Kids, Cars and Summertime

Recently while dropping my young son off at his daycare I saw a window cling that stated simply “Harrison’s Hope – Never Leave Children in or Around Cars…not even for a second.”
I visited the website today knowing that there had to have been some sort of tragedy that spawned the need for creating such an [...]

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Savage Chickens and “B” Movies

Thanks to Jeff over at The Curt Jester I may have found the closest thing to heaven on earth: The B-Movie Catechism. It’s brilliant and I am really horked off that I didn’t think of it first. I mean, who watches more bad movies than me? I’m not just talking Keanu Reeves bad…but I mean [...]

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The Wedding Toast

This article contains a list of some reported “worst wedding toasts ever.”
Among them:
“A friend of mine from college got married, and his best man said in his speech: ‘Finally John has found someone with low enough self-esteem to marry him.’”
“The maid of honor (the bride’s sister) not only talked about herself during the whole speech, [...]

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Fathers and Sons

I can only imagine what it will be like
When I walk by your side
I can only imagine what my eyes will see
When your face is before me
I can only imagine
     — Mercy Me
A big tip o’ the cap to Heather for sharing this link and story with me. I had not seen nor heard of the [...]

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“Who’s up? Are you up? I’m not up! He’s up!”

George Carlin died of heart failure yesterday at the age 71. While I grew up listening to Bill Cosby records since the age of six, I know that Carlin was one of my dad’s favorites. I wasn’t allowed to see much of Carlin’s material until I was a teenager but found that between the profanity-laden [...]

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What’s your wish?

“My wish is to stare down a big league pitcher just as he is going into his windup, and give him a little wink, make him think you know something he doesn’t know. I wish for a chance to look at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes to look at it, to [...]

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30-Second Bunny Movies and Star Wars

Forgive me for this post. I’m in a bit of a goofy mood.
Continuing the theme of library, may I present The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library. Among my favorites are Casablanca, A Christmas Story, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Sixteen Candles.
And while we’re being silly, don’t forget Grocery Store Wars. Or even sillier is this. The [...]

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Books for The Perfect Library

Every age has its own outlook. It is especially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds… by reading old books. – C.S. Lewis from the Introduction: St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation
Through the years [...]

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Everybody Knows You

Having grown up in small towns, and visited Oxford, Nebraska, myself, I can relate to and agree with Burt Prelutsky 100% as he writes about a trip he and his future bride took to meet his soon-to-be in-laws for the first time.
Oxford is a town of about a thousand people, located in the southwest part [...]

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Male/Mail Enhancement…really?

I read this article in the National Catholic Register this week and it’s taken me some time to digest it in full. If glancing only at the first few paragraphs as most of us do in this day of shortened attention spans and the internet you would think it is a pathetic attempt by Pope [...]

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