http://andyzeigert.com When someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes! Mon, 12 May 2008 23:31:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  If you're wondering why I haven't posted for ages then you haven't been following my tumblog. Anyway, I've just broken a several-months-long spell of reader's block. Not sure what it was. It probably started when I picked up "The Brothers Karamazov." I wanted to read something hard. So I picked ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2008/05/12/filth-by-irvine-welsh/ I've spent the last few weeks helping put together a year-end music compilation that The Bulletin is giving away. It's one disc of Central Oregon bands and one disc of national acts. Of course, whether you choose to actually make discs is up to you. But I put some ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/12/28/plug-for-work-project/ Banks panorama Originally uploaded by andy z Just uploaded another shot from New Zealand. I've had this folder full of pictures I've been meaning to stitch into a panorama for a while. Follow the link to the Flickr page for the full ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/12/27/banks-panorama/ Bioshock was the first game I got for the Xbox 360. Excited, I played through the first few levels and quickly became distracted by other fare such as Gears of War, Fight Night: Round 3 and Assassin's Creed. For some reason, nothing drew me back. Finally, right about the time ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/12/19/bioshock-beaten/ I picked up this graphic novel months ago and it got buried beneath a pile of other unread magazines, comics and graphic novels. Finally I got through the stack and picked this one up and read it in two sessions. I was excited about the release of the film version ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/11/23/the-fountain-by-darren-aronofsky-and-kent-williams/ My dad let me borrow a hardcover copy of "No Country for Old Men" several months ago, saying that I should read it before the movie came out. So I did, just barely. I finished the novel on Monday and saw the movie on Thursday. When was good, because ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/11/23/no-country-for-old-men-by-cormac-mccarthy/ ... I've recently been using my tumblelog for general posting. http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/11/23/remember/  I know, I know. I've been on this nonreligious studies kick lately. What can I say. A lot of good books have been written about atheism lately. Hitchens book is no exception. While he's much more of an ass than either Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, Hitchens brings up many of the ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/11/07/god-is-not-great-by-christopher-hitchens/ Michelle and I will be traveling to New Zealand for the last two weeks of October. Check out the stops we've already planned. If you know anything about the places we're visiting, by all means, help us get the most out of it.I'll have a digital camera and I'll ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/10/13/aotearoa-bound/ It's not that I didn't already know Mormons had unusual beliefs, or that some "fundamentalist" Mormons have taken it a step further. (Or, more accurately, stood their ground while greater Mormonism has taken steps toward mainstream.) I've known many Mormons, and it seems to me that their being Mormon ... http://andyzeigert.com/archives/2007/10/10/under-the-banner-of-heaven-by-jon-krakauer/