February 2009
24 posts
Musings of the Week...
Once again, these are actual thoughts from this week:
Am I more frustrated by erection pill or tampon commercials? It’s a toss-up, but I will say that I am emphatically NOT curious about natural male enhancement…no matter what my email inbox says.
I am not against beauty pageants or “scholarship contests”by any means. I am, however, freaked out by little girls in...
January 2009
20 posts
Missing Kamp
So I work at this camp called Kanakuk Colorado every summer. This past summer was one of the best times of my entire life, as a matter of fact. So much drama, so much fun, so many new and old friends. I literally think I had more fun this past summer than I ever have.
One of my favorite parts of camp this past summer was my opportunity to make videos with my buddy Jip Hubbard. Those videos can be...
Call Me
Maybe I ate too much weird food in the last week, maybe I have been listening to too much weird music, or maybe I am just feeling nostalgic, but I think I have a new idea. Check your phone right now and see if you have my number. If not, it’s on my facebook profile. If so, call me. Immediately. I want to hear from anyone and everyone and I want to catch up with you. I legitimately want to...
Defense of JAWS
The other day I made the claim that JAWS is one of my all-time favorite movies. Inexplicably, my friends acted like I had said that my favorite movie was Jason X! They told me that JAWS was a terrible film and that it was stupid. Stupid? Excuse me?
Maybe I’m a film snob (no way), but it takes more than just hot chicks and fast cars to make a good movie for me. I don’ t look at...
Interwebs and Other Mysteries
010101010101010100101101100100100101010110000? What does that mean? I have no idea, but your computer does.(dumb) Ten years ago, the internet was terrible, but we loved it. Remember using AOL as your internet service provider? Geez that was terrible, but we all loved it.
Joy was double-clicking the AOL icon, hearing your 56K (or slower) modem squeal to life and start making the most ungodly...
People You Used To Know
Why do some people come into our lives, stay a while, and then vanish as quickly as they came? I have been wondering about this for a long time now, and still don’t know the answer. It’s as if we are wandering through life with people blowing past us like smoke: slowly enough to notice, but not tangible enough to hold. This smoke of people dissipates and leaves us only with its smell...
Weekly Musings
This is what was running through my head this week. I’m going to post a column like this once a week.
What ever happened to Scary Spice? Posh married Beckham and Ginger or Baby Spice is now a diplomat for the UN or something, But what happened to Scary Spice? I’m not worried about Sporty Spice, because she’s probably doing very well for herself in the WNBA.
Obama finally got in...
Big Day, Bigger Questions
Well it’s a big day for America. Barack Obama is (finally) officially President. I am not going to try to verbalize what this means for a country whose capitol building was built by slaves and who, in the last 30 years, was still seeing high schools fight against integration. Instead I am going to give you something a little different: my actual thoughts during the inauguration ceremony.
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I Hate Being Alone
I have a confession to make. I am terrible at being alone. i don’t mean single or anything to do with being in a relationship. I mean that I hate being anywhere, doing anything by myself. If I have your phone number for any reason, you know that I call people or text people all the time for no reason. If I am in my car by myself, I’m on the phone. If I’m in an airport or mall by...
Musings...
These are just random thoughts of mine that I’ve collected over the past week.
Why is gay bar music and gym music the same? Now I understand why all those dudes wear iPod headphones the whole time.
Am I a bad person because I want to physically assault people who ask more than 3 questions in class?
Am I the only person who hates Lost? Really? I mean if they pulled some of this crap in the...
Warm Depression/ A Call To Action
Every so often its good to revisit your favorite albums. In my case, I suffered the awful fate of losing most of the Bob Dylan songs on my computer when I got a new computer last may. My misfortune was atoned for a few days ago when my friend Daniel Daily replenished my supply. Words cannot describe the way I feel now after rediscovering some of my favorite music of all time.
First of all, if...
News For Today
http://news.aol.com/article/wedding-bells-ring-at-taco-bell/301313
No Way.
I don’t believe that this actually happened. Why would anyone get married at a Taco Bell? How strange is your relationship that a marriage at Taco Bell seems to make sense?
Before I belittle anyone for going to the Bell, I must confess that I am also a big fan of running for the border. Some of my friends might...
Working Out, Trying not to Die Laughing
My buddy Hoag and I work out together every so often. The last time we were at our local 24 hour fitness, we about died laughing when we started talking about the cast of characters in every gym. There seem to always be the same few people working out, no matter where you are.
The “UFC bros,” guys who are just enormous and wear black TAPOUT shirts with wind-pants to work out every...
Lucky to Be Alive, I Guess
Well today I found out I am lucky to be alive and typing this blog. It’s a long story, but I’ve got time if you do.
After my father passed away from a heart attack about two years back, my brother and I went to the doctor to get our hearts checked out to see if we were at risk for heart problems. Everything checked out fine except for this one problem. My EKG showed a weird...
“grace represents God’s acceptance of me. faith represents my acceptance of...”
– robert millet (via TheTumbler)
artist: donnie mortimer
album: live at the lantz
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Tick Tock...
“It’s a game of inches and seconds, gentlemen,” I can still hear my high school football coach screaming those words at us. Boy was he right about football, but he was also right about life. Seconds, moments and breaths separate good decisions from bad decisions, long-term relationships from “just friends,” and joy from pain.
Bad timing is the theme of countless...
