...is this.
Junior year. Covenant College. A week locked in the basement of Carter Hall, with ocassional visits from writers. A lot of Chris Isaak ("Forever Blue") and Ryan Adams ("Gold") buzzing from a tinny CD player. And thus was the 2002 Windbag born.
Now that I'm officially done with school, this little 12-pager seems like a precious time capsule, capturing a certain perfect moment in the Covenant experience of me and my friends. We had a lot of sand, back in the day. I don't think the college will ever be quite so ready for Matt Jelley ever again.
But enough nostalgia. School's out forever, and it's tax time.
Thanks to Josiah for digging this up.
Posted by mesh at April 14, 2004 11:26 AM | TrackBackYa, and don't forget who wrote a few of the articles, including the idea for the "matt jelly" rip.
Posted by: JosiahQ at April 14, 2004 11:48 AMI'm looking forward to the thing you'll do to top this.
Posted by: jeep at April 14, 2004 11:54 AMI only wish I had my edition in pdf format. I remember it as funny, but who knows what I would think now?
Posted by: bobw at April 14, 2004 11:55 AMMad props, Josiah. You were the right-hand man. I'm just glad I didn't let you write any Reg rips in that one...
Posted by: mesh at April 14, 2004 11:56 AMGood God, boys! What a fantastic piece of fake agriculture news.
I've printed it, read it, and am currently laughing at it! Or with it!
The PCA "Women's Ministry Ad" is a personal fave...
Posted by: Bill Colrus at April 14, 2004 01:21 PMHey Mesh, I did get in ONE rip in that Prime Time article about Davis revealing that McLelland would deny him three times when the cock crows...
some folks thought that was over the line...mebbe...
Posted by: JosiahQ at April 14, 2004 02:23 PMI think my favorite articles in there were the Matt Jelley parody (that picture is incredible; I laugh at it every time I go down to the photo lab), the woman's PCA ad, and the Pettits revealed to be the ideal Arian race.
Posted by: Tim F. at April 14, 2004 02:27 PMWhich one of you was Dj Muttman, Doctor of the Bootie? Beautiful.
Posted by: scott cunningham at April 14, 2004 02:29 PMActually, Scott, neither of us can claim that esteemed title. It belongs to one John Perry, who is currently finishing his senior thesis at Covenant and does a bit of urban ministry on the side. It's still my favorite thing in that paper.
Posted by: mesh at April 14, 2004 02:35 PMYeah, that was brilliant. Perhaps that's why it's still hanging immortalized in the Bagpipe office, where all five of us who work down there can see it.
I really wish this year's had been better. I thought the Jeff Kyle as the Devil picture I found on Google image search was pretty good though.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at April 14, 2004 02:37 PMYa, I mean, "Cappin' Asses Fo Christ" and "Them Arminian Niggaz (Gonna Get Lit Up)" and "On My Wedding Night (I'm Gonna Get Mine's)" are perhaps the three most brilliant lines in any Windbag ever, and I've read about 20 years worth of them digging through the archives...
Posted by: JosiahQ at April 14, 2004 03:34 PMI've always relished Dr. Stewart's disapproval in class regarding the idea of the kitchen serving human flesh in that ARA makes biological weapons piece.
Posted by: Nat at April 14, 2004 03:40 PMSince we're reminiscing about faculty disapproval, Dr. Fikkert was pretty nicely enraged over the expletives partially deleted from the issue. I believe he took special exception to the work of DJ Muttman and the Joe Pesci quote hidden in the editorial sidebar. He's tall, but his patience with vulgarity is short! (Rim shot.)
Posted by: mesh at April 14, 2004 03:53 PMMesh, I must say that reading that Windbag again brought back some great memories, and it reminded me that the Windbag was never really the same after you left. That really was the mother of all issues that I had ever read. The article about Surving Lunch remains one of my favorites.
Posted by: todd willison at April 15, 2004 06:53 AM