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Oh Baby Jesus, Why must one of us end up crying?

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been struggling a lot lately with my place in the spiritual world. So I thought (and the word ends up overused in this post) serendipitous that my brother yesterday called me asking me to right a ‘form’ letter to retreatents for (and I use this spelling to keep people from finding this when […]

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101 factoids about moi

October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

My eyes are brown.

I really think bacon makes anything better.

But I don’t have high blood pressure.

My cat’s name is Nina.

She came with that name and I hated it at first.

Now I don’t.

I grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.

Now I live in Chicago.

I met my wife on our first day of freshman orientation at St. Joseph’s College, […]

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Back on the Farm

October 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Every now and then I kind of end up in a place where I’m reflecting back on some of the things I did in high school. Not that unusual right? I was totally the “God” kid in high school…I go back and forth with how I feel about that now, but I did […]

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Giving up a little slice of Heaven

October 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

So does anyone care to learn a little bit about my background? If you do, then well, you’re in for a treat today. I searched through my archives to make sure I haven’t explicitly told this story yet, and it looks like despite 475+ posts over the last few years I’ve never talked […]

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Join the Church of Joe

November 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Joe is a funny, and if you believe his URL, a hot dude. Joe…I’ll leave my comments out of that discussion.
At any rate, one funny piece of satire (among other things on Joe’s blog, which really is a riot of laughter with a hint of sadness at the ‘truthiness of it all’, is about […]

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Fantastically Ann

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments

One of the most ridiculous of the Neo-con pundits today has got to be Ann Coulter. Here is a woman that tries to use fear and intimidation, instead of intelligent discourse, to, ahem, sway, people to her way of thinking. Steve, over at Insert Title compiled a list of quotes that really can […]

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The Worst Jeopardy Question Ever

November 1st, 2006 · No Comments

I am watching today’s episode of Jeopardy right now and Alex just read the WORST JEOPARDY QUESTION EVER. The Question? Let me tell you, the category is “Identity Theft”….
The Work of “The Saint of the Gutters”, Paris Hilton, with India’s sick and poor earned her the 1972 Nehru Award
And the answer…..
Mother Theresa
Another question […]

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YAAFM - Scientology Segment

March 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

My little brother rocks. Well, would rock more if he had a page about him to link to for times like this, but I digress. He was hanging out on Scientomogy.com, a site that is about scientologists…well, it makes fun of scientology.
Anyway, the folks at Zipperfish have brought us You Are A Fucking […]

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