Kevin D. Hendricks

2005 Summer Blogging Review

With the summer winding down and me blogging like a mad man all over the place (except maybe here), I thought it’d be a good idea to take a page from the Jason Kottke book and do a summer blog posts review.

Well start here with the personal stuff and move on to the random other blogs nobody really cares about.

Thoughts

• The biggest news is the baby on the way. Highlights so far include the youth group reaction and the heartbeat. Next week is the ultrasound.

• I did have to tackle some home repairs. (well, actually a friend did the heavy lifting and I watched)
• I admitted to tearing up during Brat Camp.
• I rocked out at Sonshine 2005.
• I went to Los Angeles.
• My dog made more money than you.
• I turned 26 and got a new digital camera, which is a good excuse to check out the first photo I ever took.
• And I saw my traffic rise after a pathetic May (which resulted in a Google check that showed up this week).

Moving Pictures

• Napoleon Dynamite visits the Utah State Fair.

• The Passion of the Christ Billy Graham style.
• Watch a full episode of Undeclared online.
• Good interview with Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
• Trailer for A Scanner Darkly which just looks wild.
• Bill Cosby was declared TV’s greatest Dad and came out on DVD.
• And my favorite movie of 2005 (so far): Millions.

I Like Music

• Sixpence’s Leigh Nash goes solo.

• Justin McRoberts has a new album coming out, Grace Must Wound. Now if he’d just come back to the Twin Cities.
• Check out an interview with Audio Adrenaline’s Tyler Burkum and hear his solo music.
• Some Live 8 thing happened.
• Lots of Switchfoot hype.

Reading is Fun

• Check out Taming the Liger.

• The new Harry Potter came out, complete with J.K. Rowling interviews and speculation about book 7.
• Did you see that freaky conservative book, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed?

Twin Cities Liver

• Discovered the history of St. Paul street names.

• Highlights from the 2005 Minnesota State Fair.
• Lots of sights & pics: 7th Street Improvement Arches, Mill Ruins Park, cool stars on the North Star Blanket building, view of St. Paul from the bluffs, East River Flats Park.

Spacebar

• Mazie chewed stuff.

• Have you seen the ugliest dog in the world yet? Don’t.
• Mazie discovered an ice cube.

NASCAR Napper
Just last week I started a NASCAR blog. Not that any of you care.

Church Marketing Sucks

• We had the big one-year anniversary and massive redesign.

• The mention in Relevant was pretty cool.
• Volunteer webmasters should quit.
• Marketing Billy Graham style.
• Keyword advertising for churches.
• I actually managed to work Encyclopedia Brown into an entry.
• My rant about Christians imitating culture drew a lot of attention.
• I jumped on the Pat Robertson bandwagon like everybody else.

Think Personality

• Marketing as Storytelling: The Auto Industry.

• Steve Jobs talks about dropping out of college, being fired from Apple and his own death. Good times.
• Cremation: It just makes sense.