I’ve been lurking (yes, that’s the technical term) on a few blogs, reading up on the latest flare-up of the music debate. It’s been a few years since this particular issue caught fire online, and as usual we have the usual list of “teachers,” each with their own view. I remember running myself into a wall a while back, assuming that because I had a website (which anyone can get), that meant my opinions were more important than others who didn’t. Ah, growing pains. Not that I didn’t have Scriptural reasons for what I said…at least most of it. But that’s a dead argument, and I don’t expect to bring it up or participate in it again, at least not for a while. Rather, continuing my tradition of “we report, you decide,” I stumbled across an interesting lecture given at the 2006 Leadership Seminar at Calvary Baptist Seminary in Landsdale, PA (where I went to school for two years…back in the 80s… :shudder: ) by Pastor P. Randall Gaumer of the First Baptist Church of Perkasie, PA. He has his bachelor’s degree in music with an M.Div. tacked on for good measure. From his comments and his background, I would say he looks to be a true “Music Pastor” - a musician who has a pastor’s heart. Anyway, before I forget why I started this (I wrote that last sentence about half an hour before this one) you should definitely read Pastor Randy’s paper (PDF, 770kb) on Worship Wars. Rather than repeat the same tired rhetoric (whether or not it’s accurate in the end) he drops all previous assumptions, especially those from the Garlock/Fisher era (no further comment on that), and proceeds with just the facts at hand from Scripture. Surprisingly, when you do that, you sometimes end up in different directions. In a nutshell, he’s arguing that we’re prejudiced after 20 years of heated rhetoric and we’re stuck viewing music through a foggy lens of our own making. While I agree with the premise, I think perhaps his position is a little too strong, too fast. But, having said that, I didn’t find myself arguing with his points as he presented them…and he does make some quite valid points about worldliness and the music we listen to, in particular. So, read up - if nothing else, the Scriptures he brings to the table (some of which I haven’t seen before in this debate) are well worth serious consideration.

Double your standards, double your fun. So says Scott Aniol in this new revealing picture:

Happy 19th…er, 26th…birthday, Scott!

(picture h/t: Greg Linscott)

Romans 12:1 [+/-] [12:1]I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.. This isn’t a lot of fun, editing this every 30 seconds…

Before I curl up with a Calvin & Hobbes book between classes, I have a question, and I need a nerd. I’ve got bottles of Blenheim Ginger Ale in my fridge (which lately has been acting more like a freezer). They are filled with cold, normal, if pretty spicy, ginger ale. I pulled a bottle and examined it - the pale liquid was perfectly clear, promising a wonderful drink for the next hour. I popped the top and watched in fascination as the ginger ale in the bottle’s neck began to freeze solid in front of my eyes. Seriously - I could watch the ice expand downward as soon as I opened the bottle. Incidentally, something similar happened yesterday - I’d take a drink from the ice-free ginger ale, and a few moments later there was ice in the bottle. I thought maybe ginger ale froze at a slightly colder temperature than backwash (nasty, I know) and the bottle was just at the right temperature. Now I’m not so sure, because it started freezing the moment I let room-temperature air inside.

So, nerds and science buffs, what gives?

No, the update itself won’t be loud. I want to point out that Larry Rogier, former BJ student and son of current staff members, has a blog he calls Stuff Out Loud. Swing on by and say hey, congratulate him on recently becoming a father, etc.

More and more problems. I updated to the latest version of Scripturizer, but because this site is high-traffic enough, I had to go with a different method of saving the information about each passage. This led to a whole host of other problems - SQL statement errors not allowing apostrophes in any post (because SQL statements are wrapped with single quotes, and including single quotes in the post content abruptly ended the post as far as the plugin was concerned), form errors from the plugin trying to send HTTP headers before wordpress was ready, etc. I’ve emailed the developer (because the WP Plugin Wiki isn’t allowing me to log in like it should), but for now I’ve deactivated the plugin. More updates as events warrant.

I just picked up a key to use the inline text of the ESV in my posts, which means I’ll be using the Scripturizer plugin to its full potential. Try it now - click the weird thing to read John 3:16 [+/-] "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.. Trippy, huh? I didn’t write any of that code - I just put the reference into the post. Plus it’s completely controlled by CSS, which means I can format it as I like. Good News Publishers has done a great job opening up their database in XML format and sharing their API to allow programmers to make use of their text online. If you didn’t get all those abbreviations, don’t worry about it - programmers think that’s really cool, and it benefits you, the end-reader.

Also, I want to give a special thanks and shout-out to Stephen Smith, webmaster over at Good News and Crossway. Turns out that, like many, he enjoys reading my stats summary each month. Glad to help you laugh!

Speaking of stats, because of the server change the stats for March will be a bit leaner than usual. My primary method of gathering stats used to be StatTraq, but that program doesn’t like upgrading from one version of WP to another. Now I’m using AWStats, a package with a nicer display, at least. Shows about the same stuff, with a little more in-depth analysis. Rest assured April’s will be back on track.

*UPDATE* - I modified a few settings on the plugin so that it wouldn’t try to grab the text every time someone viewed the page. See if that fixes it…

Graduation is approaching for me - next year, hopefully. After that, whether I stay in Greenville or leave (”mounty’s corner - coming soon to a city near you!”) I will likely be getting a small apartment to call my own. Scary, huh, that I’d be that grown up. I thought it’d never happen.

When you look at your average apartment, you find standard stuff - TV, DVD player, CD player, some semblance of a stereo system, and a computer. Usually. Well, I got to thinking this afternoon - why all that stuff? You’ve got a TV for somewhere in the range of $200-$300 for something that you can see across the room. You’ve got your DVD/VCR combo for $100. CD player? Another $150. Oh yeah, speakers - add $100-$150, less if you want to go for the shelf variety. So call it $100 for speakers. What’s your entertainment system running now? $600. Now let’s talk space. All said you’re sacrificing probably eight feet long and, if you’re lucky, two feet deep, and probably eight feet tall. Sixteen square feet of floor space, 128 cubic feet if my math is right (it’s been a while). Try fitting that in your car when you move. Oh, you don’t own a Hummer or a panel van? And you still don’t own a computer yet! Click for more…

For those keeping score, I’m still in the process of updating my site. So far, I’ve upgraded the installation of WordPress to something more current. The design and layout still looks the same, but if I have the time one of these weekends I’m going to update all that and maybe come up with something a little more original. (My earliest readers will remember that my old site at Blog-City looked strikingly similar to this current design…and while I like the color scheme, I’m ready for something a little different.) Also on the update list is my plugins. Mad HT’s to Austin over at Il Filosofo for his plugin skillz - I’m using his Comments Preview and Enroll in Comments plugins now. What this means for you, the casual reader, is that you have a captcha (one of those little random number thingies) to fill out. You can also preview your comment before you submit it. I might have to modify my CSS to make that look right, but it’s still quality. Also in the plugins category is the Scripturizer Remix, which allows me to type something like “John 3:16 [+/-] "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.″ and have it rendered as a link to the ESV’s scripture page automatically. Go ahead, click it. You’ll end up at Good News Publishers’ page. I’m in the process of acquiring a key from them that’ll allow me to display the scripture in a “[+/-]” area - you click, and it shows the passage inline - pretty cool stuff. Last but not least, the whole reason this was done: to get myself on an FTP-able site. I’m now a server admin. (Whee!) That means I have nifty access to FTP to my server, which is also hosting my page on the side. But I’m also learning cool stuff about port tunneling, “A” records, and command-line administration.

I’ll put out this shameless plug, then - if you’re looking for quality hosting for not a lot of cash, email me (or comment). There is space available on the server still, and the more people we get the more space and bandwidth we can offer everyone. So buy yourself a domain name and contact me (us) for hosting.

BTW, about that site redesign - any suggestions are more than welcome. I can’t please everyone, and I’ve already got some ideas, but I want to see how you think the site would be better. So comment or email with suggestions, and I’ll see what I can do. Oh, and if you email, don’t email the @mountyscorner.com address - I’ve been told it’s bouncing things back. We’ll look into that and let you know.

Austin can be quiet and leave me alone now - I think I’ve successfully upgraded from Wordpress 1.2 to 2.02 in one fell swoop (where did that expression come from, anyway?). Painless, I think. But my site looks horrible. I will be rewriting my CSS to fit the new index style, which might take some time. Then again, it may not. This is as good a time as ever to work in some revisions of the style, so this may end up being mounty’s corner, mod 2. Who knows? Anyway, that’s the big visual change; the big linking change (for all you people out there that link to me) is that I’m now using perma-links. The old style was http://www.mountyscorner.com/blog/index.php?p=395 (which I see still works). The new style is http://www.mountyscorner.com/blog/2006/03/18/my-victory-dance/. Linker be warned.

Austin, I’ll be getting with you soon about those plugins. Let me get my style shaped up how I like it and we’ll talk.

**UPDATE** You can now register at this site. Registering gives you a whole host of benefits, most of which currently escape me. I do know you can enroll to receive an email when a thread is commented upon, so that’s always cool. Also, astute observers will notice that my old theme is up and running. I was too lazy to redesign, so I converted instead. Took 20 minutes.

Inspired by Brade’s revelation of “dancing [his] dance” (a term one of the early Puritans wrote in his diary indicating he did his calisthenics for the day), I have my victory dance. More specifically, it’s a bottle of semi-cold Canada Dry ginger ale. Why do I celebrate with my victory dance? Because: the fat lady has sung. (Sci-fi fans should be able to identify these terms with their origin. If not, they’re not sci-fi fans.) She actually sung twice - one decent performance and one stellar encore. The decent performance first:

Chorale will be singing Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass next month. Unfortunately, it won’t be downtown as was previously stated. Artisphere couldn’t get its act together and line up a venue for us, so we’re doing it on campus. This mass contains a number of solos. In a somewhat unusual move, Dr. Cook gave solos to anyone who tried out, myself included. So, I have the tenor solo for the Kyrie and the Et incarnatus est. They’re pretty cool solo lines. There really is no dominant tenor solo line, so me and the other three guys were evenly split up. Now you have an even better reason to come to the concert (April 21, 6:30 and 8:00; complimentary tickets available in the Music Library or from me). So that made my afternoon, congested and miserable as I was.

But the real kicker came when the fat lady did her encore. The Epsilon Zeta Chi (Z) men’s basketball team has been arguably one of the most dominating teams of the decade, if you look at first, second, and third place finishes. Two years ago the team went undefeated to win in convincing fashion against Beta Gamma Delta (Beta) for the championship, played downtown at the Bi-Lo Center. Last year they faltered and took third place to Alpha’s second place to Beta’s first place. This year, despite two losses (one early on and one just two weeks ago), they made it to the championship game. The road was not easy - they lost their second game when Ben Edwards, resident Big Man (c), went down with a twisted ankle. But he rebounded (pun intended) to lead Z to a victory against Alpha in the league championship, earning the right to face Beta in what promised to be a grudge match. Z, looking to prove they have Beta’s number. Beta, looking to make it two championships in a row. Both with dominant centers, both seniors, who want that one last championship before they graduate. The game started out bad for the Tornadoes (that would be Z). They found themselves down a quick 7, regaining the lead only once before halftime, where they went to the locker room down five. Beta was clearly outplaying Z - their resident Big Man (c) had Z’s resident Big Man (c) smothered. Ben, usually a force down low, was getting no joy. Coming out of the gates, he changed his playing style - he would take the ball down low, then drop it outside where the two three-point shooters, Stephen Yates and Stephen Leeper, could line up for an outside fade-away or long-distance shot. But, it seemed like it was too little, too late. Despite a few point runs, including one stretch of four straight three-point shots, Z couldn’t close to within less than five. The clock was winding down - only two minutes left to play, and Beta was up six. Beta fans in the bleachers were saying, “Maybe next year, Z. Maybe next year.” But then, in a move worthy only of the New York Yankees, Beta choked. Spectacularly. Unbelievably. You shouldn’t believe me, because it never should have happened. They outplayed and out-muscled Z all game. But in the last five minutes, Z’s ball team showed up. Leeper, team quarterback, started making long down-court connections to Theon “Zeon” Hill. Yates started dropping threes like they were going out of style. Beta crossed the seven-foul limit and started giving up bonus 1-and-1 shots. Beta stopped connecting. Keith Rogers, their 3-point genius, went ice cold. Josh Hubbard, the down low threat, suddenly couldn’t buy a bucket. And within one minute, Z went from down seven to up one. At that point, I personally knew it was over. They had completed a miracle comeback, and they weren’t about to let it go. Beta lost the wind in their sails, and Z had found theirs. The famed “Zefense” mercilessly clamped down on Beta, capitalizing on their every mistake. And when that “Zefense” secured the ball with 0.2 seconds left on the clock, with Z up 81-77, the stands emptied. I had moved down to the floor with 59 seconds left because I knew it was over. And when the buzzer sounded, it was mayhem. Matt Wilson, dorm supe in Reveal and Z alumnus, said it was the funniest thing to watch. The cheerleaders, being the closest, ran onto the court, followed very shortly by a very large mob of maroon-bedecked fans pouring from the seats onto the court. Within seconds, half of the court was full of bodies jumping up and down, hands raised in the air. I know - I was smack dab in the middle of it all. I couldn’t not jump. We were pressed so closely together that we were jumping each other, moving as one insanely happy throng. Five minutes of that, and the trophy was presented to Ben Edwards, captain and coach. I’m not sure what happened next, but Theon, our resident black man, started acting the Chicago boy he really is, leading us in some cheer…not sure what it was even now, but it was intense. We finally settled down; Theon got MVP; each of the team members took turns cutting the net down; we all touched the trophy; the cheerleaders sang their song; we all cheered the Silent Maroon; and I went to get my Victory Dance.

Z won its second title in three years, coming back on the strength of a stellar defensive and offensive effort in the last five minutes, not to mention the strength of an opponent who just stops playing. Funny thing is, I can almost guarantee that the Collegian will still rank Z second on the year. Makes no difference - Z’s always been the underdog. No one wants to believe Z’s the best. After they trounced Beta two years ago they were ranked second; I wouldn’t be surprised if, given the two late comebacks two weeks in a row, Z ends up ranked third. Nothing new - they never got any respect in the sports world. WBJU got better about it after all their Basil-associated sports writers graduated. Apparently someone in the Collegian is still very much anti-Z or pro-Beta. But who’s got the championships to prove their worth? Who needs respect when you’ve got the two titles under your arm?

Here’s to you, Z. Here’s to Brent Deedrick, Ben Edwards, Stephen Leeper, Stephen Yates, and Theon Hill, starters of the reigning championship team. Here’s to Dan Anderson, Jesse Williams, Allen Cover, and all the new guys that I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting, who did a stellar job from the bench. Sleep well tonight, men; you’ve earned it.

Brannon McAllister has moved from his old home at Portland Studios to his new home at http://www.brannonmcallister.com/, now called “Writing on the Wall.” Not really a new guy, since he’s been on here for some time. But we want you to be aware of his new (albeit somewhat hard-to-read) location.

While I’m typing, I have another recommendation for you. True to audiophile form, I enjoy collecting different recordings of the same composition - always looking for the perfect balance, blend, diction, etc. I have multiple recordings of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, at least four recordings of some of his piano works, two recordings of Faure’s Requiem, and so on. Three or four years ago I picked up the recording of the world premier of Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, a setting of some more obscure liturgical texts. It was performed by the 90-voice Los Angeles Master Chorale with full orchestra under the direction of Paul Salamunovich. I purchased it after hearing the premier of the work on campus by what was then known as Coleman Choir, one of the Vesper Choirs on campus. That choir focused more on church choir music, but they did an outstanding job at this work. So I went out and bought the only recording available.

Well, Chamber Singers is performing that work this year, too…only instead of a 90- or even 40-voice choir, we number 18. The LAMC’s recording is pretty good, though it’s a bit dark and heavy, almost ponderous at times…occasionally out of pitch, even. About a year ago a new recording of that work was produced by the British chamber ensemble Polyphony. I ordered the CD and took a listen. Absolutly stunning. There were things in that work that you’d miss listening to the large choir, but that you hear immediately with the chamber choir and orchestra. The textures and even texts come alive as you listen to them. The harmonies that are obscured by too many singers in the original recording are bought out and highlighted (gently, of course) in this recording. (Which is not to say the original recording is bad. Just different. If I’m in the mood for a dark, rich, chocolaty sound, I pop in that one. If I’m in the mood for the same songs with a lighter, more flexible texture, I pop in this one.)

There are also some terrific madrigali and motets on this CD. “Se Per Havervi, Oime” is a particularly fine 21st-century madrigal. “Ubi Caratas et Amor” is also an excellent composition. The beginning is plainsong, perfectly suited for a chamber ensemble. He quickly moves to classic Lauridsen with the harmonies and textures, a wonderful counterpoint to the original chant. The pronunciation of the “O Magnum Mysterium” is a little mysterious, but it’s forgiveable on account of the crazy tight harmonies they produce; also I absolutely love their interpretations of the dissonances.

In short, if you don’t know anything about Lauridsen, this CD is as good as any for a first start. If you’re a fan of Lauridsen, then this CD belongs in your collection. You can get the recording of the LAMC here and the recording of Polyphony and the British Sinfonia here.

No, I didn’t get a girlfriend. Danae is the most recent answer to Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes fame. She lives in a strip called, appropriately enough, Non Sequitur. It’s almost like C&H - there’s the grown-up trapped in an elementary school body (Calvin/Danae); the animal that is so much a part of the kid’s life, often going so far as to be philosophical, but who never appears to be noticed by the grownups (Hobbes/Lucy), and the occasional side story (Tracer Bullet, Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man/Obvious Man, Uncle Wally, Ele). They’re different from each other, too…but what attracted me to C&H (and what still keeps me reading those books on a regular basis) is starting to attract me to Non Sequitur. Danae is not a morning person (in an earlier strip, she walks downstairs and shouts, “And what manner of [stupidity] must we put up with today???”) and is probably too smart and observant for her own good. (Sometimes I think I’m too observant for my own good, too…maybe I’m just too quick to point out what I’ve observed.) So I see a lot of myself in this little girl. Anyway, today’s strip really sums up how I feel some nights. Click here to view it. (BTW, if Danae reminds me of my overly cynical side, her sister reminds me of my overly analytical side.)

I’m a little curious. Tonight I was walking through the halls of my dorm after getting a drink of water. I noticed that all the doorknobs on the main hall were on the right-hand side of the door as you faced the outside of the door. Then I get to my door. The doorknob is on the left side of the door as you face the outside. Is there some sort of standardization for which side of the door the knob goes?

It’s funny - the autocomplete on this computer has a slew of titles stored up that I’ve used over the years: Another blogger, another one, another update, another addition, another blogger to report…actually it’s no surprise, considering the formative years when I was learning how to type, I played Letter Invaders. This was a tacky game, quite possibly the dumbest one I’ve played, next to Minesweeper. The way it worked was, words would fall from the top of the screen, slowly (or not so slowly, depending on how far along in the game you were) falling towards your city. When one hit, it would explode and take out a chunk of city the same size as the word. To stop them, you’d type the word perfectly (any mistake and you had to start over) to shoot up a missile to destroy the word. So words like “it” and “I” weren’t all that bad. Words like “phthalocyanine” and “trinotroanaline” were bad. There were ones longer than that - “disrepresentationalism” and things like that. I can still type those words with blazing speed. One of our (”our” referring to the combination that caused our teachers more grief than any other: Zack Nicolai and I) favorite words was “another.” It just rolls off the fingers…another, another, another, another, another, another. Anyway, I have another (I love that word!!) blogger to report. My suggestion to Galen Roue, otherwise known as The Disillusioned Cynic (and most cynics are somehow disillusioned) is this: look for skeletons in every closet; look gift horses straight in the mouth; and search for the cloud behind every silver lining. Maybe then you can become as cynical as me.

http://www.sharperiron.org/showthread.php?t=2626

This, friends and enemies alike, is what happens when people who take themselves too seriously try to understand a joke about themselves. Witness:

1. The cartoon drawn by a fundy with mad skillz in Photoshop,
2. The other fundies snorting OJ out their nostrils laughing at said fundy’s skillz, and
3. The handful of people who were afraid of offending the super-easily-offended and consequently took themselves much too seriously to get the joke.

There. I just summed up 20 pages of forum replies.

Granted, most of the people finally thought it was funny and settled down. But this is something I’ve been saying all along - the only sane way to make it through life is to stop taking yourself seriously every now and then. Granted, a little levity never hurt anyone. But neither did a little ribbing. Even here, it’s a problem. I met someone last night for the first time. As is Western custom, I asked this person what his name was. The reply: “Mr. Smith. Unless you’re faculty or staff, in which case I’m just Bob.” (There are no guarantees in that last quote as to name and/or gender.) He was quite serious. Now, policy handbook notwithstanding, only the people who take themselves too seriously introduce themselves to a peer in an informal setting using their proper title. I myself instruct people NOT to call me “Mr. Mount(y)” because, to quote (or not) the sea turtle from Finding Nemo, “Mr. Mount is my father.”

Here’s mounty’s take on the whole thing: someone draws a cartoon that caricatures all that is disdainful about mainstream Fundamentalism. Us fundies not on the good ship S.S. 1-2-3 Follow Me immediately chuckle, then realize that the segment of Fundamentalism that’s likely to get upset at just about anything might just get upset about this. Immediately a few don serious masks and wait a whopping hour for our easily-upset brethren to get upset. When the easily-upset brethren (who, because of an unfortunate time zone difference, are still in bed) do not get easily upset because they’re still snoring, the now-serious chucklers think, “If they’re not going to get upset, then we’ll just have to get upset for them. We didn’t get all serious for nothing, after all.” Suddenly a great rift opens up between the various chucklers, who are now fully awake and who should be crunching numbers, making phone calls, or operating heavy machinery, but who are instead online. Unwittingly, they accidentally declare war on themselves, as is wont in this particular camp. 20 pages later, almost everybody has had a good chuckle. (”You mean we’re all on the same side? Heh heh…oops. Well, it was fun while it lasted!”) What’s remarkable about this whole episode is how quickly the fundies who apparently have no hot buttons (no KJV button, no culotte button, fewer theater and music buttons than you might think, etc.) found one to push…and they pushed it themselves. Hard. Repeatedly. Then they started believing themselves. In short, they started taking themselves too seriously, right smack-dab in the middle of one of the biggest fundy jokes in recent memory.

So now I hit the semi-serious part of this discussion. Phil Johnson has twice now come down on those “crazies” in the Fundy movement. What I find humorous (you always gotta look for these things) is that, in our quick efforts to prove him wrong, we end up tripping over ourselves, blaming each other for the trippage, and ultimately proving him, well, dead right.

Yes. I missed January. And February. And it kept me awake last night. For about five seconds. You can view January’s much-belated stats here. Here’s February’s:

Top Post: Ice Reflections with 234

Browser comparison
This is more like it (see last month’s for some background on that last statement):

IE: 5,674
Firefox: 4,239
Netscape: 769

I call upon the faithful to stamp out the infidels and restore Firefox to its position of greatness. NOW!!!!

Referrals
SI with 147

Searches
Note: here’s what I completely don’t get. A solid 25% of my searches are in Russian. Not like “U vrat obiteli svjatoj” Russian. Like “У врат обители святой” Russian. What’s the deal? How are you getting my site? Not that I mind. “Приветствия, друзья!” is something you’ll hear me yell frequently when I’m around Russians. It’s just strange, that’s all.

• mountys corner .com - So close…and yet so far.
• blog girls tw - That’s what it needs…but since they’re not in Z we can’t. :sigh:
• mounty in chicago theme - Sitcom? Movie? Anyone want to take a stab at some tag lines for that?
• How Beautiful Heaven Must Be chords - I, IV, V. Same as most other songs in that genre.
• mounty thursday - I officially declare this coming Thursday “Mounty Thursday.” Send your gifts and money to me, c/o BJU.
• what is Greeneville tennessee like to live in - boring.
• your mounty goes to college - I think my parents know this. Their wallets do, at least.
• Cheesy Hindi Poems - Probably all of them, since they lose so much in the translation.
• sKEET sOUTH pHILLY - There’s a movement on the internet to type with your caps lock on, except for when you hit the shift key, you get this kind of thing.
• Peach Water Tower locate city “North Carolina” - Don’t tell me there’s _another_ one??
• I COULD not do without thee guitar tabs - As opposed to “I MIGHT not do without thee” or “I SHOULD not do without thee.”
• gerbils are unintelligent - My new motto for life.
• williamsburg virginia byzantine church perogies - I can understand how everything relates…except the last word.
• why was kevin kline on the 700 club - perhaps you should ask someone who actually watches that show.
• my emails are just orange squiggly lines - Stop sneezing on your monitor and you should be fine.
• i got no worries in my worry corner - so why do you call it your worry corner?
• fasnacht +doughnuts - mmm…fasnacht. Never had it, but it’s a cool word to say.
• pictures of mounty forklifts - more toys from my incredibly popular line of action figures. Here’s mounty at superpac, learning how to lift five tons of plastic sheets onto a truck. Here’s mounty getting fired for tipping the forklift…
• When I was three years old, I had a really bad experience on a short flight between India and South Africa. The weather was terrible and there was a lot of turbulence. Since that flight, I have had a slight fear of flying; however, with this fear, an inte - Ever have one of those experiences where someone gets your attention with the promise of a good story or lesson learned, and just as they get to the good part, they completely stop? “Did I ever tell you about the time I was robbed at gunpoint? No? Well, I don’t like to talk about it…” Yeah - THIS SEARCH LEFT ME HANGING!!!! … Also, how is a flight from India to South Africa considered “short”?

There’s another site at the list that you should check out, if for no other reason than it has one of those site designs that just makes me go, “Ooh.” (If you know me, then you know exactly how I would say that.) Colin Gray’s a 2005 graduate, and currently attending Savannah College of Art and Design. His site, colin’s blog, is similar to mine in that it has color and USES ALL LOWERCASE LETTERS FOR THE TITLE (which some of you [Scott, et al] still haven’t picked up on yet). Other than that the similarities tend to end there, mostly because my sense of really good graphic design is stick figures in MS Paint. (BTW, for a crazy and sick project done ENTIRELY in MS Paint, check out this site [HT: sig].)