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"Is this going to be scary? What's it rated? Hmm. Are you sure?" "Why'd she want to marry a criminal?" "It's been going for 30 minutes and they FINALLY ran the title credits?" "That is a high, high ceiling." (in the Huffhines' living room) "Does the baby get back to their parents at the end?" Me: "I don't want to ruin it for you." "MOM, SERIOUSLY, PLEASE!" "That's an awesome playroom for the

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So my conversation with Bazan on the Grapes of Rad went on for 3 1/2 hours and (what we recorded, anyway) and they posted it in two parts. In Part One we all talked about leaving our faith and growing up as preachers' kids and why Newt Gingrich has a chance in hell, American Girls, non-practicing evangelicalism (which Dave identifies as), questioning, hating, bitterness, grief, Joseph Campbell,

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It was super fun. It's here.

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Hi hi! Tomorrow I'm recording the Grapes of Rad's podcast with Dave Bazan and people are supposed to send in questions for us to answer on religion and faith and journey and doubt of whatever. So if you give a crap send one to aaron@grapesofrad.com And the latest Dongtini we debate the moon landing. Does anyone know for sure we landed on there? I just have a problem with all this alleged

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"Dear Stephanie, I have a burning question for you, your readers, anyone that can give me an answer. How do you get over the Fundie fear of burning in hell for eternity and still be a critical thinker? I'm between a rock and a hard place. I've always had issues with CC even as a child (and pastor's daughter). So often I would think "This isn't right. This doesn't make sense." only to be

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I’ve never really understood Advent, we always had Advent calendars and I knew it was about a countdown to Christmas somehow and that waiting was involved, then a few weeks ago I said kind of deliberately that I want to learn about Advent this year. And weirdly enough my friend Isaac randomly asked me to do a reading on the first Sunday of Advent at our church (Wits’ End) so I said yay okay.

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The Insurrection from Peter Rollins on Vimeo.

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click here to download

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Would you like to hear about my Halloween weekend? It was very happy and very sad. Two, two, two mints in one! I get giddy watching the kids get so excited about it. Costumes and candy are magical for them and they know that Christmas is next and it’s all so precious. Friday night the kids each had Halloween costume party sleepovers and so that’s like free babysitting all night long so David

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Oh God. What's been going on? I'm at the library. It's my last non-working Friday after like nine years of working Monday - Thursdays. Now that both the kids are in school all day I'm going to 40 hours a week instead of 32...not sure how I feel about this. Kinda excited. Will miss my Fridays of Target and library and giant iced coffee from McDonald's. But hey, more money. And I will finally get

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On the latest Dongtini: Simone and I talk about gross words, placenta agriculture and and Taco Bell rage. Is 'panties' a gross word? Take our urgent poll. And, Simone does not agree that moist is gross! Is this an Australian thing or something? Listen here homeskillets.

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Weird, blogspot says this is my 800th post. That's kind of poignant because this is going to be a big entry. Not a long one, but I just want to speak to the fact that a year has passed since we left our church that we'd been at for twelve years. A year ago I was entering the darkest pain I've known since my parents disowned me. Our church laid off the chief musician artist-in-residence. When

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I know a lot of people who have been harmed by Mars Hill in Seattle and Mark Driscoll's teachings so I talked about it some more on this podcast, if you're innarested.

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"Steph,I've written you so many emails in my head, but the events of the last week on the FB page have compelled me to follow through. I know you don't know me from Adam, but I stumbled on the SCCL blog several months ago at exactly the right time. I proceeded to read everything--I started at the beginning of the blog and read each post and every comment. I then read your Adverbs blog, (and

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I tried to put this on Spotify but it kicked me in the girl nuts so I'm doing it the old way. Click the pickles!

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"Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu on communion with God

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I haven't posted here in awhile, I'm usually spooging all over Facebook and Twitter instead, but for posterity wanted to post pictures from the Drury reunion in Santa Cruz last month. It was so beautiful there and fraught with all kinds of emotions. I just said fraught.  my son, husband and brother  cousins the boys with their electronics lolly! in the sprinkler in

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“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the

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David just called Colin, who was sitting in the Starbucks by his house. David asked how he was doing and he said not good. David asked why and he said that three minutes before he called, a fat man had walked up to him and whispered hoarsely in his ear "You're fucking hot," and then went outside and rode off on a bicycle. I told David that guy is probably going to put a missed connection on

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I'm newly in love with this Franciscan friar named Richard Rohr. My friend Nick told me about his site Center for Action and Contemplation and I've been listening to his homilys (homilies?) today. This one especially resonated with me. ♥

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Guess what, you get to hear Simone and me talk about Christian comedy, her seeing the Book of Mormon musical, tales of my workplace crying and how there is no way guys' bathrooms are grosser than girls'. Click here dawg.

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A Fable by Robert Farrar Capon Once upon a time, in the mud at the bottom of a tidal pool, there lived an oyster. By oyster’s standards, he had a good life: the sea water was clean, and full of plankton, and the green warmth of the light at low tide made him grow and prosper. Next to him lived a stone with whom he sometimes talked. It was very much the same size, shape and color as he, and was

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Yesterday at church they had clay for us to play with to kind of do a tactile mind-body thing while we were all talking, and because I am devastatingly mature I fashioned these and cracked myself up. Well, only one cracked me up.

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The other night we went to see the Mountain Goats play because we love their drummer. He's my favorite prank caller-slash-comedian type person and the best drummer I've ever seen play and extremely nice. Turns out he's the Jonny Wurster kid the Dead Milkmen talk about in the Stuart song, I memorized it in high school and have known his name all that time and then we came to be internet friends.

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Yeah, overrun margins. Ask me how much I care. And I probably won't know for sure.

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So my dear friend Simone and I just started a podcast. We're keeping it short and only talking about things we deeply care about, like pop music and the non-existent rapture and disgusting reviews found on the internet. Someone asked me yesterday who our target audience is and I said "I'm not sure, probably slightly demented people between the ages of 14 - 39." Click the picture of Simone and me

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Click the booby lady to download.

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Yesterday I lost my head for a bit after I read a story in the paper about a man who’d lived through some horrible things. This stuff is all around but sometimes things hit me so viscerally. In this story the man’s parents had taken him to the middle of nowhere when he was a child and then told him they were leaving him there, that they didn’t want him anymore. There were other horrible parts in

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David went to SIFF opening night last night and I clandestinely transcribed what he said. He went with our friend Chrissy because she's into acting and we love her and I'd worked all day and was in no mood. David:  So I met Chrissy at Great Kabab, she was really excited because she loves SIFF and so she’d gotten this whole outfit at Forever 21 or something, it was this black and white stripey

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Our friend emailed us to ask what we think about the Save the Date rapture stuff. I thought I'd share David's reply, for whatever it's worth. “It gives me comfort that Jesus essentially said, ‘You idiots trying to figure shit out, things never look like you expect them to! You thought King David was the messiah, then the next guy, then some other guy. Now that I am here you think I am going to

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My coworker Shari got this email by mistake that obviously wasn't meant for her, and she asked me to come up with something interesting to write back, so I did. (I hope she sends it.) From: Emily To: Sharon Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:28 AM Subject: NSG 533 Hi Sharon, I noticed on the time schedule that NSG 533 is videostreamed and in T 661 on Tues from 1:10-4:30...my preference is actually

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David wrote this for a Housefire book that's coming out. They gave him the title and then he wrote the story. A String of Pony By David Drury When the Indians killed a buffalo, they used the whole buffalo. What, are you bragging with that? Do you want a cookie? No. You have one. And it tastes like a buffalo. When Mr. Standish, the butcher, put down Mrs. Prancey-Fance (madness, blindness,

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I made a new friend last night. She goes to my new church and we found out she and I went to the same college and she's a therapist now. Last night I told our group some of my story with church and family and she listened so well (as therapists are wont to do) and afterwards said "Jesus. What a fuckin lot of pain. Fuck. Glad you're here, girl." *heart swelled*

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They should measure girth instead of length. How about density or mass. Or volume.

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I get so many disgruntled comments and emails about my Christian culture blog that the nice ones make me extra happy. Someone left this one yesterday after a commenter said my blog isn't as good anymore. I want to put the nice ones on here so they're easier to reference in the future when my self-loathing gets the better of me. "I am not a fan of telling Ms. Drury what to do. I imagine she is

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Questions: 1. The Royal Wedding: hot or not? 2. Favorite board game? 3. What food reminds you of your childhood? 4a. What isn't a sport, but should be? 4b. What is a sport, but shouldn't be?My answers: 1. Hawt   2. Beyond Balderdash   3. Cooked carrots, cut into cross-sections   4a. The furious trying on of vintage clothes   4b. Cheerleading

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I'm full of pensiveness. Pension. Ha! Well, speaking of pensions, that reminds me I'm also all concerned about the global economy and impending economic collapse so that's another thing to try not to worry about. I'm typing at the library and it suddenly smells weird in here. Like soil and mangos. This incessant rain has been tough to take and I'm spastically grateful for the two sunny days we

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1. Name as it appears on your birth certificate? 2. Would you sell your soul for $1 million? 3. Have you ever forged your parents' signatures? 4. If so, what for? 5. What toy from your childhood should be brought back? My answers: 1. Stephanie Lynne Hill 2. negatory 3. yes 4. On a note for Ms. Sloan in AP History in 10th grade. She caught me cutting class to hang out with Ching Mong and said I

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What better way to observe holy week than with Louis CK and Ricky Gervais freaking out together in a turbulent plane? I am full of Easter sentiment but putting it here just won't work. So have at this.

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There's someone I hadn't talked to in something like four years because he'd said something that really hurt my feelings. A few weeks ago God said to me "What if you apologized to him for your part in your rift?" And I was like "oh great" and tried not to think about it. But then I racked my brain and found things to apologize to him for, because I wasn't blameless. So I emailed him a big and

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Every so often I get nice emails about my Christian culture blog and it makes me emotional because the blog is really cathartic for me. There's a little community around it that is so healing and I feel really fortunate to have it. So here's one I got today: Steph, Being a pastor's kid who grew up to be quite frustrated and resentful of the Christian culture that I grew up in, I became bitter,

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Here is my April mix, I used to make these every month before my SCCL blog was on Beliefnet and now that I'm off Beliefnet and contract-free praise Jebus, I can make these things again. This mix has one condition, that you delete the Peaches song (track 2). I thought it was a different song and that's how it got on there, but it throws off the whole vibe of the mix and I hate it. Click the

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Ohhhh Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello together again! You'd never know it was a Chipotle ad, or at least I didn't really. If this is how they're going to have to sneak advertising into our technological food then I'm just fine with it. Amy Sedaris' Golden First Date from Amy Sedaris David got back from Tokyo today, he was there for eight days and I was a single working mom for eight days. So glad

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Every Friday Carrie's office asks four questions on the office whiteboard and everyone writes their answers as they walk by. Carrie always emails them out to a group of us and I heart them. Today's are 1. Would you rather be too cold or too hot? 2. What is your least favorite musical genre? 3. What is your favorite detail about your house/apartment? 4. If I had a dollar for every time someone

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My friend Chrissy is in a conundrum. This is the best story I've heard in awhile (i.e., all day...er, since yesterday) and she said I could tell it here. The Cliff Notes version is that she and an acquaintance would routinely spar on Facebook when he would post fundamentalist status updates. Then suddenly a post came along that he had passed away. Here's the email that she sent me: "Ok, so

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Tags: Atom.com | Funny Videos | Tournament | Upload

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Okay, so check this out. This scientist lady predicted the Japan earthquake based on planet alignment. I know it sounds far-fetched, but just watch.I heard them talk about that earthquake thing on the last Lavender Hour (my new second-favorite podcast). It's Duncan Trussel and Natasha Leggero and I love it love it love it. On this episode Duncan was talking about how Digg.com was bought out and

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Carrie said this commercial will fulfill all my wildest dreams and did it ever!Then I got this extremely excellent email about my blog last week. It made Email of the Day on the Facebook page.From: Jayne MendiusTo: Stuff Christian Culture LikesSubject: Hot? Or maybe not?Stephanie,Just wanted to know I'm dropping your often entertaining blog today because I'm personally appalled by your "ew" at my

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It's Ash Wednesday but it feels like it's already been a season of Lent all year. It's hard to write about. But along with being sad I'm hopeful. Sometimes more than others but any at all is good!I like this painting a lot. I do enjoy a swarthy Jesus. As part of Epiphany a church was uncovering parts of the painting each week. Once it was uncovered they added the question mark cutout. The guy

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I was listening to this today and was fully doubled over in my cube laughing and snorting. Adam is totally ignoring the callers and turning up the music and then he does it to Drew.

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"Pastors, don't look at people as problems to fix or resources to use. They're both dehumanizing." —Eugene Peterson

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I haven't been posting much lately because I'm holding all this church sadness. I vascillate wildly between laughing at youtube clips of cats flushing toilets and then feeling overcome by grief that I feel down in my bones and it's just an awful lot. I'm getting through okay, though. I feel like goodness has come kind of out of the blue and helped me in a lot of ways. I really haven't felt

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We went to Camano Island with our friends Aaron and Heejoo. It snowed and was all magical.

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I found this at Phil Nellis' blog. I also am really intrigued by this intro he posted about the prophets.“This book is about some of the most disturbing people who have ever lived: the men whose inspiration brought the Bible into being- the men whose image is our refuge in distress, and whose voice and vision sustain our faith….My aim therefore is to attain an understanding of the prophet through

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Our friends Jordan and Greta watched the kids the other night and Greta emailed me this:Lol, we keep remembering cute things your kids said or did the other day- they really are so unique and fun!Lolly said, 'I can say 'library' in Texan. 'lahhhhbrerry.'Me, 'Oh that's good! Did your mom teach you how to say that?''No, no, I taught myself Texan.'Judah in the background pumping her up, 'Yeah, she

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I'm 36 today! But it's a weird birthday. No one at work really knows it's my birthday but I'm getting lots of Facebook love, 70 messages so far. We are officially in the future.Also weird is that I'm back to taking crying breaks in the bathroom. Last night we had a meeting with friends and I was very sad and I cried almost the whole time. Then when it was over I cried all the way home and for

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Elevation Church is this megachurch in North Carolina that brags about how it's the fastest growing church in north America. They try super hard to be cool and they make David and me want to throw up, they're seriously the douchiest douches who ever douched.So the pastor posted this contest for pastors on Vimeo and Jeff Breakfast entered.Here is the original contest announcement clip:Win the

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I read a book called Healing From Family Rifts and liked these bits from it, I thought I'd put them here for posterity."You're talking about an idea, Mark, that members of the gay community have instinctively known for generations. So many gay people have been shunned by their families that it's always been natural to bond with our close friends in the community in a way that resembles family;

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My friend Bill was a hippie in San Francisco in the '60s and '70s and he has the BEST stories. I finally coaxed him to email me one and he said I could post it. The subject of the email he sent was The Final Straw For Our Human Resources Director."There was a period of time in the late 70s where I drove a delivery van for Teledyne out of Palo Alto. Low pay enormous freedom. I might have one

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And here's an old Loveline call with Adam Carolla where someone called who said...I can't even type it. And I can type a lot of things. Anyway, Adam's genius is superlative in this call so I had to link it.

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His pantslessness knows no bounds!

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Patton Oswalt said this today on the Adam Carolla podcast, talking about how unfunny TV executives are:"The networks [who handle television programming] think the people they are programming for are people who weirdly enough can hold jobs and buy the products they advertise, but also defecate in their pants and randomly masturbate for no reason while they talk to people, and if you give them more

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Critics' Choice |Movie Awards |Critics' Choice Video |Celebrity News

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I've been doing a little better with my church grief. I haven't been crying daily anymore, but if I let myself think about what our church used to be and what it is now I cry. And I cry every Sunday because it's a reminder of our church family that's it's in shambles now. It's a giant loss and I feel that if it isn't healed I'll always grieve it. I feel hope though, as much hope as I feel grief,

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Our dear darling friend Sarah Jurado took these pictures of us in west Seattle the other day. Thank you so much, Sarah!

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I turned on Spirit 105.3 two days ago for my daily experimental dose of Christian music. The song playing was a sorta indiscernible mix of reggae with the most common CCM sound and the chorus went "I was made to love you" over and over (and over). Then each verse seemed to talk about how great certain things were about living for the Lord and THEN one line I remember exactly said "haters try to

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Today I listened to Christian music on purpose, like K-LOVE challenged me to. I was raised on Christian music® and psychotically loved a lot of it for a long time, and still love some of it. I don't have the emotional bandwidth or attention span right this second to go into my backstory and current thoughts on Christian music so I will just tell you about today.We listened to it while driving to

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I was just looking up a quote and found all these quotes by Kierkegaard by accident. When Judah was born we almost named him Soren cause we like him (Kierkegaard) so much. But then there was the whole thing about do we put the omelet or umlaut or whatever over/through the o, and does it sound too much like "sore end" and are we being precious by naming him such, and then Judah has such a good

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I decided to take this challenge. They invite our responses so I'll be blogging about it here. Day 1. Morgan Spurlock, signing off.

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Gregg and Simone came up with this game on a road trip and we played it on our last road trip down to San Francisco. It's called "Have You Ever Touched" and it's not as gross as it sounds. It really provides an opportunity for soul-searching and personal reflection. Here's what I came up with:Have you ever touched...A reflective circle on the road?Powdered seahorse?Your grandpa's license plate?A

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I was so touched by this email from my friend Kara (a Presbyterian minister in Minnesota) tonight:"Oh, I meant to tell you - our poignant and wonderfully honest blue Christmas ritual was the other night. We put our prayers on these balls and lit candles for people. I posted other pictures of it on the church's FB account, but I wanted you to know you and your church were held in prayer that

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That's fun to say! David's short story "Things We Knew When The House Caught Fire" airs on NPR's Selected Shorts over the next week! Here is the schedule.Nashville, TN WPLN-AM 1430 Sat Dec 18 5:00 PMDallas/Fort Worth, TX KERA-FM 90.1 Sat Dec 18 7:00 PMSan Francisco KQED-FM 88.5 Sat Dec 18 8:00 PMSan Luis Obispo, CA KCBX-FM 90.1 Sun Dec 19 6:00 PMNew York, NY WNYC-FM 93.9 Sat Dec 18 10:00 PMNew

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Drooling over this house in Portland. It was 1954's house of the year, I guess.Cracking up at this poor guy just trying to watch tv. He did handle the situation effectively.

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This house makes my mouth water. I have that response to certain inanimate things and it's weird, but my mouth will water over wedding dresses and diamonds and mid-century design. The portfolio of this house is one of my super happy places!

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My internet friend Hugh (whom I know through my blog) lives in England - he has grown children and his church that he's been at for 30+ years has recently made changes weirdly similar to the ones my church is making. The parallels are very strange, but it's nice to have someone who understands even if they live across the ocean. I got this email from him today and it warmed my heart, I wanted to

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I told Judah the other day that I didn't want anything for Christmas (him: "Why not?" me: "It's how I'm rolling." him: "You roll terribly.") but I think I lied. On second thought I think I want this necklaceand this dining room table would be nice too.And maybe an electric kettle. And that's all.

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Almost all the songs are retro, hope you like it. Click the picture to download. xoxoxo

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The waves of grief over church come and go. Today I felt new grief after a few days of feeling better. TheRapist says this sort of thing is cyclical. So at least I know it's normal. But I've been crying so painfully I've had to pull the car over, and stop and walk when I get to thinking about it when I'm out running, and lock myself into a bathroom stall while I'm at work for five measured

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Look, she’s wearing her favorite color, that Penis Shaft Beige.Man, look at some of these haircuts.That lady looks like she’s in pain. Did you see that? That woman has a giant horse mouth! She’s got like eighteen extra teeth. Was Oprah laughing at that woman who was in physical pain? Do you see that?Oprah's yipping and circling around that iPad. Maybe she’ll go poop in a corner and bury it.Those

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Oh God. Did you see that black man leaping? That’s the gayest, blackest man.Are these like, homeless people, or…?I think if Oprah asked them to eat her out they all would right now. But she has Gayle for that.Look at all these giant people. I hope she’s giving away treadmills.Are these people selected cause they like, need stuff? It would be better if it was random cause you know how grace is

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This site pleases me. I find it very pleasant indeed.

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How had I never seen this one before? "Oh, I love America." hahahahahaha

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I'm having a hard time today, my heart hurts so much that relationships at our church are negotiable and referred to as collateral damage. Church is supposed to be the place of all places where people are not disposable to one another and relationships are fought for and strategy and business and such pale, PALE I SAY, next to community.Since this is not the case much of the time on this stupid

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My friend Nikki wrote this letter to the leadership of our church to explain to them why she's leaving the congregation. She said she considers it to be public domain and gave me permission to post it here. She expresses so well the struggle against literalism that goes with faith and how that struggle is worth fighting, and reading this gave me a lot of comfort while I'm grieving this so hard.**

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It's that time again! An onslaught of what I've loved on the internets today.Haunting version of "Creep" with equally haunting dolls acting out my high school years.Creep (Radiohead) - Scala & Kolacny Brothers from Alex Heller on Vimeo.I like this New York Magazine article on the best rap lyrics.Here is how Taiwan saw the US midterm elections.Don Draper says "what" a lot:Here's an introduction of

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I'd like to post my thoughts on the stuff that's going on at my church because that part of my community is huge for me, and also because people have said they don't know what to do with their grief over this and that it helps them to read they're not the only ones grieving. We need a fallout shelter of some sort. One thing I'm glad about is the pace at which this is going. It's been a month

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Ten years ago I had a vexing coworker and to cope I wrote down what she did and emailed it to voyueristic friends (this was before I had any idea what a blog was) and called it Hammerhead Theater. I called her Hammerhead in these emails (HH for short) because the same week I started working with her there was a Dilbert cartoon that featured Hammerhead Bob, who would bound into your cube and say "

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My heart is torn up about what is continuing to happen at church. If the people who made this decision at church could hear people (grown men, even) crying in such a gutteral way from so much grief, I wonder if it would change their minds.On another serious note, here is this wonderful clip. On a happier note, David gets back from Japan today! He just texted that he landed. This is what he was

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My answers to that thing going round on Facebook.Name fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. 1. Roald Dahl2. CS Lewis3. Beverly Cleary4. Ann M. Martin5. Flannery O'Connor6. Dave Eggers7. David Dark8. M. Scott Peck9. John Kennedy O'Toole10. David Sedaris11. Lorrie Moore12.

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Yesterday I emailed this picture to Jona, Carrie and Simone, and their responses cracked me up.Jona: "STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!Simone: "AHHHHHHH! Who can be sad after they saw a kitten in a sweater? I keep telling Gregg that I feel like Marnie needs clothes. She's too much of a lady to be walking around nekkid."Carrie (who has no link because she deleted her blog to the detriment of society): "IT

stephyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-11707996391076832222010-10-21T11:21:00.001-07:002010-10-21T11:22:40.608-07:00

This is unfortunately all too true. This is their formula.

stephyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-27410049443216553922010-10-19T11:49:00.000-07:002010-10-19T11:54:04.301-07:00

1. The most messed up Craigslist ad I've seen in awhile.2. I am going to watch this today if I can get the kids to stay quietly in another room, it's a 1973 movie John and Yoko funded and it was banned for 30 years, just got rereleased in 2007. My friend Nathan said it was at the peak of the psychadelia movement, before everyone started slouching towards Bethlehem.3. I can't wait for this to come

stephyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092454655191120011.post-23918288262407693662010-10-18T15:59:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:10:20.683-07:00

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