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Drive-by blogging: The Knave abideth

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Whatever ...

In the list of people I’d like to have over for dinner, the writer of  The Big Lebowski Shakespeare mashup has to be near the top

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Drive-by blogging: why the intertubes were invented

January 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Whatever ...

The Puppy Cam has a new litter!
Do not even attempt to fight the cuteness.   You know you want to watch this.  Shh, I won’t tell anyone.
Free TV Show from Ustream

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Someone else has a birthday today too

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Whatever ...

For Sir Isaac Newton

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A poem on returning home again

October 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Whatever ...

I was going to post this because I was going to go home for vacation.  But it is not to be.  Sigh.
Coming Home by He Zhizhang
I left home young and not till old do I come back,
My accent is unchanged, my hair no longer black.
The children don’t know me, whom I meet on the way,
“Where [...]

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Drive-by blogging: You can’t take it with you

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Whatever ...

Believer in the Rapture?  Pretty sure that Jesus is going to come down sometime soon here and whisk you away to a better place that won’t have socialized medicine or the gays?  Have a beloved pet that won’t be coming with?
No fear.  There are a bunch of friendly atheists who just want to help you [...]

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Happy Blogging to Me!

August 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Whatever ...

Do you know what this is?  It is a momentous occasion in the life of UrbanMennonite so mark it well.  For today, with this very post, she has reached her 500th entry.
I started this blog on Jan 25, 2008, with my about page, an assignment from a professor and a URL.  In the past 570 [...]

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Slim pickings for the pulpit this Sunday

August 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Whatever ...

Desperate times, desperate measures.  My church is having a bit of a pastor shortage this summer and so into the breach I went today.
I have this whole dream to do a whole series of talks some day on inappropriate Old Testament stories; consider this the first entry.

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A poem to be a little homesick by

August 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Whatever ...

From Iowa’s poet laureate who knows this Bulltown of which she speaks
Heaven? by Mary Swander

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Drive-by blogging: Tweeting the past

August 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Whatever ...

Have you heard?  Twitter is so the communication tool of choice among dead presidents!
8/5/1809: Saturday. Diary Vol. 3. begins: Sailed in Ship Horace, Benjamin Beckford, from Charlestown to St. Petersburg.
From John Quincy Adam’s Twitter account

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Drive by blogging: Palin the poet

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Whatever ...

Brilliant, brilliant and hilarious renditions by William Shatner (dramatic reader extraordinaire) of noted writer-speaker Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin’s goodbye address

Sarah Palin’s tweets

May she never stop.

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