In my experience, there are few more exhilarating experiences than a person’s first day at a new job. I’ve had the pleasure of personally experiencing this eight times now with five different jobs, and today was one of those days, although it was different from the rest. In the past, I have worked temporary jobs […]
Month: August 2006
A Case Study in Effective Ministry
I was in Barnes and Noble tonight, and I the end of the Christian non-fiction rack stood out from across the store because Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz was displayed quite prominently. While I have read Jazz and loved it (even if I didn’t agree with everything he said), I have not read any of […]
Talking out the issues
Today I received an incredibly surprising phone call from a fellow McCallie graduate. However, it wasn’t the usual classmate calling to catch up or to meet me for lunch somewhere. Today’s call was from a member of the Class of ’76 who also happens to be my representative in the U.S. House: Zach Wamp. Now, […]
#10: Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service
I know they’re technically not the same group, but they have the same lead singer, they’re both currently in existence, and it’s really hard to separate the two in my mind. Death Cab is a Seattle-based pop band that until last year’s Plans had released all of their albums under indie label Barsuk Records. Now, […]
The best of the rest
To start my series of favorite songs by favorite bands, I’ll throw in some mini-lists of the best songs by the bands that nearly made my top 10 list. Evanescence 1. Bring Me To Life – “Save me from the nothing I’ve become…” – This is the song that got me into Evanescence, just like […]
Double Digits
Yesterday I scored my first double-digit under par disc golf round (-10 exactly), which sounds like a much bigger accomplishment until you consider that I am still playing from the novice tees using par 4 (there is a set of longer tees, and most courses use 3 as the advanced par). Still, it shows that […]
Rock on
August has been a traditionally slow month for sports, with baseball pennant races still a month away from really heating up and football yet to get underway. While the Braves are busy playing their way out of the NL wild card race, I thought I would make a few posts about my current musical tastes. […]
Primaries complete, now the race is on
The Tennessee primaries were yesterday, and aside from longtime Hamilton County sheriff John Cupp’s loss in his re-election bid, there were no big surprises. Here’s a breakdown of the major races: U.S. Senate (seat vacated by retiring Sen. Bill Frist [R]): Former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker won the Republican primary with a near-plurality of the […]
Muse: Black Holes and Revelations
I feel that I’m a popular music aficionado, but I’m a newcomer to Muse, a three-piece English hard/neo-progressive rock band. They’ve been popular overseas for a several years but only recently charted in the U.S. with their 2003 Absolution LP, which was their third studio album. Singer Matt Bellamy reminds me a bit of Radiohead’s […]
Better never than late: The Wickman-Aybar-Baez Story
The last two weeks have seen the Braves deal for two relievers and a prospect while, at best, a handful of games out of a wild card playoff spot. The first deal, back on July 20th, was A-ball catcher Max Ramirez for Indians closer Bob Wickman. Here’s the AJC’s take on the story. Sure, Wickman […]
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