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So I'm helping to start a food co-op here in Lafayette, IN, called City Foods.

Here's our mission statement:

Our mission is to serve the nutritional, social, and economic needs of our members and community by providing a market for local, fair-trade, sustainable, independent, and healthful goods and services in a friendly, cooperative environment.

And here's some other helpful info. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Press

Dinner to aid startup co-op grocery

By Eric Weddle
Sep 19, 2008
Lafayette Journal & Courier

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It's a small open source world sometimes.

I use DokuWiki for my business site, Wineskin Media, and I recently ran into a snag and went to the IRC channel for help. Andreas Gohr, the author of DokuWiki, not only took time to answer my question, he also decided to feature Wineskin Media as a DokuWiki of the month. Pretty neat.

Sorry I've been away, but I've been updating Penny Justice. Take a look.

Portfolio

Layout and Typesetting

For samples of my layout, design, and typesetting work, please see my portfolio at Wineskin Media. You’ll find book covers, typeset book pages, and links to web sites I've designed.

Art

On this site, you can see several children’s illustrations which appeared in workbooks by Seton Press.

Writing

Understandably, I can’t put all my work online. Upon request, I’ll be happy to send you private copies of the following pieces:

• Is There a Hobo in Your Attic? (Bibliophilos Magazine).
• The Case of the Missing Binoculars (Reading-Thinking Skills 6, Seton Press)

Nevertheless, while almost everything on this site is my own work, here are a few of my polished pieces:

Reviews and Criticism

The Complicity of Jobs
By limiting ourselves to scientific language, scientific reasons to save the planet, we destroy the concept of reverence for nature. White explicitly hearkens back to religious traditions, Christian dogma, even Thomas Aquinas, finding there a reverence for what is that’s missing today as much from the Sierra Club as from Silicon Valley. So what can we do? Wrong question. What are we doing?

An apple for Ms. Cavatica?
Seen in this light, the story features a rather narcissistic but mysteriously adorable young child whose only friends, really, are his teacher and her descendants (replenished yearly). All his love, respect, and devotion are for the Cavatica clan alone.

Essays

Whose Bod Is It Anyway?
On the other hand, maybe I thought also of my wife. She gives up her body for our daughter. Pregancy, birth, nursing plenty of joys, but also plenty of pain and aggravation. And plenty of time.

Procreation: The Neglected Superpower
You’re not listening. I told you. My wife and I can make new people.

I’m hatin’ it!
On one side of the billboard, occupying literally half the billboard, is a giant Egg OMuffin. Again, Im veiling the actual name of this product, but to help you visualize it Ill say that it apparently consists of two muffins, lightly toasted, each about twenty feet wide.

Hannity: Critique Not, Lest Ye Be Critiqued
Suppose I said I was Muslim. We progressive Muslims, I might say, actually reverence Jesus more than we do Muhammad. Further, we have a special veneration for St. Thomas Aquinas. And we’re encouraged to go to Confession at least once a month. To a Catholic priest. Now, in proposing these fascinating ideas, I might be right or I might be wrong. But would I be Muslim? A progressive Muslim? Any kind of Muslim?

Christ in the Utility Closet
And countless choirs of angels would appear, not to the Pope, or even to the local bishop, but to a few greasy oil-change mechanics in their shop, just finishing up on an old station wagon

Satire

You can see more of my satire and commentary at speroforum.com or The Fabricated Press.

Annual convocation of hypocrites opens
Kindred spirits find support, hypocrisy at Annual Convocation of Hypocrites

Vitamin C now requires a prescription
“And that includes those risky oranges,” explain anonymous doctors

Online dating now officially safe
Would-be murderers can’t bear to click, “I’m good”

The Milwaukee First Church of Mammon
Find fellowship on the path to True Wealth

Television fundraiser ends in fistfight
Operators standing by flee in terror, laugh

Teens

Something To Talk About Besides Girls
Youll notice that Books werent high on our list. Theyre deep in Everything Else, somewhere between Sports and Toe Cheese. (Listen Magazine, 2004 October)

Children

Bill Powell on abcteach.com
With over eighty lessons on abcteach.com, and titles like How To Argue Without Cheating and Flory’s Gulp, how can you go wrong?

How To Talk To A Rock
Of course, if you tell everyone youre going to go talk to a rock, some folks will say things like, But rocks dont talk! or Are you feeling okay? or Rocks are only good for eating! Dont worry. Theyre wrong. Rocks can talk.

Phonics K Story Sentences
I want jam on my bread.
You want Jim on the bread?
No, I want jam.
Is it a ham you want?
Stop! I just want jam!
(Phonics K, Seton Press)

Scripts: Radio/TV

Preview for “Hotel Horror”
INT. HALLWAY, NEAR VENDING MACHINE
MEL gets a drink from machine. MARK stands there.
On drink is a paper reading, “Melchizidek, you are going to die.”
MARK: Must be some other Melchizidek.
(Produced 1999.)

One Foot Can Make A Difference
AGAPE: Whats the matter, buddy? You look sad.
STINKY: I always look sad.
AGAPE: Thats cause your face is drawn on.
(Finalist, 2001 Christopher Video Contest)

The Catholic Perspective
The only show that gives you the TRUE Catholic perspective on hot, contemporary issues from the afterlife to pattern baldness-and everything in between!
(Produced 2000.)

Sometimes a blogger just wants you to go see for yourself.

CSS Sandbox

I didn't know CSS could be interactive.

The Twelve Days of ... Windows 95

People talk about technology as a religion, but does it have its own carol?

On the 5th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

• 5 eighty six
• 4 sectors bad
• 3 ports not responding
• 2 GPFs
• and Windows 95 for my PC

Dated? Nonsense. The whole thing still rings true.

Store Wars

UPDATE: This video has been moved to videos.

Chesterton art!

ART ALERT! Time is running out to bid on this contemporary Chesterton art.