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Rhetorical Formats
I went to a birthday last November and my friend said he didn't want gifts. Instead he asked for us to help him live out a dream of performing a few songs, singer-songwriter-concert-style; we would be his audience. It was a gift for him, it was a gift for us. There was Pearl Jam, there was a medley into "Same Love", which marked the beginning of my love for The ...
My short-term goals, circa 2002.
Just found this little gem on an old CD. Upon finishing my seminal 2001 mission trip to Asia, Europe and Africa, my new boss asked me to put down my short-term goals: Find a wife. (It took 8 years; 2010) Get an article published. (I did a few interviews that were published, but not what I had in mind.) Help my father retire. (Sorta, I made a nice website for ...
Doing favors for God.
This last year my music/art group attempted a change of posture and purpose: Instead of hosting events at whimsical intervals and mostly for our own sake, we felt it time to create something that would serve our community--to host regular, sacred meditative spaces for people to rest, receive. It would require more work but the result would be worth the effort. Att...
As if I needed two more reasons to have civic pride.
This and this.
Being on this list is bothersome.
Burma Liberia USA *Countries that have not adopted the International System of Units (metric) as their official system of weights and measures.
Being first on this list (by half a trillion borrowed dollars) is bothersome.
USA (711) China (143) Russia (72) United Kingdom (63) France (63) Japan (59) Saudi Arabia (48) India (47) Germany (47) Brazil (35) Italy (35) South Korea (31) Australia (27) Canada (25) Turkey (18) *Military defense spending. Not including horses and bayonets, naturally.
Being last on this list is bothersome.
Canada (50) Norway (44) Italy (22) United Kingdom (20) Denmark (18) Venezuela (18) France (16) Spain (16) Netherlands (16) Germany (14) Japan (14) Mexico (12) South Africa (12) Pakistan (12) Papua New Guinea (0) Swaziland (0) USA (0) *Weeks of guaranteed paid maternity leave benefit (details).
Nashville you’re much too safe.
My dear friend is a music director at a church here in the greater Seattle area. I asked him how he finds new music of the sacred/church variety and how he learns of concerts that may interest him. His answer was nuanced and difficult to enunciate as one would expect. He did, however, send me this gem as an example of the marketing noise I have to compete with as I ...
Today in stupid intellectual property.
Now it is as simple as protecting the in$ightful words you use to describe your stupid product.* *I propose that the dollar sign be used to indicate sarcasm. I don't really think these words are "insightful" so I have indicated my exaggeration with the good old $. It is perhaps the most commonly mis-communicated form of speech, we need a shortcut to save us from ...
The Christian Worship Industrial Complex.
They say most people don't pay attention to the lyric, well here are thousands who do; on glorious display, carving up scripture, celebrating their disdain for the planet they've been given (see Jesus). To the songwriter's discredit, he admits he is not a theologian. This humble self-awareness didn't inform his choice to base a song on the crap belief that tsunamis ...