It is with a heavy heart that I bring my latest update on Michael. We have learned that his cancer is too advanced and too aggressive to expect any sort of remission. Our oncologist estimates that with continued treatment Michael most likely has somewhere between six months and a year to live. This is not [...]
Mark: “Census came in the mail today. Why don’t we just throw it away?”
Jennifer: “I think that will just mean we get a low-wage temporary employee at our door being nosy.”
Mark: “Oh, right! We’d better write in something and send it back. Good point.”
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Continuing
A clear Romans-like trajectory has been revealed (from the secret thoughts of a priest, no less). The banality and universality of small evil will be “solved” by the appearance of Real and Pure Evil which can be dealt with in a final confrontation (I hope).
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I’m surprised I’ve never heard King compared to Ray Bradbury
It is refreshing to see a more Bram Stoker approach (so far) then the “vampires as enemy bike gang” approach which I have loved since watching The Lost Boys and Whedon used. I wonder if King will give the vampire ghostly properties (bodies could become mist [...]
Particularly S5E1. Remember how Dracula said her power was rooted in darkness and she had this addiction to go preying in the middle of the night? I can’t be the slayer and as much as the internet is like a haunted graveyard, this blog can’t be my patrol.
Sorry.
If you don’t know what any of this [...]
For the first time in a long time I did some work on the sidebar content to this blog. More needs to be done, but it is a start.
The most significant thing I did was add this great expat blog to my blogroll. Check it out!
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Before World War I, they were like this:
They were called Elfs, Fairies, Goblins, Gnomes interchangeably.
Then J. R. R. Tolkien managed to survive WWI, probably because he got Trench Fever.
Convalescing and dealing with the death of friends, he wrote stories about Elves that looked like this:
By the way. This is a very good book, but it [...]
Consider some dates:
1845-1885
1880-1920
1910-1950
1920-1960
1935-1975
1950-1990
1970-2010
So, I’ve always wanted to know/feel what it was like to live through amazing technological, economic, and political changes. What does it feel like to pass through such amazing transitions?
Now it dawns on me that everyone forty or over already knows. In fact, everyone in recent Western history has gone through such dramatic [...]
So I’m reading Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (Puffin Classics). And it occurs to me that Robert Louis Stevenson knew what he was doing naming the ship Covenant–the ship where David thought he was invited by a friend. There are all sorts of ways a crew can [...]
So does this, all this, mean that I’m back?
Figurative resurrections are sometimes not marked out objectively enough for my liking.
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Mark Horne » Blog Archive » A puzzler from my writing project.
Tolkien lost both pretty early and I now realize I should have included C. S. Lewis.
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What is neat about this project is that I’m actually writing a book under my own name. I think I’ll wait a bit before I tell you more about it. But in the meantime, here’s something for you all to guess at:
What did all these writers have in common (other than the fact [...]
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Asked a PCA pastor friend when he became a Christian. He was raised in a relatively non-religious home and became more aware as a believer in Jesus later in life. But he was baptized as an infant and the first words from his mouth were, “Well I became a Christian when I was [...]
YouTube – Tim Hawkins Delilah.
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In addition to a couple of balloons (one decorated with tools I don’t use), I got two objects for Father’s day, one of which I am consuming and the other I am using as a tool to aid in that consumption.
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Christmas 2008 022 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Jennifer snapped this of the rest of us before we ate her cooking.
So enjoy the weekend and then get busy in 2009!
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I had no idea how to describe it, but I like what Felicia Day wrote recently:
I’ve decided to turn the phrase “stressed beyond belief” to “coping with a wealth of opportunities”.
So pray that I cope and that the wealth becomes something more tangible. Like yesterday. And that I have patience.
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First day of school began with me still in Louisiana. I had a pulpit supply job and then the plane was late so that I had to stay overnight. Got up at 4:15 am this morning to various conflicting reports as to whether my flight was cancelled and when I needed to be [...]
OK, I still use my tumblog for most stuff, but I’m not satisfied doing so. I like the interface but I’m not as happy with the lack of a sidebar.
Speaking of sidebars, I’m not happy with the fact that when I tumble a video it messes up this template.
Speaking of sidebars some more, I added [...]
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