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Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
I'm three episodes into Amazon Prime's new series Fallout...
"War. War never changes."Actually, Ron Perlman's voice for opening narration is pretty much the only thing missing from Fallout: Amazon Prime's new streaming show based on the legendary video/computer game series. I was looking forward to what those first words would be.But that can be forgiven, in light of how epically faithful a live-series adaptation of...
Happy Birthday Tammy!
It was actually a few days ago on April 8th, the same day as the solar eclipse. Here's the pic I snapped of Tammy on her twelfth birthday. Such a sweet little dog. Tammy has been a little angel on four legs all these years. I definitely could not have gone far without her company. She keeps me going. And she has saved my life more than once. ...
Saturday, April 06, 2024
We entered The Matrix a quarter century ago this week
I had seen the commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. While browsing the magazines at Barnes & Noble I flipped through the pages of Starlog and ogled the photos, which had to be the most abrupt juxtaposition of images from a single movie I had ever beheld (martial arts, Giger-ish metal, what?). But none of it made any sense.Then about a month after The...
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Fifty
First photographMarch 31, 1974Moses Cone HospitalGreensboro, North Carolina For a very long time I've believed that if you can make it to fifty without once getting told that you're "middle-aged" it means that you'll never have to be a grown-up.Ahhhhh, so Fifty, we meet at last. I've been waiting for you. You thought I wouldn't make it this far but you were...
Happy Easter 2024
Made by my dear friend Bethany Myers and too beautiful not to share this Easter Sund...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Lent 2024: A respite from blogging
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday: the beginning of the Lenten season.There have been some years when I have observed Lent on this blog. The first time, in 2006, I refrained from posting at all. This blog was two years old then and it was a commitment to keep the content fresh and poppin'. So no blogging for seven weeks presented a dire temptation to write something,...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Happy 50th Birthday to Blazing Saddles!
It was on this date in 1974 that filmmaker Mel Brooks released his western spoof upon an unsuspecting world. And comedy was never the same again...It's probably the number-one movie that has been said "it could never be made today." Which makes it all the more special. Blazing Saddles is unadulterated political incorrectness as only Brooks and his crew could...
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
A meditation upon Matthew 7:7
Every so often Matthew 7:7 comes to mind. The verse reads (from the New International Version): "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." It comes to the fore of my thoughts when I think about my own salvation journey. How it progressed from being a person very angry and bitter toward God, to...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
God and mental illness: Why won't He heal my mind?
Obviously the notion entered my mind that maybe this could be an installment of the Being Bipolar series (which there may be much more material for coming soon). But Being Bipolar is more about the disease itself, and is intended to be a resource for those looking for insight and information from someone who lives with that condition.What I'm sharing now, on the other...
Monday, January 29, 2024
I plan on wearing my Ghostbusters uniform on opening day of this
New trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire dropped a few hours ago and I've watched it a few times now. I'm getting a vibe that this might be the best film since the original. It's hitting on all the right notes. And hey, it even has the return of Walter Peck!Watch it here:&nb...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Reveal trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!
Word is breaking loose at this hour that Bethesda's new Indiana Jones game has finally been revealed... Coming later this year it's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Looks set pre World War II aka the "golden era" of the saga. As for the "MacGuffin" of this particular adventure, there are hints of in in the trailer that went live a little while ago.So let's take...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
"Why We Fight": Three qualities I aspire for in my writing
I am a writer. I chronicle things. Including both mundane and wondrous happenings in my life.I write, laboring under the notion that examining one's own being will further illuminate that magnificent thing known as "the human condition". I don't write for power, or money (though I have earned a little over the years). I don't even write for "the masses". ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The Only Hope For America: A video commentary by Yours Truly
Have had a lot of thoughts over the past few days and weeks about the upcoming presidential election, and the general state of America.If you've ever read "Isaiah's Job" by Alfred Jay Nock, and you found it resonated with you, then this video may interest you t...
Monday, January 08, 2024
The Berenstain Bears learn about sound economic policy
I knew it! I just knew that I hadn't imagined this. A cartoon from 37 years that I saw only once ago and I still remember it!Around the mid-Eighties there was an animated series based on the beloved Berenstain Bears children's books. The show ran on Saturday mornings on CBS. It was pretty good as I seem to recall. And often quite humorous.Well,...
Saturday, January 06, 2024
EEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
All this time for the past several years I've been trying to write a book. About my life especially regarding the impact manic depression has had on it.I've been working on a number of bits and pieces of it, going back and forth on those. But there has never been a "plan" per se. I've been assembling fragments but this project lacked structure. I was stumbling around without a clearly defined plot.For a very long time,...
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Latest "episode" of my new video series
Still very early in this endeavor. Right now I am mostly working on camera angles, lighting, a better intro sequence... and my own presentation. I used to publicly speak better than I do now and I have to wonder if the meds I take to manage my manic depression might have taken some of that away. But there's no way to improve without jumping in and DOING it. Perhaps I will indeed improve with time.Anyway, here's the latest episode....
