• Episcopal

    Good Friday At Home

    April 23, 2011 - By 

    I was at home Friday, having planned ahead for once and asked for the day off for what is typically an extremely slow day. I sang at the Maundy Thursday service, all went very well and it was very moving. I was disappointed that I blew the attack on the first “big” piece that we’ve been working on for months; when it came down to it, I pretty much funked the pitch for some reason, even though I’ve had no problems with it up to now. We’ve got a good choir, and a good choir mistress, although she gets a…

  • Home Improvement - Uncategorical Weirdness

    World Mini-Cooper Raids Spotted in Illinois Nowhere Near Route 66

    April 23, 2011 - By 

    As I was battling through hail and rain to get to Holy Moly last night for Good Friday services, I found myself in the middle of a column of highly decorated classic Mini-Coopers, all about half the height of my own car and mighty cute. We all drove along Arlington Heights Road in a pounding rainstorm, and then we all turned left at Landmeier Rd, which is an obscure but wide arterial road that doodles around in the back of Elk Grove Village in an area that’s partly residential, partly a confusing wasteland of commercial business parks and mostly-abandoned rail…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-04-17

    April 17, 2011 - By 

    If you want to piss me off and make me hate you forever, tease me about something I forgot. # Women who don't intend to become pregnant should avoid Jon Kyl. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement #NotaBadIdea # Jon Kyl will submit himself to an invasive personal search at the airport on your behalf. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement # Jon Kyl does not believe taxes should support NPR, as the voices in his head are clearly audible for free. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement # Current GOP Congress leaders usually voted to increase debt limits during Bush admin AND give tax cuts to the riches. http://is.gd/aS52J0 # Jon Kyl voted for…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Darn it, why couldn’t that nice Michael Steele still be running the RNC (into the ground)

    April 16, 2011 - By 

    We were watching Bill Maher the other night and enjoying the slugfest between the former RNC chair, Michael Steele, and Ed Schultz, a sturdy liberal radio/tv talker. It was a sweet, sweet performance: It made me marvel to see Michael Steele think he was going to be taken seriously, when he had done so much to screw up the RNC’s finances during his tenure there. I’m not sure if he was to blame for their financial problems, or if the Republican base simply refused to entrust their money to a black man (sadly, not that hard to imagine). So that…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: April 6th – April 13th

    April 13, 2011 - By 

    500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error Robert Mugabe: Peter Godwin’s The Fear tries to explain how he has remained in power so long. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error Backpacking Burro

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-04-10

    April 10, 2011 - By 

    Saw a car with one of those stick-on Save The Date for the Apocalypse decals on the door. I'll pencil that right in. # And now you're singing along too. # Traffic will be good. #TheDayAfterTheApocalypse # Dear @SenatorKirk Thanks for your letter. Tax Freedom Day would come a LOT EARLIER if US Corporations paid more than 0% tax! #morethanzero # Woo! @sockington Happy Turnover Day! Many happy turnovers! # Crazy Virginia woman attacks "very homosexual" Gaugin painting. No nipples were harmed. #artisticterrorism #p2 http://is.gd/kUeRQQ # .@RepJoeWalsh Laura Ingraham? She's too extreme, no thanks. #IL8 #p2 #coffeeparty # Bye Bye…

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    Linkdump: March 15th – April 4th

    April 4, 2011 - By 

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