Alright, sure. Why not? :-)So I'd been working on something for Memorial Day, for a huge chunk of this past weekend and late into last night and several drafts later, the finished product was nothing like what I had originally envisioned.And that's perfectly fine. The other things that had been on my heart to convey, those can wait for another day. But I gotta tell y'all: I was really looking forward to closing it out with something decidedly...
Monday, May 30, 2011
Today is Memorial Day
For the past several days there was something that was percolating in my mind, that I've been struggling to put into words for this occasion.In the end, I failed. For the time being, anyway. And now I see that in this instance, that my coming up short is the right thing...Today is not a day to flex my writing skills. Today is not about "me" at all.Today is the day that...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
A ponderance upon wisdom...
Knowledge to do a thing is good. Wisdom to not do a thing is often far bett...
ALPOCALYPSE... WOW!
We are now just over three weeks away from the Alpocalypse!!!Y'know, I'm still giggling more than is probably good for one's health about how Weird Al has taken the place of Famine among the Four Horsemen :-PSo many people tried to access "Weird Al" Yankovic's online store yesterday that they crashed the server!And no wonder...- Alpocalypse CD/DVD ($13.99)- Alpocalypse CD...
New trailer for GEARS OF WAR 3!
And that was the gist of the seven e-mails that I found in my inbox this morning: about the new trailer for Gears of War 3 campaign!And here it is! Featuring Marcus Fenix! Anya! What seems to be the VERY much alive Adam Fenix! Lambent! King Ravens! Locust Grubs! Underwater combat! More Lambent! The weaselish Chairman Prescott! Big guns! Brumaks! STILL MORE LAMBENT! All set to Black Sabbath's classic 1970 song "War Pigs"!The story of...
Friday, May 27, 2011
$3 BILLION of your tax dollars to study Antarctic Jell-O wrestling and shrimp on treadmills
Y'know, I doubt that even if I were smashed drunk and high on acid that I could have ever come up with a headline like that on my own...A laundry-folding robot, studying the metabolism of shrimp being exercised on treadmills, and researching wrestling in Jell-O at the South Pole are among the "projects" sponsored by the National Science Foundation which have been funded with...
Team Covenant churning out new Monsterpocalypse maps!
I've written tons before on this blog about my mad love for Monsterpocalypse: Privateer Press's awesome game of giant monsters and metropolitan destruction! And if you haven't checked it out yet right now is a great time to give it a looksee. Privateer Press recently announced that the game was moving to a non-collectible format (making it much easier for new players to...
New area business: Two Girls & A Truck Landscaping
Lately quite a number of good people that I know have decided to start up their own businesses. Here's another one and as always, this blogger is more than happy to direct y'all's attention to it :-)Based out of nearby Oak Ridge, Two Girls & A Truck Landscaping is a landscaping and lawn servicing company owned by Tammy Marcum Buck, Linda Marcum and Oscar Marcum. Don't...
Exciting times for Egyptian archaeology!
Seventeen previously unknown pyramids are among more than four THOUSAND newly discovered sites in Egypt that have been located using infrared imaging by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. One of the locations that is being studied is the real life city of Tanis (AKA the Egyptian city that was consumed by the year-long sandstorm and where Indiana Jones...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Remembering Aunt Tom
It was in 1935 that Connie Wright approached Samuel Knight to ask if he could have Ora Lee's hand in marriage.Sam Knight - my great-grandfather - had six sons, and only one daughter: the apple of his eye. But Ora Lee was so synonymous with her half-dozen brothers and also quite the tomboy that she had picked up a nickname that would stick with her throughout her life: "Tom"."No,"...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Les Misérables: Dude arrested for stealing Sonic Slush makers
Being reported this hour that a guy not far away from here in Lexington, North Carolina has been arrested for stealing two Slush machines from a Sonic Drive-In. He was caught when he attempted to sell them to a recycling center.According to the Fox 8 report, the slushy makers are valued at $15,000 and George Jensen, Jr. tried to sell them for about $165.This is the kind of...
DUKE NUKEM FOREVER is finished! Yes, really...
This has to be a SERIOUS sign that the Apocalypse truly is upon us!When game studio 3D Realms started work on Duke Nukem Forever in 1996, Bill Clinton was winding down his first term as U.S. President. "Broadband Internet" meant a 56K modem. The first Star Wars prequel was only in pre-production. You could board a commercial airliner without once taking off your shoes....
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Forever young...
The Knight Shift's eclectic proprietor joins many, many other fans and admirers around the world in wishing Bob Dylan all the best on this, his seventieth birthd...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Breaking News: Reidsville's Confederate monument smashed to smithereens!
The Confederate Soldiers Monument that has served as the best-known landmark of downtown Reidsville, North Carolina for more than a hundred years is a shattered ruin this morning. The Confederate soldier statue himself? Resting in pieces.Around 4:30 a.m. today the driver of a van apparently fell asleep at the wheel, sending his vehicle plowing into the monument. The impact...
School board elections need no partisanship
Some legislative representatives of neighboring Forsyth County are seeking to re-introduce partisan elections for that county's school board. Two years ago the General Assembly passed a bill that made elections to the board a matter of no regard to party affiliation.The measure is being spearheaded by Dale Folwell, one of Forsyth's representatives in the North Carolina House. And his rationale for partisan school board elections?...lawmaker Dale...
Earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, major flooding, mass animal die-offs, weird atmospheric phenomena, hurricane season starting up...
Perhaps it is just me, but real life lately is way, way too much resembling the prologue of the 1980 movie Flash Gordon..."FLASH! AHHH-AAAAAAAHHH...!!"Well, at least we've been spared the hot hail so far.I have a confession to make: Flash Gordon is on my short list of all-time favorite "guilty pleasure" movies. It's a film so exorbitantly bad that it's insanely good! But I doubt that Dino De Laurentiis ever intended this to be a "serious" movie...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Something that can't be said nearly enough
Hey.I just want to say, to The Knight Shift's faithful readers and to those who are fortunate(?) to find this blog...Don't ever stop being thankful for the people that God has put into your life.And I know that I have said much the same before. But, I wouldn't be led to say it again, if I didn't have to be especially appreciative of that lately.This week my family went through one ordeal after another. Later today is the funeral for one member...
Saturday, May 21, 2011
I heard that Rapture is today...
...and I can't wait to finally load up on plasmids!Huh? What's that?! You mean... it's not THAT Rapture, but instead the other kind?!?!?humph...Dear Mr. Harold Camping: "Would you kindly..." stop with this nonsense? We are told in the Bible that no one but the Father in Heaven knows when the end of days will come. This shouldn't be anything we're meant to be concerned with anyway. In his epistles to the Thessalonians, the apostle Paul taught...
The stranger tale of Blackbeard's skull
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opened yesterday and I am hearing extremely disparate word about it. The descriptors being most bandied about this movie are that it's "bad" and "rotten", and only a few saying they were entertained... but even those are pretty lukewarm about it. I'm waiting to hear from one of the coolest cats I know, who's seen it and he's supposed...
Friday, May 20, 2011
First picture of Tom Hardy as Bane in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
The official site for The Dark Knight Rises has gone online and much like the gradual reveal of Heath Ledger's Joker during the lead-up to The Dark Knight a few years ago, the Warner Bros. marketing team has left it to the fans to figure out how to get their first glimpse at the next Batman movie's big villain.But those industrious folks at ComingSoon.net got to it first....
On God and one's life...
God can do many things with your life... but what He CAN'T do is make a boring story out of it!(Very special thanks to good friend Kristen, who in more ways than one God used to lead me to that contemplation this week ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Elon University named #1 "Most Beautiful College Campus"!
My beloved alma mater, Elon University, has just been named #1 on the list of 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses by collegiate review website The Best Colleges. Also on the list are Duke University, Wake Forest University and UNC-Chapel Hill (all here in North Carolina), Texas A&M, Ole Miss, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale, and Princeton.Yowza!The Best Colleges...
The teaser and first posters for THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: SECRET OF THE UNICORN!
As of this writing I'm in the midst of an emergency that has me... well, occupied, to put it mildly. Can't say enough how thankful my family is for the thoughts and prayers that a lot of people have been sending. And that's all I should say for the time being.But I've a dire need to post something upbeat. And all two of my readers (okay there's more than that, and this...
Monday, May 16, 2011
When I want more than a wink from God...
For most of the past several months, going back to late summer, I have been... well, pick your terminology: "led to", "compelled to", "reduced to", what have you... crying out to God. Crying metaphorically and quite literally and very tearfully.I am finally beginning to appreciate that in spite of lamenting His absence so many times, that He has been there all along. And that He has been faithful, even when my own faith has faltered all too often.And...
Friday, May 13, 2011
BEING BIPOLAR: Video Log 9 - Lonely
Making a new video supplement wasn't something that I'd had in mind to do late last night, but... just had some things on my mind that I felt led to share.This is the first Being Bipolar video that I've made with my iPad. Still playing around with figuring everything out, but that's why the aspect ratio is more vertical than horizontal with this segment. Next time I'll know better ...
Sunday, May 08, 2011
By Odin's beard! Chris declares that THOR is worthy indeed!
If there are movie theaters in Heaven, then Jack Kirby has to be smiling this week.Because I saw Thor at 12:01 this past Friday morning and the more I think about it the more I find myself believing it to be the best pure comic book superhero movie that I've ever seen.Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Kirby, Stan Lee and Larry Leiber, Thor is the adaptation of...
To a lot of people who read this site...
To whom it may concern:I can not in good conscience be a part of this any further, nor can I provide support which has in the past been cheerfully rendered, until I am convinced that a significant taking of stock and reflection has transpired.It is not only my own faith in this enterprise which has been shaken, but also that of numerous other individuals who I have spoken with.If it means halting things now, then so be it. It would be better to...
Friday, May 06, 2011
Come back Sunday night
I wanted to write up a review of Thor (which is an AWESOME movie, maybe the best purely comic book movie I've ever seen) along with something else that has been percolating for the few weeks or so......but my Muse has left me, and I must give her merry chase so that I can feel inspired enough to write well again.(Figuratively of course. But if there really is a Muse, I plan to capture her again and hogtie her to the hood of my car and bring her...
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Is this a real photo of Osama Bin Laden's corpse? WARNING: GRAPHIC
Earlier tonight a photo arrived and, I've been doing my best to research the bejeebers out of it but... I can't locate it anywhere. And I've shown it to a few trusted associates, asking them if they think it could be a Photoshop job. None of them came back with a decisive "yes it is". They don't know what to make of this either.As best I can tell, the damage is pretty consistent with the details about how Osama Bin Laden went down, with the associated...
Monday, May 02, 2011
Fox 8's The Buckley Report follows up on me BEING BIPOLAR
Just before this past Christmas, Bob Buckley from Fox 8 WGHP interviewed me for a segment of the Emmy-winning The Buckley Report, dealing with my coming out about having bipolar disorder on this blog. Here's the link to that first story. A couple'o weeks ago he and Fox 8 photojournalist Chris Weaver (who also has an Emmy notched on his belt!) came back and filmed a follow-up story about the direction that I've taken since then: the Being Bipolar...
And this is why we need the grace of God...
My salvation does not depend on whether or not I agree with you, and your salvation thankfully will never depend upon my own regretfully limited wisd...
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Osama Bin Laden is DEAD!
I guess that means we can finally get rid of the Department of Homeland Security and that unforgivable abomination of bureaucracy called the Transportation Security Administration. Right?Right???EDIT 11:52 p.m. EST: I will make note of my thankfulness that Bin Laden has finally come to his just desserts, by humbly suggesting that his corpse be given the "Mussolini treatment", culminating in his remains being eternally desecrated by wrapping them...
