catapult magazine

Ok, I’m game. Talk about myself. Not outside myself. I’ll try not to edit at all, which is very very difficult for me. It will be a good exercise for my unconscious sub-conscious to just go freeform and resist the temptation to suppress repress or edit what my unconscious allows me to or makes me type. I think I’m already cheating, though, because I thought about what I was going to say in the shower for ten minutes. And I’m veing very caeful. Ok, what about spelling errors? From now on, I’ll fix only spelling errors and typ-os, but no substantive edits.

I’m eating macaroni and cheese, something I don’t do often, but we got for free recently. And I’m thinking about how to describe myself in a bio form while using free-form. I was born in Florida and went to a Christian school where there were more fundamentalist-type thinkers in class than reformational-minded people. I liked CCM music, especially Michael W. Smith and Ray Boltz, but then we moved to Chicago. Then I started listening to Q101, which moved to alternative rock format. I started listening to U2 and thought much about how they could claim to be Christians. I started getting interested in reformational thinkers from the ICS because it seemed very liberating to me, as a former fundamentalist. I went to a public high school, played lots of sports and vowed never to swear while I was there as my public testimony. Yeah, I was a good boy. I resisted all forms of dating, though I hung out with many co-ed groups. I went to Dordt where I was frustrated with the student body. I was reading Seerveld’s art books under a tree while everyone else was trying to sneak into the East Hall and such. I resisted dating anyone again until I found my now wife. Oh, this is getting so dull and boring. I can’t cover everything in details, which would keep my audience’s interest, but I don’t feel like going into details. Ok. We’ll just call this attempt a failure and hope other people are better at this freeform thing than I am. And maybe I’ll give another old college try when I have more time and don’t have to write another *cino article. macaroni and cheese is getting cold.

wild applause, flower-throwing and such