I thought this was a fairly cool lyric. Of course, Death Cab for Cutie lyrics always are, but this was an interesting perspective nicely phrased. Spring blooms and you find the love that's true But you don't know what n…

It's true. I love old technology. I like a machine that goes *click* a lot more than a gadget that goes *beep*. I love scenes in adventure movies where the hero uncovers some spectacularly complicated machine that you op…

Go Oilers!

Sorry, sory, sorry. I forgot that this isn't a "rant against' blog. This a culture and stuff blog. Except for the monthly u2 post. Anyhow, back to cultured stuff. Today, I finally actually got out my script and started …

Forgive me for saying this, and for ignoring my own precepts my doing so, but I never want to hear about The Duh Vinci Code again, okay? To be honest, the church is blowing this way out of proportion. What sort of treatm…

I've been reading The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco lately, and a couple of things have struck me so far. First off, there's something slightly anachronistic about writing a medival whodunit so postmodernly. Which is t…

Evangelicals have long asked - What Would Jesus Drive? I admit that I'm not sure but I really hope it's this. No word on gas mileage, but still a sweet deal.

Odd how one post leads to another. A couple of days back, when I was rambling about clenching my wallet until the leather mooed, one of the comments suggested I wait until "tax free weekend." Unfortunately, there ain't n…

Unbelievably, there are downsides to almost everything except eating at at McDonald's and Christianity in general. Case in point : saving money. For the last couple of year's of course, I've been more or less saving mone…

There were a whole pile of movies in the Golden Age of Film and Really Good Hats called the Thin Man movies. The main character wasn't thin, but obviously he had been in his youth, and so the nickname had stuck with him …

Fix you is as sappy as all get out, but good anyway.

For the next little while, my "listening to" area won't be what I'm listening to, but rather a "highly recommended song that you really need to go listen to because Fraser loves it more than life itself." Today, City of …

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttt'sssssssssss....... Bono's Birthday! Which makes a jolly good excuse for this month's patented "U2 day." For 24 hours, this blog is all about U2. Why? Because I love u2, because after al…

This is the kind of joke one of my future professors finds funny "Give a man a duck, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to duck, and he avoids stray gunfire." I'm gonna fit in so well. And you're gonna hate me when I…

I can just see Bono getting back home this weekend, only to find his wife standing behind the door with a giant copy of this picture. "I told you to let me come, but NO!"

I think I'm geting obsessed with this whole blog thing. I mean, I was practically popping champagne the other day when my counter showed somebody I'd never run into had found my site. Total strangers reading my thoughts …

Long ago the deer decided to steal fire from humans, and in order to do so they concocted a plan. One of the deer was to run through a human camp and scoop up fire in his antlers to carry back to the other deer. Of cours…

Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. G. K. Chesterton

Once again, the thrills chills, and just-feeling-ills of being in a drama club are upon me. Last time it was Much Ado About Nothing. This time it's the Importance of Being Earnest. No teenage drama club is permitted by n…