Sexual Fiction Revisited posted on ablogapart.com by moi.

Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien. We tip our hats to the greatest weaver of myth and legend during this age. *bow*

Jenn tipped me off to this site today, a creative writing race against time, wherein you have sixty seconds to write about one word given to you by the site. Truly enjoyable.

Thus dawns a new year. I’m glad for chance to tie up the last loose strands of the old year, to pause and consider what has come and what may still be accomplished. In the year 2002, I traveled to Africa, started blogging, wrote 76 pieces of poetry, took over 400 photographs, built walljm.com and worked to bring its daily average stats up to 204 sessions, met many new friends, discovered what I love doing and made strides toward moving my career in that direction. In 2003 I hope to meet in person some of my new friends, jog along…

Ahh the joys of old family photos….

He’s back gentleman… oh yes, your favorite maestro, Scott Lampley is back with some Christmas Karaoke favorites. Get em while they’re hot… O Holy Night :: White Christmas

See the fair fluffy flakes, they blanket the ground in purest white. Tis Christmas Eve, a time when even secular radio stations and musicians proclaim the birth and glory of Jesus Christ. I feel as though I should compose poetry in honor of the snowfall, and in honor of Christs birth. Perhaps I shall. I think I shall ramble first. The end of the year comes to close, and winter gathers us in. Its been such an eventful year, the experience of which has left me quiet, and with little to say, though I do not lack in things I…

The October 2002 Photo Essay pics have been posted…

Reading Tolkien is very much like falling into a different world… It is the easiest reading I’ve ever encountered, the purest prose, so to speak. There hasn’t been a piece he has written that hasn’t had teh same easy feel, like an old comfortable blanket and a warm fire. His prose is, I think, best described like Autumn, rich and golden, ful and mature, a celtic philology with a hint of insightful muse. It has a precious kind of melancholy, replete with an ancient history, endued with mystery. It is a kind of masculine romance that is passing rare in…

New Poem, Grace Revisited.

Beyond the Shadow They say shadow lies before the dawn And in the midst of sorrow borne Before the darkness gathers in Shadow makes a spirit forlorn Into heavyness the heart is drawn But the shadow is a feeble fiend It can not stand before our King When He comes in all His glory A real contentment He will bring The shadow banished and we redeemed

Every so often, as we process the workings of the mighty media, we find examples of work that fails to grasp the subject matter being written about. Such is the case with, Bruce Newman, a journalist for the Mercury News. He posted this story detailing his review of The Two Towers. Even among the Tolkien fans, TTT has met with varying degrees of approval, but rarely have I come across such opinion so lacking in knowledge of the subject matter, and understanding of the themes presented in the story. Dear Mr. Newman, we the people demand better. Such displays of…

I should have gone into linguistics. Its more fun. The beauty and expression of type and language is boundless. Visual art forms are many times limited in the breadth of what they can express. They deal almost exclusively with the emotional realm. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, yet I think it would be more precise to say that a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. What graphic can express as clearly so much as the written word? And neither type nor language are devoid of artistic expression, thus being equipped to express not…

New poem, The Value of Friends, inspired by Adam

Uncle Donald… meet Huey, Dewey, and Louis…

more fun…

how fun…

Sometime during the middle of last week, me and my roomate came up with the idea that we should dress up for the premier of The Two Towers. In just a few short days, the next movie in the continuing saga of Tolkiens masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, will hit the theaters, and when it does, my roomate will be there dressed as Legolas Faramir. *grin* We figured that we would get a pattern, find the material and sew one up sat, mon, and tues of this week. All has gone according to plan, though some modifictionc have been…

I’m not a geek… I’m a quasi-geek, but I am a full time blogger and a bit of a css/xhtml advocate. Just so you know. Meet BloggerBot, a cool way to start a Mobile Blog, or moblog, or mobilog, or whatever you want to call it. There are other ways of doing it, but BloggerBot, is pretty simple. It uses Blogger.com and AIM to update a blog from a web enabled phone. It has a 150 char limit, because of aim, which introduces a challenge to the mobile blogger. I just started mine. You should too. (hat tip: How Now…

New poem, Goodnight to Thee