Things to Add

I like the fact that this blog is an inconvenience for friends. They have to intentionally desire to read what I write in order to make it here. It makes me more honest, it allows me that much more freedom.
I just returned from the road trip. I would hope that it is not the last [...]

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On Downloading

Interesting take on the subject of downloading music, put forth by Andrew W.K., rock musician, in an interview with Gothamist.
I stopped downloading illegally not because of an ethical conflict, although there was that, but more that I said, “At this point, I’m not enjoying this way of experiencing music.” It seemed dissonant to be sitting [...]

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Hopes Up

So I inconsistently write. No updates for a week, then two in a night. And you won’t hear me apologizing. You would hear me apologizing if I had misspelled “hear” as “here” like i first typed. I hate misspelling words.
Remember the first time you were let down? I don’t. I’m so used to it, I [...]

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Eve of Greatness

This evening stands on the edge of an epic journey in my life – for once it is a journey I see coming. I’m sitting here listening to The Avalanche and kind of just being, for a few minutes. I’m packed and prepared – an odd feeling. I’m ready to go, just under 24 hours [...]

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Sick Day

So I called into my morning job sick. And it’s completely not a lie, because I’m feeling bad and attempting to not move so my stomach doesn’t perform a late fireworks show.
I haven’t just slept on a weekday since school. I think I may have done it once during finals week because I didn’t have [...]

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Great Beyond

There is this place that I find glimpses of within all of us. I think it is what C.S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory, the fact that we never talk to a mere mortal.
Conversation after connection, acquaintance upon intimacy, it all seems to pull back the corner of a curtain. Like the [...]

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Simplified Spelling

It’s been 100 years since Andrew Carnegie helped create the Simplified Spelling Board to promote a retooling of written English and President Theodore Roosevelt tried to force the government to use simplified spelling in its publications. But advocates aren’t giving up.
They even picket the national spelling bee finals, held every year in Washington, costumed [...]

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Superman Returns

In that pivotal scene (but not spoiler-ish, so keep reading) where Superman has something to show Lois Lane, and proceeds to hover slowly upwards until they can see all of Metropolis, two things happen.
First, all girls swoon and wish THEIR knight in shining armour could fly like that, because gee whiz, it sure would be [...]

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