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Mood: Excited, about news that Don & Lori Chaffer have been in the studio the last few months.
Other mood: Curious. Don produced Songs from the Voice, Volume 1 for a project initiated by Chris Seay that appears to be a “retelling” of the biblical story through a variety of media. This record includes a lot [...]

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In Abilene, at a major grocery chain and at the airport gift shop, you can buy more than one book debunking The Da Vinci Code, but you can’t buy The Da Vinci Code. This, I think, might have some correlation to the great success of Angels and Demons.
The nice thing about Angels and Demons is [...]

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One City, Two Takes, Three Kids

On Wednesday, we went to church, and four white guys in their early twenties reflected on Jesus’ radical social reorientation that broke down barriers between classes, races, and gender, by marveling at their own wonderous arrival at this moment despite being from (wait for it) different states. “What else might have brought us together here,” [...]

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Truth in Advertising

We were in Texas this week. And there were thunderstorms, and there was ZiegenBock. And it was good.
It was also over 100 degrees most days, which made some of the local advertising especially interesting. “Our pizza’s always hot and ready!” “HOT SALE!” at a casual wear store, and “Try Our New Heat Lamps!” at a [...]

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Gee, Your Slump Smells Terrific!

Yesterday I saw a poster for Diddy’s new mogul scent, Unforgivable:
“Life without passion is unforgivable.”
PTS* PR Guy #1: How about, ‘Life without passion is unforgivable?’
PTSPRG2: No, that would imply that Unforgivable smells like a passionless life.
PTSPRG1: Yeah, but that’s not what I mean.
PTSPRG2: Yo, those magic beans are real, dog. Word out.
Keep it real, D.
*PTS: [...]

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Sufjapella

This is so great. The Carleton Singing Knights from Carleton College, MN, sing an acapella version of Sufjan Steven’s “Chicago.” According to their website, they recorded “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1″ on one of their albums – a song I’ve often wanted to claim I was going to arrange for a capella singing. [...]

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Costelfoldsiohead and the Jackbeckbreakers

Ok, let’s play a game where you can pick any bands you want to be in your music festival. I’ll start.
(So I’m not going to die of envy, but this is an excellent beginning.)

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