Hello.
It's been awhile. Maybe the longest that I've gone between making posts. I'm making this one because a lot of readers have asked if I was okay (alive, semi-comatose, joined the French Foreign Legion or what have you). Neither have I been active on Facebook and that led to family insisting that I make some indication there that I was still among the living.
So many of you are asking how things are. And things have...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Two weeks in Hell
I debated whether to make this post. No wait, scratch that: I debated whether to make any post ever again on this blog.
In the midst of the madness, a lot of thoughts raced through my mind. One of them was to give up this blog. Wondering what was the point of it. Wondering what was the point of anything. So faced with the stark meaninglessness of life in this pale shell. All was vanity, with no redeeming grace.
It's...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Rest in peace James Horner
It was as many feared when the news came that the airplane he owned had crashed: James Horner, one of the most acclaimed composers in film history, died last night.
Aliens. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Braveheart. Apollo 13. Titanic. Avatar. Glory. Field of Dreams...
And so much other work too. His score for Krull is...
Monday, June 22, 2015
Here's a photo of a Dachshund family
My favorite breed...
Maybe if Tammy the Pup will stand still long enough, I can get her to pose for a picture that sweet :-)
Photo credit goes to @TheDoxieteers (Cindy, Pepsi and Misty) on Instagr...
Saturday, June 20, 2015
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
Happy anniversary to Jaws. The original blockbuster that set the scene for every big summer movie to come. Released 40 years ago today.
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Reconsidering Hobbits
When he came to visit in early April, my longtime friend/collaborator/partner in crime "Weird" Ed Woody gave me a birthday present. It was The Lord of the Rings, Extended Edition on Blu-ray. It's been sitting unopened on my shelf ever since, 'cuz I haven't really availed myself of its beauty (I hadn't actually watched any of it by that point but having seen the...
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Why is it that too many Christians are bitter, hateful, resentful and generally mean to others… and especially other Christians?
People shouldn’t be like that anyway, to each other. But for those of us who are in Christ, our behavior is far more dire. We aren’t supposed to be like the world. It’s supposed to be different, among us. We are meant to be a radiant, shining witness for Christ in this fallen world.
Instead, I see...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
FALLOUT 4 gets a release date and a REAL Pip-Boy!
Game studio Bethesda unloaded the big guns last night at their first-ever E3 presentation. Since its announcement months ago the hype had been stoked about Fallout 4. Then two weeks ago Bethesda lifted the cover on that mega-anticipated title with this toad-strangling doozie of a trailer. So what else could Bethesda bring before us at this point?
By the...
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Pistol-packin' President: Reagan had a .38
The greatest president of the past half-century - at least - and he kept a sidearm during his time in the Oval Office.
I don't care what your political persuasion, you gotta admit: that is severely hardcore.
The New York Daily News has an eye-opening story revealing something that until now only members of the Secret Service were aware of: that Ronald Reagan not only believed...
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Magna Carta: 800 and counting!
Worth noting that we are currently in the midst of the eighth-hundred anniversary of Magna Carta: the founding document of English law and a cornerstone of liberty for many nations down through the ages. Including the United States.
"Sign HERE, Johnny-boy."
Ahhh yes: John, King of England. A monarch so disastrously bad that not once since and never again has...
Book update... and it's a good one
YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Well, this section of the book is now finished. The first draft of Chapter 25 was completed a short while ago. It follows the one that had stumped me since February, up until a week and a half or so ago. The one that took me so long to crack and I couldn't have done it without a dear friend being here to give support and encouragement.
So the complete draft of Chapter 24 was done, but 25,...
Friday, June 12, 2015
End of a journey
A journey that began in late 2001, finally ended a few minutes ago.
Tomorrow my DirecTV account ends (I'm relocating soon) so this week
I've been watching all the stuff on my DVR that I hadn't seen yet.
Among those were the last three Harry Potter movies.
Since
yesterday afternoon I've been watching, as time allowed for it, Part 1
and Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I just finished it.
And watching Harry stand there, with...
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Thief gets deck-ed by clever Magic: The Gathering player
Did you see what I did there? Huh, did you? That's all I got...
Well anyway, a recidivist robber is cooling his heels in a jail in Fairfax, Virginia after stealing 300 cards from the insanely popular game Magic: The Gathering in the possession of a self-described "nerd". Said nerd, one Kemper Pogue, proceeded to formulate and execute an elaborate trap...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Chris gets astoundingly charmed by THE WEDNESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CLUB!
The other week I was up late working on the book. It was frustrating me to no end. So I turned on the television, allegedly for background noise thinking maybe it would inspire me. And it did, but not the way that I imagined. Because for some reason I wound up on a local station that was less than a minute into something called The Wednesday Morning...
