Last point about Avatar I wanted to make: Movie-makers have had a lot of fun blurring the lines between the real world and artificial worlds. Only recently have they been doing the same thing with real and artificial selves. And I think there’s a reason for that. Only in the age of online communities and […]

Saw “Avatar” two weeks ago, and some observations about it stay with me  — some things it was trying to say, some things it did say, and the differential between the two.
(Two quick caveats: 1 - This will include spoilers. 2 - I’m not sure it will make sense if you haven’t seen the movie.) […]

Just in case you were a child or teen of the ’80s and weren’t embarrassed enough by how stupid some of them were, you might want to check this out.

I think my favorite is “Mullet with headlights.”

Gotta give the Catholics a little credit. They know a marketing opportunity when they see one. Are you getting this, camera guy?

I’d kind of worry about the kind of penitents you’d get from this pitch, though. Wouldn’t they be a bit likely to talk real fast and gesture around? Plus, they’d be looking for the […]

I usually don’t go off-topic in this particular direction, but last night’s episode of “Lost” is another head-scratcher.
(BTW, if you don’t do Lost, the following won’t make any sense to you. But if you think you’d ever like to find out what all the fuss is about, do what Greg and I did — rent […]

Greg sent me this link with his usual brief subject line: Bloggable. He’s right, it is.
Disney has decided not to fund the third Narnia movie. They cite the low returns of ‘Prince Caspian.’ But that last Narnia movie made $419 million worldwide, (compared with the $249 million gross for a non-Christian fantasy movie like ‘Eragon’), […]

I was wrong. There are LOTS of stupid things you can buy this year. All of these came by way of OhGizmo, to which you can turn, apparently, for all your useless contraption needs.
Consider the joys of presenting your loved one with:

A calendar made of matches
Solar vertical blinds that will show you a picture of […]

When I talked about the stupidest Christmas presents I saw in catalogs — back HERE  — I must’ve been onto something, because that post regularly gets incoming traffic, even though I wrote it back in ought-four. Sure enough, if you Google ’stupid Christmas presents,’ this is the close to the top of the list. I’m […]

A lot of little blogworthy musings on my second-favorite topic have been bouncing around my head. Given that Fr. Alexander observed “Everything in and of our culture is about the Kingdom of God, either for or against,” it may just be that these thoughts dovetail with thoughts about my most favorite topic.

Culture and . . […]

Greg sent me an e-mail with a YouTube link and commented, “This is so cute, it’ll make your head explode.” He’s right. That about sums it up.

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But lest you think the animal kingdom has nothing to do but float around being cute, consider the implications of … Drama Lemur!

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Honestly, YouTube could be such a great […]