Stallion Cornell

Thispost's title comes courtesy of my brother-in-law, who wrote this article about Mitt Romney for the San Francisco Chronicle and called tonight to commiserate over Romney's crushing defeat.  And, make no mistake, this is a crushing defeat. After spending millions more dollars than his rivals, Romney ekes out a distant second-place finish to an underfunded, ... Read more

Withless than three hours before the caucus begins, I just got off the phone with a Romney campaign guy on the ground in Iowa. The lay of the land: The Romney campaign stopped doing their overnight tracking poll during the Christmas season and did their first poll in a couple of weeks last night. The ... Read more

Clickhere for The Ammon Song. Right-click it to download, or just click it and Quicktime or another media player should play it right in your browser. Elsewhere in this post where you see a link highlighting a song title, do the same and take a listen and/or download. Do not try to sell these, though, ... Read more

Completedlate this New Year's Day. A few changes from the previously published lyrics... 1) Turns out that the whole Ammon story takes place by the Waters of Sebus, not Sidon. Except nothing good rhymes with Sebus, and "Ammon was ridin' by the Waters of Sidon" is such a fun, faux-Western lyric. So I changed ... Read more

It's26 degrees. ... Read more

Soyesterday I attempt to record a simple demo version of the preceding song for your listening pleasure. I wrote the thing as part of my presentation for a ward Book of Mormon mini read-a-thon, and the debut performance was so well received that I thought I ought to get a version of it in the ... Read more

Ammonwas ridin’ By the Waters of Sidon He was tryin’ to work for the Lamanite King The sheep were a feedin’ And no one was bleedin’ “Til somebody started a sheep stealin’ thing All the king’s servants, they ran for their lives All except Ammon who took out his knives Because Ammon was fearless, he ... Read more

TheChristmas season is the time when the Oscar-worthy movies come out to play, and, to my credit, I studiously avoid them. This year, there really wasn’t much out there that I wanted to see, but I did manage to make it to three films that I quite enjoyed, despite the fact that one of them ... Read more

Theday after Christmas is always depressing. In fact, Christmas itself starts to get depressing as the day starts to wane and you realize that you have to wake up and face real life the next day. I should be more chipper than I am. Today is my daughter Chloe’s 9th birthday, so she’s excited even ... Read more

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1_gyu_TjBc&rel=1] That's just the first sighting - you can track his progress here. ... Read more