ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected

A documentary of the lone survivor
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Voiceover … “Tonight on Spider Survivor Stories …”
::: no intro ::: sudden close up of a lanky but still fierce Spider :::
::: Throwing four of his eight legs up in exasperation ::: “It all happened so suddenly! ”
::: camera change to right profile shot catching a nice reflection of the [...]

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Visit Wordle
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Of course this is a dynamic template, always shifting just a little but the gist is the same over and over again …
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Can you believe so and so said blah blah blah? I mean seriously… they said blah blah blah! Like, who do they think they are saying blah blah blah? If they really meant [...]

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Amazing, and revealing, article by Emily Gould titled Exposed was featured in the New York Times Magazine.
Amy T. sent this to me saying that she thought I would enjoy the article and I did very much. Thank you Amy!
There is so much I want to quote from this article. There are many launching [...]

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…Because we were you know.  I visited his website last night and found out he has a book due out next week named Snuff.
It’s fiction about some lady who stars in a porno with 600 other men.
I don’t need a telegram from the Angel Gabriel to figure out that there is absolutely zero reason to [...]

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I was in DC last week for a Pastor’s conference. It ended Friday around 2pm and our next meeting was really a birthday party at 6pm. In between I took a nap and then went to Barnes & Noble. While there I saw a book by Augusten Burroughs called A Wolf At [...]

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Here is another reprint from an article of mine on Boundless.  It is my testimony and was originally published last May.
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Same-Sex Struggles
by Randy Thomas
Fifteen years ago I was a very different man from who I am now.
All of my relational, political, and social needs were defined by a worldview that fed my appetites and met [...]

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I figured out that I loved writing in the 4th grade. I wrote a story about a painting, and the teacher liked it so much she read it to all of her classes. That’s when I caught the bug. Every day, at the start of class, everyone had to read for 20 [...]

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As the WAW gets into full onslaught mode we need new propaganda. I ripped off the above picture out of a mailer … not whining about mailers, just informing.
Dear Assertively Grateful Comrades, I know many of you are creative.  Please consider creating graphics, badges, blog buttons, jaikus, slogans, smiles, cartoons, photos, prose, testimonies, videos, [...]

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Exciting news, I had an article published on Boundless today!  I had a lot of fun writing it.  The artwork for their article is based on my own drawings too.  I hope you like both the article and drawings.
It’s a long one but here is a snippet …
… Artists will be stunted if they are [...]

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