Engineer Lynn - or Soundmixing
As a singer/songwriter, I've spent a fair amount of time in professional recording studios and I've watched a lot of mixing go down. Twenty-four tracks, flying faders, amazing punches - shoot, we even...
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What prompted me to write this post (and the previous) was the degree of satisfaction I got from doing the hands-on mix of a rather complicated song. This particular singer was more oriented toward...
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Loscon Weekend Enchilada
Three Days to Never: A Novel The day after Thanksgiving for Los Angeles science fiction and fantasy fans means Loscon and a lovely holiday tradition it is, too, although it does get in the way of any...
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Oliver Sacks' Brain
One of the most amazing stories from Oliver Sacks' book, An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, is "To See And Not See" and it gives us a glimpse into the remarkable miracle of ordinary,...
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A Poem for My Father--
Shortly before Thanksgiving, while working with my organizer lady, I had a profound emotional experience; the next day I read in Diana Glyer’s The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as...
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Sad Realities and Doomsday Book
We all lived through the Millennium without the power grid collapsing or the internet imploding or turning into cannibals. And after the initial shock and horror of the terrorist attacks on the east...
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Aslan is not a stuffed Lion
Like so many fans of the Inklings and mythopoeia, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, fantasy and yes, even Harry Potter, I went to see the new Narnia movie Prince Caspian.What a...
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The Redistribution of Peanut Butter Sandwiches...
Much has been made lately of Barack Obama's "spread the wealth around" philosophy, taking from Joe-the-plumber to give to the guys "behind him," to give them an equal chance to succeed as well as Joe...
View ArticleTransitions and Ambivalence
This year I've been reading the history books of the Bible interspersed with the prophets who lived and prophesied at the same time. One of the things that leapt out this reading, especially in the...
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The Fabulous Doctor Glyer
Have I told you lately about how fabulous Dr Glyer is? My pal, Diana, brilliant scholar, woman of God, delightful and entertaining human being.Have I mentioned that her award-winning book, The Company...
View ArticleThe Stone the Builders Rejected
Yet Another in the Collection of the Obvious which Lynn Has Heretofore Missed :\Psalm 118:22-23 says, "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S...
View ArticleMormons To Christians To Jews
This is an update on a blog I wrote in March, 2009, about why John McCain became, by default, the Republican candidate for President rather than the very impressive Mitt Romney. Some folks are still...
View ArticleThe Immorality of Narcissism: Christopher Dorner
I've been tracking this story since before we knew Christopher Dorner was the suspected killer; the first victim, Monica Quan (with her fiance Keith Lawrence), was the daughter of a fellow high-school...
View ArticleGod's Dilemma
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 5/15/2008)Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me...
View ArticleReal Love in C.S. Lewis
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 5/27/2008)or Pullman be damned! My friend Diana wrote a fabulous blog entry called Lewis the Lover at C.S. Lewis: Original works on and about...
View ArticleCannot Go Home Anymore
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 6/12/2008)Cannot Go Home AnymoreFeeling awkward and clumsy and fallen from grace the doors and the windows are closed in my face I feel...
View ArticleMythcon 39 in New Britain, Connecticut
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 7/9/2008) August 15-18, a very affordable Mythcon, as such things go. I’ve just started prodding local press, hoping to get some awareness -...
View ArticleRights and Sacraments
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 11/7/2008)I’ve been rather amazed to watch the post-election hysteria of the pro same-sex marriage crowd, holding rallies (a little late,...
View ArticleTo Bail and Succeed
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 12/11/2008) I understand the dilemma for people who normally would say to GM and Chrysler (and kudos to Ford for not actually being in this...
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Memorial Day
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 5/25/2009) I published the poem below at BigBlondeBlog more than a year ago but it’s appropriate to remember my father and honor him as a...
View ArticleWe Got More Numbers Than You, Neener, neener!
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 9/19/2009) There’s a political jockeying over numbers of participants at rallies & events – who knew?! *I* didn’t know (stop laughing at...
View ArticleSometimes You Can’t Believe Your Eyes
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 9/30/2009) A liberal friend of mine posted a video on her Facebook page that gathered a lot of outraged comments: it was this video of...
View ArticleDumb-dumb-dumb-dumb…
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 10/9/2009) I heard some small nattering about this several months back but recently a couple of bloggers I enjoy have addressed it (The...
View ArticleOur Unsentimental God
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 12/30/2009) For the Niños Christmas book, 2009 I heard Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine, on the radio the other day. He was...
View ArticleDoes God Know Best?
(re-post from my other blog, the now-defunct Facile Nation, 8/24/2009) There’s a fascinating and heartbreaking article in the current L.A. Weekly, written by Steve Friess; I’m writing in reaction to...
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