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so I've had this nagging feeling for the past month or so that there are people who used to read my blog here who may at one time or another wanted me to send them copies of The Christian Radical. Since I've lost touch with virtually everyone I once read and conversed with here I've also forgotten how to reach many of you. If you want to you can ( Read more... ) -
the rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated
This blog won't be deleeted however I am never posting in it again. I have a new blog which I will be using from now on. You can read it if you care to, it's at http://wasp-water.blogspot.com/
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The Long Goodbye
I have spent all of yesterday thinking hard about the questions I raised for myself in my previous post and the answers I came up with aren't ones that please me. I've never denied my own dependance on the internet but I have never done anything to reign it in. As a result what I wanted to leave benhind by getting rid of my TV I embraced instead in ( Read more... ) -
grrrroar
I really really really wish people didn't act like they need an intellectual babysitter to nurse them and coddle them and do all the hard thinking for them.
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If you've recieved this more than once you've got an awsome social concience
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pre recording jitters
So in the late morning/early afternoon I'll be heading over to Todd's place for day one of recording a folk album. I've got 12 songs (10 mine and two by Lead Belly) I've got some basic idea of how I want things to sound and all the instruments I should need to accomplish the sound. I've even got an album name and a name for the project. I played ( Read more... ) -
everyone and their dog's getting in on the islamic opinion train
I have read a number of opinion pieces recently on the cartoons published by a Danish newspaper satirizing (poorly) the prophet Muhammed. Anyway I got this in my e-mails today and of all the things I've read by anyone these folks unsurprisingly have the best handle on the situation, if the world listened to the voices of people like these folks ( Read more... ) -
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Obligatory lame post, making myself vulnerable, but it's true so here goes...
If there is someone (or if there are someones) on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. -
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Oh man, I've been really on point as far as song writing goes lately. I've been firing them off quite often and just getting better and better at it. I don't mean for this to sound gloaty or anything, it's mostly that for four years I put my guitar down and told myself that there was no point any more and that I was never going to ammount to ( Read more... )