Wrapped up like a WHAT!?!: mondegreens and being church

In the late 70’s, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band did a modified cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Blinded by the Light”. The song was a #1 on the Billboard, and it still gets played like crazy on today’s commercial classic rock stations. As it…

The power of whitey tighties — Oscars 2015 — art as norming vulnerability

“Tonight, we celebrate Hollywood’s best and whitest…sorry ‘brightest.’” Neil Patrick Harris opened up the Oscars the way it should have been opened. The elephant in the room was named (i.e., this year’s…

Searching for the right wuhvs…

I think I have a lot of worthwhile things to say, but sometimes the right words are hard to come by.

Like right now…

I’m searching for the right words to tell you about this thing I’m up to — this thing I’ve dedicated the…

We welcomed twins to our family yesterday… RESPONSIBILITY

Saturday was a big day for the Ruserts.

We welcomed two new additions to the family, fraternal twins: iPhone6 (0 lbs, 4.55oz) and Droid Turbo (0 lbs, 5.96oz).

Killing in the name of…

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” — Jesus (Matthew 10:34)

As violent images of a body burning and be-headings on beaches blast their way through our media and birth fear in our minds and…

“Highway to Hell” kicked off church, I mean, the Grammy’s last night. (Grammy’s 2015)

The Grammy’s impressed again this year, and AC/DC’s “Rock or Bust/Highway to Hell” was the most righteous way to kick it all off, kind of (stay with me, I’ll explain later).

Black Xmas — Wake up America.

Black Xmas wasn’t about temporary inconveniences for travelers and shoppers.

Well, maybe it was, because maybe that’s the only way we will wake up.

Wake up.

It’s more than just a beard; it’s my seasonal life partner.

Like flannel and plaid, this beard is not a fad. It’s not an attempt at relevance or approval-seeking from those more hip than I. It is plain and simply this — my seasonal life partner.