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Can it be true? Can Peter Jackson really be set to direct The Hobbit after all?
Victor Borge + piano = teh funny:
Flight of the Conchords: A Texas Odyssey.
Must all Christian-themed videogames suck forevermore? I’d really like a game with positive messages and engaging, non-craptastic gameplay, but apparently that’s too much to ask.
Easter Observations
A few items of note, brought about by an Easter weekend spent with The Fam:
I believe that there is a Federally-mandated scent that all church restrooms’ hand soaps must contain. It appears to be unique to church bathrooms, as I have yet to smell an analog in any other public dispenser.
Handel apparently wrote “Messiah”’s [...]
Well, There Goes My Support For Giuliani
I have been wrestling with whether I could support Rudy Giuliani in the upcoming GOP Presidential primaries and had decided that I could most likely hold my nose and vote for him based upon his Basically Right stances on most issues, but then he had to go and restate his 1989 position that abortion is [...]
A Regular Stand-Up Kinda Goy
Over the course of a Seder dinner, an event filled with history, solemnity and a good deal of tradition, have you ever inadvertently:
Almost choked to death on a sip of grape juice?
Brought your 18 month old son to tears with a bite of matzoh and horseradish?
Poured piping-hot matzoh ball soup down your wife’s back while [...]
The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being
Growing up as the son of a Presbyterian minister had its more interesting moments, I can assure you, but one thing that much of my upbringing lacked was an experience in racially diverse congregations. Presbyterians, not known to be a terribly diverse lot, tend to put the “W” in WASP, in my experience (and [...]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, everyone. Hope you and your families had a wonderful day.
There’s Some Salacious Stuff In The Bible, I Tell You Whut
Heh. Church Hopping presents Ten Verses Never Preached On. Onan, males’ naughty bits and Ehud the Left-Handed Swordsman all make appearances. (I love that Ehud cat. Used to have an old K6 Linux box named ‘ehud’…)
(0) #Headlines I DESPERATELY Wish I’d Thought To Write, Item #23,652
“Sheikhs on a Plane”
-James Taranto in last Wednesday’s Best of the Web in reference to six Muslim clerics removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis due to other passengers’ concerns
Heh.
(0) #Someone’s Getting A Fatwa For Christmas
Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous “bomb turban Mohammed” Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such thing as an “ex-”Marine, unless they’ve been disgraced. They’re all “former” Marines.). Guy’s [...]
A “Gideon” Experience
I can’t speak in detail about it, but yesterday offered me some clarity and insight into current goings-on in my life. I completely whiffed on an important step in pursuit of an opportunity about which I already had a great deal of ambivalence and so, like Gideon in Judges 7, it’s all on God [...]
