January 2012
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The ultra-Orthodox men in Israel who are exerting control over women claim that they are honoring women. In effect they are saying: We do not treat women as sex objects as you in Western society do. Our women are about more than their bodies, and that is why their bodies must be fully covered.
In fact, though, their actions objectify and hyper-sexualize women. Think about it: By saying...
November 2011
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Dear Mr. Brautigam, I came across your album entitled, “Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25” and I first and foremost want to say that it is beautiful and very well done. My question, however, is this: what is the story behind the photograph chosen for the album cover of a man hammering a fallen tree? One doesn’t typically associate Mozart with lumberjacks, but the...
August 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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A Poem for the Passionate Snow Cone Maker
On waking, the first thing that popped in my head A question like fire as I leapt from the bed Both hands towards the heavens, I cried in dismay, “My God! What snow cones will I make today?” Banana perhaps? Maybe peach or black cherry? Coconut, bubble gum, black or blueberry? A small margarita, a large wedding cake? So many delectable flavors to make! Which one, O Fortuna,...
October 2010
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Aubade
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold and horrify. The...
September 2010
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Annie Did He
New song :)
August 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
It’s hard for me to comprehend the immense amount of suffering and violence that these words—words!—have caused.
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There is nothing romantic about the internet
Think about it.
Can you imagine reading a romantic poem or hearing a romantic song about getting her facebook message or checking your email to see if he wrote you?
No, it would sound stupid and childish.
That’s why you still hear songs and read poems about writing letters and waiting on a phone call. Because letters and phone calls are romantic.
But let’s face it, facebook and...
February 2010
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WatchSalvador Dali and Walt Disney “Destino”
January 2010
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Watchthe kitties love each other
December 2009
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Jónsi, the mastermind behind Sigur rós, is...
November 2009
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okay guys, that was good. Let's do it one more...
I wish it was like that
This is a little tune I wrote last night
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October 2009
6 posts
Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, what am I but an engine, shod With muscle and flesh, by the hand of God Speeding on through the dense, dark night, Guided alone by the soul’s white light.
Often and often my mad heart tries, And hates its way with a bitter hate, And longs to follow its own desires, And leave the end in the hands of fate.
O, mighty engine of steel and steam; O, human engine...
September 2009
3 posts
Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety –
best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great...
August 2009
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June 2009
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May 2009
6 posts
Middle schoolers?
So, in middle school I wore Jnco pants, oversized shirts, and had a ridiculous anime haircut. What did you guys look like in those terrible days?
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April 2009
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