Your instructions are as follows:

1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess...really, who buys a Zune?)

2. Press shuffle songs.

3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?

4. Leave your answers.
The second song on my iTunes ( Read more... )

I've got to say, as big a fan as I am of both Wright and Colbert, it weirds me out to see them actually talking to each other. They exist in largely separate parts of my life-- delineated, perhaps, as the parts I talk about with dadafountain and the parts I talk about with naamah. One's all politics and culture; one's theology-as-such and church. The two have ( Read more... )

The Brattle keeps coming through for me. They provide the best movies and the best audiences.

Tonight, it was the original Planet of the Apes, which I'd never seen. Color me shocked: It's actually good! Or, to be more specific, it's sort of terrible most of the way through, and then turns insanely great in the last five minutes. Knowing what ( Read more... )

FYI: There is an Ikea product called fräck. I'm just sorry it's not a toaster.

In my LJ sidebar, I keep a link to the Nazgûl-- that is to say, the nine Republican senators who, three years ago, refused to vote against torture. I try to keep blatant electoral politicking off this LJ most of the time, but for these guys, I make an exception ( Read more... )

The new Indiana Jones trailer is up at the official site. I post only to mention that the College Street gate of Silliman is clearly visible during the motorcycle-chase scene that was filmed in New Haven. W00t!

I quite distinctly remember a conversation I had with my college mentor, a guy named Matt, during my freshman year. I was over at his place, a former frat house near Payne-Whitney Gym that he shared with a bunch of other Christians. They had a big shelf of Church Fathers in the living room-- a different edition than the ones I have, I think-- and ( Read more... )

naamah and jgracie and I, along with a Harvard crowd, had breakfast this Wednesday with Canon Andrew White, Anglican Vicar of Baghdad. Fascinating fellow: Loud, blunt, and a great lover of goats ( Read more... )

Via j00j again: Prince Caspian is a Cylon!Actually, I'm sort of dreading this movie. The first one was okay, I suppose; I saw it on a tiny screen at Micah, which might be part of the problem, but I just didn't like it all that much. The definitive Narnia adaptation, for me, will always be the old BBC one. There are lines of dialogue from that ( Read more... )

Via the (rather nastier than usual) Revealer, here's a profile of NT Wright in the New Statesman. It's a magazine that normally writes high and cultural politics from an English left perspective-- sort of The New Republic for the Guardian crowd-- if I understand it right. It's hilarious to watch the reporter boggle at the preaching of actual ( Read more... )