I [heart] Top Gear

Jeremy Richardson and Richard Hammond, while driving a Lamborghini through the stacked switchbacks in the Italian Alps.

Hammond: "The drops! It's impossible! If you go over the edge, you'll have time to phone the insurance company on the way down!"

Richardson: "Not like Playstation, this: you can't just press the "reset" button when you get it wrong. You just go straight through the pearly gates...on fire!"

Some High Falutin' Church Worship For Your Masses

Meditating on the icons has long been a way to contemplate Christ and His Work through the arts. So here is my favorite musical piece of all time, set to iconography--although I wish it did not change so quickly. I guess iconography can fall prey to limited visual attention spans even if there are no commercial breaks...

See! Via the internet, even a hillbilly in Wesleyan Countryfolk Heaven can experience some of the grandeur of a full church choir and high church art!

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additional note: in pondering the other day with Ethan, over fine beverage, it occurred to me that the happiest memories of my life are those of communal singing. So great thanks to brother David, for helping me startle all those tourists in Frankenmouth with robust carol singing.

Sufjan sings the same. Also, "For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti."

Merry Christmas from the Night Shift!

I'm totally wearing some awesome Christmas Carhartt bib overalls while listening to BNL's "We Three Kings." Merry Christmas and yeee haw!

please please please please please

If anyone knows the whereabouts of my CD case with years' worth of collecting excellent music from excellent people, my iPod died and I need it back so I can listen to awesome tunes again...