Went to see ‘300′ yesterday, the movie about the war of 300 Spartans against Xerxes I and the Persian armies. It’s based on a real battle — link HERE. Since it comes from a graphic novel, it has the composition, lighting and special effects that have really changed the experience of seeing these movies — […]

Continuing the series that I might title “Is all hell going to break loose or what?” here’s the prophecy of doom that touches on the global war going on between cultures. That could be almost any cultures, but everyone’s favorite if you’re talking about something really apocalyptic in scope isn’t Sunni vs. Shiite or Hindu […]

Back here when I saw “The Last Mimzy,” we just happened to see “V for Vendetta” the next night, and I realized that both movies allude — as many movies allude — to a looming crisis of humanity or society or culture. Is that merely the stuff of overactive creative types, or are these writers […]

All right, I managed to navigate the few obstacles that exist (paying for a bloc of internet time? I beg your pardon?) and I am realizing a little dream of mine: blogging while sitting in the comfort of the Starbucks cafe inside the Barnes & Noble. All right, so I’m petty bourgeois or a yuppie […]

The spring air was delicious when I left the grocery store yesterday, and I couldn’t resist just sitting in the car with the windows down for a minute feeling the breeze on my face. It took me a minute to focus my eyes on the large flag flapping gently on the flagpole of the restaurant […]

“Our life can be likened to a deep ditch, which in times of rain fills up so much that it cannot be crossed, and at other times it dries up and no water flows in it. The Holy Fathers praised the life that flows like a small stream which flows continually, never running dry. This […]

In “Orthodox Spirituality,” a little volume by “A Monk of the Eastern Church” that I’ve been making my way through, there was an appendix with an interesting overview of where the Church is on a lot of different fronts — sort of a State of the Union address for the Orthodox. I assume […]

I was looking for something to finish out my breakfast this morning when I remembered I still had a couple red Easter eggs in the fridge. That’s what I get for having a husband that doesn’t like hardboiled eggs. If he wins the “egg game” — where two people crack the eggs together and whoever’s […]

The current flak over a stupid comment by a stupid radio guy is just too much to be believed. I wouldn’t have thought that an idiotic sound-byte like calling members of a women’s basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s” would be worth the time it even takes to type it.
But then, it really doesn’t have much to […]

Sitting around Father Elias’ kitchen table a few weeks ago, the talk was that Lent was going along really fast this year. That’s how it seemed at the time, but somehow the tail end of Lent and the entirety of Holy Week have more than made up for it for me. Blessed Pascha didn’t come […]