YouTube - Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance - This is pretty cool, I had nearly forgotten about Red Skelton ! I remember watching him on TV when I was a little kid. Read some related linkage: Golden Age of Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and here.
June 26, 2008
October 11, 2007
listen to some good music…
My buddy Smitty (an old Army buddy from Korea) sent me this link. This is cool, I like it. Actually I had an account there and had forgot about it. When I clicked the link in Smitty’s email I saw that I was still signed in. They’ve made improvements since I was there last. Very cool, Thanks Smitty !
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September 18, 2007
August 16, 2007
I just finished reading The Dharma of Star Wars. Before I procrastinate let me write a bit about this book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this; a very engaging introduction to both Star Wars and Buddhism. Both are subjects that I was not very familiar with, so it was educational for me and others will likely learn from it as well. A recurring idea throughout the book is that we all have both good and evil in us. This idea is also found in the teachings of Christ as illustrated in Matthew 7:1-5 where Jesus talks about trying to remove a speck from another person’s eye while you have an even bigger thing in your own eye. Another idea was that we are all simultaneously both victims and perpetrators of evil; which from my own observations, I would totally agree.
August 11, 2007
saturday recap…
I went lurking and prowling today at the mall, Barnes’s & Noble, and Borders. Sweetous hung out at home. This evening we watched a video on demand on TV. It was some sort of bizarre supernatural horror thriller involving nightmares with some truly terrifying imagery. But it was so strange that it was hard to follow and I can’t even recall the name.
When that was over we started watching a movie: The Fugitive. We got into a discussion about it; Sweetous told me she used to watch a TV series The Fugitive when she was a teenagers. I told her the series was from the 80’s. I decided to look it up on the web; this is what I found:
The first article refers to another TV series: Twin Peaks. Now that was a great series; I used to watch the very week when we were in Ktown in the early 90’s.
June 18, 2004
friday update
I am here at work, slogging away at the never ending pile of stuff……
so, anyway, I thought the sickness I had on Sunday was gone, but it retruned with a vengance on Wednesday nite. I had a hell of a coughing fit that left me breathless and now I have sore ribs ! I went to the Doctor this morning and he told me I have a cold. A COLD ! well hell, that means I’m stuck with it for at least another week. I almost wish he had told me that I had a massive bacterial infection of the lungs or pneumonia. Even though that would be more serious, at least it can be killed with massive doses of antibiotics. A cold is just gonna be there until it decides to go away. Oh well, at least I got a free bottle of robitussin as part of the deal.
I have never watched American Idol but I have heard that it can be rather rude, crude, and brutal to the loosers. I generally take dim view of shows like this. Other examples would be Survivor and The Apprentice. I think this type of shows tends to bring out the worst in people and some of the so called “reality” shows certainly have little if anything to do with reality.
So when I saw this story about a new Cristian version of American Idol I just had to look and see what was going on.
“It is our goal to wrap God’s message — His love — in acceptance, and in a way that blends seamlessly into ‘pop’ culture while still upholding the values we, as Christians, value most,” Wright Generation’s mission statement reads.
Well, the idea of Christian values blending seamlessly with pop culture is dubious at best. Contrast American Idol or The Apprentice with “blessed are the meek” or “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth…….”
