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I should’ve posted these ages ago, but busy blah blah blah procrastinating yadda yadda yadda lazy etc. etc. etc.
Mass for a Risen Church: Eucharistic Acclamations
Thursday night, Joan revealed her early birthday present for me—a secret she’d been keeping for over half a year: swanky seats to a Cardinals-Marlins game on Friday.
Earlier in the year, her boss generously sent out an open invitation to his employees. He’d gotten season tickets in the Redbird Club, almost [...]
Andrew Sullivan notes a glaring omission in President Bush’s delivery to the GOP convention last night:
Now have you ever heard someone recount what was done to John McCain in the Hanoi Hilton and not use the word “torture”? I haven’t. “Beatings and isolation” is a bizarre phrase to [...]
At a retreat I attended a decade ago, a priest was delivering a talk on the liturgy. He was firing off an explanation and said, “The Lord be with you.” Almost immediately, in a nearly involuntary reflex that would make Pavlov proud, everybody interrupted and chimed in with the response, [...]
My first mixed media comic, presented to Joan almost a month ago as an anniversary present:
This should be required viewing/reading for every American of high school age or older. It will go down in history as one of the great American speeches about race, regardless of the November outcome. It gives a snapshot of America at the turn of the 21st century, in the same [...]
This should be required viewing/reading for every American of high school age or older. It will go down in history as one of the great American speeches about race, regardless of the November outcome. It gives a snapshot of America at the turn of the 21st century, in the same [...]
This should be required viewing/reading for every American of high school age or older. It will go down in history as one of the great American speeches about race, regardless of the November outcome. It gives a snapshot of America at the turn of the 21st century, in the same [...]
Most (if not all) cartoonists—including yours truly—tend to hold Jim Davis’s Garfield comic strip in pretty low regard. Early in its run, Davis handed off all the writing and drawing to a studio, reaping the merchandising and licensing deals. (In the world of rock ‘n roll, and well, just about [...]
In case anybody missed them, I posted three videos on the joint blog over the past week and a half. Cross-posted here:
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From The West Wing Season 2, "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" (Part I, originally aired October 4, 2000):
Bartlet
Why are you doing this?
LEO stops.
You're a player. You're bigger in the party than I am. Hoynes would probably make you national chairman. Leo, tell me this isn't one of the [...]
See Joan’s blog for details. Only one ticket left!
[...]We’re now less than a week from the super-est Super Fat Tuesday EVAR. If you’re still stuck on the subject of which candidate should get your vote, there’s certainly no shortage of political issue quizzes on the giant magical interwebs. The most useful one I’ve personally found is the [...]
We’re now less than a week from the fattest, superest Super Fat Tuesday EVAR. (Note to pundits: Whenever you call it “Super Duper Tuesday”, you sound like idiots. At least I’m being funny about it.) If you’re still stuck on which candidate should get your vote, there’s certainly no shortage [...]
WSJ columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has a lucid take on the campaign, with some key points on who exactly is destroying (or destroyed) each of the major parties:
...the Clintons are tearing the [Democratic] party apart. It will not be the same after this. It will not [...]
Yes, we’re addicted to our Wii. Guess who else is?
The gadget-loving Queen has become HOOKED on Prince William’s new Nintendo Wii games console.
...A Palace source told The People: “When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged [...]
Happy New Year, everyone. Today, the closing of large stretches on Highway 40 begins. So, St. Louisans, between the longer commutes, you can reduce your productivity even further with this addicting Flash game from STLToday. In your rocket-powered automobile, you can speed through and jump over gaping holes, construction [...]
...but I had to jump in here and log that last night, after Midnight Mass, the choir presented me with a Wii.
WORD. Awesome. Thank you, guys (and especially to Co-Bin for actually finding it).
Two Masses down, two to go. Merry Christmas, everyone.
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They’re calling it the “Death Star” of black holes. Zap!
Remember this old Maneater tradition we did a few years ago? Forgot to do it last year. That’s okay, because I made my list longer this year to make up for it.
[...]Facebook is kind of neat. And very well-designed/engineered.
MySpace, Friendster, and LiveJournal still suck.
[...]I seem to be filling out a lot of political surveys these days with 2008 and election madness on the horizon. Inevitably, there’s a multiple choice question I always dread answering: “Do you describe yourself as Very Conservative, Conservative, Moderate, Liberal, or Very Liberal"—and sometimes it’ll actually include the choice [...]
Y’know, I go through these spells where the blog sort of just lingers and languishes. You get married, you buy a house, you watch the Advent and Christmas season come at you with all the fury of a 16-wheeler speeding down the highway at 120 mph.
I’ve had lots of [...]
It sucks. And—considering the rest of the airline industry—while sucking alone might not be enough of a deterrent, sucking on a consistently late basis should.
[...]I took this and made it into a 24-second ringtone (187.5KB MP3, 64kbps, mono, 22050Hz). It loops pretty well.
If you don’t know how to upload MP3 ringtones to your phone—a Bluetooth connection helps—Google it (and please don’t ask me). Using the model of your phone (e.g., “razr"), “bluetooth”, [...]
Off and on for the past two weeks, I worked in GarageBand on a mix of “Aase’s Death” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. I grabbed the MIDI strings from the Mutopia Project and dropped them into GarageBand, using individual string section sounds from the [...]
<jenn> i need a cat. thoughts?
<christian> well, cats as a general rule are psychotic
<christian> you have to have a tolerance for a certain level of psychosis
<jenn> i’m a theatre professional
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Besides their truly awful “Caveman” ad campaign, they won’t cover Optimus Prime.
Besides their truly awful “Caveman” ad campaign, they won’t cover Optimus Prime.
Special thanks to Justin and Tanya for their invaluable help and having the courage to brave the pit!
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Special thanks to Justin and Tanya for their invaluable help and having the courage to brave the pit!
[...](Cross-posted to the wedding blog)
Joan and I held an impromptu meeting with Tanya, Valerie, and Co-Bin a few days ago:
Music by Seven Days. That takes you back, doesn’t it?
[...](Cross-posted to the wedding blog)
Joan and I held an impromptu meeting with Tanya, Valerie, and Co-Bin a few days ago:
Music by Seven Days. That takes you back, doesn’t it?
[...]A couple weeks ago, before our final performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at DuBourg, I whipped together a quick parody of “Any Dream Will Do”. I cobbled a few different memories from the rehearsals, performances, and cast parties (at which the police arrived to address noise complaints). [...]
A couple weeks ago, before our final performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at DuBourg, I whipped together a quick parody of “Any Dream Will Do”. I cobbled a few different memories from the rehearsals, performances, and cast parties (at which the police arrived to address noise complaints). [...]
A couple weeks ago, before our final performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at DuBourg, I whipped together a quick parody of “Any Dream Will Do”. I cobbled a few different memories from the rehearsals, performances, and cast parties (at which the police arrived to address noise complaints). [...]
We need suggestions for our reception music. Slow dances, uptempo stuff—we need all of it! (Be warned: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” gets a definite veto from both of us.) Go over to our wedding blog and comment!
[...]We need suggestions for our reception music. Slow dances, uptempo stuff—we need all of it! (Be warned: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” gets a definite veto from both of us.) Go over to our wedding blog and comment!
[...]We need suggestions for our reception music. Slow dances, uptempo stuff—we need all of it! (Be warned: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” gets a definite veto from both of us.) Go over to our wedding blog and comment!
[...]One of the greatest violinists of our time (due for an Avery Fisher award tomorrow) plays his Stradivarius at a Metro station during rush hour.
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One of the greatest violinists of our time (due for an Avery Fisher award tomorrow) plays his Stradivarius at a Metro station during rush hour.
One of the greatest violinists of our time (due for an Avery Fisher award tomorrow) plays his Stradivarius at a Metro station during rush hour.
Since I last mentioned a few soundsets I created for Adium (a Mac OS X chat client), I created many more in the past year. I now have a total of seven:
I just uploaded the [...]
Since I last mentioned a few soundsets I created for Adium (a Mac OS X chat client), I created many more in the past year. I now have a total of seven:
I just uploaded the [...]
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