By Jana on Mar 20, 2008 in Humor, mormons, web | 7 Comments
At a recent SXSW (read: geek conference), blogger Heather B. Armstrong, was awarded a lifetime achievement award and her blog, dooce.com, was recently named in the top 5 of most influential blogs by The Guardian.
So, why should you care?
Because Heather is a SAHM living in Salt Lake City, a BYU grad, a post-Mormon. Her website […]
By Stephen Carter on Dec 31, 2007 in Humor | 8 Comments
Buying new underwear is always a good idea. So I bought some underwear last weekend. I found my favorite neck cut (round) and material (cotton-poly ribbed), made sure the bag was blue, and took my basket up to the cash register.
I’ve always derived a mischievous pleasure from purchasing my underwear from nice old ladies who […]
By Jana on Dec 1, 2006 in Humor, Rotation, Sunstone | 10 Comments
An LDS friend showed me his shot glass collection recently, glowing with pride as he pointed to the Nauvoo Temple glass that sits front and center. The shot glasses reflect his travels and hobbies, and don’t appear to be used for imbibing hard liquor. I wondered at the irony of his prominent display, musing about […]
By Stephen Carter on Oct 22, 2006 in Family History, Humor, Ordinances | 6 Comments
The theme for today’s sacrament meeting was family history. It was better than I had expected. Instead of a run of guilt trips describing our poor ancestors languishing in spiritual prison while we fritter our time away doing hometeaching and member missionary work, going to the temple, laying away our food storage, spending quality time […]
By Matt Thurston on Oct 12, 2006 in Humor, Rotation, Sunstone | 17 Comments
Last week I had the following conversation with my brother:
My brother: “I’m going to The Killers concert at the Wiltern on Friday night.”
Me: “Cool. You know that guy’s Mormon?”
My brother: “Who?”
Me: “Brandon Flowers, the lead singer of The Killers.”
My brother (disbelieving): “Really? This isn’t one of those Howard Jones things […]
By Stephen Carter on Sep 7, 2006 in Humor, Ordinances | 13 Comments
McKye was excited to go to Utah. He was excited about the post-baptism party, complete with pizza, Doritos and a piñata. He put on his white shirt, his Sunday pants, his new tie. We drove to the church.
Then dislodged him from his seat with the aid of a crow bar.
By Stephen Carter on Aug 15, 2006 in Humor, Rotation, Sunstone, Symposium | 8 Comments
I was going to present this paper at the Sugar Beet session at the Sunstone Symposium, but we were having a lot of fun and I didn’t want to offend whatever spirit had come to visit (it may have possibly been Sherwood Schwartz’s spirit).
The first article I wrote for the Sugar Beet was entitled […]
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