The RPM Challenge: Record an album in 28 days, just because you can.  That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February.

I just finished three days early.  Go me.

All the tracks are pretty sparse: pressed for time, I wasn't able to overdub multiple instruments as I usually do (not much, anyway), but I kinda ( Read more... )

My New Year's Resolution for 2009 was to quit smoking cigarettes.

During 2009, I:

-cut way down on my drinking
-(pretty much) quit smoking pot
-began eating healthier(ish)
-began exercising more (via new gym membership)
-finished my 2nd album
-registered to go back to college
-met The Love Of My Life

and, yes, I somehow managed to quit the cigarettes with ( Read more... )

David Anderegg, a professor of psychology at Bennington College, says that merely mentioning terms like nerd or geek serves to perpetuate the stereotype. The words are damaging, much like racial epithets, he says, and should be avoided.

Oy.

I've never been really into people who get uptight about words that they find insulting, demeaning, or ( Read more... )

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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"For many religious people, the popular question "What would Jesus do?" is essentially the same as "What would I do?" That's the message from an intriguing and controversial new study by Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago. Through a combination of surveys, psychological manipulation and brain-scanning, he has found that when religious ( Read more... )

So I'm finally caught up on all 5 seasons of Lost.

I'm still pretty confused. Hopefully it's not just me.

Apparently, a couple of years ago, Texas got itself worked into a lather about teh gayz and passed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, civil unions, and anything even remotely similar (none o' this "separate but equal" crap in Texas: it's separate and grossly unequal ( Read more... )

Happy Monday, Internet!!

Grabbing a bagel this morning, I noticed that the headline of the Wall Street Journal read:

Colleagues Finger Billionaire

and it made my day.

Yeah, I'm a 12 year old boy.  So what?!

A Baptist church in North Carolina is having a good ol' fashioned book/music burning for Halloween!

What's on deck?  Darwin The Qur'an gay pr0n EVERYTHING:

“We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans ( Read more... )

So apparently a recent theatrical production in Boston attracted some concern because the only speaking role played by a person of color was the villainess.  The director has posted her respectful and sensitive response to these concerns (noting that the actress specifically requested the role and gave an excellent audition), and, what with this ( Read more... )