Category: articles
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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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The Internet is not immortal
The way we talk internetology, you’d think we believe the internet’s going to be around forever. The ways we use the cloud, our emails, social networks all point to our basic assumption of internet permanency. But there are things we should consider that factor into the internet’s mortality: Physical property As of now, all internet…
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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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3 More Tricks Writing Preachers Could Learn from Fiction
For newcomers, Friday’s rant was called Why Preachers Write Aweful Books… and what they can learn from fiction. I say “rant” because I refuse to dignify that post with the label “article.” I shouldn’t have been surprised — a rant was inevitable after writing poetry for two months. Oh well… In any case, here’s a…
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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…
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049: Por Que?
because my highschool taught Español Vaminos! not Latin Via Ovid because of the blood in the water because no one remembers the Alamo, nor cares, nor, perhaps, ever cared because Texas wants to secede — we should let them and because we should take Puerto Rico in their place because of the Three Amigos because…
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048: Birthday Event Horizons
“Micah’s how old? …He can’t be that old.” isn’t a statement about a shift in age, but rather a shift in perspective. For the speaker in question remains the same age: “Theirs” and assumes that others will remain the same age: the age that others maintained in relation to “Theirs.” How ever Like the half-plus-seven…