I've 'quit' effbook-- which amounts to deleting the app from my phone, and from my faves on the laptop and preload tabs at work. Now I only navigate to it directly, which amounts to a handful of times a week ( Read more... )

With apologies to: Sundance, which begins this month; films (like The Brothers Bloom, Scorsese’s Shutter Island, the Coens’ A Serious Man) which I’m already certain I’ll be seeing; and any number that haven’t started production or can’t afford to promote themselves so as to be on the radar six, even 11 months out.

Ten Most Intriguing, in ( Read more... )

I’ve taken Anglican communion and worshipped at an Anglican church for five years now. At first, it was a mystery to me why it engages me better, as an adult, than the kinds of church services I attended as a child ( Read more... )

"Let Down", Radiohead

"California Stars," Billy Bragg & Wilco

"Transatlanticism", Death Cab For Cutie

"Sing", from Sesame Street (1974 children's-voices version)

"We Need a Little Christmas", Angela Lansbury, et. al. from the cast album of Mame

...country-music group, or trailer park?

Sugarland

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Rascal Flatts

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Alabama

We continue to pray for healing but still have a hard time accepting that it isn't a reflection on our faith that God isn't answering our prayers the way we'd like. How do we believe that the best is possible, but not make our trust dependent on a particular outcome? Death doesn't discriminate, and it isn't the final victor, but it takes and it ( Read more... )

Sam had a rough night. He ran a fever, and wouldn't sleep more than about an hour at a time. This means, of course, that neither his mother nor father got any sleep at all ( Read more... )

In Lars and the Real Girl, one character asks another, "How'd you know that you were a man?" Well, it's not like you're one thing or the other, okay? There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts ( Read more... )

... 4 unwatched Powell/Pressburger films

... the new TV on the Radio album, Dear Science

... being silly at somebody else's wedding

David Foster Wallace was found dead by his wife yesterday. He hanged himself ( Read more... )