Month: July 2008
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the national
It was on the wish list for a while, but The National’s debut album, Boxer arrived in the mail this week. I’m digging it, though it’s too early to say if it lives up to the hype. Here they are on Letterman last July preforming Fake Empire. Of course, I’m predisposed to like any song…
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for guys with small hips and butt
So… this ad popped up in Gmail this afternoon. Google is getting good. Really good. The email associated with the ad had no reference to hips, butts, or suspenders. And yet. Somehow Google knows that I am a guy with “Small Hips and Butt.” Is that scary or funny? Or just sad that I have…
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street art
Yesterday evening Maggie and I met for a quick happy hour at Streetside Cafe. She rode her bike from the Kedzie Metra stop after taking the train from Wheaton and I rode down from the Starbucks on California where I’d been doing some sermon work. When we walked out of Streetside to unlock our bikes…
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advice please: staying in a hostel
The readers of this blog have come through with some good suggestions about breakfast cereals and surviving a family reunion. I return with another question. On Sunday I fly to Portland where I’ll be staying at the HI-Portland Northwest Hostel. Maggie and my sister will be arriving on Wednesday and we’ll upgrade to a hotel…
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links
Al Hsu wonders if rising gas prices will cause suburban churches to consider a parish-like way of ministry. I’m hopeful that all of this is going to push suburbanites toward a new localism. For Christians, it’s a recovery of the parish concept, where we live, work, shop and worship all in the same community instead…
David W. Swanson 