Fr. Loya of Catholic Exchange has a great article on how Lent can be helpful to our sex lives: Lent is characterized by three things: prayer, fasting and almsgiving (increased charity.) Perhaps the most striking of these three features is fasting. The practice of fasting is found in many of the grea...

If by “date� you mean a social appointment with an individual with whom there is a shared interest in potentially pursuing an amorous relationship, I’ve not had one in over a year. In the interest of full disclosure, I have seen my X, Donny, a fistful of times, and while those times could fall...

My pretty dumb things have had exactly three days of traffic that topped 10,000. The first were Wednesday and Thursday, June 28 and 29, 2006 and the other was yesterday (it looks like today is pretty on-spot to break the 10K threshold too. Fingers crossed!). The first 10K spike occurred when as an e...

I just recently watched the documentary, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. It is amazing to hear about war from those who actually experience it. It’s a much different story than...

Photoshop is used by graphic designers and photographers alike. One of the most popular techniques of Photoshop is airbrushing. You can see airbrushing used everyday in magazines as well as in photography and on the Internet for certain advertising campaigns. Creating perfect porcelain skin on every...

“The body in fact and only the body is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.” (TOB 19:4, Feb 20, 1980) Lent is ...

For too long Tollefson Plaza has been a black mark on the hard fought efforts to revitalize and breathe life into downtown Tacoma. Rather than enumerate all the disappointments associated with the Plaza let’s change course… In February the Economic Development Committee of the Tacoma City Counci...

Zola Jesus is an Experimental/Pop/Post punk artist from Madison, Wisconsin who is otherwise known as Nika Roza Danilova. During live performances, this artist is accompanied by Dead Luke on synths, Lindsay Mikkola on bass, and Max Elliott on floor tom. Releases include Poor Sons (2008), and Soeur Se...

Zoe is a group from Mexico City, Mexico. Band members include León Larregui (vocals), Sergio Acosta (lead guitar), Jesus Baez (keyboards), Angel Mosqueda (bass guitar), and Rodrigo Guardiola (drums). Releases include Zoe (2002), Rocanlover (2003), Memorex Commander (2006), and Reptilectric (2008). ...

It’s no secret that I worship at the altar of Joss Whedon, and the irony of that statement, given Whedon’s avowed atheism, is not lost on me. I am one of the legions of people who are autodidacts of the Whedonverse, those who will from time to time exclaim, “Shiny!� when pleased, who can sin...