kyle and krystal  

Observe the man in its natural habitat
observe how closely the end of the academic year resembles the end of the world
observe a smiling emo armageddon,
and join him in laughter and autopastiche.
And to his miscreant neighbors and compatriots:
a phallic salute and nasty words. We’re done here.
[springtime and ends
like pilots and bends–
up is not up, and where’s
down […]

A Manifesto Which Says STOP THINKING
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It’s Apparently That Time of the Month for Kyle Pflug  
Two thoughts.
One: This game has too many rules.
Two: That’s because it’s not an effing game.
Sociology, communication studies, even theology and philosophy have obsessively constrained relationships and basic methods of human interaction into boxes. Here we have this absurd world […]

I think it’s important to be very deliberate in living, and to make sure that money doesn’t become something we do for its own sake, but rather a means to a deliberate end – namely, freeing our lives to be more about social realities and less about material substitutes. This has occurred to me a […]

[yes, this is shamelessly ripped from a Core 250 paper. hey, Greg Orwig liked it…]
The question of moral relativism has been the elephant in the room for Christian thinkers for ages, from Pontius Pilate’s question of “what is truth?” to the emergence of Christian existentialism. Crystal Downing’s How Postmodernism Serves My Faith asserts that in […]

By way of explanation for last time: Sometimes you just feel listy, and sometimes so much has gone on that anything but a bulleted recap is unfair to the reader. Also, I cringe at the thought of weaving that many pictures into a pretense of relevant text.
Anyway, in this edition we’re moving back to a […]