Progressive, intellectual Christians: what do you believe?
One thing I have always wanted to ask one of my SJC friends is this: what do you actually believe about your religion, literally?
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Mr & Mrs America
Western Fashion, LoDo, Denver
Read moreIkkyū and Sōgi on Art and Enlightenment: a koan
How can a thing be both path and obstacle at once?
Read moreThe garden party
This is political.
Read moreConnected TV: there’s good news and bad news
CTV is a giant leap ahead as we search for better ways of doing things that are bad for us. I’m doing a little project on Connected TV. CTV – aka Smart TV – is basically a TV/computer hybrid, a category of Internet-connected devices that allows viewers to stream video, listen to music, check email, access social media accounts and search movies, photos
Read moreAbout that Kurt Russell / Turning Point USA / “political correctness” meme
Who is Turning Point USA and what is Kurt Russell afraid to say? You may have seen this one on your social media lately. There are multiple things here that I wonder about.
Read moreFitting in
Anas flexilis commonalis…
Read moreWhite privilege and the NFL: take a knee, Aaron Rodgers
I’m looking at you Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, Drew Brees, Carson Wentz, Rob Gronkowski, Luke Kuechly and Matt Ryan. If you wanna kiss the sky better learn how to kneel. – U2 I’m going to show you some pictures. Tell me if you notice anything about them (other than “they’re football players and they’re kneeling”). Okay, now a couple
Read moreThere is no future: the ironic peace of learned hopelessness (#zenofdoc)
We must be prepared to laugh with the universe at the banality of our own immolation. Full moon. Snowfield, vast beneath the mountain: to understand the truth of people, study their contradictions. This morning I posted this little koan (minus graphic) to Facebook: I’m hardly the first to trot out a “there is no future” Zen meme. My grasp of
Read moreManaging your privilege
Whatever power you will have begins with accepting who you are. I was fortunate enough to see Audre Lorde speak not long before she died. There was a moment that evening that’s always stuck with me, and I think it’s relevant to what some of my friends and I are facing in our lives these days. A young woman in the
Read moreFanfare
This may or may not be a creeping trumpet flower. Help?
Read moreLyft, Uber: the shame of lesser work (and get ready for the automation of white collar jobs)
Automation is getting worse for workers, and the emotional strain is already evident. I’ve noticed something. When I take a Lyft (I never take Uber, although I imagine the same is true for them), I’m rarely in the car more than a minute before the driver subtly makes it known that he/she has a real job (ie, white collar –
Read moreIs Greta Van Fleet ripping off Led Zeppelin? Both sides, just stop it.
Some love the neo-Zep sound and others hate it, but both sides are missing the point. Greta Van Fleet, a young Michigan-based rock band featuring three brothers with a friend on drums, have been ripping the lid off the joint lately. As of this moment the video for “Highway Tune” has well over 20 million views. They’re playing all the
Read moreMadonna of Gilead
Vintage miniature…
Read moreDear Papa John’s: you need to rebrand. Like, next week.
The brand now stinks worse than the actual pizza, and it’s going to stay that way. The F6 shitnado that is Massa Papa John Schnatter continues unabated. The most reecent episode found him dropping N-bombs during a company conference call, and as a result he’s now out as Chairman of the business he founded. Also, people are rushing to scrub
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