March 2008
The Archives
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03.25.08in real lifeThe clients had yet to come into the edit suite to take a look at the spot that I had spent the last two days cutting when a friend of my boss poked his head in. “Here you go,” he said, pulling out a DVD. “What’s that?” I said. “It’s Dan In Real Life,” he replied. I was confused, “does this stem from a previous conversation?” “No,” he said, “I just had it and thought you’d want to rip it, since it is something that it seems you’d be into.” My confusion now switched to whether he thought I would be into the movie, or just ...
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03.23.08january 31, 2002The sky threatened rain, but the gaze of the missionaries was fixed on the sidewalk in front of them – one more discussion in which the investigator had said he wasn’t feeling anything and wasn’t interested anymore. A revivalist preacher had set up camp in a parking lot and, with speakers larger than Volkswagens, was filing the air with hellfire and damnation. One of the missionaries turned to the other, “I don’t understand it. Why aren’t they feeling anything?” “I don’t know…” was the response. We have traveled over one hundred and fifty miles and this was the first house that we were inspired ...
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03.16.08what i learned in kindergarten was a load of crapWhen we were kids, we couldn't wait to grow up. We couldn't wait to be big so was could do all the things we spend all day pretending to do: be astronauts, dig up dinosaurs, drive cars. Is is right to let kids dream? Is it right to let them reach for the stars? What happens when they get older and they learn what a light year is and they learn that Proxima Centauri is 4.37 of them away and that they will never see it rise over an alien horizon? One could argue that you tell kids that ...
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03.15.08totally unawareThanks to everyone that called to check up on me last night. I didn't even realize that the weather was as bad as it was. I was up in the north part of town playing Rock Band at a friend's house. This morning as I check CNN, I am kind of amazed. I was having a conversation with someone not so long ago about how rare it is that tornados hit the downtown areas of cities - it usually seems to concentrate on the outlying areas. Well, apparently that is not 100% accurate, or at ...
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03.11.08the problem with a bad moodThe problem with a bad mood is that you don’t want to do anything. I don’t anyway. I have all this frustrated energy when I am in a bad mood. Containing that energy is tiring, yet I don’t know how to release it. So, I lose physical energy as my frustrated energy increases. This means the dirty dishes sit in the sink for a couple of days. I could yell and punch a pillow...but I have no desire to. Or rather, I have the desire, but I don’t have enough of a desire ...