Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Marcel Proust filled out the questionnaire twice. The first time was in either 1885 or 1886 in an English confessions album. The second time was in either 1891 or 1892 in the French album Les confidences de salon. There are some questions unique to both questionnaires and the wording is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number One
As the year is winding down and I am trying to set aside more time for photo projects I have decided to do something a little bit different with this Journal in the month of December. I’ve decided to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of this past year. The… Read More »Formulaic Catechism
This day is often referred to as Turkey Day in the slacker way that some people use to be overly casual about certain events in a weak attempt to display aloofness in the vain hope that they will be perceived as cool. I am not one of those people. I… Read More »Happy Turkey Day!
This a journal entry that is bound to be of very little interest to most, but a little general housekeeping must be done. The website has been hit by small amounts of Spam lately. I have had to make a couple of small and not that regrettable changes to prevent… Read More »Meat in a Can
On Sunday I descended into the depths of Missouri and Kansas on Sunday to watch Alexis compete in competitive cheerleading. I had spoken with our Associate Pastor Andrea about good barbecue joints in Kansas City and she recommended Jack Stack for ribs and Oklahoma Joe’s for sandwiches. I looked into… Read More »Be Aggressive!
Kelly’s salon recently had their Grand Re-opening after all of their remodeling. I hadn’t put a picture up in Salon 908 since the remodeling, so I decided to do a window project for the salon. For a closer look at Window Project #2, you will need to go to Salon… Read More »Window Project #2
I’ve posted a few pictures from the Iowa State’s last two home games in the Snapshots Gallery. A few of my favorites from the Oklahoma State game… Warming Up James Smith and Banks This picture might be a statement on the one sided nature of this game, but while watching… Read More »Last 2 Home Games
I usually spend Wednesday nights at open gym honing my basketball craft to a fine art. I had plans of continuing this honing on this Wednesday night, but it wasn’t to be. As I was working away at the Computer Mine, my phone rang. The smiling face (not really smiling)… Read More »Wednesday Surprise
Mark’s monthly newsletter from Taiwan. The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s Mission in Taiwan October 2009 “Rags! Rags! Rags for sale! Give me your old ones, I will give you new ones.” Have you ever felt like you had struggles, difficulties, or shortcomings that you continually deal… Read More »The Taiwan Times – October 2009
This is journal entry number 700. I started this online journal on August 9, 2006. These were the first words that I typed out: So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about… Read More »An Old Newspaper
The day before Halloween was a very special Friday Night Supper Club. It was special because I hosted it, The guest list was expanded, we had Casey’s taco pizza and Jay made the dessert. Why these special things occurred can be traced back to one thing. At that FNSC I… Read More »The Jupiter Chronicles
This concludes the Johnathan series. Hopefully we will get some indoor photos taken in the near future.
The best part of these pictures is that around the time we started on this set of pictures, Johnathan said, “Hey mom, you are standing on a snake.” Carla looked down. She was indeed standing a living, breathing snake. She slightly overreacted. Poor thing. At least it wasn’t hurt. >… Read More »Johnathan – Day 1 Part D
Some pictures from Johnathan’s Senior Pictures Day 1 photo shoot. I didn’t exactly select pictures that I thought were great Senior Pictures, but pictures that I liked. Day 1 was productive and I look forward to Day 2.
Last Monday I finally completed Window Project #1. It has been several years since my mom got new windows for her house. I had her keep all of the old windows because I thought that there would be a point in the future where I would be able to use… Read More »Window Project #1
On Sunday Scott, Melissa, Austin and I loaded up into their truck and headed for Prairie City to visit Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe. The winner of the Iowa Pork Producers Best Tenderloin in the State of Iowa for 2009. This could very well be blog 5 of the 5 groups… Read More »Tenderloining It! 2009
I was dreadfully unprepared for this year’s Halloween. Including not buying pumpkins and candy until Saturday morning, not running firmware updates on my Blu-Ray player until Saturday night and not doing any decorating at all. Truth is that the lack of decorating was a conscious decision that I plan on… Read More »Samhain
Entry #4 of 5 of the Group Shirts Series. I may or may not be a member of a group known as “The Girls”. It seems to be somewhat dependent on the day, but for a long time, I was clearly on the outside of The Girls and then I… Read More »Confabulation
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m sure every Iowa State fan (even those in denial about their fanhood) has seen this video of Iowa State celebrating after their victory at Nebraska on Saturday. But I wanted to post it here, so I would always have… Read More »The Good Kind of Hurt