Jul 28 2007

Week 7, Day 7

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 10:21

Well, it’s over. I leave tomorrow at Noon for home, after 8 weeks here at Cockrell River Camp 2007. After all of the troops leave today, the staff will be dispatched around camp to disassemble as much of camp as possible, as expeditiously as possible so that we can enjoy our last evening together. Tonight, we will hold our End-of-Summer Staff Banquet & Staff Campfire where we’ll reflect back upon all that’s happened, complete with pictures, speeches, jokes, skits, & songs. And once all that’s done, we’ll crash for the evening before waking up to leave in the morning. Thus, with the summer complete, we’ll return to our respective lives, jobs, school, troops, posts, crews, friends, and families with the knowledge that we’ve made some life-long friends here at Cockrell River Camp 2007. So, as I conclude my camp blogging, please enjoy some great pictures after the break and thanks for reading along all summer!

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Jul 23 2007

Mike Farris — Salvation In Lights

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 23:16

Mike Farris
Salvation In Lights
INO Records; 2007
Rating: 6.8

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If there’s one unequivocal stream running throughout the stories in both the Old and New Testaments, it’s that God is very interested in redeeming Creation. From the beginning with Adam & Eve, moving onward with Noah, Moses, the Judges, David, and the Prophets, and then concluding with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus and the fantastic conversion of Saul to Paul, we’re faced with the same stark, yet beautiful reality. Over and over again, it seems that God wants to see humanity restored to the nature that God originally intended back in the Garden. Not everyone succeeds in these stories – Saul, David’s original mentor, crashed miserably; several kings of Israel & Judah chose not to listen to the Prophets’ calls to repentance, instead earning ugly deaths and eventual captivities in far-off empires; and there was that Judas Iscariot guy – not the ending you want for someone who actually followed Jesus around for 3 or so years. Nevertheless, while readers can glean as much from stories from failure as they can from tales where everyone wins, everyone loves a great redemption story.

And with the release of his sophomore solo album, Salvation In Lights, Mike Farris employs his rich, soulful voice to sing of his salvation and the exuberant joy he now has because of his newfound faith. Continue reading “Mike Farris — Salvation In Lights”


Jul 21 2007

Week 6, Day 7

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 07:05

As we close out the penultimate week here at Cockrell River Camp, here are 4 videos for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!


Matt & Steve-O talking hair (or the lack thereof)


Antics at the Climbing Tower


Rain, Rain Go Away (Part 1)


Rain, Rain Go Away (Part 2)


Jul 20 2007

Questions & Answers with [RWK]

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 08:22

Courtesy of Rhymes with Kerouac, author of the blog Today At The Mission: Daily Life in a Homeless Shelter, I present to you his 50 questions with my (slightly snarky/caustic/sarcastic/tongue-firmly-in-cheek) responses. Comments & participation are appreciated! The questions appear after the break.

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Jul 19 2007

Transformers

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 10:43

Transformers
Starring: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight, Jon Turturro, Peter Cullen as the Voice of Optimus Prime, & Hugo Weaving as the Voice of Megatron
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriters: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Rating: 8.2

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Nostalgia is a rather powerful marketing tool, and it has come to be employed with great aplomb and fiscal efficiency by the marketing geniuses that control what comes across our TV and computer screens each and every day. We are encouraged every day, at ever possible moment to reach into the depths and recesses of our psyches, conscious recollections, and subconscious impressions so that we might spend any and all of our discretionary income trying to relive some great memory from our childhood or adolescence as often as possible. Whether it’s men going to fantasy baseball camps, women getting body parts lifted, nipped, and/or tucked, or both men and women purchasing any and all varieties of diversionary toys, we all seem to spend much of our free time harkening back to the halcyon days of our youths. Granted, no one ever wants to return to a time where we had bad facial acne and experienced the social awkwardness of junior high and high school, but (the marketing gurus tell us) if you buy certain products, you can relive all of the great aspects of your younger years without all of the uncomfortable emotions we associate with our early years.

So, when I heard that an updated Transformers movie would be releasing in Summer 2007, I was instantly transported back to those giddy years filled with G.I. Joes, Legos, and those wonderful machines that were “more than meets the eye.” Continue reading “Transformers”


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