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Category Archives: Social

2008 Basketball Pick’Em

With very little fanfare I hereby announce Transformatum’s 2008 Men’s College Basketball Pick’Em. Enter your picks online by 3/20/08 at 12:20 PM.

123 Book Meme & U.S. Foreign Policy

Thanks to Ben of openswitch, I have become the latest victim of the 123 Meme (did you know that the origin of the word ‘meme’ comes from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins?). Essentially, this latest online cultural idea — that, supposedly like a gene, can replicate and evolve — requires you to select the nearest [...]

Kitty Wigs

Kitty Wigs: At first I thought this was a joke. $50 + S/H. Seriously.

More Hymns We Really Sing

More Hymns We Really Sing: Mere Comments is taking submissions for parodies of popular hymns and praise songs. Perhaps I should further develop some of these?
Update: Below is the heart-piercing satire that I chose to submit (note that I identified myself with the tradition, as Touchstone’s satire generally focuses on “broad evangelicalism”).
Reformed, How I [...]

2007-08 Bowl Picks

The first of the 2007-08 NCAA Division I-A College Football bowl games starts this evening, so I thought it would be fun to once again share my predictions. This also happens to be my first college football blog post of the 2007 season. I normally write an entry or two in protest of [...]