BurningbirdI watched a news item yesterday on television that Hollywood is now scrambling for more religious movies, based on the success of Mel Gibson’s Passion. One person said that religion is suddenly “in”, not to mention “hip”, and we’ll being seeing more obvious displays of Christianity in the future. Personally, I hadn’t noticed that much of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I published, then pulled, then re-published a couple of posts, but have finally left them alone. Today is one of those days when no matter what I do, I feel vaguely dissatisfied. At least if I’m going to have one of those days, I had it on the weekend. There’s […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After my cleaning frenzy last week, I woke up the next morning with hands that hurt so much I couldn’t use them. I then realized that by increasing measure, I’ve had aches and pains in my hands, my wrists, my feet, and recently my back and even my shoulders. Downing […]
Did someone ask for a little color?
I was introduced to James Agee with the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men but became aware only recently that he was at one time a film critic, as well as a poet, and a screenwriter (he helped adapt The African Queen for the cinema). I was also unaware that James Agee died so young, at 46. His […]