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By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, June 3, 2009 9:45am

Three things that, for whatever reason, stuck in my head on my bus ride into work this morning:

• A man driving a pickup truck with a "Got Chris Isaak?" bumper sticker on it. I ... what? Of all the permutations of that hyper-cliched milk slogan, this is by far the most baffling to me.
• I was reading the third chapter of the book of Revelation, when I was struck by the NIV translation of verse 12: "Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God." I don't think I've ever before seen a pronoun in the objective case start a sentence. I guess that's proper grammar, as it's the object of the verb "will make", but it still made me read it a few times.
• By far the most curious thing that happened was when a man got on the bus at 12th and Powell, carrying a watermelon. Well, half a watermelon. Which was unwrapped. And looked like he'd already been digging into it. The bus driver said something I couldn't hear to him, clearly about how he couldn't bring that on the bus. So the man turned around and chucked the watermelon out the door, into the bushes. And didn't seem all that upset about it, really.