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Well, the hills are alive with the sound of Joel Hemphill claiming that Jesus was not God in the flesh. Quelle scandal. I’ve been traveling and haven’t had time to sort through all of this sufficient for a post of its own. But in the meantime, let’s put to rest an idea that was succinctly […]

Greetings from the faceless Atlanta suburb of Stockbridge (which always reminds me of Admiral Stockdale, Ross Perot’s running mate from back in the 90s, and Phil Hartmann’s hi-freakin-larious send up of him on SNL), which is home for the night, only because it’s the closest thing to half-way between Southwest Florida and the Midwest and […]

So my avfl email box filled up without my realizing it, which meant no comments got forwarded to the workaday account I use to moderate avfl posts. Thus the dearth of comments posted on the site for the last … what … day or two? Apologies.
I’ll be traveling for the next few days. Talk amongst […]

Dunno if this is for real or not (almost funnier if it isn’t) but RH sent along this eBay auction. Check out the photos.

It’s a harshing twofer! BF writes:

Dear Ask Avery-

I have this sore on my…..

Just kidding. Just kidding.

I’m curious to know if the undercurrent of anger that so often comes alive through the comments posted by your constituency is a phenomenon peculiar just to Avery Fine Line or is it embedded […]

Leebob claims the complaints about EHSSQ are purely subjective:

The arguments against EHSS are personal tastes for the most part. I have not seen any argument against EHSS that are substantive. For the most part they have been made by people from a distance. When the attacks on their style didn’t work then the […]

From the Ask Avery file, Edie wants to know:

Hey Mr Editor-guy,
I’m wondering why you think there are all these Ernie-haters out there? Is it jealousy? I mean, Ernie is just as nice and just as normal (which means he has his faults) as anybody else out there.

On the one […]

Not so fast, a reader says in response to my thoughts on the Best of Ivan Parker.

Don’t confuse a set of video presentations of the artist at Gaither tapings with the actual artist. Ivan actually does perform live very differently. He often has live piano, guitar, and saxophone, mixed in with tracks. He’s […]

The extended-commercial version of Gaither’s Best of Ivan Parker was on the Jesus channel this evening, so I watched a bit of it. I confess that most southern gospel soloists leave me cold. I mean, isn’t one of the main points of this music the (useful fiction of) live harmony? If I wanted to hear […]

The singer/songwriter Christine Kane has a blog post up re-imagining what would happen if bloggers wrote song titles. It’s pretty amusing. My personal favorite: “Stairway to Heaven” in blogspeak becomes “Five sure-fire ways to create a riff that will piss off every music store clerk from here to eternity.” Heheh.
I have nothing to say about […]