September 2009
9 posts
Vote for my Bad Bad Poetry →
My friend Lisa is holding a Bad Poetry Contest. I need your help - Please go over there and vote for my magnificent opus - Split Splat.
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The Old Days
Several weeks back, a friend and I were having coffee. We were discussing various people we had not seen for a while. I mentioned one guy’s name and she told me she had seen on his facebook profile that he had been ill because of something he ate. She asked if I had heard from a lady we both know, and I told her I had seen on her blog that she had just broken up with her boyfriend. This went...
“Our surveys underscore the fact that about three-quarters of all adults believe...”
– Read the whole thing at:
Jesus’ Health Care Plan » Barna Blog
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Important People
My Dad is the sort of guy who knows lots of people. I am not sure where he got this trait - he was an only child who grew up in the middle of nowhere, the son of a single mother - but somehow he ended up with it.
I spent a lot of time in sales, and knew lot of folks who like to “network”, but Dad is the real deal. He really knows these people - he knows their wives, their kids, who...
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Standard Disclaimers
I love blogging. Or more accurately, I love writing. Blogging is the perfect sort of writing for a guy like me, a guy with virtually zero attention span. And for a long time, I could blog with impunity - saying whatever I wanted to say and nobody cared at all. That was, however, long ago. Now the internet is real time, and someone is always watching.
So here is what you should know.
I like to...
The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan... →
It always amazes me the people who love reading Dan Brown’s books. The man writes shite. He does. I am sorry.
The link above is to a list of contenders for the title of the 20 worst sentences in his corpus, but I am sure you could find more.
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Where Were You?
Lots of folks are talking about where they were on September 11, 2001. Here is mine:
I was living in Memphis and had just started this new gig, loading boxes into planes at Fed-Ex, primarily because I needed the health insurance. Ironically, I was working in insurance at the time, but my then-wife was rated as uninsurable by any private carrier, so I had to change from $800 suits in the daytime...
“God’s good creation has in fact been seized by hostile, evil cosmic forces...”
– Greg Boyd
New Policy
Because there are people out there looking for a fight, I am making some changes to my social media policy, effective immediately.
I will not be importing my blog posts, my twitter stream or anything else into Facebook. Somewhere around 70% of the stress I have in my life right now is caused by Facebook, and I just do not have any room for it. I seriously considered deleting the whole page...