There are two ways to watch The Polar Express: as a wide-eyed seven-year old kid or as a rationale and “wiser” adult, and the choice is going to shape how you feel when you walk away from the theater. If you don’t want to be set up for potential letdown, go in as the kid. Or at least – at risk of giving away the theme of the movie – have a little faith.
The Polar Express is a visual feast and ...
This is the last post I intend to make for this weekend, at least ’til tomorrow night when a full review of The Polar Express should appear here. My mind has been too fixated on the Serious the past few weeks: it needs some time bathing in the Silly. Apart from church and quality time with my lovely spousal overunit, the rest of this weekend is devoted toward reading some good comic books (speaking of which, the last few issues of “Amazing Spider-Man” are something I’d love to touch upon soon) and playing Star Wars Galaxies… which has become a WAY heckuva lot more fun since the space expansion was added a few weeks ago. I’m now flying my own personal Star Wars character around the galaxy in a luxury space-yacht that I christened the “Not For Hire”: first person who can tell me where exactly that name comes from ...
…who’da thunk that eleven years later it would threaten to become the most prophetic movie in history.
Ads to Back Schwarzenegger for President
California Group to Air Ads Backing Amendment to Let Schwarzenegger Run for PresidentSACRAMENTO, Calif. Nov 13, 2004 — Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president.
The cable television ads, set to being running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, which limits the presidency to people born in the United States. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983.
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Schwarzenegger, 57, has said he would consider running for president if the Constitution allowed but hasn’t pushed for a constitutional change.Slam here for the rest of the story.
Y’know, it’s almost kinda funny: Rush Limbaugh argued in his ...
Beautiful. Stunning. Incredible. Breathtaking.
The bar has been raised. Again. This was the best computer-generated animation I’ve ever seen.
Have plans for the rest of the evening, but will attempt to do this movie justice with a real review later this weekend. In the meantime, there’s a lot less memorable things that you could spend twenty bucks on: go and grab your intimate other and take ’em to see The Polar Express tonight or tomorrow. And just to be safe, tie a rag around your head to keep your jaw from hitting that filthy theater floor when it drops....
Kyle Williams has a good piece about the closing gap between Democrats and Republicans over at World Net Daily today. He sees the GOP’s increasing liberalism as a sure sign that there is nothing definitive between the two and that something must happen to provide a real alternative. ‘Course, some of us out here hold that the Democrats and Republicans are really one party already, only masquerading as a two-party system so that people will be more apt to kill each other about it being “us versus them” while the distraction lets the politicians and partisan hacks rob us blind and encroach on our liberties. Yer not supposed to pay attention to the man behind the curtain, don’t ya know…
Say what you will about the Soviet Union: at least the ruling regime there was honest about being just one party. They’re starting to positively seem like the model of ...
All I know is that he was on trial for the murder of his wife and unborn child and he got found guilty yesterday. Other than that I’ve been completely ignorant of this entire case.
Seriously, what impact does Scott Peterson have on my life? None, really.
It wasn’t long ago that a man killed the pregnant mother of his child not far away from here in Burlington NC, cut the body into pieces and stuffed them into a trashcan. Funny how that never got any national airplay… but then, a double-murder in a blue-collar industrial town just isn’t as glamorous as a double-murder in posh, ritzy California. Low-income assailant and victim versus young married couple where she and the baby died so that he could live the party life again: you tell me which one the TV cameras are going to play up and focus on the most.
Chalk ...
And let me justify that statement by adding this: at age 30, I’ve spent almost half my life on a farm. Living it. Working it. Blessing it. Cursing it. Laughing at certain times and crying at others. Rejoicing when we had a good year and struggling to help the family during the bad ones.
We were a farm family surrounded by other farm families and that sense of community left an indelible mark on my life. I grew up learning about things like honor and trust from men like my Dad and other men that tilled fields and milked cows. No one around us lacked for the friendly hand of a neighbor.
And no one suffered the agony of being alone when consolation was needed most. My Dad is the strongest man that I’ve ever known, and I never knew him to shed a tear. Until the day came that ...
A few months ago I published “People who should be shot when the revolution comes”, a handy guide on who to hunt down like rabid dogs when the breaking-point is reached. It was all tongue-in-cheek, ‘course, although there was an ulterior good that it served: when the revolution gets unleashed I want this to help keep the civilian casualty figures low.
Anyway, the second group of people on the list that we should be gunning for are “‘Zero tolerance’-happy public school principals” and this next story should make it clear why some of them should be booted down to the pariah caste on… no, beneath the totem pole:
...Student Of The Month Suspended After Warning (about turning cartwheels)
WEST COVINA — Doing cartwheels and handstands got an 11-year-old West Covina girl bounced out of school.Deirdre Faegre, a sixth-grader at San Jose-Edison Academy in West Covina, was suspended Tuesday
…parse that as you will.
Bob Jones University president Bob Jones III has sent a congratulatory letter to George W. Bush on his re-election(?). I’m not going to post it here: you can find it at that link or – in case it ever goes down – I found it on Google archived here. But I’ll note this: that Jones claims that God is using Bush to grant America “a reprieve from the agenda of paganism,” that Bush owes “the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ. Honor the Lord, and He will honor you.” That he is eager to follow Bush because “you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly.”
Somebody inform Bob Jones III that so far as anyone can tell, Bush has never gone to church – in regular worship with other Christians ...
Nope, this ain’t from The Onion and don’t think that I didn’t mistake it for parody either ‘cuz at first I did. Boyz and goylz, this is legit… unless this was some disgruntled anti-Bush person who took this route to make Bush supporters look ridiculous. After THIS election I’ll concede that ANYTHING is possible, that the bar is now so low that there’s nothing that people on either side won’t do to destroy the other. Anyway, this is from The Morning Call newspaper out of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Here’s the direct link if you be so lacking in faith that this is legit. But just in case that link goes down I’m gonna cut-‘n-paste the full letter right here:
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Jesus speaks through the RepublicansI hope the election of George W. Bush is seen as a wake-up call to all the liberal Democrats who oppose God’s will.
It is His doing