As of January 2008, the most open field for presidential candidates in many, many years–especially on the Republican side. So you have been browsing around YouTube watching presidential candidates debate? A few years ago, I never thought I would get “news” through YouTube. Of course, I’m hesitant to call political debates news. News it seems [...]
Rachel and I are both small bargain shoppers–no, not small-bargain, we are actually short and have small stomachs. Whenever we eat out, we spend less than $15. We often split an entree and both feel bad for our servers, because if we were bigger, hungrier, less frugal, we’d spend $30 to $40. Which leads me [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
I was using SeeqPod the other day to search for non-album songs sung by Over The Rhine. (By the way, Over The Rhine is coming to Indianapolis on December 12th at the Music Mill. I wonder if it will contain some Christmas music. I’ve never been to one of their Christmas concerts.)
Many of the mp3s [...]
Maybe it is time to move to somewhere else. Below is virtually verbatim of one side of a conversation heard outside my (closed) window not too long ago:
Hey kid! I want to tell you somethin’.
You won’t have to work for no one! You know what I’m sayin’. You know what I’m sayin’. You know man. [...]
As most of you all know, I tend to prefer extremes in taste. After a fling with orthodox liturgy, Old-Slavic hymns, and requiems, I threw myself into pop music from the last twenty years. I became excited at listening to songs from a decade ago. These are songs that I did not hear often, since [...]
Rachel and I are currently listening to the “The Age of Henry VIII” from Great Courses. Rachel just finished coaching her second varsity soccer game. We are traveling to the Lexington area sometime in the upcoming weeks.
I have added a “Now Reading” plug-in from Roblog to Cultured Media: More than a sound byte. I’m almost [...]
Are you probably already read on Facebook, I brought a 2000 Honda Civic on Tuesday. I brought the Civic for close to the average price in area minus the cost of half an exhaust system and new brakes–which the seller and I both agreed would the car would need in the coming months. It’s dark [...]
I am making my blogs into networks that read each others posts which means the blogs are co-dependent and thus could cause each other to fault. I have been able to create a master feed of all my blogs at SMJdesign.com/feed/ If you are currently subscribing to Rachel and Stephen, and would like to subscribe [...]
Since when did a debate become a boxing match? Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk–and sometimes yell–about what they’ve learned in the last few years.
#333: The Center for Lessons Learned (1:15:27)
About halfway through is a “debate” between Saun Hannity and Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt [...]