The Siblings Cathie's Music Suggestions And in slightly less controversial news . . . The other day I was trying to find some new music to listen to. Having been in Palau for a year, and generally aloof
Church The Gay People Are Getting Married For the last many years there has been a huge fight in America about marriage equality. How do I know about this? Because I've seen people scream about it on Facebook since at least 2008. In recent weeks the issue of marriage
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Today is my baby sister Micalyne's 60-somethingth birthday. For some reason she's always stuck at age 16 in my mind. Which makes her story a really
Ridiculous January is Happening. AGAIN. Last year I was the guy who informed you that the magic of the season had come to a screaming halt [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2013/01/reality-check.html] on January 2. Some of you still blame me for the close of the holidays.
Mexico 2013 I just read the 2012 wrap-up post. I read about how it was my best year. About how our past can be an asset or a liability depending on how we use it. About how if we are living the right way, the best
Daniel A Christmas Gift I've never been much of a Christmas person. There are a lot of reasons for this. But one of the big ones is that I really struggle with
Corey Corey Came to Town This feels like a fake post. I don't really have a story for you. I'm just going to be blathering for a minute. You should probably
EMBARRASSING I CAN NEVER GO BACK TO THAT LOCKER ROOM This post was written on Friday, in the heat of the moment. Oh my gosh. You guys. The most embarrassing thing EVER happened to me just now. I want to die. I want to die. I have to move. I can't be
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Merry Christmas, all. It's been snowing here. There is great misery in all the land. My best friend Corey is coming into town today for a wedding. I
Church Still Here At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to share some thoughts with you. And forgive me that these thoughts are coming from the deepest part of my soul and might sound awkward and are sort of uncomfortable for me to
The Siblings Other Idiots on the Road On Saturday we had our annual family adult Christmas outing. Wait. That sounds wrong. That sounds like my family once a year engages in x-rated Christmas festivities. You know what I mean. The adults get together and have an evening in December where nobody
Ridiculous Daniel Discovers Stranger Daniel called me the other day. We hadn't talked for a little while. The following conversation happened. Daniel: Eli. I canNOT believe you shared that video with people. Eli: What video? What people? I WAS YOUNG! I NEEDED THE MONEY! Daniel: Huh?
The Siblings Swine Flu Christmas It's a world record. The video from last Thursday's show at The Porch is up on Youtube and available for your viewing pleasure. Or displeasure. Or to your great frustration. It depends on how you feel about it. The point
Snapchat Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Just rolled back into Salt Lake City after a very fun night at The Porch. I should have the videos up for you over the weekend. A huge thanks to
Life Thank You I actually wasn't going to post anything today because I had a late and VERY strange night last night having dinner with Mexican celebrities. I didn't really realize what I had gotten myself into until I was in the middle
Ironman The Amazing Race I feel like a broken record announcing this for the third day in a row. But you've come to expect that around here. I really only have about three different jokes that I just use over and over again, interspersed with references
Tinder Shallow Tinder Good morning, all. It's freaking cold. But I have exciting news. I'm going to be telling a story on The Porch this Thursday evening at Muse
Ridiculous 10 Ideas for Getting Your Friend to Stop Watching Glee Quick announcement: We'll be at The Porch in Provo this Thursday at 8:30 PM for a fun Christmas-themed show. I'll get you more details tomorrow but wanted to let you know now since I just found out about it.
Church Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. Glad to see you've survived it. I walked to work this morning and it was 12 degrees. TWELVE. TWELVE, GUYS. TWELVE DEGREES. TWELVE. Do you
Ridiculous My Phone is Vulgar I have a new "what the kids are doing" to tell you about. There's this thing that some phones can do that I'm pretty
Ironman A Horrifying Announcement I have a really big and terrifying announcement. I'M PREGNANT. See? Now it's funny because I make the joke so often. Pretty soon you guys are going to be begging me to tell you that I'm pregnant because
The Siblings What Happens on Thanksgiving Stays on Thanksgiving Last week was Thanksgiving. Cathie forced the children to dress up as Pilgrims and Indians. And then she made Bob wear this all through dinner. But she took her turn,
Life Oh, The Places You'll Go. Maybe. You know the famous Dr. Seuss book "Oh, The Places You'll Go?" Every time you have ever completed a phase of life, someone surely read this to you or quoted parts of it or kicked you out of the house
Emails Funniest Thanksgiving This might be the new laziest post of all time. I'M TIRED. It's been sort of a rough week around here, to tell you the truth. You know how on TV when the writers get lazy so they just do
Life The Parking Attendant Last night I freaked out at a parking garage attendant. Actually, that might be an exaggeration, depending on how you interpret "freaked out." I should clarify. Typically my version of freaking out means that I stop saying "please" and start
