Category: Entertainment
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In The Snare
Poetry ain’t the sort of thing made, formed, or even envisioned, neither built nor bartered to obtain neither paint nor produce. We catch her fetch her butter flies lightning bugs mermaid Mew (2) red fox White Stag in a wood covered moss light streaming in from some unknown heavens when caught, she blesses us with…
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Becoming Sons and Daughters (a documentary)
This film features the issue of fatherlessness in our culture. Watch it and then let’s talk about the issues in the comments as I’m curious for your thoughts.
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Poshmark
Okay, ladies. If you search for deals on name brand clothes and accessories, Kiddo found $300 boots for $125 sold by normal people like you and me. Have a $75 bottle of perfume you want but can’t afford? Bottles 3/4 full go for five bucks. You have to pay for shipping, but Poshmark makes searching…
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9art digital ads in their native habitat
9art Photography’s most recent post talked up my copywriting and Matt Spiel’s design, all while showcasing photos of those ads in their native Joplin habitats.
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copyediting for blu20 design
Recently edited the copy for Joplin-based blu20 design’s portfolio. Wrote taglines and edited their current overviews for each project.
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My World Series of Poker article
If you happen to find yourself sitting before a stack of chips at one of the tables in the World Series of Poker between now and July 15th, make sure to pick up the special edition of Poker Pro. In it, you’ll find an article by yours truly. For the rest of you, I’ll give…
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Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit
You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…
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Blueprint (a CHCC video)
Wrote up a quick poem for a bumper video. This was for College Heights’ videographer, Joseph Lang. Poem below.
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a = 6r (where a = acceptance; r = rejection)
What if you could mathematically figure out the amount of time it will take you to get accepted? To succeed? For those following on Twitter, you know that I just found some interesting math from the folks at Gud Magazine, math that may provide answers: Responses Acceptances: 1.7% (154.7 day(s) avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 98.3% (25.4…
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Why Preachers MUST Write Good Books
Yesterday, I shared 3 More Tricks Writing Preachers Can Learn from Fiction, which followed Friday’s rant about Why Preachers Write Awful Books. Today, I’m taking a lighter note and sharing one last tip. See I typically take this route on my diagnostics for other writers. I figure if you’re diagnosing a cancer, people want the bad…
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Why Preachers Write Awful Books …and what they can learn from fiction
Most of you regulars who will read this first either hate religion, remain skeptical of the church, or you’re a Christian that feels bored/frustrated/faithful-yet-concerned with out-of-touch Midwest Megasomething. Books by pastors, we can safely assume, bore the living Barjesus out of you. Me too. (You who found this post via the recommendation of some first…
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050: La Fin du Monde
Read the world’s ending in a book again today and I laughed not out of disrespect but determination to laugh I’ve determined laughter helps us finish strong. It’s not the first book today printed whose themes feature the end of the world it’s a popular transition from fantasy to science fiction to move from eschatology…