Interesting week thus far ( Read more... )

My new album, Idiom Savant, is finally out. It might not be "live" right away because Jamendo is taking forever to process it, but here's a link for a FREE download... Chris Ortega - Idiom Savant. If it won't let you download keep checking back, hopefully it will be up and running soon. And if you download it and listen, be sure to let me know what ( Read more... )

And now the news we've all (read: both of us) been waiting for.....

My new album, Idiom Savant, drops this coming Tuesday, 1/11/11. Ten tracks of awesomeness over two years in the making. Or something like that ( Read more... )

It's 2011, and I figured it might be time to update this thingie. Over the past year I kinda fell out of love with "social networking" as a phenomenon and part of my daily life. I hardly ever log into myspace or facebook, I outright refuse to create a Twitter page, I never post on message boards anymore, and this not-quite-a-blog got lost in the ( Read more... )

So my journey from devout Christian faith to liberal Christian faith to wishy washy Christian-ish faith to agnosticism to borderline atheism hasn't been as documented here as perhaps it should have been, but if anyone is wondering why, here's a Class A example. The way Christians (and people of other religions, to be fair) conceive of the world ( Read more... )

Last week I was downtown and several stores were throwing out stuff. Instant Karma was getting rid of a ton of stuff, including a chalkboard, which I grabbed. I bought some chalk and an eraser, figuring it would be a cool thing to hang in the kitchen and use for writing notes about bills and stuff, rather than putting sticky notes on the fridge ( Read more... )

In one of the oddest, yet certainly most amazing recipes I have ever seen, the blog Serious Eats shows you how to make sushi from Marshmallow Peeps, also known as Peepshi. Visually stunning, absolutely delicious, and ridiculously dangerous to diabetics, this is the perfect treat to get you in the ol' Easter mood. I dunno about you, but I'm in awe.

Good and bad ( Read more... )

Can someone please explain to me the point in the Navy having blue camouflage uniforms ( Read more... )

So I've been feeling pretty artsy lately. I uploaded a cartoon and a painting to my deviantart page. I'm working on another painting, should be done soon.

And when I'm not making art I've been looking at a lot of it. I just found this and I'm pretty much in awe. Amazing stuff, no?

I don't really have much of anything else interesting to say. The