I'm working on a sermon for this weekend, which if you've read anything about my writing process you know that ideas need to simmer in the Crock Pot for a while, and the process cannot be rushed. So in the spirit of mindless diversion while the stew comes together...

Who would play you in the movie version of your life?

This is one of those party questions that reveals how people view themselves--and based on the crowd reaction, how others view them. Of course, Hollywood is peopled with the beautiful and the thin, so any casting decision one makes does have a whiff of "yeah right" to it. Still, I wonder about the people I encounter on this site.

I'm not obsessed with blogspace or anything. But I do have a few blogging cronies--let's call them blonies, shall we?--who visit my site from time to time, and I theirs. I have no idea what most of them look like, but I definitely have a specific picture of them in my head.

Matthew and Luke and a few others don't really count, because I know them. Although for the sake of the game, let's say a raggedy Chris O'Donnell, and Vince Vaughn, respectively.

Mamala is my mom, but I will say Diane Keaton for her.

CG auntie I also know, and having actually played this game with her, I know that a LONG time ago we came up with Laura Innes (Dr. Kerry Weaver from ER).

Mr. Reverendmother used to be Matthew Broderick, but is now totally Zach Braff.

I don't think Derek visits this blog, but I don my helmet and shoulder pads to visit his from time to time. In the movie in my head Derek is played by Ben Stiller.

Kenny, the creator of Journalscape: Steve Zahn. Why not?

Dickie Cronkite: hmm. Someone self-deprecating yet able to crack wise. How about Albert Brooks a la Broadcast News (it's the journalism thing too), but younger.

Martha the Minister: Dianne Wiest. Intelligent with a great haircut.

I remember the day I saw a picture of the Real Live Preacher, a preacher-poet-pastor of a small church in West Texas. I was stunned. He's pale and bespectacled, and by his own admission, not a snappy dresser.

No matter. In the movie version, RLP is, was, and forever shall be, Sam Elliott a la Big Lebowski, and I'm not going to let a silly thing like reality take that away from me.

I'm not going to link to every one of these actors, so just go to the Internet Movie Database and look them up yourself. I suppose this is the on-line equivalent of your teacher sending you to the dictionary when you asked her what a word means.

Now, anyone else care to play? Who would play the reverendmother in the movie version? Who would play you? Or do you wish to argue with my casting decisions?

Time to go stir the stew...