This will be a quick one on identity, for the sake of getting it out. (I promise so much and deliver so little.)

Who is Dano? Why is Dano?

As a general rule, I am wary of folks that introduce themselves by something other than what is on their birth certificate. Still, nicknames are great. I shorten, lengthen, bastardize names all the time for ( Read more... )

Dano is ( Read more... )

The [canyon] was born today
I'll tell you how,
the clouds above opened up
and [washed] it out”

Alex had figured that the “I need you so much closer,” in our contextualized Transatlanticism is currently not about God, but people( /us/ the boys/ you, in my opinion). (Somewhere Ben Gibbard is rolling his eyes and saying "duh".) Looking across a 3,000 ( Read more... )

So.

Here I sit in Le Stat's with the Palex, listening to the noise, goth drama, and killer mix of tunes piped in overhead.
I'm half planing the Grand Canyon trip, browsing Penny Arcade comics, planning courses for this quarter, fantasizing about guitar pedals, comparing e-bows on eBay, thinking about all the blogs I want to blog, about all the ( Read more... )

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from ( Read more... )

This last Coast trip to Ensenada was a real treat. As much as the prior trip had shown us that the work there was relational, this one showed just a glimpse of the realization of those relationships.

Though Tomas asked if I would stay in his house again, I stayed with Jesus. On the previous trip it had been very difficult for me to communicate ( Read more... )

The Ensenada/Tijuana drop-off; was a success. In Ensenada my pop and Steve got shopping done in the morning, I played in traffic, we saw the big Calvary/Horizon church and met Pastor Juan Domingo. (The cat's an ex-La Jollan, and had started a bible study at Soledad Pres.) Juan has huge plans for setting up a Bible college (like this one) just north ( Read more... )

from last year, in Hungary

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A great moment of internal conflict came early for me. It was the fourth of July around a bonfire. (Ray threw this down on Nationalism, so you might ignore my babble and go straight there.) I wanted to punch one of the Murrieta bible college guys right in the stomach. He was praying thanks in a manner that had to ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble remembering back, but I think first quarter's music had a lot of Ryan Delmore, specifically the Devotion album and the worship song Jesus' Name.

Looking back through flup, I was introduced to Big Head Todd and the Monsters (Strategem is recommended) and Matt Pond PA (Emblems and Measure specifically, the songs The Hollows and  ( Read more... )

So, the Coast trip to Oasis in Ensenada ( Read more... )