One more week of piano camp left, huzzah! Large groups of children…so over it. Give me one kid at a time and I will happily teach them. Heck, give me a piano lab full of adults and I’ll be just as happy. But too many children make me tired. I’m not cut out for this [...]
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people will believe anything these days
Posted in church, culture, life, pop culture on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
misunderstood at sonic
Posted in life, pop culture on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those of you not blessed to be in the vicinity of a Sonic drive-up, it’s a fast food restaurant at which you pull up to a little kiosk and order your food instead of going inside to eat.
Me: I’d like a large fries, please.
Sonic guy through garbled speaker: Larrr eye?
Me: Uh, yeah.
Sonic guy: One [...]
taking stock
Posted in life, music, pop culture on January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Weeks ago, I was accused of being a “hipster” in regard to my popular music taste. I immediately resented the label, but I don’t know, maybe it’s appropriate. What does being a “hipster” signify, anyway? I like to pride myself on having diverse popular music tastes, but there probably is some underlying similarity to the [...]
misplaced fuss
Posted in pop culture on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Brilliant blog article about the new movie The Golden Compass based on Philip Pullman’s decidedly atheist young adult novel of the same title. I have to agree with Kim Fabricius that all the boycotting hype around this movie is ironically bringing more attention to it. Oh let me think…The Da Vinci Code, anyone?
IKEA madness
Posted in life, pop culture on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I braved the endless maze that is IKEA today to pick up a few items–namely, a rack for drying clothes and new comforter. (My old one is from freshman year of college, pink, and flowery. Ugh. My tastes have changed a bit since then.) Some observations:
1) People who shop at IKEA have the perverse habit [...]
the da vinci code
Posted in church, pop culture, theology on July 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here are my thoughts on The Da Vinci Code. I’ve just finished reading it this morning, after hearing all the hype about it for the last couple years. No, I haven’t seen the movie and I don’t intend to. In a nutshell, I think that it’s an entertaining but mediocre piece of fiction with interesting [...]
manipulated
Posted in culture, life, pop culture on March 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while, I stop and realize how much my life is inundated by manipulative advertising. Going shopping for groceries, turning on the radio, driving down the street, reading the newspaper….there’s no escape from it. It’s scary to think how much I don’t realize that I’m being manipulated on a daily basis to [...]
