Aaaaaand, we’re knee-deep into that time of year when all of academic humanity suddenly realizes that the the end of the semester is tomorrow. Where did the time go? Why didn’t I force myself to work like a dog last week when having an anxiety attack and drinking entirely too much coffee were merely options?
It’s [...]
Archive for April, 2008
end-of-semester panic
Posted in life on April 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
new transportation
Posted in life on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I took the Orbit (the City of Tempe’s free neighborhood shuttle service) back and forth from school today. It was quicker than parking at church and walking the rest of the way to the School of Music, and more importantly, I didn’t use any gas. I think this is my new plan for transportation. This [...]
we don’t need no stinkin’ change!
Posted in church, culture, language, theology on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another interesting quote as I sit here at Steve’s reading and writing about North American German Lutherans. This one is from an article entitled Singing from the Right Songbook: Ethnic Identity and Language Transformation in German American Hymnals by Otto Holzapfel:
Songbooks and church prayer books are among the cultural goods that persist most conservatively in [...]
this is the song that never ends
Posted in church, music on April 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Occasionally, historical accounts can be quite amusing. Take this one, for example—Charles Burney’s description of some seriously long-winded singing in The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces (1775):
I visited the Thumkirche or cathedral, belonging to the Lutherans, where I found the congregation singing a dismal melody, without the organ. When [...]
dinner theater recipes
Posted in recipes on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Because a lot of people asked, here are my recipes for the pasta sauce and the vinaigrette. I didn’t really have exact measurements for the sauce, but this is a rough idea.
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Pasta Sauce for 100
10 onions, minced
Minced garlic, to taste (we used 1/3 of a large jar from Costco)
Olive oil
3 1/2 bottles of white or [...]
naive charity
Posted in church, life on April 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A word to the wise—even if you are of a charitable and kind nature and wish to help out your church colleague on the brink of fatherhood, it is still unwise to take on the gargantuous task of feeding 330 people at a dinner theater. Unless, of course, you have all the time and energy [...]
killing time
Posted in church, culture, language, pop culture on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While waiting for yet another couple of cheesecakes to solidify to the point that I can turn off the oven and go to bed, I have been browsing random books on the bookshelf. Nerdy, I know. Anyway, I came across this quote from the articulate Rodney Clapp that relates to my previous post on cultural [...]
