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I spent an unreasonable amount of time manipulating this image, and felt it necessary to share.

Of all the items commonly found in living rooms, bedrooms, and offices, very few draw me towards themselves the way bookshelves do.
I love bookshelves.
If someone is giving me the grand tour of their place, I often get stuck the moment I reach a bookshelf, and miss out on a large portion of the remaining tour. [...]

Today is the inaugural Songwriting Club song unveiling. As you may recall, the theme this time around was phone books. As promised, I’m putting myself at the mercy of the masses by sharing my lyrics with you. And though I’d love to say that “I wrote it in like fifteen minutes… and… I wasn’t planning [...]

… yet another reason to come out and enjoy Summer Salsa.

Among the intersections in the Dallas area that I’ve enjoyed unfair amounts of fun over the past few years, few are able to compete with the Bermuda-grass-filled area between Addison Circle and Spectrum Drive in Addison!, Texas.
Eleven months ago I blogged about the wonders of July Jazz, a weekly set of free summer concerts in [...]

The back yard isn’t the only yard in these parts with treasures. The front yard boasts a few of it’s own.

Not long after I started playing guitar a decade ago, a desire was birthed in me to not only become able at guitar playing, but also to write original songs to ably play on that guitar. I’ve only successfully (used very loosely) written one song in those ten years, and I did so because I [...]

As I was doing my daily Internet routine today I knew that a blog update was in order, but I wasn’t exactly sure what to write about. Then it hit me. Right there at the top of my web browser. I looked up there and saw so many things that I love about web browsing [...]

This post is really nothing other than an attempt to further kill my pride by showing a picture of my absolutely terrible sunburn. Not terrible in the sense that it will undoubtedly lead to skin cancer or in the sense that it is unbelievably painful.
No, the picture says it all really. You see Colby’s strawberry [...]