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February 2008
Bob Dylan for President? →
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I’ve been enjoying some recent reading about the elections (here, here and here) and am finding the varying perspectives stimulating. Then tonight, as I was reading the book Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews aloud to the family, we came across a quote from Dylan talking about what he’d do if he became president1.
Q: Did you ever have the standard Boyhood dream of growing up to be President?
Dylan: No. When I was a boy, Harry Truman was President; who’d want to be Harry Truman?
Dress Down Friday | Monchhichi and Hawaiian Chairs →
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Well I’m back after a four-week hiatus. It was nice having guests blog for me, felt like a little vacation. But I’ve been stocking up on links over the past four weeks so I had something good for show-and-tell. Here’s what we’ve got for today:
- Recently I ran across this post from lifehack.org offering10 Tricks to Get Your Writing Started, and then later I found a similar post on writing abstracts. And while we on the school kick, how many of you remember when the only way to do…
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Good Magazine, a site I really like, cover all kinds of topics, from culture to politics and the environment. This week they’ve begun a video series looking at LA’s homeless district, otherwise known as Skid Row. I look forward to following these videos.
Los Angeles’s police chief called Skid Row “the worst social disaster in America.” In LA county there are 80,000 homeless each night. Los Angeles is the first third would city in the United States.
(From GOOD…
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With every new year comes new lists of things we all would like to accomplish, take for instance the reading list. How many of you have compiled, if not physically, at least a mental list of all the books, authors and ideas you’d like to read about in 2008? What are the ones you’re most excited about? After seeing Josh’s list I thought I’d make my own.
I’ve got quite a list working already:
Books Leftover from Last Year- Alain Badiou, Ethics
- Alasdair MacIntyre, Edith Stein
- Carole…
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Over on God’s Politics Blog, Jarrod McKenna has written a great post on national ‘Sorry Day,’ a day when White Australians are trying to enact reconciliation for the pain they’ve caused through racism and colonialism. This could (hopefully) be a chance to change history.
She shared later, “things are different now.” Somehow wrapped up in this one little word, “sorry,” was a new future. This strong aboriginal woman, who I’m proud to call my friend, was saying that in this word a new…
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My buddy Rhett Smith has posted a great reflection about the recent cancelation of Shane Claiborne’s scheduled talk at Ohio’s Cedarville University. Rhett questions the validity of the quote below, and discusses his own thoughts as someone who is a college pastor.
“There was a tension between my desire to use this event to challenge students to take a closer look at a very important social issue, and the need to protect Cedarville’s reputation as a conservative, Christ-centered…
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Big thanks to Wess for inviting the guest post for today’s Dress Down Friday! With Wess’ recent endorsement of Obama, I decided to take DDF in a political direction. For me, following the 2008 election is like watching a good soap opera. I’m completely addicted.
Say What?! :: Obama’s music video by Will.i.am has a sister video that my friend Matt affectionately calls “Cien Anos.” It’ll have you laughing for the next week - bbaaabbbbyyy. Thanks, Cate for the link.
I’ve got Obamaphilia…
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My friend Holly, who writes at Bread Blog and will be posting this week’s Dress Down Friday, works for a non-profit organization called Bread for the World. They do a lot of lobby work and other types of political activism to help raise awareness for hunger issues around the world. Today they are starting a campaign to find new leaders. Here’s what they write:
Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad, is…
Book reading Meme: Zizek and 123? →
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The rules of this meme are as follows:
- Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
- Find page 123
- Find the first…
Comments
I read somewhere that tumblr does comments, I even saw it working. What am I missing to get it to work here?
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Big thanks for Wess letting me co-host Dress Down Friday. I’m not sure if my web musings will be of much interest to some, but here they are nonetheless.
Jonathan Brink writes about the podcast swallowing the pastor. Good stuff. And I know of a good podcast to check out too. Hint, hint.
Only theological nerds (like me) would be interested in a contest to come up with new atonement metaphors.
Social Media for the Christian College.
Amateur YouTube videos make the world better.
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- Who would you vote for in this election?
- And/or what are your thoughts on the elections?
Why should we care? Well, I think we should value your opinion….
getting serious about cutting out the clutter in my life. making an action plan.
trying to write my paper - L doesn’t think it’s a good idea right now.
went from 1200 contacts to 380
going through and clearing out my address book - what a chore!
for some reason my blog is under spam attack right now - I’ve received an unusual amount of spam in the last half hour.
delete 20 of 21 messages in facebook - how many were for me? the one i didn’t delete.
facebook is starting to get the ridiculous-amount-of-spam-like-myspace feel
I wish apple would update stickies and actually make them useful
Wondering whether I quit using delicious if Microsoft takes over? I can’t bear the thought.
if google docs did footnotes (real ones not stupid in-document bookmarks) I’d never use another word processor.
If you haven’t checked out today’s dress down friday you should - Ben Gray (from openswitch) is the guest http://tinyurl.com/2nlamt
working on a little autobiography of my vocation
Unlikely Quaker “Heroes?” →
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Did you know Annie Oakley was a Quaker? How about Joan Baez and James Dean? Well they were along with a few other surprising people says this Time article…
Annie Oakley - “The sharp-shooting female who was rumored to split playing cards edge-wise, then shoot through them a few times before they hit the ground, grew up a dirt-poor Quaker. In fact, her early skill with the gun came from having to hunt food for her impoverished family.”
