photography crazy

@ church
I’ll be around church snapping away again on Sunday.  We’re in week two of the new sermon series and I don’t want to put off photographing it until the last week like I did with “The Buck Stops Here” (our last series).  So look for a new crop of photos to pop up on [...]

favorite Sunday pics

I took my camera to church on Sunday and just went wild – 750 pictures in roughly an hour and a half. I’m sort of addicted to the hold down the shutter and the camera keeps talking photos feature. 
Here are a few of my favorites (with commentary):
 I love the motion blur on this one, [...]

word of the month

care of Melissa Lomax at StillBleeding. I.e. blame her, not me.
prost-i-hobbit (n.) - a hobbit prostitute.  
Origin, early twenty-first century, coined by the Lomax family while listening to Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (on the LOTR FOTR extended DVD commentary) talk about the weeping of female elves in Rivendell upon loosing their hobbit sugar daddies.
Yes, it’s wrong on [...]

Unprecedented steps toward socialization

As the nation awaited the inauguration of Barak Hussein Obama (It’s his middle name – deal with it.) as the 44th President of the United States, I can’t help but think of how far the country has already slid towards collectivism. Obama’s administration promises spending and program increases at a heretofore unknown level. [...]

Define "wet," Starbucks lingo + "Sparkle" the magic Zebra

Why is ordering a cup of coffee so confusing nowadays?
Not only do I have to remember that at certain places “grande” is a medium, but at others it’s a large, I’m faced with all sorts of inexplicable coffee accessories: latte, wet, dry, macchiato, half-caf, nonfat, breve, americano, misto, syrups, shots – I’m not even half [...]

Security in America

Since 9-11 we’ve all experienced the joys of airport security – the long lines; random searches of little, old ladies; bomb-sniffing dogs; x-rayed shoes. So when my family and I went to an air show at Scott Air Force Base this September we were prepared for similar treatment. We had good reason to [...]

word of the month

This is care of the great people at the Regis Signature Salon in West County Mall. On a side note, if you’re in need of a good stylist, I highly recommend Debbie and Charlie – they’re both awesome!
Tanorexia – noun, craving to tan excessively; (also tanorexia nervosa) an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive [...]

Barack "The Messiah" Obama

Political motifs are always absurd, that’s the nature of politics. Each opponent seeks to make their adversary appear unfit and extreme. However, in every caricature there is a certain amount of truth. Without it they would simply be jokes, not tools. Such is the case with “the Messiah” image of Senator [...]

word of the month

I think I’m going to make this a tradition, each month I’m going to introduce a word that I’ve discovered or simply reacquainted myself with.
Ginormous – adjective, extremely large, enormous. ORIGINS blend of gigantic and enormous.
And yes, this IS a word. It’s in the Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English.
Take that, Marlys. [...]

the prating professor

Wow, I thought I’d seen it all in my four years at school. But no, I’d missed the prof who just gets up and rambles.  Seriously, 55 minutes for syllabus commentary and random “I remember last semester…” rabbit trails.  Now I like professors who are talkative and not wedded to their pre-written lecture, [...]