hello there. things here in curiousbirdland are moving right along. the weekend was wonderfully lazy, something I really needed since last week was such a doozy in the school department.  I successfully made it through midterms and all of the paper writing, but I was fried by the end. totally ...

I just wanted to say something quick, The Lord is showing me piece by piece about sufferings, through my life. I speak of not just OCD but rather things such as persecutions and things I care not to say. I have spend a great deal of time in this forum with speaking to many of you, about your sufferi...

As I once again hastily prepare to swim towards my yearly visit to Austin, Texas for SXSW 2009 next week, the perfect soundtrack for all my last-minute packing and skin-of-my-teeth scheduling has revealed itself: Death Control , the new CD by boy wonder Night Control is a headphone symphony of contr...

Yesterday I held my new book in my hands. It's hard for me to make meaning of 14 months of work being encapsulated in a 1 1/2 pound book. As I paged through it, I recalled the process of writing; my appreciation of the content of other people's chapters; editing squabbles; waiting, waiting, ...

Really, the hardest thing about making armwarmers is the part where you try to take a picture of your own arm to show off your HANDiwork: Hello! Weird stilted pose taken with other arm, upside down. Also known as "Still life with stilted arm." I am officially totally and completely addicted to makin...

Really, the hardest thing about making armwarmers is the part where you try to take a picture of your own arm to show off your HANDiwork: Hello! Weird stilted pose taken with other arm, upside down. Also known as "Still life with stilted arm." I am officially totally and completely addicted to makin...

Guys and Gals I've been thru many trails in my life as a christian but it seems I keep sinking deeper into a hole of drug addiction again. Not because I want to get High but just feel normal. Even though I've came along way from where I was a year ago when my ocd really started it seems another prob...

by Michelle Lentz I often feel like Google and Facebook are battling to take over the world while Gary Vaynerchuk is slowly and steadily trying to take over anything related to a video camera. You may know Gary from his various appearances on the Today Show or Conan O’Brien. Maybe you know him...

Back in 1994, prompted by Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, James Wood presented Guardian readers with his own list of the best British and American writing since 1945.  (He found Bloom a "fine, if prejudiced, reader or prose, but an unreliable reader of prose.")  The list ...

Obsessed with Jews is a hilariously delightful documentary short about Jewish memorabilia collector, Neil Keller. Keller speaks effusively about Jews in basketball ("Ossie Schechtman, great story. Ossie Schechtman scored the first basket in NBA history.") and Jews in hockey ("The firs...