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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.