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January 2011

January 27, 2011

I’m Too Sexy for My Codpiece

A look at hormonal-driven fashions through the ages.

January 05, 2011

All Right, Stop!

The 90's in a nutshell.

January 03, 2011

Help Save Sasquatch; And Why I Wash My Sink with My Face

The 11th annual Weblog Awards; the category for which I'd like to win it; directions...

January 01, 2011

What is This Dog Thinking?

This is a picture of Bailey, beloved canine companion of Susan High, wearing one of...

January 01, 2011

Survival Tips for the New Year

What's the difference between chicken bread and food? The apocalypse.

December 2010

December 29, 2010

Environmentalism: The Devil’s Work!

If you don't think environmentalists are in a Satanic cult that seeks to undermine everything...

December 26, 2010

Now How Do We Return to Life?

It's not that I don't like everyday life. It's that I love Christmas. And everyday...

December 15, 2010

The Ruinous Nightmare of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”

This is how I would respond, each day, to receiving the gifts of "The Twelve...

November 2010

November 27, 2010

Are You an Artistic Genius? Take This Test to Find Out!

Are You an Artistic Genius? Take This Test to Find Out!

November 25, 2010

A Pilgrim writes in his diary about the first Thanksgiving

A pilgrim looks back on the first Thanksgiving Day--and wonders, among other things, if it...

October 2010

October 31, 2010

And the Difference Between Life and Halloween Is?

Ah, Halloween. The name is derived from the Latin word hollow---meaning temporary, fleeting---and ween, as...

October 21, 2010

Me, Narrow-Minded, Shallow, and Mean-Spirited? Trust Me: You Have No Idea

So I'm in a Starbucks---where over the sound system they're just now playing Sly Stone's...

October 11, 2010

A Complete Liberal Arts Education in 800 Words

Are you a college student taking either a History of Literature class, or Western Philosophy...

October 08, 2010

Worst Trucking Slogan EVER

Truck drivers are so weird.

September 2010

September 26, 2010

VOGUE Knitting

This morning I learned that there's a magazine called VOGUEknitting. For the benefit of other magazines...

September 20, 2010

Introducing the One and Surely Only Daniel Songer

Today reader DR sent me to this man's prodigious video output on YouTube. I looked...

September 18, 2010

How I REALLY Became an Adult

Yesterday I tweeted (okay, no grown person should ever have to use the phrase "I...

September 17, 2010

Awesome Kid Shows How He Made Didgeridoo

Okay, I had to put this up. This is the video of this kid that...

September 15, 2010

Why I’m Hopeful For Our Future

Today I was searching around YouTube for some didgeridoo information, when I came across this...

September 03, 2010

How I lost my virginity to my high school teacher

Well, I see by the ol’ calendar that once again school is upon us. Not...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

“Eat Pray Love”: Boring; Boring; an Elephant With Mange

Poor Dumbo. And the elephant isn't looking all that great, either.  Here are the five...

August 17, 2010

Taste-Testing Starbucks’ New Non-Coffee Coffee

It's not enough that here in San Diego we have miles upon miles of some...

August 04, 2010

Why Would I Rather Listen to Belching Throat Singers Than Contemporary Christian Music?

[Update: Christian Music DJ, JB, Responds: “Dear Haters …”] So it's 3:30 a.m., and I'm at...

July 2010

July 21, 2010

#Shakespalin

Some of you have already seen these on my Facebook page; others of you wrote...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

Why Love is Like a Tapeworm

People always say that love is an unfathomable mystery no mortal can fully understand. I,...

June 26, 2010

Why I Don’t Run a Ministry

Yesterday I was talking to a big deal ministry leader because that's how important I...

June 25, 2010

“Waffles?”

As I sit here feeling for some terrible reason I sense but can't grasp that...

June 23, 2010

Little Joe Cartwright at Seminary

Not many people know this, but there was a time when Bonanza 's Little Joe...

June 02, 2010

Christians: Are We Cool with Transylvanians?

(This is a follow-up to yesterday's "Christians: Are We Cool with Transvestites?") Before I became a...

June 01, 2010

Christians: Are We Cool with Transvestites?

By way of introducing himself to his fellow commenters, yesterday a fellow named Mark included...

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