While I was at my in-laws over Christmas, I picked up Trouble is My Business, a collection of four short Philip Marlowe stories by my favorite detective novelist, Raymond Chandler. If you haven’t read Chandler, he writes very economically, kind of the Anti-Tolkien. Where Tolkien might include the names of a landmark in three languages […]
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Month: January 2009
You may have noticed I have disabled comments on my blog. That is because I don’t care what you think. Just kidding. The real reason is this: having previously been the webmeister and moderator for messageboards, I have seen that civil discussion online is impossible, even among good people and good friends. While I did say ‘online,’ I […]
Happy 2009 to everyone. I hope you all have a great year. I am off from work for the holiday, and have been doing some cleanup and organization on the blog. I hope to get the site design cleaned up a little bit, but don’t hold your breath.
When I made my previous post of Best Movies of the Year, somehow I forgot one: Fireproof. Fireproof is a Christian movie about a couple on the verge of divorce. It was made by the same guys who made Facing the Giants, and unlike a lot of Christian movies, has decent production values. The directors […]
My friend Kaleb introduced us to a new place to eat called Habashi House, located in the City Market in Kansas City, Missouri. The place is amazing. We always get the same thing, which is the lunch special consisting of a gyro accompanied by either rice, hummus, or salad. Coffee and hot tea are free. […]