Show

So you have a stack of left over jelly. You don’t know what to do with it. You’re stuck watching TV reruns. Lightbulb moment…

Because everybody needs a party with Bill Cosby jelly cups as a centre piece.

October 1, 2009

Pacman meets the flintstone

Quite literally. So long as zippos ignite the fuel using flint. I’m really not sure about that, but I’m running out of Pacman headlines. This is cool…

October 1, 2009

Bloody tea party

I still don’t know why I’m fascinated with bloodstained stuff. I’d never buy it. Unless I was directing a horror movie. Then I’d buy it all. Except this tea set. Which costs hundreds of dollars.

From here.

October 1, 2009

iBlog 2.0

A similar nomenclature was enough to sink the latest Vegemite flavour – so perhaps I should expect too much from this. But I’m fiddling with some new Facebook connect options that have recently been developed before I unleash it on our work websites.

To do this I’ve had to make a fan page on Facebook – you should join up. I’m hoping people will use it to give me ideas for things to blog – like Ali has been doing lately via her comments.

Here’s the link to the fan page, and feel free to add me as a friend (I may ignore you if you look weird).

Eventually you’ll be able to do all sorts of funky interactive stuff between here and Facebook – if I can get it working. I love being a technological guinea pig. You can keep tabs in the sidebar – where I’ve also added a live traffic feed. Interesting times.

If Facebook isn’t your thing but you’ve got a google account why not join the Google Friend Connect thing also on the sidebar… it’ll even add my blog google reader automatically if I’m in the “blogs you follow” category.

Finally, while I’m talking technical stuff and appealing for online friendship – check out my link list in the sidebar too. If you think you should be on it (or would like to be) let me know… and if you’ve got one, well, you could always add me too…

October 1, 2009

Ten of their best

Here are my ten favourite assumptions, insults, and accusations thrown at me by PZ Myer’s angry horde.

  1. That I chose to use the word “seem” in the title because I don’t think atheists are capable of being nice.
  2. That the “curiosities” column creates revenue for me/is advertising and I wrote this post in order to receive the attention I did.
  3. That I would censor comments, or that I was doing so, because I was scared of criticism.
  4. That I would hatch a conspiracy theory regarding my site’s demise and blame atheist hackers.
  5. That no Christian has ever read anything about the formation of the Bible or church history and that we are completely unaware of criticism of that process.
  6. That noise = victory and silence = an admission of defeat.
  7. That if God exists human morality should still trump morality as ordained by God.
  8. That just because they’ve given a name to a school of thought… and their philosophical leaders have rebutted it… everyone should fall into line and stop using arguments they disagree with.
  9. That no Christian knows how to use the Old Testament, or deal with difficult philosophical positions created by a God society does not agree with.
  10. That atheist scholarship regarding the Bible and Christianity is more objective than Christian or independent scholarship.

October 1, 2009

Spammers get philosophical

My latest off beat spam raises an interesting (well not really) question completely unrelated to the post.

“If a missing person sees their picture on a milk carton that offers a reward, would they get the money?”

Let’s give the guy some answers…

October 1, 2009

Pacmanwich

A manwich is apparently a sloppy joe sandwich. So a Pacmanwich is one of those shaped like Pacman. Read about it and other insane sandwiches at insanewiches.com.

September 30, 2009

Monster Mash

You’ve always wondered where to stab Godzilla right? Well thanks to bookofjoe – and whoever came up with these – you’ll now know what to do when faced with a building sized Japanese monster.

September 30, 2009