In the wake of my "extending the opportunity" to "Martinsville Church of Christ" cultist Johnny Robertson on June 1st, WGSR general manager Charles Roark offered me 25 minutes of free airtime on Sunday night in response to Robertson. I took up the offer, even though 25 minutes is not nearly long enough to counter everything that Robertson, James Oldfield and Norm Fields spend thousands of dollars to broadcast for about a dozen and a half hours a...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Dr. Jim Austin passes away
A friend let me know a short while ago that Dr. Jim Austin of Eden, one of the at-large members of the Rockingham County Board of Education, passed away yesterday morning at his home. He leaves a wife and two daughters.The photo on the right is when he was sworn in on December 11, 2006.And right now, on top of everything else that's happened over the past few days, my heart's...
Saturday, June 07, 2008
To whom it may concern ...
"... something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told."-- Habakuk ...
"Silence in the Library": Chris finally reviews last week's DOCTOR WHO!
What, you think that helping with a musical production, coining a new phrase and even an encounter with evil incarnate would keep me from doing a review of "Silence in the Library", this past week's new episode of Doctor Who?! The action never stops on this blog, bay-bee!"We're near the equator... so this must be BIOGRAPHIES!""Without death they would be only comedies.""A...
Two people I know are getting married today
First there's Roger Weber, who I've known for literally all my life. He ties the knot today here in Reidsville, North Carolina.And then there's the lovely and effervescent Abby Prince of WebProNews, who I came to know this past year. According to our sources she's getting hitched somewhere in Kentucky.Congratulations to Roger and to Abby and their respective spouses-to-be! May God bless you today, and it is our prayer that you and your loved ones...
Friday, June 06, 2008
CHILDREN OF EDEN Update: 14 Days to Opening Night
Two weeks from tonight, we will all be in makeup and costume, and about to take to the stage with the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County's production of Children of Eden.We have come a very long way in a short time. But there's still plenty more to do.The past few nights have been spent on cleaning up the choreography for the bigger numbers. Last night it was work on "In The Beginning" and "The Naming", and that one was especially fun to watch....
STAR WARS BLUEPRINTS: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION coming in August
This has to be the gnarliest cover for a printed Star Wars product that I've ever seen. Behold the box for Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection...That pic alone reinforces something that's taken me awhile to really grasp: that for all his dreaded reputation, Darth Vader is a pretty pitiful character. Imagine being a scorched torso with no arms or legs, not even...
Thursday, June 05, 2008
YouTube adds Video Annotations feature
Yesterday YouTube rolled out a new feature called Video Annotations. It's a way to add interactive content to YouTube videos and after playing around with it some, I think this might be one of the best things that YouTube has done yet for its users. You can include commentary, add dialogue balloons, even link to other YouTube videos. Lots of possibilities here. During...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
LOST: Deleted fence scene from "The Economist"
Hey gang: still reeling from the events of "There's No Place Like Home", the season finale of Lost that aired last week? Not looking forward to eight months of withdrawal from one of the greatest television shows ever? Well, here's something that maybe will help ease the suffering. Notorious Lost blogger DocArzt and his bunch have scored the video of a deleted scene from the episode "The Economist". It depicts Kate, Sayid and Miles arriving at...
WARGAMES and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the release of WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. AMC was running it last night and I wound up watching a good part of it.In case you've never seen it before, WarGames is about David Lightman, a high school student who's an unmotivated slacker in class but a first-rate computer hacker at home. David's real talent is...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Review of INDIANA JONES: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
Yesterday I bought a copy of Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide. I've long been a fan of DK Publishing's Star Wars books, which have been in the format of visual dictionaries and beautifully illustrated cutaways of locations and vehicles in the Star Wars saga.Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide continues DK's tradition in providing lush eye candy and detailed information, this...
Ballard: Titanic search was cover-up for U.S. Government mission
Robert Ballard has come forward with something very interesting: his successful 1985 search for the Titanic was only a cover story for a mission from the United States Government.The deal was: Ballard would assist the U.S. Navy in examining the wreckage of two American nuclear submarines - the Thresher and the Scorpion - that were lost at sea in the Atlantic during the 1960s. At the time, there was concern that the Soviet Union might somehow find...
THE KNIGHT SHIFT: In Color! Live on WGSR this Sunday night
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...
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...
