Christian Boone

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  • Miley Cyrus is SEO friendly

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    I’ve been invited to a speak to a group of bloggers tonight during one of the Malcontent’s more pronounced lulls. Perhaps I’ll speak on selecting a new template, aka Redesigning your blog, OCD and me. Let’s see: Debt ceiling. Pass. Michele Bachmann. Still crazy. Weather. Still hot. Summer movies. Still lame. Ah, here we go.…

  • ‘Six-time local Emmy award-winning weatherman, bearish top, Boy Scout leader’

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    Andrew Sullivan asks, “When did you lose your Internet cherry?” My story: I was the first of my friends to purchase a PC, a massive Compaq that set me back nearly $2,000. I was freelancing at the time, typing stories on a word processor, which I would save to a floppy disc then drive to…

  • How did I end up here?

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    I’ve found myself in some strange places over the years, including: Kate Jackson‘s bed, minus Kate Jackson; An “old-fashioned cross burning” at the home of Howard Stern’s favorite Klansmen, Daniel Carver. Work, not pleasure; On the telephone with Gallagher. Work, not pleasure; Reviewing Partridge Family memorabilia on a picnic table at Road Atlanta with Brian…

  • Are gays catching on?

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    A certain nurse won’t like it, but my views on gay pride (here and here) no longer exist in a vacuum. Would gay pride parades be more effective if participants wore suits and street clothes, instead of leather thongs and ass-less pants? Cord Jefferson at The Root says yes. Just as African Americans took extra…

  • Lies and the lying liar who tells them

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    For someone who takes pride in his ability to mislead without malice, this essay was very reassuring (via Andrew Sullivan). “If you can lie, you can act,” Brando told Jod Kaftan, a writer for Rolling Stone and one of the few people to have viewed the footage. “Are you good at lying?” asked Kaftan. “Jesus,”…

  • The Rapture and me

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    Despite accepting the “invitation to receive Christ” on more than one occasion, I wasn’t convinced of my salvation. I was only 11, after all — unprepared to handle the implications of eternal damnation. My family’s 1981 summer vacation was preceded by a Southern Baptist revival. For those of you lucky enough not to be raised…