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Here are my favorite album releases from 2011.  I’m keeping this list short, because there are heads-and-shoulders winners here.   5. The Roots – Undun I liked this one at first, but the more I relisten the more I get out of it.  Undun is The Great Hip-Hop Opera, a…

via rogerebert.com Ebert writes pretty accurately about why movie theatres are losing revenues. We used to have a GREAT low-priced theatre in the small town I live in. New owners took over, raised prices to near-“big city” levels, and told its audience to deal with it. We’re going far less…

Admittedly I’m a sucker for a good social network, but I’m really not trying to sign up for every new fad that comes along.  Only the good ones. A few days ago John Chandler brought Lendle to my attention.  Poking around a bit, I like what I see.   Its basic…

via freelanceswitch.com I love my Moleskine(s). I was surfing around today looking for Moleskine art sketches and found this monster treasury of Moleskinerie tips, tricks and hacks. Enjoy.

Despite all the affected teenage rebellion, I continued to call myself a Christian into my early twenties. When I finally stopped, it wasn’t because being a believer made me uncool or outdated or freakish. It was because being a Christian no longer meant anything. It was a label to slap…

I’ve never visited Islay, that island off Scotland’s western coast with the evocative pronunciation EYE-lah. But sipping a good Islay single malt, with its astounding range of complex expressions, transports you to an Islay that seems as mythical as it is real. via nytimes.com If you’re a fan of whisky,…

(CNN) — Scientists say they have found hints of the existence of the Higgs boson, a never-before-seen subatomic particle long thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe. In a highly anticipated press conference, researchers announced that two independent experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have…

Art as Incarnation by Eric Herron | December 13, 2011 Beauty that exists in the mind is hidden. The inkling of a picture. The faint murmur of a melody. That beautiful word that wants to become a poem. At these stage of existence, these are only spiritual things. They are…

A year ago, a friend of mine from high school, a high school English teacher, asked me to send her some book recommendations.  I did, but I noticed that of the twenty-ish books I sent her, it was hard to drum up fiction that I would recommend. Given that I…

"When tribal identity trumps Christianity, we get skewed in who we are.  It's the kind of really bad theology that gets people killed."