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  • Celebrity Advice: Comedy

    Comedy one of the Greatest Gifts on Earth! To be able to make people laugh is one on the greatest gifts on earth. When we laugh we feel good. We forget the world and just enjoy the moment with the people around us. It is a wonderful type of human sharing. It also has medical health benefits such…

  • The Long Haul to School

    Since the end of April I have been rather busy with travel and a few other things. The journey of a thousand miles began on Sunday, April 29, with a visa run from Ubon Ratchathani to Chong Mek, Thailand. I had to cross the border into Laos for a few minutes, and then return to Ubon, where I caught a…

  • Words Just Words?

    I just came in from mowing the lawn (or cutting the grass, depending on where you're from). That doesn't take much brain power, so my mind wandered and happened upon the subject of words. @SaintBlue1131 had a clever idea the other day: He invented some words to express things that are not now repre…

  • Katy Perry “The One that got Away”

    Katy Perry “The One that got Away” This week, I wanted to do a follow up on last week’s feature “Katy Perry’s Musical Influences”. As everyone knows, music influences language and culture. Katy’s songs are chart toppers and therefore ‘talk to&rsquo…

  • Totally Nervous

    I cannot write that much today because I still have to learn for the big test tomorrow but I just wanted to post some short notes. I am totally super nervous right now. It is because we have a big test tomorrow like I wrote the sentence before. It is the last one for this week. Yes, next week ther…

  • If I Died Soon

    So I'm going to start doing the prompts Xanga presents on the front page. Right now they have one up from Pallidpen at this link: http://pallidpen.xanga.com/762152477/prompt-4-epitaph/ This one is pretty short and simple. Pallidpen asks, "We are all mortal and will die one day, have you dwelt on t…

  • London Political Scene Examined.

    May 2, 2012 The Once and Future Mayor By A. A. GILL London Thursday London votes for a mayor. It is a contest between the only two people who have ever held the position: Ken Livingstone for Labour, who ran London from 2000 to 2008, and the Conservative Boris Johnson, the incumbent. They are…

  • Katy Perry’s Musical Influences

    Interviewer’s Question: I’m sure people ask you all the time if you were influenced by Madonna, but what kind of music did you listen to when you were younger? Katy Perry”s Answer: My mom would let me listen to, like, Billie Holiday and Etta James and really classic stuff like t…

  • *Idea for 1pm class: Scavenger…

    *Idea for 1pm class: Scavenger Hunt. In groups of 2-3, go and find 3 arguments on posters, etc around campus. Report back. Before that, we could do a brief discussion about phrases we are offended by... I should have them read Chapter X (the one about religion) for Thursday with some small assignmen…

  • RP Response to Ordination

    This is Steve's speech on behalf of RP at my ordination last Saturday:[To the audience] It is a “long obedience in the same direction” that ultimately reveals the worthy purpose of life. For Bumble it all started more than 25 years ago. He saw 6 lost teens hanging outside the church, with nowhere…