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Rescued
This weekend we watched the Liam Neeson movie Taken. In the movie, Neeson’s estranged daughter (played by Maggie Grace) is kidnapped while vacationing in Paris. Neeson then spends the remainder of the...
View Article‘Lord, Save Us From Your Followers’
As a footnote to a few of my recent blog posts, I would strongly recommend the 2008 documentary from Dan Merchant, Lord, Save Us From Your Followers. It’s a humbling reminder of the damage we...
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The ransom has been paid
I finally got around to watching Man on Fire. In the movie, Denzel Washington plays a bodyguard named Creasy who pursues the kidnappers of a little girl named Pita (played by Dakota Fanning). In the...
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‘Blue Like Jazz’ movie on hold indefinitely
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he...
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On dragons
About a week ago, we finally got around to seeing the animated movie How To Train Your Dragon. It’s a great movie, and the kids loved it. Of course, when it first came out, I couldn’t help but to joke...
View ArticleThe ‘Blue Like Jazz’ movie trailer looks amazing
I had my doubts about the movie adaptation of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz after reading unChristian author Gabe Lyons’ review of the screenplay. After seeing this teaser trailer, though, I’m...
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Somewhere on the Ice Planet of Misfit Toys…
Source. Previously: The story behind ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
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Is ‘Blue Like Jazz’ the anti-‘Courageous’?
It’s an honest work if I can stand up on it Maybe we’re not as far apart as it appears – MUTEMATH, “Armistice” On Monday I reserved my tickets to the advanced screening of the Blue Like Jazz movie,...
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‘Blue Like Jazz’: Perfection without resolution
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he...
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‘Blue Like Jazz’: Why it’s important
I’ve had the opportunity to see the new movie Blue Like Jazz twice now, once at a pre-release screening in March and again this past opening weekend. As anyone who’s followed me on Twitter or Facebook...
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March Madness 2014: My picks
Well, kids. The calendar says it’s March, so it must be that time again in which for two weeks we pretend to know and care about college basketball while we inwardly pine for the beginning of football...
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The End. (Mostly)
Today Christy takes her last final exam of nursing school (her final final?). Next week she’ll have her official pinning ceremony and graduation and next month she’ll sit for the NCLEX exam to earn...
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Checking out of checking in
Haven’t you heard? Check-in apps are sooo 2009. At least that seems to be the lesson learned first by Gowalla and now by Foursquare. You remember Gowalla, right? The Austin-based David to Foursquare’s...
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40 years in the wilderness
Everybody drinks the water from the murky pool Surely as you think you’re well You know your belly aches Everybody learns religion at the blind man’s school Will you reach for heaven When the preacher...
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Fences and neighbors
We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay where you are until...
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The new normal
Well, it’s a new school year, just like last year except completely different. The past two years, I’ve had one daughter in middle school, one daughter in elementary, and one wife in nursing school....
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No coffee for squirrels
I have a confession to make. I’ve started another blog. Well, sorta. I’ve actually started a tumblr, which I don’t consider a “blog”, per se. But I guess technically it is. Anyway, you get the idea....
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A time to mend
My mom is dying. In the last nine months she’s spent maybe a week total at home. The rest of the time has been spent moving from the hospital to a rehab center to a managed care facility and back to...
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In defense of Spotify
Taylor Swift recently made a lot of headlines for pulling all her music from Spotify, arguing that the streaming service was hurting album sales and essentially driving her into bankruptcy, killing...
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Falling in
I don’t know how I feel about the word “introvert”. Introverted, extroverted, Type-A, melancholy, choleric, INTJ, ESTJ, ESPN, whatever. All ways we try to figure out how to measure each other, define...
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