Last Saturday I took the family to Old Navy. The kids both needed some new jeans, and there was a sale. We came home with two pair of jeans for both kids.
And, two cats.
Katie
While they were not selling cats at Old Navy, there is a PetCo in the same shopping center. As [...]
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at the DNC:
And not a drop of rain. (Whether anything occurs next week remains to be seen…)
I was planning a post-Olympic post earlier this week, but just haven’t gotten around to it. Thrilled, of course, to see the US Basketball team win gold, and thrilled for Coach K as well. And the story of the U.S. Men’s Volleyball team’s gold after the tragedy in the coach’s family was a [...]
From Jon Foreman, a new song from his Summer EP, based on a passage from Amos 5:
Instead Of A Show
I hate all your show and pretense
the hypocrisy of your praise
the hypocrisy of your festivals
I hate all your show
Away with your noisy worship
Away with your noisy hymns
I stop up my ears when your singing ‘em
I [...]
As you may have heard, the Olympics are into their second week now. They’re even televising some of it.
Let me start with this: Michael Phelps clearly is exceptional. I’ve enjoyed watching the swimming competition he’s been involved in a great deal. Eight gold medals is extremely impressive. However, the sports media [...]
This one’s for the French 4×100 relay swim team, who couldn’t back up their trash talk, and finished .08 seconds behind the U.S. team. Awww…
“Of all the losers, you finished first in that group… You’re the #1 loser.”
Definitely the highlight of the Olympics so far for me.
Events watched so far (as best as I [...]
Matt mentioned this song in a comment on yesterday’s post, which prompted me to go find it in it’s entirety.
lyrics
The song is called “Dress Blues” by Jason Isbell (Drive-By Truckers). The song is about Matthew Conley, a marine from Isbell’s hometown of Greenhill, Alabama, who died in Iraq.
I thought it was a powerful song, [...]
The first interview for the Chapman family since the tragedy of losing their daughter in May, having been hit by a car driven by their son. I watched this earlier this evening, having recorded it this morning. Quite simply, this is a pain I never want to experience, and I don’t think I [...]
Let me just say that eMusic is gold. (”It’s gold, Jerry. Gold!“) After nearly a year and a half into my subscription, I can’t imagine living without it. Here’s yet another list of recent music acquisitions that I didn’t get to last week, all but one courtesy of the awesomeness that is eMusic.
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