Archive for June 2015

I loved the book that this movie is based upon. I’m sure this film will be outstanding, but there’s no way it will top that novel.

Last week I wrote a post asking if it was so hard to imagine Jesus supporting same sex marriage. In response, a reader forwarded a piece by Nate Pyle, the Lead Pastor at Christ’s Community Church in Fishers, Indiana. Pyle is opposed to same sex marriage and views homosexuality as immoral, but he took a stand against Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act …

Elysha thinks I’m crazy. I think not. I bought a new lawnmower from Lawnboy. Their motto: Easy to handle. Hard to beat. These two sentences are incongruous. The first describes the handling of the lawnmower while in use. The second compares the lawnmower to other undefined lawnmowers in some nonspecific competitive way.  These two things don’t go together.…

Ever purchase a copy of the classic children’s book Goodnight Moon? If so, here’s a story that will break your heart. Just a few months before Margaret Wise Brown died suddenly from an embolism following emergency surgery in Nice, France, the 42-year-old Brown—who at the time was engaged to a much younger man—drafted a will.…

Tickets are still available for Wednesday’s Connecticut Forum. If you live in the Hartford area and are a fan of podcasts like myself, this is not to be missed.  A Special Presentation of The Connecticut Forum BINGE-WORTHY JOURNALISM: Backstage with the Creators of With Host Sarah Koenig & Producer Julie Snyder  June 10, 2015 8…

I was told that it was a video of a marriage proposal in a McDonald’s drive thru that apparently went bad. I clicked on the link, thinking I’d be watching two or three minutes of cringe-worthy humor. Instead, I found myself watching one of the most captivating and heart wrenching five minutes of video that…

I grew up watching The Brady Bunch. I loved The Brady Bunch. Sadly, not everything on The Brady Bunch was as wholesome as it seemed.  Barry Williams (Greg) and Maureen McCormick (Marcia) had a serious fling while filming the show.  Barry Williams and Florence Henderson went on at least one date according to Henderson. Barry Williams had…

A reader sent me this. Clearly a reader with excellent taste. If only every bookshelf looked like this:

These are things that many or most people seem to have done at some point in their lives that I have not._______________________________________ Never used an illegal drug of any kind  Never purchased a lottery ticket Never tasted coffee Never smoked a cigarette Never bruised Never slept past 8:00 AM Never swore in the presence of my…

In an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, Louisiana Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Bobby Jindal writes that he is “holding firm against gay marriage.” If I were a cartoonist, I would draw an exaggerated, boy-like image of Jindal, wearing tiny wooden shoes and standing against a crumbling, leaky dike with his fingers plugging up one…