tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339431522024-02-18T23:13:16.652-08:00Creative Apathyenjoying the shades of grayTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-62565045018746129702008-06-06T12:53:00.000-07:002008-06-06T12:56:26.579-07:00So Long Blogger, Hello Tumblrmycreativeapathy.blogspot.com will be no longer (not that it gets updated that often anyway) I will now be rarely posting to mycreativeapathy.tumblr.comI guess since this blogger site is free I will leave it here for posterity but tumblr just seems so much simpler and easier.Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-17132951747229663772008-04-17T20:33:00.001-07:002008-04-17T20:48:40.724-07:00Tomkat- Splitsville?Ok so I am one of the old school folks that still has my AOL email account from high school back when AOL was really the only game in town. Anyway I read this on the main page at aol.com today and the first thing that I thought of was this blog post that I wrote way back when combining two names into a single hybrid name was still fresh. It's a little creepy that I predicted, to the month, whenTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-8547181678107104102008-04-09T15:57:00.000-07:002008-04-09T21:27:30.068-07:00I need to ventAndruw Jones is a steaming pile! I am a Dodger fan and have grown very accustomed to mediocrity but I shouldn't be giving up on the season only 9 games in. The team did nothing to address the fact that their offense is absolutely pathetic during the offseason except for bringing in a guy who couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat into an already crowded outfield. Juan Pierre was doing Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-73464895326866231752008-03-01T10:57:00.000-08:002008-03-03T10:08:27.267-08:00Fox announces "Last Call" for Reality TVApril 20, 2014In the nearly two years it has been since the last reality or contest television show aired on TV, executives at Fox have been trying to debunk the theory that every American had appeared on a reality TV show already. It turns out Fox was right, which means the network will be airing Last Call this summer, a reality TV show for the 12 Americans who have yet to be on TV.So who are Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-8700247658920959702008-03-01T10:35:00.000-08:002008-03-01T10:55:17.932-08:00Movie RecommendationI highly recommend the documentary called The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters. It is the story of Steve Wiebe, a 35 year-old family man from Washington who gets laid off from Boeing and takes solace in a Donkey Kong arcade machine he has placed in his garage. Steve attempts to break the 20 year old high score record on the game, owned by Billy Mitchell a Floridian hot sauce mogul who is Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-30439267881810829112008-02-14T18:23:00.000-08:002008-04-11T10:36:33.847-07:00We have a gun problem in this countryI am sick of hearing/reading about school shootings. This is unacceptable. The worst part is, as the article points out, that this is the fourth shooting at a US school in the last week. FOUR! Four times in the last week someone opened fire at a school in this country. Just let that sink in for a second. I don't say this to make light of the situation, but remember the good old days when anTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-84074661035510621102007-10-15T21:40:00.000-07:002007-10-15T21:59:50.417-07:00New 'ClefLet me start by saying I am a huge Wyclef Jean fan. I would put his album the Carnival in my top 10 favorite of all time and when it came out back when I was in high school it changed my musical world. I was perusing Youtube today and came across an interview/performance that Wyclef did on the Google campus to bring awareness to the issues in his native Haiti as well as perform music and Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-14196688195271290702007-10-11T22:12:00.000-07:002007-10-11T22:14:14.516-07:00Dear Ann Coultergo away and don't ever come back.(it's called speed blogging. write a few words and move on)Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-76965593053850428492007-09-30T11:07:00.000-07:002007-09-30T11:11:05.298-07:00The Church You KnowFirst let me put an end to some nasty rumors...I am not dead. I just took a break from blogging because I didn't have anything interesting to share. Until now...Go to www.thechurchyouknow.com and watch all of the videos. If you are a church goer you will laugh a lot and then feel sad because everything they are saying is right.See you again in another 5 months or so.TimTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-68364690174729011042007-06-27T10:34:00.000-07:002007-06-27T10:52:11.035-07:00It is easy being greenI have to disagree with Kermit the Frog on this one.In about 45 seconds I was able to remove my name from the credit reporting indutry lists (Equifaz, Experian, Innovis and Transunion). These are the people who are ultimately responsible for you getting credit card offers in the mail every other day. Whenever I get them I just rip them in half without opening them and toss them in the trash andTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-21108620440235736942007-06-25T13:28:00.000-07:002007-06-25T13:44:00.896-07:00We have a WiiMy bride got me a Wii for our 2 year anniversary, which was at the beginning of this month, but thanks to the incompetency of Game Stop and UPS it just arrived on Friday. It was worth the wait (and the incessant checking of the tracking process that I had been doing every 30 minutes or so for the last few weeks). The Wii has been out for awhile now but they are still very hard to get a hold of.Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-48593207029157532282007-06-03T10:22:00.000-07:002007-06-03T10:40:14.257-07:00Hip-Hop is...I have been so stinkin' busy with school and with trying to find a new job that I have not posted on here in quite some time. Well since I have a post that is school related I thought I could make the time.I started a project for a class I am in at Fuller called Theology and Hip-Hop Culture and I want to ask you to participate. The project is called "Hip-Hop is..." and I am inviting people to Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-70466404663560869572007-05-11T23:53:00.001-07:002007-05-11T23:54:25.013-07:00My ObsessionTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-56341225367940583182007-05-01T17:03:00.000-07:002007-05-01T17:13:52.956-07:00Where in the World is Caesarea Philippi?Bible Map is a website that I stumbled upon the other day that has all of the geographic locations mentioned in the Bible hyperlinked to the google earth satellite technology so that if you click on "Ephesus" or "Jerusalem" you will get a satellite image of what that area looked like during Biblical times. Okay so the images are from modern times but it is still a cool idea.Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-72699966852195303702007-05-01T16:48:00.000-07:002007-05-01T17:02:51.410-07:00We've been lied toI know it is kind of trendy, or maybe too easy is the right phrase, to pick on the president, but I was reminded while listening to the radio that today is the four year anniversary of the President's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a speech which started off with the words, "My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."Since major combat operations have "ended" there Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-21722479506518177412007-04-15T22:01:00.000-07:002007-04-15T22:06:04.501-07:00Fix You CoverThis blog post could very well be the saddest thing I have ever seen and yet it is one of the most beautiful musical expressions I have ever seen as well. Read the story and then watch the video.Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-87785304094160560002007-04-02T00:36:00.000-07:002007-04-02T20:50:29.497-07:00Favorite/Least favorite commercials of the momentFavoriteThe guy who plays the old man is hilarious. Plus I grew up on a street named after Millard Fillmore so in a weird way it brings me home.Least FavoriteThe stupid chevy commercials with the John Cougar Mellencamp song "This is our Country" that plays over and over. It won't go away. Yesterday in church we were talking about subversion and asking "What is subverting our country?" We Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-81282017637071387292007-04-01T15:23:00.000-07:002007-04-01T16:21:42.135-07:00It's the most wonderful time of the year!No not Christmas time; to me that is the second most wonderful time of year. For a sports fan, this has to be the most wonderful time of year. The Final Four took place this weekend, with the champion of college basketball being crowned tomorrow night. The NBA playoffs are just around the corner, which in my opinion is the only worth while part of the NBA season. The Masters is also coming upTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-59575558310193546772007-03-26T12:58:00.000-07:002007-03-26T13:07:29.353-07:00Beatles Song of The MomentWhen I first started this Beatles thing I was planning on doing it weekly. Well my regular readers, both of them, know that I have failed in that endeavor which has left me wondering what to name these Beatles posts now, because they are not weekly. Beatles Song of the Moment was the best I could come up with.Anyway the Beatles song for this moment is I Feel Fine.Sing it if you know it...Baby'sTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-86362052368213181512007-03-24T18:04:00.000-07:002007-03-24T18:07:57.870-07:00LFL in Norway?As far as I can tell, this blog post is about leaving church and it links to Letters From Leavers. Is it Norwegian? Can someone translate for me?Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-17650795525610916862007-03-22T14:07:00.000-07:002007-03-22T14:31:22.318-07:00World Water DayToday (and every March 22nd) is World Water Day. Four of every ten people in the world do not have access to even a simple pit latrine and nearly two in ten have no source of safe drinking-water. So far today I have already drank one bottle of water, used a toilet with running water a few times (I know...too much information), washed my hands, taken a shower, and gone to a fast food place for Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-29382224331695245332007-03-19T03:04:00.000-07:002007-03-19T13:15:39.272-07:0010 reasons I won't watch 24 season 2So I bought 24 season 1 at Target about a week ago because they had it on sale for 17.99. Not bad! This show came on the air during a time in which I wasn't watching much TV at all so I had only seen 2 or 3 episodes but I had heard a lot of great things about it, and Mariah and I have been watching some more TV as of late so I figured, why not give it a whirl? I bought LOST season 1 for MariahTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-40106147882624549722007-03-14T15:37:00.001-07:002007-03-19T15:08:17.397-07:00Stavesacre- A TributeDo I see God in all of this? maybe all alongIt's just that we're so small, and simply not as strongStrong like wings of silver, and feathers made of goldTo carry heavy hearts, to cover all our helpless soulsTo cover all of usUnder wings of Gold and Silver sometimes we have to hideFor shelter from this bitter winter at least tonightThese are part of the lyrics to a song called Gold and Silver Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-86771257119260817592007-03-13T22:31:00.000-07:002007-03-14T02:22:57.987-07:00Someone get Maury Povich on the phoneIs it just me or is the Anna Nicole Smith paternity situation just begging to be an episode of Maury Povich? No high priced lawyers or overhyped media coverage needed, just bring the circus on the set of Maury and he will straighten the whole thing out. "You ARE the father!"Tim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-80607672412871101092007-03-13T22:26:00.000-07:002007-03-14T02:21:44.726-07:00We have a prophet among usA voice of one callingTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.com0