It seems that I have of late succumbed to the temptation to share my thoughts via the short statuses of Facebook rather than carefully composed and proofread paragraphs. This must change ( Read more... )

Thus begins the year of the moment. A friend introduced me to the notion of boiling down one's resolutions for the new year into a solitary word or phrase, and I realized that my goal of not having any resolutions, and instead paying attention to what my body needed from moment to moment could be boiled down into "moments," except that I object to ( Read more... )

I read this apparently hard to find funny comic called A Softer World. It's crass, and selfish, and horrible, and I think I like that it is so cut-yourself-on-the-pointedness. The most recent one though, wasn't all that crass or horrible, and it was actually exactly what I was thinking about writing about.

You can read it here. The mouse-over ( Read more... )

September 16th, that's six weeks ago, Bill Clinton appeared on the Daily Show (coincidentally, the same night that Jon Stewart announced his Rally to Restore Sanity). I personally think he hit a home run - he spent extra time after the show explaining important economic concepts to the audience. You can see his show appearance here and here and ( Read more... )

Some facts about domestic violence ( Read more... )

It is (as usual) a crappy time to be a Christian. I don't mean that things are particularly worse today than they were yesterday, or the month or year before, but that the constant struggle that seems to be business as usual is making me alternately want to pick up my pen to write or take off my glasses to cry. Writing seems to have won, for the ( Read more... )

Jesse's fallen in love with Glee, and so on our way to and from my Uncle Tom's in Indiana last weekend (his band Knee Deep In The Weeds was headlining the Avon Rib Fest) we listened to the soundtrack. I have to admit it's pretty good, but the crowning moment for me is when the show star, Matthew Morrison sings a duet of Dream On (yes, *that* Dream ( Read more... )

I don't watch many movies. I know this because when Jesse and Erik and Mike and their wives and other assorted friends get together for trivia I might as well not be on anyone's team for that segment. But I've come to realize through perusing Netflix that at some point in my life I must have been better informed, for I have added a host of "must- ( Read more... )

So, um… I’m in a new band. Hug the Con Man formed the week before Thanksgiving, and right now everything is pretty rough and tumble, but we decided to go out on a limb and send a submission to 88.7: The Wave for their Earth Day Battle of the Bands contest to be held April 24. They suggested making a myspace page and sending the link, so we did it ( Read more... )

( Why did she include DIY in the list of things she'd talk about yesterday? )