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  • Alone Together in Church

    This must be in the present tense, because it's the blue moment I live in forever. This must be in the present tense, because our theology says, we go on changed utterly but still ourselves, the one thing I ho…

  • howdy from Austin, Texas.I took the Greyhound here from Cincinnati and have only good things to say about it. On the airplane, you're a potential terrorist. On the bus, you're just another guy. I'm never flying again …

  • Christ is Born

    I heard the bells on Christmas dayTheir old familiar carols play,And wild and sweet the words repeatOf peace on earth, good will to men.And thought how, as the day had come,The belfries of all ChristendomHad rolled along…

  • It's true what they say, you know, that nice guys finish last.Still, I intend to be that nice guy. And if that means forever finishing last, it's a worthy price to pay.

  • Christmas

    Instead of Christmas cards this year, I'm sending anyone who's interested a Christmas CD.It doesn't have Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or even Stille Nacht. It's a CD full of poems, read mostly by me, culled both from …

  • I hate school

    I hate school.in other news, the semester is over. arg barg education.

  • where the chai is chaier

    Back about five years ago when I first started xanging, I shortly discovered that other folk from my place of former incarceration were also using xanga. It was a bit odd to see the blogs of people I'd known in the real…

  • Americans have to expose and confront the great disconnect between the kindness, compassion and caring of most American people and the ruthless way American power is experienced, directly and indirectly, by the poor of t…

  • If I'm to survive the semester, I'll have accomplished said task within twenty-four hours.Then things really get rolling. My itinerary for the next several weeks goes something like this:Gainesville - Atlanta - Birmingh…

  • small epiphany

    The United States of America actually exists.Furthermore, I live in it.This is difficult to believe.

  • identity

    I drove M, a Senegalese friend, to the Linguistics party last night. His family has just moved to Gainesville to join him, so M brought his nine-year-old son along too. Kid walks up to me and with an ear-to-ear grin an…

  • Things that made me sob this week

    1. An NPR piece about a big murder trial in Kenya which included this quote from John Bosire:As much as he has a Kenyan passport, or as much as he was born inKenya, wherever he was, we know his roots. It's not like he'…

  • In which I complain about capitalists

    *Update-- the phone is once again working properly. Whatever bit of gunk was in the headset plug must have found its way out again. $45-an-hour my foot*When I moved to Florida, I decided to change my cell phone number …

  • Went to a potluck over at the plant pathology dept today and was introduced over and over again as Dr. Rolfs' great-great grandson. It were amusing.

  • cartoon violence

    In the funny papers today, a crocodile bit off a man's arm. They showed it right there, in the fourth frame.

  • In which I make my seasonal complaint about cultural imperialism

    Picture this:It's August in New England. In the shopping malls are 'seasonal' decorations of dark green trees laden with Spanish moss and of palm trees buffeted by rainstorms. All the muzak and easy-listening radio is …

  • Cold

    A perverse part of me takes pleasure in extreme weather. Florida winter cannot rightly be called extreme, but it does get cold here, and it's kind of fun to prepare for bed by layering on long-johns, flannel pajamas and…

  • SEC champions, national champions?

    It's great to be a Florida Gator.Took Steve Spurrier five years to get us into a national title game. Pope Urban's done it in two.When our basketball team won the national title back in April, Joakim Noah turned to Chri…

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