Yes, it certainly is an arrogant thing to return from another significant period of blog silence only to assume that you all want to know what I think the best albums of the previous year were.  But let's face it, it is on your mind, so I'm not going to keep it from you any longer.

10. Stefon Harris: "African Tarantella" - Stefon is one of the most ( Read more... )

actually, I don't. the DYC students have wasted no time in making sure that all of planet DioMass knows that Suzy Spressert agreed to marry me on Friday night! Hei-Yue covered the details so well in her blog that I won't step on her literary toes. I have, however, provided illustration on this special page of our website.

what was it like? ( Read more... )

I'm only slightly embarrassed to reveal that, in 25 years of roaming this earth, I've never moseyed out to the big city. we're not talking about Ft. Worth, the city of panthers. we're not even talking Austin, Dave's got that one covered as we speak. we're talking yankee central, NYC ( Read more... )

seems fitting ( Read more... )

that really does say it all, but I like to talk so ( Read more... )

So, in my research and experimentation concerning myspace.com I've been inspired to return to the blogging world. "tall skinny kiwi", a terrific internet thinker in the emerging church movement has published (to the internet, of course) a rather well thought out "spirituality of blogging" which I encourage anyone to look into.  let's move forward ( Read more... )

This game is cool enough to bring me out of lj silence. That and the fact that Anna named the new band JPJ!!!!! We'll power jam all night long with Jesus! I'll refrain from the formatting because, let's face it, all my music is awesome and I don't need to justify it ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why I decided to click on that dusty little button in my bookmark that says "livejournal". Nonetheless, apparently it's time for my return. Perhaps it's because today was the first day in 10 days that I haven't woken up before 7am (my apologies to you weary and blurry-eyed students who are now shaking your fists because that's your ( Read more... )

Waiters are such an interesting bunch of people. Very few actually like their job and most are dissatisfied with their current place in life (the ones with any glimmer of hope in their eyes being students that know this is a transition gig). But boy howdy, do they like to hang out with other waiters. When restaurant industry people get together ( Read more... )

Tonight I was a waiter machine. It's tour group season at McCormick & Shmick's, a time when elderly people with beautiful names (names like Ethel, Rose and Ferdinand-Oops that's Dad'smiddle name, my bad) descend upon our humble fish peddling ( Read more... )