(Specifically directed towards Shorter people, although those of you at other places might be interested as well.)

If you have anything to do with Shorter, you need to know that the Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling on Shorter's status today that is mostly in the favor of the Georgia Baptist Convention, saying that the college's reogranization ( Read more... )

Nonetheless, these are still the best and most affecting lyrics I've heard in a long time. (I typed them up as they appear in the CD booklet, the capitalization on the one verse still kills me ( Read more... )

Pray for me.

Pray for my students.

I listened to this while I was falling asleep last night.

And it occurred to me, halfway into the song, that probably three-quarters of the people who might read this thing have never heard of Mark Heard.

You should. You really, really should.

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ALL SHE WANTED WAS LOVE - Mark Heard ( Read more... )

Two things lately:

(1) Men and women, when trying to figure out how to be in a relationship, can be really (choose one) {selfless | vulnerable | stupid}.
(2) Was (Not Was) was one of the greatest pop groups ever. Particularly when they write "love" songs (which tend to be rather lyrically twisted ( Read more... )

...and this was pretty much the song that got me through it. I still owe Jerry a ton for getting me this particular Vigilates of Love bootleg ( Read more... )

Amazingly, I wasn't depressed while listening to it, or after. Yay stabilizing ( Read more... )

This song is from an album that is 18 years old - older than some of my students. I do not know if I can handle that fact. It makes me feel OLD ( Read more... )

EVERY NEW DAY - Five Iron Frenzy ( Read more... )

I'm still at Shorter, yay me for being stable. (In a manner of speaking, anyway.)

The erstwhile predicate (I don't remember LJ code, so sue me) has his own blog space now, and he was so kind as to set me up with space there.

The soccerblogging at MatchNight continues apace, even if the ColdFusion blog client takes forever to load ( Read more... )