Cruel Logic

While y’all wait for me to complete a new post on evanescent’s carrot & stick article, here’s a link to whet your appetite. (HT: Gene Cook, TNM #864)

Good Things

Without belaboring my obvious recent absence from the blogosphere, I’ll just provide a number of links that you might find interesting:
RiffTrax: Don’t you miss MST3K? Years ago, Forester had the idea to make his own MST3K-type spoofs, but the original MST3K guys ended up beating him to the punch. Now, for only [...]

Image vs. Word II

(If you haven’t read it yet, back up and read the previous post)
The second phase of the biblical relationship between Word and Image is Incarnation. Ellul states that “there is no true theophany.” Instances like these [Gen 18:1-16, Gen 32:22-32, Judges 13, Daniel 3:24-25] are all difficult to discern in terms of whether [...]

Raising Arizona

Still not really back yet, but I thought maybe it could be more interesting to pose this question to Forester here, inviting others to discuss as well, rather than just sending him an email. T got me the DVD of Raising Arizona for my birthday, and we re-watched it for the first time in [...]

Da Vinci Blowed

We went to a great talk tonight; our church sponsored a lecture and Q&A about The DaVinci Code, by Mark Strauss (professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary, and author of Truth & Error in The Da Vinci Code)

Musings on TV: admonitions to parents

T here. This is my first attempt at a blog entry. After some slight urging from RubeRad to write on the blog, I felt compelled to write about a book that I recently read titled Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.

Top 5

Inspired by my baby sis…

Day Without a Cohesive Message

I don't know if the "organizers" of today's "Day Without an Immigrant" activities knowingly borrowed their title from the movie "A Day Without a Mexican" (see also the short film by the same director, especially the user comment at IMDB), but it appears that they do share the same self-defeating premise.

More Language

A while back, I gave an elder at my church a copy of Doing Our Own Thing. Yesterday (probably in retaliation, and certainly an escalation!), he gave me a copy of Jacques Ellul's The Humiliation of the Word, which he termed "a long, hard read", and knowing a little about the reading proclivities of [...]

Sweet Story

This morning on NPR there was a short feature on a Korean immigrant describing why her marriage is more affectionate than is common among other traditional or immigrant Koreans.