Thoughts of a Canary

Happy Ash Wednesday to everyone! The advent of the Hipster Uprising has brought many unpopular things to the forefront of the trendy parade for the sake of simple irony. It's really quite amusing and for those in less urban areas completely unintelligible. Unfortunately this ironic effect is spilling over into the ancient and aesthetic Christian observance of Lent.  The purpose of Lent to the Chrisitan faithful is simply to unite with the sufferings of Jesus through sacrifice, and gain virtue through habitual practice of this sacrifice. I'll come right out and say we ourselves have lost the forest by focusing on the trees in this ecclesiastical season.  As a disclaimer this post is not directed at any individual or group of individuals, except for the group of Christians as a whole. It's a trend I've seen in myself and others, and it's gotten to a point where it's absurdity needs to be proclaimed.  We have all become a people of excuses.  In the time period wher...

I guess making memes can be a fun hobby of a blogger? Ok, moment of truth here. My mind is kind of like the houses of hoarders (band name anyone?). I start with a somewhat simple idea. After deep thought I organically develop it into a decent-enough fodder for exposition, and then my mind jumps to something awesome and almost completely unrelated. I then spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to figure out how to reconcile my original, conservative concept with the outlandish idea that I thought of in my mental meandering. Those that know me well would probably not be surprised to know that I just spent an hour making the above meme before actually writing this. I found its concept so undeniably hilarious that I considered it an affront to mankind's affluent memesphere to keep it from actualized existence. Honestly I died laughing putting on the leprechaun earring. To get to the beer and potatoes of the matter, I would like to offer up a couple points of interest regar...