Sometime last week, Elaine and I rented the recent romantic comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker. It was fair. But this morning, when I took it to the car to return it, I thought of a joke. (Incredibly late as usual; the movie came out last March).
Anyway. The joke.
How in the world does […]

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I don’t know why Elaine and I do these things. So few dates, so little time, so few movies we ever watch…and we waste them on things like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (By the by, Bob’s up and blogging again, and he gave his erudite review here.)
At least we knew it was […]

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I had fun tonight.
Loyal blog readers will remember a movie I saw back in September, “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.” It spawned this review. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon delivered the newly released DVD to my door, and tonight, I hosted a viewing of it. 26 of us watched the movie and talked about […]

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Last night, I went out with a bunch of guys for dinner and a movie. We saw Glory Road. If you haven’t seen it…I’ll simply give you the brief plot outline, and you can write the screenplay, and there’s a 99% chance you will get it exactly as it is in the movie.
1965. Young, passionate, […]

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Go ahead…use Google’s blog search, and try to find out about the Pirates of the Caribbean. Go ahead!

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Talli and I, for months, have been working our way through the special features of the Lord of the Rings movies (you know, the appendices to the special extended editions, that show how they made the movies. I’VE watched them all, of course, but it’s a good bonding experience to watch them again WITH her.) […]

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Ok, loyal blog readers, remember last May? Remember my exciting travel blog updates about our 2nd honeymoon trip to Dominica? Well, just in case you fell asleep, or skipped them, or weren’t hip to Gregg’s Gambles that long ago, go back and read this entry…
Did you read it? I don’t trust you. I’ll give the […]

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…to have a publisher read your blog. Got the chance to do a semi-official review of “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus”.

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Vindication is a nice thing. Read an interview with the director of the movie last night here. Listen to this:
The interesting thing is that here are people who are poor, under-privileged and often ill-educated people who because they live in a culture that is so dense and saturated with Jesus, redemption and sin, have a […]

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but i’d really love to knowi’d really love to climbmy way into your heartand see what i could findi’d walk into your skinswim through your veinssee it from your eyescause i’d really love to try, yeah
Jars of Clay, “Disappear”
There’s one trait I think I admire and aspire to more than about any other: the ability […]

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