When my mother was six years old, back in the late 1930s, her family went to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Back then, my mother was chubby, and her idol, the person at the circus she most wanted to see was the Fat Lady. During the intermission, my mom went…
Breach The Hull, an anthology edited by our friend Mike McPhail, with stories by a number of friends, including John, is now availa
Some years ago, I had a job reviewing Shojo (girls) Anime. There’s hardly a Shojo Anime out there that does not include some boy who is in love with another boy. Sometimes, they have good reasons (possessed by the ghost of a dead sister, actually an asexual moon angel) other times, they’re just plain pervy…
The Peace Through Puppets people visited our humble blog and quoted one of Saintjoi’s comments in their latest YouTube release. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaC4cjJyHXY They also have another release at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn10jk2jRCA
I’m going to be away for two weeks. So, the next post will be sometime after October 27th. I’d appeciate if you say a prayer for my family, (particularly John and Juss). They’ve never had to get by without me before. ;-)
Juss: “But I really, really, really want to play a Transformer in the Harry Potter game tonight.” Mommy: “Juss, you can’t. You have to go to bed. Besides, there are no Transformers at Hogwards.” Juss: “WHAT? But they have attacks! And they’re cool!” John, in his best Patrick Warburton voice (think Kronk from Emperor’s New Groove): “He…
Latest “Twenty for Prayer” — any wishing to join in the prayer can follow the link. Our subject for this month is: Peacemakers. Recently, our church magazine had a wonderful article about a man from Rwanda who had been one of the soldiers during the ugly wars there who was involved in the murder of a…
Mark just introduced me to a web comic called The Dreamland Chronicles It’s quite delightful and kid-friendly, too! It reminds me of the best parts of Sandman, without the depth, but without the weird and dark parts as well. It’s computer-graphics with bright colors, so it looks a bit like some of these recent Fairytale pictures (Shrek, Happily…
Because sometimes, to get through the day, we need just a touch of Harry in the night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQQfsi53l4
I’ll post it here. Bruce, her eldest son, “grew up with that, and I trained him,” Burn said. Reges, a Michigan resident, is a retired teacher who has been in the Army Reserve for 20 years. Called up in the fall, he deployed to Iraq in January, leaving behind his 25-year-old wife, Christy. His mother’s…