He’s Got Legs

For the past three years over the summer I have vigorously trained in order to get in shape for the MS 150, whilst pestering my friends and family for donations. Here is the conclusion to this year’s saga…

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New Look, New Narnia Featurette, and Pauline Baynes

Well, over the past few days I have been exploring some of the features of Moveable Type. It is like monkey working on a BMW engine. But I have gotten results to my liking, though I am uncertain how the page looks in different resolutions, and Firefox doesn’t like it much. Thanks to my boss [...]

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When the subversion brings life-Sufjan Stevens

if I was crying
in the van, with my friend
it was for freedom
from myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our [...]

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Sappy Music Confessional-Ms. Armstrong-Codependency-”Mary’s in India”

Over the past 5 years my musical palette has broadened and taken on room for more colors. In many ways this music buying spree (and it has been a buying spree) is part of a larger renaissance, actually it is really more like an adolescence, an adolescence which is either a sequel or has just [...]

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Digital Tampering

The blog veered a bit philosophical yesterday and continues so today. At one point in time I rather vocally objected to digital manipulation. When Photography Today’s tag line went from “the world’s largest photography magazine” to “the world’s largest photography and digital imaging magazine” (or some change to that effect), I was chuffed. In a [...]

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Messy Lines, Fine Line

I am teaching a non-Western literature class in which we are currently discussing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which, if you have not read it, is a classic of post-colonial African literature. Achebe paints a vivid picture of pre-colonial society in the Igbo region of Nigeria, detailing its religious and social structures. In the [...]

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The Misfit Finds His Calling

“She would of been a good woman,”
The Misfit said,
“If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
And so too do I
So need his wonderful ministry.
Those violent slugs to the chest
Boring clean through smugness,
Making holes to ooze out self pity,
To tear light into the darkness.
He should start a radio show.
Come into [...]

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haiku

misty rainy day
within its grey folds hidden
possibilities
________________
misty rainy day
within its soft folds hidden
possibilities

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“So, Neil, how do your legs feel?”

I think they feel more like they have been beaten with the flat side. Yeah, think deep bruising.
But I am alive and very well. So, thank you for any prayers offered.
More to come…

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And I’m Off…

How?
Well, just a little bit in lots of ways, but this is intended to be a short post.
When?
This evening.
Where?
To do the MS 150 in Columbia, Missouri over the next two days and to try to ride at least 175 miles in the next two days. Maybe more? If you are so inclined, please pray for [...]

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