Saturday night, Oddwalk “debuted” our new CD to a great crowd at St. Luke Parish Hall in Belleville, IL. The energy in the room was great. This was partly due to the fact that we were projecting the first game of the World Series (between our hometown Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers) on the side…
Month: October 2006
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Cards vs. Tigers
So we’ve earlier examined Cards vs. Padres and Cards vs. Mets for their significance to Catholicism. Let’s do the same for Cards vs. Tigers. Um. Hmm… I’ve pretty much got nothing. I imagine a few tigers were behind the martyrdoms of many early Christians… But let’s not go there. GO CARDS! PS – Don’t forget…
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So, um, about this concert on Saturday…
WOOO HOOO!!!! Can a guy who hit .216 for the season redeem himself with one swing. Yes! (See: Yadier Molina, NLCS, Game 7, Top of the 9th) Can a 25 year old rookie make you forget about the terrible year logged by Jason Isringhausen. Yes! (See: Adam Wainwright, NLCS, Game 7, Bottom of the 9th)…
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World Series Bound!!!!!!
Our Cardinals pulled it off. They did it. They are the champions of the National League. Underdogs agains the Padres. Underdogs against the Mets. No matter. They are in the World Series, where they will once again be considered underdogs against the Detroit Tigers. In true 2006 Redbird style, the Mets loaded the bases in…
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Fair enough
“The picture is a poor relation to reality.” -Catherine Vincie, professor at AI, after drawing a circle on the chalkboard to visually represent God (metaphysically, at least – Karl Rahner is hard!).
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Follow Me
This past Sunday, Oddwalk had the pleasure of serving as the House Band for the annual Jefferson City Diocesan Youth Rally at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City. The event was an enormous success as it was attended by over 600 youth and adults from around the diocese. A theme of “Follow Me”…
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300,000,000
I (Orin) heard on the radio this morning that at about 7am central-time America’s population surpasssed the 300,000,000 mark; supposedly it was a baby born near Atlanta that tipped us over. 300,000,000 is a lot. But we still have Montana and Alaska! (Sorry, folks, that’s the best I could do.)
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Happy Dictionary Day!
From Oxford University Press: NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ — On October 16, people everywhere will beputting decorations on their dictionary trees, hiding dictionaries fordictionary hunts, proudly flying their dictionary flags, and goingdoor-to-door reading dictionary entries aloud for candy. Well, no. October 16 is National Dictionary Day, but the celebrationsaren’t that elaborate or widespread. Yet.…