So Ben and I are headed off to New Mexico for a week, to hang out with the Enchanted ones (that is, to hang out with Elise).  Hopefully we’ll do some hiking, some good green chili eating, and some checking-out of various Santa Fe art galleries (or really just the one in which we happen [...]

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What political persuasion is Jesus?

Being an evangelical Christian with somewhat left-ish views can be a pretty difficult thing.  The constant conflation in evangelical circles of "evangelical" with "Christian" can mean that when many of one's views seem to clash with the Christian culture in which you find yourself, you can end up questioning not just the political atmosphere of [...]

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Napping for Nature

From The Observer (via TreeHugger): Sleep more – and save the environment
See, Ben?  I'm doing my part for sustainability and the environment with all my napping. 

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Re: Reading

So, being rather new to the whole blogging bit, it's taking me a little while to figure out the best way to arrange things.  I thought it would help keep things organized a bit just to put all my random comments on books on another page, but I've realized just how large that page is [...]

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Switch your apartment to wind power

So I wrote a post (perhaps a rather poorly written post, now that I look at it) a few days ago about the need for more wind power sites, and mentioned writing your representatives about the unnecessary blocking of new wind turbines.  I was realizing that of course one of the most basic ways in [...]

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The coffee coffee table

Ooh, maybe I'll get this to go with the tetris furniture.  Too bad there's only one, and it's sitting in some museum instead of somewhere where coffee could be served on it.

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A metaphor for America

So I went to Schuba's tonight to see Jeffrey Foucault perform.  (Alas, I finally discovered that he himself does in fact pronounce his last name something like foo-kalt, rather than with a soft 't', like Michel Foucault.)  I saw him last year as part of Redbird, who was really excellent.  His performance tonight was as [...]

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