remember that time back in the day when it snowed almost five inches? yeah, me too. well here are some pictures of the snowman me and my girlfriend Becca made. Me setting the middle section of the snowman up on his bottom.   Becca holding our snowman's head.   Our finished snowman. He had a soccer cone hat, carrot nose, almond mouth and yes...beenie weenie eyes and b...
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in the past month i've seen more movies at the theater than i think i did all of last fall/winter of '09. there's been some good stuff aaaannnd some not so good stuff, but the last three movies i saw were amazing if for nothing else than the moral they addressed. here's a list of the last thr...
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so i bought another stack of CD's late last week. Justin, our program/music director at the station makes fun of me everytime i buy the physical compact discs saying i'm the only one these days keeping CD's alive rather than going digital. while i think that's pretty f...
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so i was going through the record books here at j103 and came across some rather cool things. i found all sorts of cool stuff, like Ted's first body-building bikini, Steve's personally-autographed lunch pail from Albert Einstein (he taught Steve's class when he was a kid once) and Mike's pair of spectacles (you see kids, when 'glasses' are over a certain age, you have to call them 'spectacles). the coolest thing though i ra...
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how is depression something that Christians struggle with? you can ask my girlfriend how many times i've started conversations with her on this. we know so many people personally that struggle/have struggled with depression or depressing feelings and emotions both in and out of our families, and these people i know are Christians. i don't get it! i really don'...
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do you tie music to memories? it happens all the time to me. i hear a song, and i'm immediately transported to some other place and time where i heard that song and had tied some memory to it. there's some music that i've ruined for myself cause i can't hear it without thinking about what i once was going while listening to the sounds (i ruined listening to a band i like called Watashi-Wa by always playing video games while listening to them! grrrr) from drumming on overt...
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that was awesome. granted, i didn't get to see all that i wanted to cause i was hanging around in dark halls for most of it, but what i did get to see was amazing! the Sidewalk Prophets honestly were the biggest surprise for me. i did NOT expect them to rock as hard as they did. loved ...
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so one of my favorite bands of all time is Jars of Clay. their self-titled debut rocked my ears off back before i knew i wanted them to be rocked. with Third Day coming into town this Friday, i had to post a short video combining the two if i could...lucky for me, i found this.....
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you know the commercials... you've seen them swallow adult humans whole... they now even have begun to absorb our four-legged pals... SNUGGIES. they latch on to the front of people the world over, and now they have invaded the J103 office!!! i snapp...
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with the year 2009 coming to a close, it's time to take a look back over everything that has happened this year. have i done my best? is there anything i'd do differently? what albums rocked my ears off? with the last albums of 2009 coming out today, i feel i can officially list my top 5 favorite albums of the year (with two honorable mentions). Honorable Mentions Owl City...
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