Anti-social Anonymous

Yesterday while adding songs onto my new iPod, I built a Facebook account. Most of my siblings possess one by now, continually checking their posts and what-not throughout the snow-day as if it were a new-born babe moments from burbling its first word. Nowadays everyone seems to have ingratiated some form of on-line communication. [...]

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Something Good

Music possesses the innate ability to transport people to realms of their own imaginings. Enchanted snow-covered forests, gem-encrusted caves, sand-blasted temples, and bridge-linked villages roosting high among starlight-encrusted evergreens.

At least that’s where my music takes me. J.R.R. Tolkien poses in his essay on Fairy-Tales that we as [...]

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Word Play

Tonight while Mom and Dad braved the cold and frigid winds to attend a wedding, the kids and I tucked into our bed clothes and played some board games. Our game of choice was Balderdash, a wonderful game of creativity lies, archaic words, and fake definitions. Needless the say, I love this game, whose principal [...]

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Economic Value

The man approached us while we stood in line, our arms plump with books like old-time school children – bibliophiles that we are. I had come to the bookstore early that afternoon to stock up on several new manga volumes. A story sickness had overtaken me over the last few weeks, and my visits [...]

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A Very Texan New Year: Part 2

On New Year’s Eve we drove down to see the remains of Galveston, devastated last September by Hurricane Ike. Charlie’s mom suggested the visit, as Katie needed a ride to meet some old friends for lunch (Chili’s and their blessed never-ending salsa bowl). We drove forty-five minutes through Houston, down the coast and across [...]

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A Very Texan New Year: Part 1

Of all the places that I hoped to see before I leave this great blue marble, Texas never ranked high on my list. In my mind, the Lone Star state occupied nothing more than a great span of desert connecting the South to the Southwest, Florida to California, the terrain between Disney World and Disney [...]

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The Art of Arting

Dasad informed me yesterday that he had begun drawing again after a six-month hiatus.  Much of the present art needs to be photoshopped for color and clarity.  I in turn offered to help, which led to the following conversation:

Murph: Can you scan your art and photoshop it?
Dasad: yeah i clean up a few [...]

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