Well, that's one prayer, at least, that I know got answered wonderfully.It's enough to give me hope for a few others now...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
So James Cameron is saying that he's in possession of Jesus Christ's coffin...
...and that on Monday he'll unveil the DNA evidence to prove it.They can't even figure out who's the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, so how exactly did Cameron pull this off, exactly?Read the weird story of the Israeli coffins here. My prediction: we will barely remember this a year from now. I mean, almost a year ago it was the "Gospel of Judas" thing and how many people really took that serious...
In the past 48 hours...
I have learned many things, but this one now comes most readily to mind:It's not just a song: some of God's greatest gifts really are unanswered prayers.Be thankful that it really is Him, and not us, who is in charge of our circumstances. I don't even want to wonder what it would be like if we were the ones running thin...
Secretive "Christian leaders" pimping Jesus for votes again
Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and a few other "Christian leaders" are trying to decide who to support for President in 2008. And their meetings are hush-hush.First of all, who the hell decided that these guys are supposed to be "Christian leaders"? Secondly, their "leadership" sure hasn't helped America much in the past several years, has it?And third, why are they shying away from public knowledge of their activities? If what they are doing is...
Duct-tape and tranquilizers: NASA's procedures for the crazy in space
Have you ever wondered what would happen if some guy up there on the International Space Station... just came totally unglued? I imagine the isolation and lack of alcohol has turned the ISS into something of an Overlook Hotel in near-Earth orbit.Well, just in case an astronaut or cosmonaut up there goes bonkers, it turns out that NASA is prepared for the contingency. Here's the story...Duct-Tape, Tranquilizers Part Of NASA's Plan For Mentally Unstable...
President Bush "doesn't give a damn" says Republican congressman
An absolutely scalding indictment against President Bush by U.S. House member Dana Rohrabacher is up on WorldNetDaily today...Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., denounced President Bush for his refusal to intervene in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to deny the bond requests of imprisoned former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, pending their appeal.Rohrabacher, in a statement, spared no words in laying the blame on the...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Happy Birthday to Jenna's blog!
Our dear friend Jenna Olwin posts that her blog is one year old today! So happy birthday to "A Light Inside" :-)Speaking of Jenna Olwin: yes, that is her in the photo that Gary is holding at the end of Schrodinger's Bedroom. Jenna wrote a little about her cinematic debut a few days ago, too. It's something of a pattern with me: this is my second movie with dialogue, and both of them have multiple references to people that I know from real life....
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Ten years ago tonight...
..."Weird" Ed, Johnny Yow (see Johnny, I mentioned you again on my blog!) and myself had dinner at Blue Ribbon Diner in Burlington (I had a hamburger and a whole pile of those delicious Blue Ribbon french fries). Then we went to the West End Cinema and saw The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition, which had just come out that day.This may have been my favorite of the Special...
An early draft of the SCHRODINGER'S BEDROOM script
Last night on my blog at TheLot.com (how many blogs can one man have, I wonder), I posted an earlier draft of the script for Schrodinger's Bedroom. It seemed like a neat thing to do, to publish the original plan for the movie and then compare that to the eventual final product. Quite a few things had to be cut between this and the sixth draft, which was the one we filmed from. A lot of the underlying science background, and a few double entendres...
Monday, February 19, 2007
Remember the telescreens in 1984?
If this is true, I wonder how long it will be before leaving the battery out of your cellphone for an inordinate amount of time becomes noted as suspicious behavior...
THE FORCE UNLEASHED: New Star Wars multimedia thingy headed this way
Same thing happened while I was working on Schrodinger's Bedroom that happened during my school board campaign: I got so focused on the task at hand that I missed other stuff. Fun stuff, even. This has been big news for the last week or so but I'm just now hearing about it. Sounds like this is gonna be something kewl...Way back in the pre-prequels halcyon days of 1996,...
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE third trailer hits the 'net
This is something that I've thought about saying for quite awhile now: it's now past time for The Simpsons to be retired. I can't remember the last time I went to the trouble of tuning in on a Sunday night for a new episode, when it used to be that it was one of the highlights of my week. The last recent episode that I can remember that I genuinely laughed at was the one...
Complete list of school board campaign posts
This is something I'd meant to do awhile back, then some real-life things kept me from devoting the time really needed to compile this together. I said way back when that I was going to be blogging about my school board campaign so that if others ever found this blog and if they were considering running for office, that I would do my best to describe what it's like to go through this process. Instead of forcing someone to wade through all those...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Surprise performer Clay Aiken wows the crowd at Winter Jam in Greensboro
Last night Lisa and I went to the Greensboro event for the Winter Jam 2007 Tour Spectacular. It's a Christian concert thingy, and we went to the one last year too and had a good time. Tony Nolan and Britt Nicole warmed up the crowd before the main gig started. Then Sanctus Real opened up the show. They were followed by NewSong and then Hawk Nelson (who every time I hear the name of this band I think of Bruce Willis' 1991 bomb Hudson Hawk for...
Friday, February 16, 2007
SCHRODINGER'S BEDROOM premieres TONIGHT at ON THE LOT!
I had no idea this was coming, this soon. For the past few days I'd actually wondered if it would be hosted on the On The Lot website at all, considering how they've been flooded with entries.That and a few other things that I've heard about today has made it so that I'm feeling all the more floored right now, because this was something that I was in no way expecting to happen....
Is digital filmmaking really "filmmaking"?
Yesterday on my blog at the On The Lot website, I posted this essay about digital filmmaking, and whether it should count as "real" filmmaking. I thought it would be a neat thing to share here too...Is digital filmmaking really "filmmaking"?From the moment we saw the On The Lot promo during American Idol and my wife said I should go for it, to when it was mailed off, was exactly 28 days. Now that my film (is it really a "film"? We'll get to that...
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Boston Red Sox and last night's LOST (and more about "Room 23")
I just finished watching last night's episode of Lost, titled "Flashes Before Your Eyes" for the third time (I watched it again from the DVR right after it finished airing too). Ooh-boy... and you thought last week's episode was something else. I like what one guy on Ain't It Cool said: "It's like Sam Beckett leaped into the Matrix as it reset itself!"About that: I think the Oracle... ummm 'scuse me, Ms. Hawking, is wrong: things don't have to...
