No, not like that! I mean her music!
I've come back from a week in the mountains, staying in the abode of my best friend/filmmaking partner and using the time away from things to work on my book. I definitely needed it after being absorbed in work and projects and whatnot for... wow, the better part of a year now. Sometimes you just need to break loose from your routine and find inspiration from new surroundings. I got a...
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
"Weird Al" Yankovic's new album MANDATORY FUN is out today!
I've only been able to listen to two tracks from it so far (am waiting to listen to the rest with a friend later this evening) but Mandatory Fun is already down as one of my favorite "Weird Al" Yankovic albums of recent years!"Tacky" ought to be a hit with anyone who's had Pharrel Williams' "Happy" stuck in their head (which is too many of us), while "Word Crimes" -...
Saturday, July 12, 2014
A note to readers
Dear readers,I am REALLY getting fed up with some technical issues that are keeping abusive comments from being deleted.As of now I am making certain posts become drafts. This will hide them from public viewing until these issues are resolved and I can delete the comments again.I hate to take such a drastic step but at this point there is no choice. I wish I had thought of it earlier.The posts will return as soon as possib...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Iraq: I hate to say "I told you so", but...
I'm going to take time out from working on the book and professional obligations to say something that does not come out of any sense of pride or gloating. There is nothing at all to crow about regarding this.
That said, it has been a long-time contention of this blogger that our getting involved with Iraq was a mistake of unimaginably severe proportions. For as long as this blog has been active I have written on many, many occasions...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Chris Knight... Musician?
So today I began taking dulcimer lessons.How it came to be that I'm learning to play dulcimer, is a long story. But I think that I'm going to enjoy this.And if y'all are good, I might eventually post video of me playing ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Dear God:
Are You hearing me?
Do You care at all about us, about any of us?
I think about people who believe in You worldwide, who are even today being persecuted and tortured and killed because of their belief in You. What has it gotten them? Have You heard their cries?
If You aren't listening to them, why should I expect You to listen to me?
Why is it that every time You have blessed me with something, You yank it away like a cruel bully?...
Monday, May 19, 2014
I finally watched Season 4 of THE WALKING DEAD
From the very beginning of its fourth season this past October, The Walking Dead has been sitting unplayed on my DVR, taking up a sizable amount of real estate. I've been wondering what to do about it: either finally sit down and go through the season, or delete it altogether.
This past weekend I decided it was time to face some things, and let The Walking Dead stop...
Friday, May 16, 2014
Review of GODZILLA (2014)
The last time I saw a movie called Godzilla on a big screen it was 1998, the evening before its official release date. Two hours later I asked Chuck Buckley, my fellow columnist at Elon's newspaper The Pendulum, what he thought of it.
"I thought it sucked!", Chuck replied.
I had to concur. That night sticks out in memory as one of the worst experiences I've...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Happy Birthday to George Lucas
The Knight Shift wishes George Lucas all the best - and a lot of appreciation - on this, the occasion of his 70th birthd...
Monday, May 12, 2014
Lithium, Part 3
I need to write more.Let me restate that. I need to write more here, on this blog. Because if I write more here, maybe it will help me as I write more elsewhere.First, an update on the lithium. I visited my psychiatrist a few days ago (funny how I can say the word "psychiatrist" in reference to my own situation and not feel ashamed or embarrassed about it, when once upon a time I could not possibly do such a thing) and it was the...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Lithium, Part 2
Am now at the start of my third week on lithium carbonate, better known in the common vernacular as plain old "lithium".
Lithium has been a funny drug for me. On one hand it has worked wonders with the depression: something which I've had to endure a particularly excruciating bout with during the past month. The thoughts of wanting to be dead - really the thoughts of not wanting to "be here" anymore as opposed to seriously wanting to...
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Lithium
Started lithium yesterday.Have never been on lithium before. Had I been on it 15 years ago my life would have turned out completely different, no doubt. But there's no good to come speculating on what might have been. I could have accomplished some things, but missed doing a lot of other good ones.I'm feeling rather intoxicated at the moment. I could write anything. But it's not "drunk" per se. My mind hasn't been this free from struggling...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Well, so it begins
I still don't know what I'm supposed to be writing lately.
But I feel like I need to post something more than the running train of my current consciousness. All that's missing are exotic pharmaceuticals like what Hunter S. Thompson used with his own.
So for what it's worth, here is what might be the very first "spy" photo from the filming of Star Wars Episode VII,...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Years ago, as a student at Elon, I became... well, I still don't know the best word for it. "Active", "associated", "affiliated with", "hung around"...Well like I said, I still don't know.It was InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that I became a part of, in whatever insignificant capacity. Truth be known, that was a strange period in my life and there are times when I'm not exactly sure what was going on. Maybe I shouldn't look too hard for answers...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Dear readers of this blog,Two nights ago I very nearly made the greatest mistake of my life.Had it succeeded, another mistake, which I take full responsibility for, would have been the second greatest mistake of my life instead.I don't know what I'm doing. I thought I did.There are things which I cannot possibly be forgiven for and I wonder if my capacity as a writer and especially as a Christian writer is now irredeemably destroyed.I would do anything...
