Pictures from Texas, Part 3

I'm gonna go ahead and knock the rest of this thing out of the ballpark, 'cuz the next few days are going to be crazy busy and I've put off doing this long enough. So here's the rest of the photos from Texas (here's Part 1 and here's Part 2).One of the things that I'd wanted to do while I was in Texas was visit my brother-in-law Jonathan, who's a seminary student at Baylor...

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Pictures from Texas, Part 2

Here are more photos from my Texas adventure. When we left off at Part 1, I'd arrived at my friend Deborah's house in Texas. The next morning, before anyone else had woken up, I went out for a walk around her house.Here's Deborah's backyard. As I told her when I got there, "You could throw a dead body back there and nobody would ever find it." Also fun to keep in mind...

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The Passion of the Claus

A guy near Seattle has crucified Santa Claus and put him on display in his front yard. The whole thing is meant to protest the over-commercializing of Christmas.Obviously, this has upset quite a few folks around there.This whole "crucified Santa" thing has been around for at least a dozen years now. Supposedly, the manager of a department store in Tokyo put Santa on a cross...

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The Lost Colony, Cheesecake Factory, and "Perry Como's TRIUMPH OF THE WILL" aka THE POLAR EXPRESS in IMAX 3-D!

So the past 72 hours here have been... interesting. I'll be able to talk about it more in the next couple of days. Just wanna say for the record though, that I've been a busy dude toward the end of this past week. And I'm about to head out to create some more mischief.But before I do, I wanna do a bit of a write-up about what happened yesterday, 'cuz it was full of some...

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Pictures from Texas, Part 1

Here they are finally: photos from the trip to Texas that I made earlier this month. Took awhile to get around to posting these 'cuz there were so many (over 380) across a six-day period, and I've been extremely busy since getting back. Obviously this isn't all of the pics, but they'll give you a gist of what went down there (except for during Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 itself because...

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"We have to go back!" Trailer for LOST Season 4

Lost returns next month. On January 31st to be precise.By then it will have been eight months since that sense-shattering season finale: the one that still ranks as the most devious and clever tricks that I've ever seen on an American television series.Unfortunately due to the writers' strike it looks like we're only going to get eight episodes of Lost this season. I've heard that if the strike ends soon, that there might still be time to finish...

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"Flight of the Bumblebee" from NBC's CLASH OF THE CHOIRS

Last week NBC started a new show called Clash of the Choirs. Lisa's been watching it a lot since she's a music teacher and directs an elementary choir herself. During last night's show she called out for me to hurry and check this out: Nick Lachey's Cincinnati-based choir doing an a cappella rendition of "Flight of the Bumblebee". It's amazing! Here it is on YouTube (at least until NBC probably yanks it for "copyright infringement", which would...

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Westboro Baptist Church produces the most evil music video ever

About a year and a half ago, I had a first-hand encounter with the Westboro Baptist Church - aka the "God Hates Fags" church - when a bunch of them came to WGSR (where I was working at the time) so that Shirley Phelps Roper could do a live interview. In my initial report I wrote about how the Westboro Baptist members were singing really blasphemous "parodies" of well-known songs.Well, Phillip Arthur found something: a music video by the Westboro...

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AMC is running A CHRISTMAS CAROL right now

It's the one starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Many regard this as the finest version of A Christmas Carol ever filmed. I watched this the very first time it ran, waaaay back in December of 1984.Okay, question: everyone, and I mean everyone, knows the story of A Christmas Carol. But how many people have actually read Charles Dickens's original novel? How many of you reading this can say that you've gone through the whole thing?I did,...

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Smaug Alert: Peter Jackson and New Line are making THE HOBBIT (and a sequel)!

It's true! Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have made nice and are producing a big-screen feature of The Hobbit, just as Jackson did with The Lord of the Rings several years ago.But that's not all: the deal also includes a sequel that will "bridge" the events of The Hobbit with The Lord of the Rings that took place sixty years later. If you've ever read some of Tolkien's other works, you know that there was a lot more going on in that period that...

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Windows Vista: Not so Aero-dynamic

Last Tuesday, after I came back from Texas, I went to Greensboro to pick up my new computer at the store that I'd ordered it from. By the way if you're in North Carolina and want quality computer products and outstanding service, I would definitely recommend Intrex. This is the second system that I've bought from them and I've never been anything less than overwhelmed at their confidence and dedication. They've got stores from Winston-Salem all...

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Muslim women becoming "virgins" again via surgery

Here's an interesting story via Fox News Channel...Muslim Brides Undergoing Painful Vaginal Surgery to 'Re-virginize' for Wedding NightsMonday, December 17, 2007 On her wedding night, Aisha Salim will hand her blooded sheets to her in-laws as proof of her virginity, according to a story in The Daily Telegraph of Australia.But there’s one problem. Being a modern English university graduate, she is far from the traditional untouched Muslim bride.Like...

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"Tea Party money bomb" gets Ron Paul more than $6 million in one day

Ron Paul's presidential campaign raked in more than $6 million across 24 hours yesterday. It was part of a "money bomb" coordinated by supporters outside of the official Ron Paul campaign (meaning this wasn't something run by campaign executives... which makes it all the more impressive). The event was meant to tie-in with the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, and handily beats the record set for fundraiser that took place on November 5th (the...

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Dan Fogelberg has passed away

Matt Smith sends along the sad news that Dan Fogelberg, the singer/songwriter who had hits like "Same Old Lang Syne" and "Leader of the Band" among others, has passed away at age 56.Here's the word from Fogelberg's official website.And here's a video of Fogelberg playing "Leader of the Band"...Thoughts and prayers going out to his family tod...

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THE DARK KNIGHT's first real trailer is online!

"It's all part of the plan."Smash here for the first full-blown trailer for The Dark Knight, including two downloadable Quicktime versions!Is it just me, or is Heath Ledger, from just a 2-minute long trailer, already the most amazing Joker ever put on film?EDIT 1:14 p.m. EST 12/17/2007: And if you can't get ahold of the Quicktime version just yet, here's the trailer on Yo...

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Christians didn't always celebrate Christmas... and some still don't

There's a fascinating article from the Associated Press about how the celebration of Christmas is actually a fairly recent thing. And how some Christians today do not mark the occasion at all...As Christmas draws near, Pastor John Foster won't be decorating a tree, shopping for last-minute gifts or working on a holiday sermon for his flock. After all, it's been 50 years since Christmas was anything more than a day of the week to him.He's one of...

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