just for the heck of it

This might be the stupidest post that I’ve ever made on this blog (and that’s sayin’ something). I’ll let you, Dear Reader, judge for yourself.

It’s sort of my friend Kevin Bussey’s fault (even though he’s a totally great guy :-). His blog, Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee, is one of my favorites: not just because he offers up a lot of terrific insight as a brother in Christ, but also for his fondness of posting about the more whimsical news of the world. And he especially enjoys sharing the occasional stories about “apparitions” of Jesus or Mary materializing in loafs of bread, lava lamps etc.

So yesterday Kevin had this item about what is supposedly a picture of Jesus in a car dealership’s door. It reminded me of something that I’d promised to do for Kevin over the past few months. And seeing that picture well… I ...

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One of the greatest title sequences for a children’s cartoon ever.

The theme song alone will make you want to go flying off into outer space on a World War II battleship with a bunch of other men…

Okay, so it wasn’t originally called Star Blazers, the original Japanese title is Space Battleship Yamato, but it’s still an awesome show no matter what language it’s translated in 🙂

Maybe someday the suits at Disney will finally give us that live-action version that’s been promised since 1995. Would be cool to see what the wave motion gun would look like…...

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