About Band Names

Here’s a question that interests me: What role does the name of a band play in our enjoyment of said band? Is a bad band name a small hurdle to get over before enjoyment may ensue, or can it be a deal breaker? Or is it a non-issue? I have found this [...]

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Best Albums (and more) of 2009 (thus farther)

Our own brilliant Elijah Wade Smith posted his favorite new albums of the year a bit early this year (August), but I’d like to pick up where he left off and share some favorite albums from this year, along with my definitive songs of 2009 and one marvelous musical discovery…
Since Elijah already listed 4 of [...]

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Happy Anniversary & 200 Posts!!

If CAI were a wife then we writers here would be sleeping on the couch.  The one-year anniversary of the launch of this blog occurred on October 23rd, and went sadly unreported.  For those of you who read our blog, we resoundingly thank you for your readership and look forward to another year ahead.
In the [...]

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This makes me “laugh”

A blog dedicated to documenting unnecessary quotation marks:

 

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Tax Payer Dollars at Work

ABC reports on an airport that uses $150 million in taxpayer money (including $800,000 from the so-called stimulus bill) to fly an average of 20 people per day.

I’m interested in this piece for a number of reasons. First, the obvious- government is wasteful. And a corollary, it’s a [...]

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God’s Body

Remember when NASA ended up proving the Bible was true by finding “the lost day” described in Joshua?  Well now they’re providing us with pictures of the almighty from space.  Here’s God’s hand (they may not have called it that, but only because they don’t want to lose their federal funding from the LIBERAL godless [...]

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With or Without Garfield

I’ll admit I was a tremendous addict of the Garfield comic books back in the day, a fix of which was readily available through my dealer over at Scholastic books. I was actually even considered something of a “hero” in my 5th grade class when I learned to draw that sassy little tabby. [...]

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Merry Christmas

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Welcome to Criticism As Inspiration

Welcome to Criticism As Inspiration, a new weblog begun by Mark Stump, Elijah Wade Smith, Peter Deeble and the pseudonymously titled “Sgt. Grumbles.”  We thank you for coming and visiting, and we hope you return often.
Please feel free to visit our about sections to learn more about this blog and it’s authors… but to quickly [...]

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