Django Django Django Django (Because/Ribbon) I cannot remember the last time I loved an album the very first time I listened to it. Scottish foursome Django Django’s debut album is summery and sweet, an oxymoronic mix of road tripping and danceable art pop. If you had told me that I was going to like...

In our most recent special post-election edition of the HomeBrewed Christianity CultureCast, we sat down with Jim Wallis, head of Sojourners, political activist and change-agent for the common good among the political elite in Washington DC. You can check out the entire episode by CLICKING HERE, but...

Dark Dark Dark Who Needs Who (Melodic/Supply and Demand) Things either happen or they do not. People come into our lives or they do not. Our lovers enter our lives through a variety of means, they stay for various durations, and they leave us in many different ways. If any of us could be as cold as a...

A Girl, Unknown by Emory Skwara It was dim. She sat on a stool with a beat up acoustic firmly on her lap. Red, blue, and white lights blended on top of her as she pulled out her leather bound journal from her messenger bag. She wore a green and black striped dress, black stockings and a brown jacket....

At first, Ghost World seems to be an “edgy” comedy about two immaturely misanthropic teenagers and their middle-finger-to-the-world snarkiness. A very young Scarlett Johansson and American Beauty’s Thora Birch play besties Rebecca and Enid, girls just finishing high school and always ready with...

1 They began quite similarly, pulling apart from themselves, dividing rapidly. Both slithered in their respective environs and thrived on the substances surrounding them. Within a very short time they had multiplied to fifty times their size yet they gave no sign of existence to their separate hosts. ~ She...

It’s hard to nail down that exact moment when it happened. I had always relished taking a side politically, whether it was as a card-carrying liberal in my early 20s or when I reached my late 20s and took a hard turn to the Right. In both my life as a staunch Democrat and later as a die-hard Republican,...

  For two of my college years, I found myself working at an outlet store. It was one of those big-box brands, selling designer clothes, shoes, accessories, everything you could want from a high-end store at half the price and none of the dignity. I worked in the shoe department, where I was proud...

It’s been a little while since I wrote for Burnside. I’ve been busy writing a book, and now that the book is finished and published, I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. A few years ago I had cancer. It took me seven months from the time I started becoming unwell until I was finally diagnosed...

“…Everyone is so untrue.” Those are song lyrics. Billy Joel sang them. Those lyrics are true. I wish we all could speak the truth like little kids and old ladies. They tend to honestly react to situations and to say what those of us not living on life’s fringes only want to...