Kara & Michael’s Blog

Dear St. Matthew’s Church,
It was with great interest that I read your recent letter inviting me to use and return your “prayer rug.” As a holy man myself, I’m writing to tell you of my experience with the prayer rug.
Since you referred to the rug variously as a “Holy Ghost, Bible Prayer Rug”; a “Church [...]

The box this week brought us:

Very ripe Strawberries, two pints
Spearmint, one bag.
Spring mix, one bag
Bib? Lettuce, one head
Spring Onions, one enormous bunch
White Potatoes, 6
Collard Greens (by our estimates), one bunch

Michael has made me spearmint tea, and I think I’ll go drink it now, while I try to think of some moderately healthy way we can [...]

It’s time for my weekly trawl through the 4d2.org spam quarantine. This time I thought I would critically review spam messages, in the interest of improving the quality of future spam.
So without further ado, here are my favorite spams of the week:
Spam subject line: “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: breaking japan finish woods spot blake federer xA1gzbq3ug8gNfgN9u63oQ”
Why it is [...]

I have to confess, I always hated the two to three weeks of the year that encompass Memorial Day and Father’s Day. While I lived at my mom’s, both of these days would be marked by a trip to the grocery for flowers and then a trip to the graveyard to visit my cousin, my [...]

Plateau, my arch-nemesis.
As of this Friday, Michael and I will have been on Slim-Fast for two full months. I am holding steady at my ten pound loss.  He continues to lose weight because he is an evil human being. Robert Johnson pledged the devil his soul in return for incredible guitar slinging skills. Michael pledged [...]