Everyone Is Entitled to Everything

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little [...]

Right before the demise of yet another Chicago magazine, Venuszine had me backstage filming some thirty interviews including Passion Pit, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Gang Gang Dance and Blind Pilot.

Out of all of the interviews, Carebears on Fire took the cake. They might have been the most well spoken and articulate of [...]

The images from Phil and Kristen’s wedding are now online. Feel free to right click download any of them.

I received the following text message from Google Voice after Mr. T Doty left me a voicemail earlier today.
yeah what’s up so my plane get done tomorrow or and i was planning to take the train to go to chris is but he said he’s gonna be at rehearsal dinner at that time so i [...]

Dostoevsky taught me that not by arguing, but by creating—creating characters who demonstrated the dehumanized desiccation of an unGodded life and, in contrast and comparison, the terrible beauty of a pursuit after God. —”God and Passion” by Eugene Peterson (pdf)
My bones are under assault. Dostoevsky is at it again, and this time its Crime and [...]

If hope is
……the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb [...]