online diary for the masses

the blog none of your friends are talking about

Month: March, 2008

book review vol. seventeen: Wall and Piece

My boss recently bought this coffee table book from the local Anarchist (yes, anarchist) book store, and over the past week I’ve spent my lunch breaks reading it. When I first picked it up I never really planned on reading all the way through it, but after spending 30 minutes looking at the images and [...]

a couple hundred dollars later…

Today’s been a tough one on my pocket book. I take great solace in knowing that this evening, 1,500 miles away, a beautiful family will celebrate Spaghetti Day. Texas, take heart. I’ll be home a week sooner than we’d planned. Hope you can work around the schedule change.

the weekend in dad points

It wasn’t until I got to college that I realized my dad knew everything. Then, in the latter half of college that I realized that not only did my dad know everything, but all dads know everything. Mikey’s dad knows everything. Jon’s dad knows everything. Anson’s, Hayden’s, and Ashton’s dad knows everything. Dads just know [...]

Easter. Alleluia. Amen.

“… and if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” (1 Cor 15:14) All hail, Thou Resurrection! All hail, Thou Life and Light! All hail, Thou Self Perfection, Sole source of grace and might! Thy Church, O Christ, now greets Thee, Uprising from the grave; And every eye [...]

(the) Good Friday

O come and mourn with me awhile; And tarry here the cross beside; O come, together let us mourn; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified. Have we no tears to shed for Him, While soldiers scoff and foes deride? Ah! look how patiently He hangs; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified. How fast His hands and feet [...]