Music and Pics

Okay, some of you have submitted requests for songs. Currently I like Elisabeth's song the best (though, it does have the most bad language --- maybe you should pick another song again Jill).



Peter, I finally got your real choice up. Jon, David, Stephen William and Jesse still can pick a song (and Pop, Jess, Michal, Jude, Ashley, Aravis, and Emily too).

If you pick something generally obscure (like Nate did), please send me the MP3 too.

Also, pictures are accepted too so if you have some you would like to see in the banner, send those to me via email.

Love you mom!!

Knowing that most readers of this blog do not have cable I have posted this video here for all to see. In celebration of Mother's Day, the National Geographic Channel is showing a behind the scenes documentary of the YouTube hit video, Battle at Kruger.

The Rest Of The Story

I know none of you care, but I'm going back to writing my story again.  There's a new post and a new look to my old blog.

William

I got the heads-up from Mom, and all the work to make this possible was by Ben, Thank you both.

Your Music, Your Pictures

Hey, you want to listen to your favorite song, and see pictures of you? Or maybe you just want to introduce us to some new music or post a goofy picture of your brother! Now you can, just email me those pictures, mp3s or requests and I'll see what I can do.

Ben

Facebook Rant

Over the past couple of years (basically since I graduated from College), Facebook has been becoming ever more-and-more popular. First it was a hit with it's targeted college-crowd, now everyone from my father-in-law to my little sister have their own facebook account.

Even knowing that is was really popular didn't prepare me for the family visiting back in March (for Matt & Emily's wedding). I don't know if David ever logged out of facebook on his iPod touch and I know Thomas spent countless hours "racing" in some Facebook app.

It's cool how much interaction people can have on this site. It's waaaaaayyyyyyy better than the crap you can do on MySpace (all I have ever seen is people posting messages like "Thanks for adding me" or "Thanks for posting my ad, you guys are awesome, keep it up dudes" and stuff like that). Facebook really seems like a community (albeit superficial and ultimately pointless and/or redundant with "the real world").

I really hope Facebook and Google collaborate in the near future. It would be great to see the power of Gmail married to the scope of Facebook. It would be nice to be able to send messages (in a real mail form, not like the current Facebook message client) and have multiple 'pages' so that you don't have a ton of crap on one page like Jill does.

So am I missing something? Is there actually a point to MySpace? How much time do you-all spend on Facebook a day (a week)? What would you like to see change with Facebook?



This is a screen capture of my Facebook. I run a deviantArt skin to make it easier on the eyes. It would be nice to be able to choose from a couple of different templates for your profile (so that others could see your page this way).

This Just In...

Paramount has decided to make a movie adaptation of the wildly popular Iron Man trailer.

Daniel's Blog

Daniel has a new post on his blog. You can check it out here.



I also put some pictures up on Facebook and on my blog.

Extending the family

So for those of you who were at our wedding or who were unable to attend here is a link to the hundreds of photos from the day, enjoy!!

Bad Words: Part Two

NOTE: For those of you at home (under the age of David), you may want to read this one quitly to yourself thus avoiding a possible bar-of-soap in the mouth.



NERD (Definition: A person with limited social, but advanced technological skills and interests)

Even though calling someone a "Nerd" is not necessarily an insult, we were certainly not allowed to do so as children (Mom may contest that we are still not allowed). It's funny how calling someone a name, especially one that is only defined by the intention by which it is called, can produce such pain. For some reason, it really hurt to be called a nerd, or even to be called "dummy fummy". I mean really, who tarewles?

Due to the restrictions (and harsh enforcement) on using the word, we often cleverly called each other "dren", which as I'm sure our astute readers realize is simply the inverse of the word nerd. This tactic worked less well with names like "dork" and "idiot" simply because the inverse is very difficult to say (especially if you already have a speach impediment).

Post #200

Opened for business on October 24, 2005, The Crum Family Blog has now reached 200 posts. Articles range from the inane to the insane to the downright unintelligible (which could be considered both inane and insane). Keep posting Crums, and keep reading Crums and others...

Thank God I'm A Bloomington Boy

After longer than originally planned I think my stay in Maryland is coming to an end this June. I think I'm coming home for good. After all I am the biggest Hoosier redneck theres ever been!

All Grown Up

Daniel just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

A Full Quiver

It started on Sunday night, a lone car heading south on 37. True, very few marked this event, seemingly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, little did they know that "the invasion" had begun.

As the middle child stepped from his car, his foot shod in the readiness of conquest, it was as if a light broke forth in the night. A solitary glow emerged from the darkening night, heralding a week full of wondrous events unexpected, unseen, un-looked for by the simple folk of the small town of Bloomington.

"Welcome brother" spoke out a voice from the shadows, "I trust your journey was pleasant and uneventful." The speaker emerged from the shadows and the traveler could see it was his elder brother. Benjamin the Bearded they called him; simply "Ben" to those who knew him well. "Yes, an uneventful journey indeed, but hark, we must away to the refuge of your home. There are eyes that may pierce even this darkness and the wind bears a whisper that I dare not trust."

"When do the others arrive?" asked Benjamin, as his under-aged brother drained the last drops of his non-alcoholic brew. Thomas, for so was the middle child's name, bowed his head between his shoulders. His eyes darted around the room as if some unseen evil lurked in the shadows. "Soon" he said in one breath, barely a whispered. "Nathaniel, the Painted, arrives by coach at noon tomorrow, the others are close behind."

"Then it has truly begun. I dare say I never fully believed that this day would come and now it is upon us."

"Verily, the day is here." Thomas leaned back in his chair. A broad smile overtook his face and he laughed. The shadows flickered and darted. "The evil will linger no longer, the Family Crum will soon be fully united."

"Well it's not like the stars are aligning with the planets" broke in Benjamin's wife, Michal the Wise, "you boys are really way too full of yourselves." But the men had not heard her. They were already deep in thoughts of conquest and glory; and the wind continued to whisper though it's tone had begun to change.


To be continued...

The Return of the Dog

It was about 2o minutes after I posted the most recent Dlog that I got an email letting me know that Matt Drudge had caught wind of our new stuff. Here's what he put up at his site, I though you might like to see the buzz...

Bad Words: Part One

NOTE: For those of you at home (under the age of David), you may want to read this one quitly to yourself thus avoiding a possible bar-of-soap in the mouth.



BUTT (root: buttocks, the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on)

When we were kids there were certain words that we were not allowed to use. It is interesting to think back on what some of these words were. For the life of me I can't figure out what's wrong with the word butt. If we had known to, we could probably have used the word 'buttocks', but for whatever reason, shortening that to just 'butt' was unacceptable.

Granted, the context was more than likely attached to the word 'head', thus creating one of the most clever insults in human history. To claim that a brother's head was in fact a butt would have been as painfully insulting as kicking him in the... neck.

One of my favorite games to play (when I got old enough to forgo getting my mouth washed out with soap) was to trick Mom into saying some 'bad word' and then repeat that word over-and-over, claiming "Mom said it, it must be okay!" This was most fun when, somehow, it coincided with watching Dr. Quinn.

Homeschool Family

Well, this really shouldn't offend anyone (since the Crum's are no longer a homeschool family). Actually, it could be a lot more scathing (Michal wants to rewrite the lyrics)... enjoy!



PS. If you watch this and respond by saying something like, "really funny, but not all homeschoolers are like that" it means you probably are.

Cool Stuff

As a child I loved playing with Legos. In fact, I would still love playing with Legos, I just don't have any. I really look forward to Daniel being old enough to play with those great plastic bricks without trying to consume them. I just hope that I'll be able to find some good, old bricks, not the newfangled sets that require no creativity (or even construction). I still remember building our first aircraft carrier upstairs(?) in the house on Maire Island, the first of many Carriers to come. I know there were a lot of toys that we had as kids. Maybe even some that, at the time, we thought were "better" than our Legos, so what do you guys think? What were (or are) your favorite toys?

The Pats

What was it that made the Superbowl so satisfying this year? Maybe it was how annoyingly cocky the patriots are and how great it was to see them get beaten. I think the game would have been good if the Giants had dominated and just slaughtered the Patriots, but the fact that they went ahead with 35 seconds to go... that was heart-stoppingly amazing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no Giants fan. I like Manning, but really only because of his older brother. What I was watching for was anyone to beat the Patriots (and also watching for a good half-time show). What I got was one of the most exciting football games of the season.

So were any of you dissapointed? Did anyone actually want Pretty Boy and the Pats to win?



....sucks to be you!