Fifteen minutes into the midnight showing of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra the film burned and broke. That was my favorite part of the movie. No, I’m not kidding. If I hadn’t been there with my children and students I would have walked out shortly after they got it back up and running. I […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
If you were a big fat huge fan of the original Ghostbusters movie (and, mayhaps, the Real Ghostbusters cartoon), then you will flippin’ love the new Ghostbusters video game. I received the X-Box 360 version as a belated Father’s Day gift, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it (not entirely true–I have enjoyed it to the extent […]
I’ve been a big fan of Wallace & Gromit ever since Heather and I saw The Wrong Trousers in a tiny-screened art house theater. The kids grew up on the original three shorts, and we loved Curse of the Wererabbit as well. However, none of us much cared much for Nick Park’s latest, A Matter […]
“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system,” –U.S. President Barack Obama. Thank goodness we have a man in office not afraid to bring the inefficiencies to the U.S. health care system that we so desperately need. Maybe we can finally catch up with England.
I recently upgraded a computer for a woman, a pale brunette with a Slavic accent. Imagine if Bela Lugosi had a daughter with Lydia from Beetlejuice. “Do you need to be set up as an administrator?” I asked her. “Yes,” she began. And then a dark, conspiratorial, accented whisper: “I want all de powa!”
If you read my previous post about Whiskey in the Jar, I told you that story so I can tell you this story. Several years ago at a party we were playing Encore, a game where, when given a word or a topic, you have to sing seven consecutive words of a song on that word […]
Whiskey in the Jar is an Irish folk song dating to the 1600s. The song has been covered by scads of musical acts, including The Kingston Trio, The Ernies, and Metallica. It’s about a Irish highwayman who robs an English captain and then returns to his woman with the money. After he goes to sleep, […]
I love books, and have for a long time. I think a lot of it stems from when I was a kid, when we would go to the mall. Mom and my brother would go somewhere, and dad and I would go to the bookstore. I don’t know what dad was looking at, but I […]
Pronounced SHIB-ol-eth. A shibboleth is a word, phrase, or mannerism that a group of people uses as a test to see if other people are members of that group. It might also be a joke. For example: There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary code, and those that don’t. […]
German word, pronounced “SHAHD-n-FROID-uh.” The literal translation is “shameful laughing,” and it means laughing at the misfortunes of others, kind of like I do in that story about Timmy’s cough.