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The Bible isn’t a magic book

by Marcus on February 27, 2009

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Yesterday Publisher’s Weekly posted a short interview with David Plotz, editor of Slate, about his new book coming out next week. It’s called Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.
Sounds fun? I suspect you can get a pretty accurate [...]

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12 Lists of Christmas – 7 Fun Christmas CDs

by Marcus on December 21, 2008

We like our Christmas music at the Goodyear household. Every year we get one or two new ones. Some we keep playing every year. Others… not so much. Here are a few (in no particular order) that we continue to enjoy season after season.

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7 zombie paragraphs

by Marcus on December 19, 2008

For the seventh list of Christmas, my true love gave to me… seven paragraphs about zombies.
OK, this isn’t really the seventh list, but I had to link to Randy Ingermanson’s critique of my first six paragraphs over on Advanced Fiction Writing. I met Randy at Mt. Hermon last year, and he is a pretty incredible [...]

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12 Lists of Christmas – 6 Christmas Poems

by Marcus on December 18, 2008

For the sixth list of Christmas, my true love gave to me Six Christmas Poems by Wesley, Frost, MacKaye, Graves, Yeats, and Eliot.

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12 Lists of Christmas – 5 Pirate Phrases

by Marcus on December 16, 2008

For the fifth list of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
5 Pirate Phrases
(that you can happily growl at your kids)
1) Batten down the bedding in yer room, you bilge-sucking buckos!
[go make your beds, kiddos]
2) Heave to, you mutinous scallywag, or you’ll be dancin’ the hempen jig!
[stop fighting or we're going to hang somebody]
3) Smartly, [...]

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12 Lists of Christmas – 4 Freebie Family Dates

by Marcus on December 15, 2008

For the fourth list of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Four Freebie Family Date Ideas

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12 Lists of Christmas – 3 Christmas Gift Themes

by Marcus on December 14, 2008

This is day three of the 12 Lists of Christmas…
I love Christmas, but I don’t love the incessant focus on greed and gimme gimme. I’m not a complete humbug, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy giving gifts–and frankly, I enjoy getting them too.
But it’s easy to get distracted by the consumerism of Christmas and forget [...]

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12 Lists of Christmas – 1 Scrooge Video

by Marcus on December 12, 2008

A Christmas video for my readers based on Howard Butt, Jr.’s Christmas message at TheHighCalling.org.

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