Yesterday afternoon WGSR Star 39 General Manager Charles Roark devoted the 4:30 "warm-up show" to what happened on Sunday night on the street in front of the station, when I gave Johnny Robertson of the "Church Of Christ In Name Only" the opportunity to debate me on live television. Since Robertson had already declared he was going to talk about me and this blog on his show anyway, and had strongly stated that I wouldn't debate him, I took him at...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Man threatened with arrest for wearing TRANSFORMERS t-shirt
Brad Jayokody, pictured below, was threatened by security personnel at London's Heathrow Airport because his t-shirt depicting Optimus Prime from the movie Transformers was considered offensive.So much for "Freedom is the right of ALL sentient beings!" ...Read the rest of the story he...
Monday, June 02, 2008
CONFRONTING JOHNNY ROBERTSON: YouTube videos of encounter with "Church of Christ" preacher
As I reported earlier, last night I gave Johnny Robertson of the Martinsville Church of Christ (which I call the "Church Of Christ In Name Only" because it has NOTHING to do with the traditional Churches of Christ) the opportunity to debate me on live television, since he's apparently been wanting me to mix it up with him over a matter of theology. You can read what I wrote about what happened at the above link.Here at last is the video of what...
Tonight I confronted Johnny Robertson with questions and a video camera
Yup, I sure did.Went down to the WGSR studio at 7 p.m. last night (now 7 hours ago) and waited until Johnny Robertson - of the "Church of Christ in Name Only", the hyper-legalist cult in these parts that is demonstrating so much hatred toward others, all in the name of Jesus Christ - showed up for his weekly live television broadcast.Robertson got there just before 8:30 on his way to do his show. And I didn't hesitate to ask Robertson three big...
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Johnny Robertson threatens to mention this blog on his TV show tonight!!!
A bit of an update on Dianne Odell, who passed away this past week after living 60 of her 61 years in an iron lung and was reported to have been a devout Christian woman. In considering her situation a question arose in my mind that I felt led to ask aloud to Johnny Robertson, James Oldfield and Norm Fields of the local "Church of Christ" (which has nothing at all to do with...
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Johnny Robertson ("Church of Christ in Name Only") attacks me... because I'm a Star Wars fan?!?
Okay, now it's getting into the territory of the downright nutty...About two months ago I called into Johnny Robertson's show What Does the Bible Say? on WGSR Star 39. Johnny Robertson (shown at right) is considered the chief ringleader of what I've come to call the "Church of Christ in Name Only" (COCINO for short), a very vindictive, mean-spirited cult working around Reidsville,...
A cool (and free) technical idea for the Nintendo Wii
This morning I was having a workout on Wii Fit (here's my initial review). My personal regimen right now is some strength training, some yoga and a lot of hard aerobic activity, followed by the "fun" stuff like the Ski Jump. That and the Ski Slalom might be the most addictive activities of the entire package... but Lisa swears that Bubble River will have you just as hooked.Part of the aerobics that I'm doing right now is Jogging the long distance....
Here it is: Ben moving the Island from the LOST Season 4 finale!
You know what haunts me most about this scene? It's that Ben is crying. This is the last thing that he's about to do for the Island, the final gesture of his duties as the previous chosen one. And for the first time, we are seeing fear in the face of this master manipulator.Just before the white light cascades over everything, I can't help thinking that what's going through Ben's mind is, "I'm going to die. Please forgive me." He knows he's...
Friday, May 30, 2008
Brazilian tribe with no outside contact is photographed by airplane
Eric Wilson sent this story over to me late last night. Look at these photos: they're of a tribe of people near the border of Brazil and Peru, that so far as we know has had no contact at all with the outside world. They are reported to have fired arrows at the airplane that flew over them as these photographs were taken...Read more here at the BBC's website.Kinda humbling...
Courage, Earle, and Korman: Three of entertaiment's greats have left us
Three classic figures from the world of music, television and film have passed away in the past few days. I don't think there is one of us who at some time or another was not entertained by the work of these gentlemen, their influence was so prolific...Alexander Courage died at the age of 88 on May 15th, it was announced yesterday. He composed music for many movies and television...
LOST: The morning after "There's No Place Like Home"
Like Lisa said last year when waking up the morning after "Through the Looking Glass": "It's hard to sleep with something like that on your mind..."In the 8+ hours since the two-hour conclusion of "There's No Place Like Home" (read my initial thoughts here) this blog has registered about 3,000 hits. And almost all of those are coming here after looking for "Jeremy Bentham" on Google. When I run the search myself, The Knight Shift shows up in the...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Six minutes after the LOST Season 4 finale...
From the moment that Kate mentioned "Jeremy Bentham" I was screaming during this episode.(Did that one get called last year, or what? :-)"There's No Place Like Home" did something that I never thought possible: it was an even more intense season finale than "Through the Looking Glass" was last year.Just... wow. Think I'm gonna need a drink after that one.Most jaw-dropping scene of the entire television season has got to be the Island moving. Anyone...
30 minutes left in LOST's Season 4 finale...
HOLY HELL!! THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!!!Locke told Jack "Just wait 'til you see what I'm about to do." He wasn't kidding.The Island... moved.And there's still thirty minutes left.More reaction lat...
LOST. Season 4 Finale. Tonight.
"We have to go back, Kate. WE HAVE TO GO BACK!"-- Jack ShepherdLost, Season 3 Finale "Through the Looking Glass"And ever since the jaw-dropping season-ending episode a year ago on Lost, a lot of people have been wondering: what could possibly have driven Jack, after everything he's done to try to get off the Island, toward such desperation about wanting to return to that...
A question for Johnny Robertson, James Oldfield, Norm Fields, and others of the "Church of Christ In Name Only" in the Reidsville/Martinsville area
Dear Johnny Robertson, James Oldfield, and Norm Fields:I can't recall a single time that any of you have been live on the air on your various "Church of Christ" television programs that broadcast on WGSR, when you have not vehemently stated that in order to be saved and go to Heaven that one must be baptized in water and join the Church of Christ. All three of you claim that without water baptism, there is no salvation possible at all.(I'll take...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Chad Austin and Chris Knight: Twenty-five years of mischief and friendship!
A few days ago was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. I'd thought of writing about that but you know, that's one event in my life that I've shared my memories about a few times already. All these years later and my ears are still ringing with the pandemonium that erupted when Darth Vader betrayed the Emperor.That's already one of the...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Want your own DHARMA Initiative snacks for LOST this week?!?
Two nights from now will be the two-hour finale for Season Four of Lost. We can't wait to see what happens! For last year's finale we had a Lost party at our place, which included these DHARMA Initiative food products made with various graphics I found on the web...Ever since then a lot of people have been writing to me, asking if I could send them the DHARMA labels too...
