“they’re not that concerned with the guys coming after them” = “fuck you, i got mine.”

It sucks all the time.

Hate on, haters! I think she’s awesome!

When you have a doctorate in physical chemistry and have to pretend a handbag designer is your equal.

If they had somebody to hit for him, he wouldn’t have gotten hurt hitting!

I met Miss Angie in 2001 at a show in Deep Ellum while I was in the Teen Mania internship. She was really cool, but the thing that struck me the most was apart from the confident performer she displayed on stage, she was a typical teenage girl just hanging out in front of a small club with us. Pretty cool time.

Volleyball injury 11 years ago turned out to be a small crack; took three years for me not to grunt when doing any weightlifting with that arm and another five for me not to act like some old frontier geezer “Ah, a storm’s a comin’ - I can feel it in me bones!!!”

How long was Tommy sidelined from his tree house?

Some decent names on that list!

My husband is a bass player and was in a signed Christian rock band (Xalt, for the record). When we first started dating, I was kind of horrified in a naive-always-went-to-church-and-secular-music-is-the-devil kind of way that he liked Rush. He explained, very patiently, that he was a musician who was Christian, but a…

OMG, Undercover!!! We had them play at our church when I was in youth group there. Their punk-ish aesthetic kind of wigged out some of our senior leadership but our youth pastor was adamant about having them.

Maybe faith-based pop culture would be more appropriate. Certainly seems credible to me that someone could look at a religious painting like the Sistine Chapel and appreciate it purely on its technique, without caring about the actual religious narrative being depicted. Honestly, I imagine 99% of people have that kind…

Totally. CCM is a genre that incentivizes mediocrity and blanches at anything innovative or boundary pushing.

Yes. It’s like modern Country in that regard. There’s a certain overproduced slickness that permeates the music and makes everything sound the same.

If his diet is indicative of life span. He may not be living two full terms.

Not having a FB account has never felt this good.

The particulars of this case are so relatively complex ... that no one really cares.

The other issue is that the largest segment of the audience for Christian Rock music (and music in general, really) is made up of people who don’t want to be challenged either musically or lyrically. They want to hear songs that sound familiar and have uplifting messages about how great Jesus is. That’s always going…

Why aren’t they televising this? I could watch 90+ track for hours.

Dude’s the only one in the starting blocks too. Lol, that ol bastard’s juicin’...