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A Daily Wad

our editors' daily blog

 
October 30

This week's theme:

Writers Gone Wild Vol. 4

It is finished.

 
The Regulars
Saying Goodbye to Trees
 
 
In the summer, I am an arborist, climbing, pruning, and sometimes removing trees. If pushed, I would have to admit that there are times when the adrenaline rush of a removal is beyond thrilling. I can still remember my removal of my first Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) in the foothills of the Rockies. It had been hit by the mountain pine beetle, and for mitigation reasons, was scheduled for removal. [...more]

 
Culture Voice: An introspective retrospective
 
Very soon, Culture Voice will be silent. And with that silence comes a time for me to look back at how much I enjoyed the random works of friends and strangers. But it also means that I will have a little more free time. And right now, I’m using that time to contemplate what — if anything — went wrong. You see, anytime something bad happens in life, I assume it was wrong, and that there must be a cause.  [...more]

 
Otto's Benediction
 
I am no friend of the goodbye. I love you and I will miss you but I would just assume sneak out of the house while you are sleeping. The bigger the goodbye, the less inclined I am to be around for it. When I left seminary I was leaving good friends, leaving people who had participated a major transitional stage in my life. Moreover, I was leaving housemates who loved each other like a leper colony. [...more]

 
The End
 
If a webzine falls down in the cyber forest and nobody was there to read it, did it really make a difference? OK, clumsy attempt at updating an idiom aside, as Culture Voice is put to rest I can’t help but wonder if any of this was worth the effort. People were reading. New individual IP addresses were perusing the site regularly indicating that, for whatever reason, people other than family, close friends, and contributors were checking in. But is readership the point of something like this? [...more]

 
For all the Foxy Voxers
a poem by Christin Rice (click image for full text)
Our House is a Very Very Very Fine House
 
 
 
The birth of my child has brought into the world good music and anarchy. First, the good music. My child will effectively and eventually become the third member of my family band, the Illicit Stills. Though it will be a family band, with me on guitar and vocals, my wife on fiddle, and my child likely on keyboards, bass, or a very small drum kit, we may have more in common with Crosby Stills Nash and Young than with the Carter Family or the Mandrell Sisters. [...more]
Browsing Netflix Instant Watch Part 3: Jesus vs. the Serpent
 
I am concluding my series on Netflix Instant watch with two more well known features: Anaconda and The Last Temptation of Christ. If it seems like the two films have nothing to do with one another, that is because they don’t, but this is the last issue of Culture Voice and if I ever want a platform to give my two cents about both of these movies, now is the time. [...more]


 
 

The Top Ten Numbers, In My Opinion,
with Banality Smith

10. Ten. It first became famous in Ancient Egypt!! You know, with the Pyramids and all that!
 

9. Nine. Nine will always be the last single digit number. I always get nostalgical when I think about it.
 

8. Eight. It symbolizes eternity when it is rotated 90 degress. That is totally ironic!
 

7. Seven. "Seven of Nine" was BY FAR the prettiest sci-fi borg EVER!!!!!
 

6. Six. It is an evil number, but only when set in 3's. Totally freaky!
 

5. Five. It is a toally over-rated number, but I have a system going here. I will reveal my secret system at the end.
 

4. Four. It is the age when kids start getting smarter than monkeys. Monkeys hate it.
 

3. Three. THE TRINITY!!!! DUH!!!!!!!!
 

2. Two. It is the best number for love. DAMN IT, GOD!!!! Why am I soooo lonely????????
 

1. One. It is the first number! My secret system was to just list the numbers in order from ten to one!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Honorable mention: Zero. If it had any value, it would totally be on my list!!]