This blog needs more beautiful... and LOTS of it!

I can't recall posting a picture of my extremely lovely and incredibly sweet cousin Lauryn for the month of February. Even though I know that many of The Knight Shift's male readers can't get enough of her beautiful visage (I got two e-mails this past week complaining about the lack of Lauryn of late).So since I've been posting too many videos showing my ugly mug in recent...

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Classic SESAME STREET: Kermit the Angry Reporter!

Goodness gracious... it's been ages since I've posted a clip from Sesame Street on this blog, or anything else having to do with the Muppets! I'll try to do better from now on gang.This is one that I remember seeing a few times in my childhood: Kermit the Frog doing a report for Sesame Street News on what makes people angry. I laughed when I watched it then but now that I'm older......Well, is there anyone else who sees Kermit honked-off and thinking...

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BEING BIPOLAR: Video Log 8: Depressive Episode #2, "Stop Thinking About Nothing"

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An appeal for prayer on behalf of someone (And yes, I'm serious)

I'm not going to say much more than needs to be said about this, because in spite of everything I wouldn't wish this on anybody.Several readers of this blog have notified me that Johnny Robertson has been diagnosed with colon cancer. And apparently it's pretty severe.So I'm asking everyone who is reading this: Please put aside whatever else you feel toward Mr. Robertson, and hold him up in prayer. Ask God to bring him healing. Ask God to bring...

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The earthquake in Japan...

...moved the axis of the entire Earth 10 inches from its previous position.And the coastline of Japan has been permanently moved nearly 2 and a half meters.Once again, I am reminded about how lacking in humility we are in regard to the world we live upon.Try to think about the forces required to move something as big as the entire Earth by ten inches. Just ten inches.In the first year of this blog's operation, after the 2004 Indonesia earthquake/tsunami,...

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8.9 earthquake just hit Japan

That's just short of the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake that produced the tsunami which devastated Indonedia and other places along thousands of miles of the Indian Ocean's shoreline.8.9 Richter... sheesh. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to experience something like that.Thoughts and prayers going out this morning to our friends in Japan. And if you can, tune in to the television coverage going on right now. This is history in the making.EDIT...

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Thought on a Thursday morning

It is better to be a liberator than it is to be a conquer...

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BEING BIPOLAR: Video Log 7 - God, Happiness, Yoda, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Weird Al, and Charlie Sheen

And I hope to have Part 6 of Being Bipolar up by the weekend ...

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Popcorn Sutton moonshine still for sale on eBay!

For $20,000 you could be the proud owner of this authentic moonshine still designed, built and no doubt USED by Popcorn Sutton for the brewing of his famous likker!Here's the link to the item's eBay page. And here's the official description...Up for sale is a genuine Copper Moonshine Still that was used by the legendary Popcorn Sutton of the appalachians. This item is being...

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Gasoline now $3.45 in most places here

"Here" being Reidsville, North Carolina and the surrounding area.It will likely hit $4 per gallon or thereabouts by the end of the week. And this month might end with it averaging $5 a gallon, depending on how the situation in Libya goes.I haven't said anything about Libya yet on this blog. But for those who are curious: I don't see any good outcome. Kadaffi (or however you spell his name and I've heard there are about a hundred English translations)...

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What a night

In the six hours or so since that previous post......I feel like I have grown more as a person than, I probably have in, well... a very long time. Emphasis on "very".And with the sun rising on this new day......I am finding myself thankful to God, that however He allowed my mind to be, that He did bless me with a wonderful mind.And now I am going to keep on doing what I have always done: doing my best to make the most of it.To put it in some perspective:...

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Sources at this late hour...

...are telling me that this blog - yes, this one - is "about to bust wide open". Apparently, in a way that's not bad, for once.That is all.Guess I should dust off the welcome mat again, h...

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E.T. phones home and dials down destruction on Earth!

Very, very disturbing (yet funny) trend I've caught lately happening on the Intertubes. Some clever chaps are taking 1982's beloved film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and giving it the Frank Miller/The Dark Knight Returns treatment. Namely, producing faux trailers for grim, dark sequels to E.T.And so far I've found two of these pieces of work!This first one splices together footage from E.T. with another Steven Spielberg movie, War of the Worlds....

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A church that requires faith to enter

This is an Orthodox chapel near the city of Chiatura in the former Soviet state of Georgia...Oh yes, you can go in... but first you have the climb a rickety, rusty metal ladder up a 130-feet tall column of rock. The building atop the column was constructed sometime between the sixth and eighth centuries and is thought to have at first been a pagan temple (the rock being ummmm......

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Three people have asked me about Charlie Sheen and bipolar disorder

Perhaps that's been prompted by (A) Charlie Sheen's out-of-control antics during the past 72 hours and (B) the "Being Bipolar" series that I recently started on this blog about my own experiences and struggles with bipolar.And now it's being asked aloud by a lot of bigger news outlets.I'm not too "hip" about things on the celebrity scene. In fact, the last thing that I would ever want to be called is a "celebrity". I am a character. My life is...

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Darn you Steve Jobs!

My plans have been thrown afoul... because now I'll have to be here next Friday afternoon to place my order for the iPad 2 on Apple's website.(Mash here for one of Engadget's myriad of articles about the product's unveiling today.)I didn't get an iPad last year, but I fell in love enough with the simplicity of the design that... I knew this was on my short-list of "things I never knew I needed" and ought to have. For more than a decade people have...

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What I'm about to say has nothing at all to do with "religion"

Christ is the only path toward finding God.But, there are many paths toward finding Christ.Who am I, then, to say that how another another has found Christ is inadequate or even "wrong"? Who are any of us to demand that we have found the "one true" way of discovering Christ, to the exclusion of all others?It would only seem to most matter that Christ is found at all. And He will be found, by those who seek Him... whether they are even conscious...

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