ellyane 's sci-fi birthday party last Saturday was awesome!  I ended up as a Woman in Black, and Tua was Riff from the webcomic Sluggy Freelance.  ellyane made an amazing cake in the shape of a fallen AT-AT (it was going to be a walking AT-AT, but a 5-year-old intervened).  It was awesome to look at (pictures on Facebook), and exceedingly yummy, with ( Read more... )

For The Bible Tells Me So was excellent, especially the part that followed families with gay members.  Alas, the worst part was the stuff on the Old Testament.  They got Susan Sparks and a man whose name I couldn’t read (because of the smallness of the screen) to talk about the passage in Leviticus and the Sodom story in Genesis.  They retold the ( Read more... )

I got up at 5.20 this morning so I could attend a viewing of For The Bible Tells Me So at 5.00 pm.  It's in White River Junction, and the only way Tua and I could get there on time was by leaving directly from Dartmouth.

From Amazon: "For the Bible Tells Me So is a compassionate and insightful documentary about the contemporary face of an old ( Read more... )

I just emailed my exegesis of Joel 2 to my readers.  It was a good paper, we had some good times - not least of which was some grammatical puzzle-solving with a certain little lamed - but it's time for me to start seeing other papers.

So I'm on to my methodology paper, for which much work (including some writing) has already been done.  After that, ( Read more... )

I already killed a millipede today, for which I am heartily sorry.  I will be merciful to the ladybug in hopes of atoning.

"Between here and now and forever, there's such precious little time;
What we do in love and kindness is all we'll ever leave behind."
 - Carrie Newcomer

I just got three packages in the mail from used book sellers.  (Oops, the ( Read more... )

The past weeks have been wonderful for seeing old friends and meeting new ones.  Tua and I got to hike and stroll around Montpelier with
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We watched "Ariel" last night. And now, trying to read about prophetic types and redaction criticism, all I can think about is Mal smacking Jayne.

Just getting my PhD in Firefly Studies . . .

Springfield, Vermont won the contest to host opening night of the Simpsons movie, beating Illinois by under 1,000 votes.