So I'm teaching my kid brother to play Dungeons and Dragons, and I'll tell you why. When I was a kid, I played a lot of video games, way more than was healthy. But when I was done playing video games, I would take the stories and ideas in the games and do my own thing with them. I've found cartoons I drew in kindergarten based on watching my ( Read more... )

 I love it when a CD corresponds to a vivid and specific time in my life. Mom is listening to The Strokes' Is This It, which I bought the summer after junior year. It reminds me of all the crap I stapled to my walls and hung from the ceiling, the cushioned litter I made out of that old shopping cart, driving around back when gas was cheap and you ( Read more... )

Added it up this morning, and I've spent about $180 on music since I've been home. How about that. Which means I've spent about ten minutes every workday paying for CDs. Putting it that way, it doesn't sound that bad at all... and in fairness, I've been replacing my decimated CD collection (a casualty of leaving it with my family for two years) and ( Read more... )

All at once, I fell back in love with Modest Mouse tonight. I was driving home from church in the dark, and listening to "Black Cadillacs", and suddenly I remembered a night more than three years ago: I was at work, sitting in my cubicle in the dark after everyone else had left, and talking to a girl who it still hurts to think about, a little. I ( Read more... )

OK so I'm trying to be a better missionary, and I'm dropping this thing. You can get me at

huttahforisrael -at- myldsmail -dot- net

If you love me. See you in a year (or not)!

Elder D-Qwon

Yesterday, Elder Cross met a guy named Carlos with a story to tell: Carlos lives in his car in the parking lot of their apartment complex. So Cross started teaching about prophets, and Carlos says, "I am the greatest prophet that ever lived!" We get a lot of this, so Cross says, "Okay," and keeps teaching. So he asks Carlos what his beliefs are on ( Read more... )

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This guy Taylor, a convert of about a year, told a really interesting story at a cottage meeting last Sunday. He was at a fast-food place in South Memphis, and this homeless guy was sitting outside when he turned off the car. The guy says, "Hey, why'd you turn that music off? I was jammin'!" Then he asks him for some change to catch a bus; he says ( Read more... )

It's been a tough week. We've been trying to work by the Spirit and go wherever we are directed to go, but we seem to be consistently led into the most hostile neighborhoods. We had just finished knocking doors about sundown last Friday, and a group of five kids, probably ages 17 to 19, started yelling at us across the street as we headed to the ( Read more... )

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