...it's the start of something that, well...I'm not nervous about it. This is something that has been building up for awhile now and, God is certainly putting this on my heart to do. There is some seriously earnest conviction to do this.But all the same, I'm fully aware that what I'm about to do, might lose me a lot of faithful and longtime readers. Maybe even some friendships.If nothing else, plenty of people are no doubt going to think a lot...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
For anyone claiming to have "the only true church"...
"No Christian theology can claim to speak the last word about God and God's relation to human beings and the world. Every theology is at best a limited, fallible, provisional attempt to speak of the living God of scripture whose truth, justice, and compassion are beyond the very highest and best we can imagine."-- Shirley C. GuthrieThat quote was discovered by by a good friend today, and I just had to post it here. If for no other reason than because...
RED HARVEST: Star Wars returns to horror genre with mildly good zombie story
Had author Joe Schreiber not written Star Wars: Red Harvest, I would have been completely satisfied with his 2009 novel Death Troopers (see my review here) as a standalone story. Death Troopers was the first time that the Star Wars saga had delved into the territory of classic horror. It succeeded, and hopefully it will prove to be the first of many more endeavors to scare...
A thought about government and religion
Most people believe that the Constitution prohibits an establishment of religion.It does. But that hasn't stopped the United States from having an official state religion.Not only that, but in fact it has two of them...The Republican Party and the Democrat Party.(Just something that crossed my mind today, as we swap out one faith for another in the halls of the House of Representatives. As has happened before and will certainly happen many times...
Why are fish and birds mass-perishing all over the world?
Awright, so at this point we've got......Thousands of dead fish and birds in Arkansas...Thousands of dead fish in a river in Florida...Bunches of dead birds in Kentucky...More dead birds in Louisiana...Thousands of dead fish in the Chesapeake Bay area...Dead fish in New Zealand...Countless birds found dead in Sweden...Tons of dead fish washing ashore in Brazil...Thousands of dead birds found in eastern TexasSo, what's going on here? This kind of...
Monday, January 03, 2011
Steel metal Crimson Omen from GEARS OF WAR
Check this bad boy out!
This was a Christmas present from my friend Eric Smith: welder and metal worker extraordinare. It's the Crimson Omen from the Gears of War video game series done in steel! Eric designed it on computer and then precision-cut it out of a sheet of metal with a water jet. The picture does it no justice: this thing looks positivalutely gnarly up close...
Overhaul in progress
Pay no attention to... whatever!EDIT 10:53 p.m. EST: This is the first major-scale monkeying-around that I've done to this blog since 2007. Been tinkering with it most of the day and so far... looks great! Should be easier to navigate from now on (and there's even an "Earlier Posts" link at the bottom, finally!).I've also been told that it's coming in great on BlackBerry devices. Hopefully other mobile gadgets will display it just as well.Awright...
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Chris declares that TRON LEGACY was worth waiting 27 years for!
I'd been planning to see Tron Legacy a year ago. This was a movie that I'd had greater anticipation for than - believe it or not - the first Star Wars prequel. And it's all because of a friendship that goes back more than a quarter century.I first saw the original Tron at the house of my life-long best friend Chad Austin, the first time that we had a sleepover at his parents'...
Friday, December 31, 2010
THIS is how to remake HAWAII FIVE-O!
I ain't seen the new Hawaii Five-O series on CBS yet, but I bet it's got nothing on what my lifelong best friend Chad Austin did when he visited the Aloha State a few months ago! Turns out that he's been holding back on me and has been doing some filmmaking of his own: witness this AWESOME spoof of the opening credits from the original Hawaii Five-O series!Speaking of Chad, I've heard that people who've seen The People vs. George Lucas have really...
Did I deep-fry some turkey for Christmas?
Ohhhh yeah, I deep-fried the turkey! Three of them, in fact! All on Christmas Eve. Two 12-pound full-sized birds for friends and a turkey breast for my own family gathering.Here's the first bird that I did...The second turkey...And the turkey breast: smaller but no less succulent!And hey, look who showed up! None other than Tebow Wasmund, the popular pup (who was recently...
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Fox 8 story about my living with bipolar disorder
Chris Knight showed his creativity in one of the first Youtube videos to go viral. But there was another, darker side that he struggled to contain.Last week Bob Buckley from WGHP Fox 8 came to my house along with photojournalist Chris Weaver to interview me about my recent public disclosure on this blog about my having bipolar disorder. We filmed about an hour's worth of material (and Chris got some terrific outdoor shots with his cinematography...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
20 crazy things the U.S. government spends OUR money on: Grateful Dead memorabilia, WORLD OF WARCRAFT and more
It's fiscal criminal insanity: more than $440,000 to study Vietnamese male prostitutes. How about roughly a million dollars spent to compose poetry for zoos? Then there is more than a hundred grand used to construct a "critter crossing" for salamanders in Vermont. The University of California at Irvine received a grant of $3 million to study the online video game World of Warcraft. And over $600,000 was given to another California university...
Monday, December 20, 2010
Grow your own Bhut jolokia!
"Weird Ed" Woody, my filmmaking partner, is quietly attempting to murder me.That's the only reason why I can conceive of his sending me this link to ThinkGeek's product page for the Grow Your Own World's Hottest DIY Pepper kit... because Weird Ed is well aware of my fascination with spicy hot food and he knows that I'm not going to pass up on the chance to grow my own Bhut...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
A small meditation upon Christ and Christmas
Why do some people express such bitter disagreement about when exactly Jesus was born?Seems the important thing is that Jesus was born at all.But, that could just be me...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Word Lens: Visual universal translator thingy for iPhone
Holy crap! This is amazing! A new app for the iPhone called Word Lens from an outfit called Quest Visual uses the phone's camera to translate visual words on-screen in real time.Check out this video of Word Lens in action...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"No matter where you go, there you are."
Awright, first person who can tell me what obscure mondo-bizarro film that is from, can buy themselves a candy bar and pretend I got it for them.I'm... not quite ready to return to this blog at the usual frenetic frequency that all two of my loyal readers have come to appreciate. According to my figures there had been an average of five new posts a day for quite some time...
