my friend andrew posted some pictures of me on his website. here is a sample.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
untitled and it's ours
weather, the great equalizer, moves over us
I get some strange pleasure in watching the tallest peak in town
Reach up and touch the clouds for me
It’s nothing really, just what happens,
But then so are a lot of things.
I thank God for the goods the earth he created yields.
There is a tree out my bedroom window.
Her hair is up in her leafless branches of winter
And her dress is the stately green and black of her mossy bark.
She dances for me with admirable freedom and faithfulness.
When fires burn in the town square and the children laugh,
Ice skating, holiday market, and delicious sweet things to eat,
I feel a peace and I want to sing. So I do.
You feel what you feel and you do what do,
Because He is king and He is all we need.
by Dallas Clayton
ENDLESS
You should learn to skateboard.
It is cheap and fun.
It is something you can do when you are alone
or with friends.
Once you learn, you can hang out late at night in parking lots for hours and hours
(and you don’t even have to be high).
Also you can talk to others about skateboarding
and it will make them think you are cool
and they will give you things
like free stickers, or invitations to parties
with lots of guys at them.
If you get good
you can jump over all sorts of things
like cars, and European streets, and statues, and off small buildings.
and people will take pictures of you
which is nice (for later, to show your kids).
If you get really good,
maybe someone will pay you
to take pictures, and make videos of you jumping off all sorts of crap
and they will put you on billboards
and benches where homeless people sleep
and your name will be on thousands of pairs of shoes.
Maybe you will have a video game with you in it
or a TV show where you shoot your friends with weapons.
Or maybe not.
Maybe you will just keep doing it and no one will really care how good you are
and you will just use your skateboard to ride down the street
to buy some beer
when your “old lady” takes off with the car.
It’s up to you I guess.
Like anything else.
But you should definitely learn.
It will be worth it
in the long run.
I promise.
Monday, December 8, 2008
dinner with friends is like a warm hug with food
(My) “Quotes”
I have never been in that situation, myself,
But I would imagine it is something like camping
Out in the North Woods and suddenly
Coming Awake in your tent around midnight
To the horrible snarling and screaming sounds
of a werewolf killing your guard dog
somewhere out in the trees beyond the camp fire.
I rode the absent-minded wave for four nebulous years,
Whistling and waving my way through educational anarchy.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners
Of whom I am the worst.
So what can I tell you this morning?
There is no serious candidate in (our) party this year
who couldn’t pass for the executive vice-
president for mortgage loans
in any hometown bank
from Bangor to San Diego.
-H. Thompson
-Sufjans Stevens
-Saint Paul
-Unknown
-H. Thompson
--Arranged by Joshua Hancock