Speaking of. . .

Tonight, at the grocery store, I noticed that one of the items in the impulse-buy-racks at the checkout line was Hotel Rwanda.
“Gum: check. Soap Digest: check. Agonizing portrait of heroic courage against genocidal massacre: check. Batteries: check.”

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Goodest Shepherd Ever

We saw the Good Shepherd last night, spending nearly three hours in a dark theater with family we only see a few times a year, rather than just sitting around enjoying the opportunity to stare at each other.
It’s good. There was a blurb in the ad referencing some spy classic that this movie is for [...]

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Bring a Flashlight, Moonfrye and Keanu

Every Christmas there are a few songs that I’d never noticed before, but suddenly I can’t escape. I usually discover (or finally pay attention to) at least a few unfamiliar gems. Last year, I was mercilessly persued by the infinitely creepy “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (most scarring moment: “Say, what’s in this drink?”) and the [...]

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Lord Sabaoth Is the Reason for the Season

(An Advent candle-lighting meditation)
At this most wonderful time of the year, we hear the angels sing in the strangest places and in the strangest voices. While everybody from Frank Sinatra to Jessica Simpson croons about the holy family, it’s the regular old family that takes center stage in the pop music of Christmas.
Christmas pop [...]

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Lived Music

Inspired by Slowly Going Bald, I’m starting a list of all the live music I can remember hearing, when I can remember artist’s names. I find that I’m much more interested in this list than the movies I’ve seen. Most of those movies I could see again if I wanted, but none of that music [...]

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The Law Is Totally Awesome

I was thinking on Sunday how sometimes overhearing people talk at church is about as intelligible as wandering into a debate at a Star Trek convention.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I admire their passion, and am impressed with their knowledge, but am sometimes at a loss for why this is good news.
Of course, I [...]

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Swords into Plowshares

I was listening to Kurt Anderson on Studio 360 interview historian and author Richard Rhodes. He comments on US history with nuclear power, and particularly the Cold War (with a great piece on Dr. Strangelove), and reports that in the last 10 years we have turned 10,000 former Soviet nuclear warheads into American energy through [...]

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Don’t Call It a Comeback

I think I like this one better.
Welcome to another round of attempted tangent management. If you’re in my blogroll and prefer not to be, let me know, but there are only three people who read this, and if you’re not my wife, you’re the third. If you’d like to be added (increase readership by one!), [...]

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