Well, I did it. Sometimes you have to take small steps towards change in your life. I tried and tried to fix myself and it never seemed to work. Sure I might talk a good game, get myself psyched up for the long battle, but I'd always lose my will and cave in before I even started on the road to improvement. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am here ( Read more... )

Yup. Can't explain it. Just feelin' fine. Perhaps it's the Tahiti 80 album aptly titled "A Piece Of Sunshine" (winning the most appropo album title in history, as this is the happiest music on the planet). Perhaps it's just Saturday and the city's packed, meaning hopeful business and money! Maybe it's that church(es) is tomorrow and that rules ( Read more... )

Holy cow. It's 4:30am and I'm just getting home and trying to reflect, or maybe get to bed. Big ole "WTF?" over the last 24 hours or so (which I suppose the "or so" could stretch back a couple months). Look for a super funtime lj entry soon, kids. Same Texas John time, same Texas John place. Fading fast.

Hasta.

It's been a long time, dear readers, and for that I do apologize. Much has happened and little updates have been made so "awaaaaaay we go ( Read more... )

I just interviewed a possible roommate. No kidding, I think this guy is the largest, not-fat, person I've ever met. The dude was a giant. I've known guys taller than me before, but they were all skinny punks, not with the ability to palm my tv. Picture a 6'7" Strong Mad with a Red Sox cap and remarkably soft spoken. Sigh, there's no way he'll ( Read more... )

So, a Dorchester Baptist Church is having an old-fashioned revival with a tent and preach-a-thon on the lawn of Boston Common, inviting all and inundating the downtown area with tracts. It goes without saying that the preacher does not have a Dorchester accent, rather the rich resounding Southerner's voice ( Read more... )

With all the hullabaloo in Massachusetts gaining national attention recently, I feel that I should make a confession of affections. The news and subsequent debates of yesterday pretty much failed to register as historically significant or even mildly interesting/thought provoking compared to the tragedy of the decade that has been slowing forming ( Read more... )

So, dear readers; much has conspired since my last monologue, first and foremost being the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and the subsequent reprise of the "alleluia" into our liturgical vernacular ( Read more... )

So with the Passion of our Lord coming to it's completion on Friday afternoon, I'm pretty sure God was sitting up on His throne fairly bored. This is when He decided to play one of His favorite games. This one, dear readers, is called "Send The Freakshow". The premise: put together random groups of people in a local Boston fish restaurant to get ( Read more... )

This is what the fine (and I mean like, 1 point-tiny-stinkin'-fine print) said at the bottom of one of today's spam emails to yours truly. I actually had to copy and paste it into a larger point so that I could read it. Sure glad that I did. And now to share with y'all ( Read more... )