Last year in April, I took a month off from this blog. At the time, I considered just shutting it down for good. After more than a year and a half, I was tired of it. But, after some time off I came back and have, for the most part since then, [...]

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It was 10 days early, but I went ahead and got myself an iPod Nano (8G) last night. We were out shopping for something else, and with my birthday coming up, I was already planning on getting one with my family paying for part of it as my gift. Well, we were there, [...]

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Here’s my latest…
Currently listening a lot to some solo work by Andrew Osenga (formerly of The Normals, currently of Caedmon’s Call) and Jon Foreman (Switchfoot).
Also, enjoying the new Delirious?, The Mountain Goats and Sandra McCracken (wife of one of my favorites, Derek Webb).
Anyway, here it is (no embedding this time.)

Andrew Osenga
Letters To The Editor [...]

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While I was wrong about predicting them to not reach the final four, my reason for doing so was, in the end, the reason they finished second - “Memphis’ bricks at the line will bring them down.”
I thought Kansas might have trouble lasting 40 minutes after the emotional game with UNC. And it appeared [...]

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God bless Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Danny Green isn’t dancing tonight.
Travel Hansblow is going home.
And Ol’ Roy may have changed his mind five years ago, but Kansas fans could still give a s*** about North Carolina. It had to be especially sweet for them to reach the title game by sending ol’ traitor [...]

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I grew up in a town where people who didn’t look like me lived on the other side of town, on the other side of the tracks (literally.) The town was, of course, more white than black, and my memory isn’t good enough to recall an accurate ratio of white kids to black kids [...]

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