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Summer of Love

Summer of Love

Since the World Cup ended, we canceled our cable and have spent this last month of the summer catching up on movies and documentaries on DVD. It turns out that the library has a lot more going for it than I had remembered, and not just the fetching book restocking gals. So the majority of [...]

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity

This week, Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice officially outed herself from Christianity. Naturally, she did so via her Facebook wall. Here is the text of her post: “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian … It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this [...]

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Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!

Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!

Gaps. I’ve learned to treasure them. We all know that gaps are out there.. We’ve all read, seen, heard, and told stories with gaps-a-plenty. It’s kind of like Indiana Jones spelling the name of God with his feet, in an effort to save his father. It’s sort of like Alice hopping from mushroom to mushroom, [...]

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Sweep the Leg

The Karate Kid – Sweep the Leg

A band called “No More Kings” wrote a song about Johnny, and his struggles to deal with the aftermath of losing the All Valley Karate Championship.  The actor who played Johnny, William Zabka, heard the song, loved it, and even offered to direct the music video for it.  He wrangled up several of the actors from [...]

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Johnny’s Can of Whoop-Ass

The Karate Kid – How bad was Johnny, really?

It’s all about the kids As I have shared before, one of the joys of parenting, in my opinion, is exposing my children to movies from my childhood and watching to see if they are filled with the same joy and wonder that I experienced as a child.  It’s self-serving and silly, but mostly harmless [...]

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Is this a civil rights issue?

On the same day that this film came out, my wife and I happened to be on a romantic trip to St. Louis and decided to catch a matinee showing of “Valentine’s Day“.  Shortly after the film started, and after meeting most of the key players in the story, I began to suspect that it [...]

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