If you didn’t do it for God, who would you do it for?

The Commitments was on the other day. I like this scene.

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Joe Tex, “I Believe I’m Gonna Make It”

I meant to squeeze this in for Veterans Day, but didn’t make it.

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Hold your nose

I’ve been looking for this. Bless youtube.

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So Stories

I heard “Red Rain” on KTXT one night soon after So was released. I knew a little Peter Gabriel before then, but I loved that aural space. Eno and Lanois would follow the next year with The Joshua Tree’s big landscapes, but So was something comprehensive to me; there was something inside the bass and [...]

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Not “Smoke on the”

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Four more years?

A collection of some of my favorite moments in the 05-08 campaigns (UPDATED):
Over the Rhine, “If a Song Could Be President.”

I was stunned when Ron Paul invoked the “thousand year Christian tradition of Just War theory” in an early Republican nominees’ debate. I am not exactly a Just War proponent, but [...]

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Passive Subversive

Ooops. I really thought I might make a run for NaBloPoMo. But it hit me this morning that I’d plumb forgot to. Maybe I’ll make a run for Honorable Mention.
Had an unexpected opportunity to offer the invocation at a meeting of local officials last week. My ambivalence about the powers that be aside, I figured, [...]

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false alarm

I’m not committing to anything, but it’s NaBloPoMo, so I’d better post something.

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