In April I made a cake topper for my brother-in-law’s birthday party while my wife made the cake. Here is the step by step on how I did it: It starts with making a wire armature; I made this one out of a clothes hanger. Luckily this is all the armature that the worm required; […]
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“As far as midrash is concerned, Noah is the midrashiest midrash that ever was midrashed.” –Denny Burk from his review of Russell Crowe’s Noah, via Challies.com
“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” from Rex v. Sussex, though I first heard it in the 1985 movie The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name.
Pat Carroll, describing her attitude toward her characterization of Ursula in The Little Mermaid: “I (saw Ursula as this) ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.” via Jim Hill Media
Thunk! The sound woke me immediately from the weird dream I was having. It was a distinct ‘thunk’–the sound of something hitting the back porch. Check the clock–245am. Someone must be trying to get into the house. I got up, pulled on some clothes, and stepped out of the bedroom and checked the back door–still […]
n., A romantic and sentimental film or book. “Who’s Nicholas Sparks?” “Oh, you know, that guy that writes all those weepies.”
Girl: Even the Amish people are jumping! Guy: Those are Orthodox Jews.
Both gospel and blues are musical traditions rooted in the American South, both are based in tragedy, pain, and misery. But the difference between gospel and blues is that the gospel offers hope. The very nature of the blues is that there is no hope. Your heart is broke, you’re probably going to die from […]
“This is what they call giving somebody an Isadora Duncan.” –Filmmaker commentary on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, from the scene where Eddie Valiant gets information from R.K. Maroon by feeding Maroon’s tie into a Moviola film editing machine. I actually had to look that one up. Isadora Duncan was a dancer in the early 20th […]
“I wish I was dead with my back broken.” –Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larabie in Sabrina