During the drive to work this morning, I mentioned to Brandon how it seemed so funny to me now that during my teen years I had been so obsessed with a certain rock band. How could I find so much value and waste so much of my time worshipping them? But I was thinking, perhaps it wasn't that odd, since the Israelites worshipped a golden calf. How can you find interest or be entertained by an inanimate object so much that you actually worship it? But perhaps the reason I was able to be so intrigued by a mere band is that I was in a boring little town with nothing else to do. I mean, the Israelites didn't really have that much more entertainment.

Brandon joked that we'd just want to cut the calf's ear off and go buy something. (Note the influence of western civilization and materialism.) Then he said that maybe he'd just use the calf's poop. I agreed the calf's poop would probably be valuable, since the actual calf was golden. The poop would at least be 13 karat. Then we went on to ponder what the calf would eat. I figured it would be silver or a lesser metal.

All of this just goes to show you a golden calf could be entertaining after all. Not that we'll get one. It sounds tacky.