On Land and Its Marks

Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place.

This fall, I'm hoping to receive a visit from my good friend Mashley. (I wrote about their wedding earlier this week.) I'm hoping they'll come up here for a Broken Social Scene show in October and I'll get a chance to show them the Twin Cities that I'm slowly trying to adopt as my own.

Matt is an up-and-coming Religious Studies scholar of the first order. He's already published a paper in a journal about American utopian communities. He has a better knowledge of Hebrew than most of my seminarian friends. Of course, that's not all there is to know about Matt. He's a Pittsburgh Steelers fan (I've chosen to forgive him for this serious character flaw) and loves bands like Stars, Arcade Fire, and the aforementoned, Broken Social Scene. And he hates it when I hack his Pandora (which he always left logged in) and add things like dc talk, Van Halen, or Hillsong Praise to his carefully-tailored stations. That's a little about my friend Matt.