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• Read a Chapter Challenge

I challenge you to block out all of the distractions and read a whole chapter of the Bible… In a single sitting! It’s not as hard as it could be.

• Why Kids Should Wear Cowbells

Since I know you are going to look at the pictures first I should just show them first. Click to see them bigger.

So, Benjamin wanted to try his hand at hair styling I guess. They were supposed to be taking a nap. But instead, they snuck out of their room and massacred the hair of [...]

• An Unlikely Candidate

Thank you for all your support so far. Here’s to a normal person for president. Let’s produce some real change in Washington! Thanks News Channel 3 for your coverage.

• Hollywood Stock Exchange

If you didn’t know, I love movies. I love to watch them and I love to talk to other people who love movies too. I love movies because they are our society’s preferred medium for the telling of stories. I love that in approximately two hours they have the power to bring me to tears [...]

• Obama’s Future

Well, Barack Obama has officially won the democratic nomination for President. With last night’s win over his formidable opponent, enough delegates finally shifted his way and gave him the security he knew he was going to have all along. How is he so confident, how does he seem to know that America will support [...]

• Best Bets: Don’t Mess With the Kung Fu Panda

Well, last week Sex and the City did extremely well at the box office raking in nearly 57 million, easily overtaking the geriatric Dr. Jones who had a weak showing of only 46 million. The big winner of the weekend was the summer horror flick, The Strangers, it surprised most by having a 21 million [...]

• More Iron Man vs. Batman

The Caped Crusader meets Marvel’s newest posterboy (a.k.a. cashcow) again to discuss the success of Iron Man, and the upcoming release of The Dark Knight. As with Iron Man, stick around till the very end to get the goods.

• Cool Stuff: Scrap Metal Sci-fi Sculptures

The folks over at robot-models.com have some pretty cool stuff. They are professional sculptors who use used car and motorcycle parts as well as bolts, nuts and sheet metal to craft some pretty amazing sci-fi replicas. Most of the largest are over 7 feet tall. My favorites were Optimus Prime and Alien.
They have a [...]

• SNL Season Finale

Steve Carell hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live and I have to admit, he is one of the funniest people ever. I was gasping for air watching his opening monologue and the whole show was good, the “There Can Be Only One” ad putting Clinton and Obama side by side was great. But [...]

• Iron Man vs. Batman

I couldn’t resist posting this video after I read the Movie Blog’s 5 ways Iron Man was better than Batman Begins. For the record, I wholeheartedly agree with John’s observations and think that Christopher Nolan will have to take it to the next level with The Dark Knight if he wants to dethrone Iron Man [...]

• 100 Numbers

I was looking on YouTube for a video to correspond to my Movie Quote Challenge and I found this gem. It took a lot of patience and editing skill to piece this together. Enjoy.

• Best Bet: Iron Man

Welcome to the summer, I feel sorry for the movies going up against this marketing giant. I’ve seen Iron Man Slurpee cups and Iron Man cell phones. I have hopes that this will become the new Marvel franchise to replace Spider-Man.
For those of you who live under a rock, Iron Man is the story [...]

• Worst Comic Book Movies

The Scene Stealers have a great rundown of the 10 Worst Comic Book Movies I respect this list and will have to post one of my own soon. I’ll be sure to include stinkers like Shaq’s Steel and Hulk from 2003.

• 5 Reasons Why Trailers Are Bad

We all love movie trailers, right? They give you a glimpse of what upcoming movies are going to be like, and often they are the biggest news on the movie news-sites out there. Trailers are downloaded millions of times, and when the trailers are playing in front of a movie in the cinema, you can [...]

• Expelled: Overview

I was was very impressed with, Expelled, the new documentary by Ben Stein on the debate between Darwinian Evolution and Intelligent Design. The quality and humor of the film reminded me of a Michael Moore Documentary, except instead of only presenting one side of the argument, Stein gave equal time for the opposing group to [...]

• Kenetic Typography

This is such an entertaining presentation. I love the medium and could watch it all day. It’s not just for credits anymore.

• Expelled Preview Screening

If the posters popping up around campus are to be believed, there will be a preview screening at Southern of the new Ben Stein documentary on intelligent design, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” on April 1st. I had trouble believing it at first, It sounds like a cruel prank that Dr. Moore might play on his [...]

• Random Updates

My day-late dollar-short movie quote challenge for this week is up, I think it’s a tough one. And don’t forget to answer Finucane’s too.
If you’re wondering, everything went well with UPS. I should start orientation sometime next week.
I’m leading worship tonight and on Sunday for Parkwood, pray for me and for the church as they [...]

• Lying Babies

Scientists now recognize that babies as young as six months are capable of the “difficult art of lying.” Difficult? Seemed obvious to me, guess these scientists weren’t parents.

• Apocalypto (2006)

Click on Reviews in the header menu for an overview of how I approach film reviews.
At the heart of heart of Mel Gibson’s tale of the downfall and collapse of the Ancient Mayan culture is the story of Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young warrior living in a peaceful village where hunting and making babies [...]

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