A few of my friends posted a very serious list of 25 things about themselves on Facebook last week. After seeing the thoughtfulness they put into their own, I decided to replicate: 1. While I have a few good ideas, I am very much without a clue as to what I’m going to do with [...]

My New Years was pretty great.  I had the chance to see all of my old college friends for 2-4 days and it was wonderful.  I love those people.  They are my second family.  We spent our time in Norway, IL, about an hour and a half outside of Chicago.  Norway, believe it or not, [...]

Mark! Thanks for your email.  Justin has been on my mind almost every day in the past few months.  I am so grateful to have known him and the rest of you, Chesnuts.  I have two things to share.  The first is an article I wrote for the Papyrus that was printed a week after [...]

This is too funny.  There’s a couple pretty sweet lines, but it’s mostly ridiculous.  The sweet ones are bolded.  This is a piece I wrote for the Papyrus on April Fools’ Day, April 5th, 2006: These pretzels are making me thirsty… You wouldn’t believe just how much I’ve eaten in the past two hours, just [...]

The film Lars and the Real Girl is one of the strongest proponents of the need for community I have seen in quite a while. For those who have yet to see it, Lars suffers from the delusion that his mail order, custom assembled, plastic doll is his girlfriend whom he’s in love with. Through [...]

Today I spent some time with Steph Plant recording. We put down 14 demos of her songs plus three covers (Joanna Newsom, a song from the Lion King musical, and a Bjork cover) in about 3 hours. We did very good on time and made some decent demos (except for a clock on the wall [...]

Happy New Year everybody. Especially those of you who are in Chicago celebrating without me (and laughed about that fact.) I’ll be in Greenville on Monday, probably in the evening (but with how things go who knows if that’ll be true.)  I’m excited either way.

Today is, and depending on when you read this, was the day after Thanksgiving.  It’s commonly called “Black Friday” because of the onslaught of shoppers on this day given that most stores have sales, and sometimes really good sales.  Today I had to work at the Apple store in the Galleria.  More or less, it [...]

we must always keep into account the frailty of our humanness, and to remember we can be outspokenly wrong, not completely informed, and even offensive the the open-minded Christ we serve.  In other words, let us not cast the first stone upon the homosexual, just like Christ does not cast the first stone upon the [...]

i saw david bazan play for free at slu tonight.  it was sweet. i also saw a lot of cool greenville people.  that was also sweet. i hope it happens again, and soon, and then after that time, again, and often.