May 2012
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10 Kentucky Bands You Should Listen to Now ::... →
Kentucky gets the love from Paste Magazine!
My friend Leo always tells me about a thing on MTV back in the 90’s where Lexington was named as the “next Seattle.” The music scene in this town has always been kind of feast or famine. Nice to see some Lexingtonians on this list!
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Why my friends are awesome
Last week, in this post, I talked about some Avengers comics that I had when I was a kid - comics that have burned themselves into my memory, but that I haven’t owned in a very long time.
Well, after reading that post, my friend Dave Erdmann got on eBay and tracked the first Avengers comic I ever owned and bought it for me.
Seriously.
I flipped through the book immediately and it...
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Ten Stories Streaming on Spotify | mewithoutYou →
Really excited about the new Mewithoutyou album out next week. Wanna check it out? You can stream it on Spotify!
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What I loved about The Avengers movie
Ever since the post-credit scene in Iron Man when Samuel Jackson, playing super-spy Nick Fury, stepped out of the shadows and uttered the words, “Avengers Initiative” I’ve been vacillating between bouts of euphoric anticipation and inescapable dread. The idea of seeing the Avengers on the big screen had the potential to be a childhood dream come true or a disappointment of...
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My favorite Avengers comic
Later today Sara and some friends and I are going to go see a matinee of The Avengers. I almost never go see a movie on opening day, but I will make an exception for this. To say I’m excited is an understatement. It’s my day off, but I couldn’t sleep. Silly? Maybe, but who cares.
When I was very young, and just discovering comic books, Superman was my favorite. But as I...
April 2012
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Dan Harmon: Writer of Community, Friend of... →
Okay, so I’ve spent most of the afternoon obsessing about Dan Harmon and his writing process. While reading the Wired article directly below this post, I saw Harmon mentioned as the writer of Monster House - which caused me to remember a blog post I had seen from Kelly Oxford some time ago. Apparently Monster House gave Oxford’s daughter nightmares so Harmon wrote her a letter to...
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How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making... →
Big thanks to Teamtired who pointed out this article on Dan Harmon’s creative process when writing Community. It actually addresses the circle on the dry erase board from this post.
I love this kind of thing.
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Sunday Valley is dead, long live Sunday Valley
In 2003, shortly after my first wife decided she’d rather live in California than Kentucky, my buddy Leo decided I needed to get out of the house and stop feeling sorry for myself. We went to dinner, went to a hockey game, and then ran by a little bar named High On Rose to see his friend’s band, Sunday Valley. I had no idea, that night, I would be seeing one of my favorite bands ever...
“For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If...”
– Grant Morrison
“And this thing you once did might have...
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Local: Lexington
I was looking at this picture hanging in my office today and realized, I’d never really posted anything about it, other than an Instagram picture or something a couple years ago.
Let me tell you about it.
Local was a comic book mini-series written by Brian Wood and drawn by Ryan Kelly. Each issue was a stand alone story about a girl named Megan, set in a different city. Wood and...
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I wish...
As a white American male, pushing 40, there are few things in life that I don’t have access to. One thing, as a member of this demographic, that I should probably not be allowed access to is the opportunity to rap in front of an audience of a couple thousand people.
And yet…
You all have my sincerest apologies.
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“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind...”
– John Cleese
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Two clips from The Avengers
Not trailers. Actual clips. Excited? Yes, you could say that…
“Religious people will want God represented through a church (and lets face it,...”
– I Like Your Christ, I Don’t Like Your Christian, Thoughts on Church Haters | Donald Miller’s Blog
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WatchAlways loved the song - never knew there was a video!
March 2012
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Acts of kindness: How two comic book writers were...
Now it can be told.
Sara is in her 12th week of pregnancy - the first twelve weeks was us, keeping it to ourselves (mostly), trying not to jinx anything, and waiting.
At one point Sara suggested I find myself some books about pregnancy that I might enjoy reading. Since I wasn’t aware of Jon Stewart, Anthony Bourdain, or Paul Pope having written any books about pregnancy, I...
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We're having a baby!
As far as titles go, that’s pretty straight forward. I was afraid if I got too cute, people might skip over it. And I don’t want anyone that knows us to skip over this - BECAUSE WE ARE HAVING A BABY!
Sara and I started trying back in September, while in Hawaii. We were under the impression that a baby conceived in Hawaii would grant us some sort of dual citizenship (then we...
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Conan - Then and Now
Yesterday, one of my co-workers brought me a big pile of comic books he had when he was a kid. It was a bunch of stuff from the early eighties - which I loved! I’ve collected comics my entire life, but the early eighties are where it really came to life for me.
The pile was mostly a bunch of old Iron Man comics (and a couple comic adaptations of the Condor Man Movie!!??!!). But there,...
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Joy Division, Aztecs, and Digital Comics
Sam Humprhies is a rising star of the comics world. He’s written a Fraggle Rock comic, a sic-fi comic about pansexuals, and his newest book, Sacrifice, is about a Joy Division fan who gets magically transported back to the time of the ancient Aztecs. This is the definition of eclectic.
I was really excited to pick up Sacrifice, but none of my local shops were carrying it (between this...
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WatchSubmersed Songs is a sound installation that generates mp3 player remixes through the movements of four live fish. The animals’ movements and the proximity among them work as a parameter for mixing and spatializing the audience’s music tracks in real time.
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Almost Amish launch party at Morris Book Shop
Nancy Sleeth, a friend of Crossroads, has written a new book called Almost Amish - One woman’s quest for a slower, simpler, more sustainable life. I’m a big fan of Nancy and her husband Matthew and the way they’ve seamlessly combined their love for this planet and their faith. Both Matthew and Nancy are thoughtful, articulate, and open-minded.
On March 23, Morris Book Shop...
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On Kony 2012 and putting Africa in the proper...
For a couple of days last week you couldn’t go anywhere online without seeing someone post a link to Kony 2012, the video campaign to raise awareness about brutal Ugandan guerrilla fighter Joseph Kony and his atrocities and war crimes.
Soon after that you couldn’t go anywhere online without seeing people debating the relative merits of Invisible Children, the organization...
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10 In 20 - Oh My Me
This month’s 10 In 20 release is new to me - but I’m immediately a fan - check out Oh My Me and their song Derenda:
Apparently they’re out in Austin this week making their South By Southwest Debut.
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Why I Love Comics - March 2012
The Manhattan Projects
When I first saw this comic advertised, I didn’t pay much attention. I imaged it to be a historical/political comic - and while I have plenty of room in my heart for such books, I just wasn’t feeling it on first glance.
Then I saw the”S.” I had been reading the title as “The Manhattan Project,” but that’s not it. ...
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The Greenest Church In Lexington - An Interview...
I love where I work. As far as churches go, there’s not very many like it in my experience. One of the things I love about it is the people I get to work with. We have a diverse staff with diverse passions that are all being put to use trying to love God and love the people around us.
One of the people that I particularly love is Caleb Mathis. Caleb is a young, inteligent guy with a...
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The Head And The Heart - Headliners - 3/6/12
Last summer I went with a group from Crossroads to Joplin, Mo to help with relief and recovery work after the tornado that destroyed huge portions of the town. We left Lexington at 9:00 pm, drove all night to get there, hopped out of the truck and immediately started cutting and clearing fallen trees from a farmer’s land. Later that night, exhausted and emotional from what I’d...
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Dead Letter Office
Today I created a new folder on my desktop:
In the United States Postal Service, the Dead Letter Office is where undeliverable mail goes. For R.E.M. The Dead Letter Office was an album of B-Sides and rarities. On my desktop, The Dead Letter Office is where never-to-be-seen projects go to die.
My job at Crossroads is largely creative communication - take our given topic for the week and...
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What to Eat in Lexington - Pho BC
Over a year ago, my wife Sara and I decided we were going to make it our mission to find new restaurants in Lexington. And by “new” we meant “new to us.” Lexington isn’t a huge city, but it’s big enough that over the last few years it’s really started producing some great places to eat.
One restaurant that we found really close to our house and love...
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Why I love comics - March 2012
Prophet
Yesterday I picked up Prophet 21 and 22 from Image comics and they’re great.
Back in the 90’s Rob Liefeld had an imprint at Image Comics called Extreme. One of the books he created was called Prophet. In a lot of ways, it was kind of the essence of what Rob was doing at Extreme, distilled down into one character. Big mysterious guy with swords, guns, shoulder pads...
February 2012
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