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Il semblerait qu'il y ai quelques problèmes en ce moment avec le blog. Une croisade de blogger qui supprime les chroniques qu'ils jugent mauvaises? Tv On the Radio qui ordonne au FBI d'agir contre ses plus grand fans? Une intervention divine ? Bref, les raisons ne manquent pas mais certains posts sont effacés. Le temps de trouver un coupable en moins de temps qu'il en faut à sarko pour la crise

LarryD from Acts of the Apostasy has graciously awarded me with, um, an award. Of course, I have to pay for it by completing a meme, but given my track record with awards, I’ll take what I can get. This time around it’s the One-Word Meme. Now, long time readers of this blog know that anytime I get ambushed with a meme, I try to maintain my shtick while completing it. So everyone gather rou

The Catechism ensures us that "The Church, because of her commission and competence, is not to be confused in any way with the political community. She is both the sign and the safeguard of the transcendent character of the human person. "The Church respects and encourages the political freedom and responsibility of the citizen." In short, we are encouraged to vote our (well formed) consciences.Bu

Thought I’d interrupt the SNTC guide to summer today for a brief link: Garfield Minus Garfield. A looong time ago, someone thought it’d be a great idea to remove all the speech bubbles from the title character of the Garfield comic strip. I don’t know who first thought of this, but the results were hilarious. [...]

Yes, I do read. (Mostly the same stuff I watch, but hey, it’s got words.) And all those months ago, when I first responded to the Page 123 Meme which Mr. WAC from Fish In A Barrel tagged me with, the same one which prompted my upcoming review of Ator: The Fighting Eagle, I included this small excerpt from the second closest book I had at hand: "When I modeled her, I thought that she

I’ve been away for a weekend retreat with a bunch of other people from Vineyard churches around Australia, to work on developing new songs and so forth. I’ll try to find something interesting to write about that at some stage, but for now I’ll leave you with this:

I’m putting blogging on hold for a while. But I guess you already knew that seeing as how I don’t post much and I can’t remember the last time I visited anyone. I just don’t have the time, energy or even the inclination. It’s become a chore and I always swore that if it ever [...]

Well, after two to three weeks with the entire household being down with the flu, everyone's finally managed to get back on their feet and I can get back to regular blogging. And it's good timing because the time has come to cast some important votes. No, I'm not talking about that dog and pony show with Hillary and Obama, I'm talking about The 2008 Catholic Blog Awards. While casting my own votes for some of the excellent blogs you see listed over in the sidebar, imagine my surprise to run across my own meager efforts as one of the nominees for Most Informative & Insightful Blog. A definite "What the... !!!" moment. Now I'm not even going to pretend I have a chance of winning, but I have to admit I kind of get a kick out of the idea that this bizarre little corner of the

Another meme seems to have found it's way to my lobby, this time by way of The Sci-Fi Catholic. According to the rules, I'm supposed to pick various locales in which I'd like to live for a week, a month, a year, and half my life, and explain my reasons why. That's a dicey proposition when you're confined to a low budget universe like I am. While others get to pick places like The Matrix or Middle Earth, I'm stuck with choices like Boggy Creek, Frogtown, and wherever the heck it is Beastmaster is from. Still, with a little effort, I think I can probably come up with a few interesting B-type places in which to kill some time. So, let's see, how about... A WEEK... on Monster Island. Introduced in 1968's Destroy All Monsters, this is the place where the U. N. dumps all those giant monsters

Let me put it this way: I just can't take it today.I had intended to put out one part of this series everyday for 10 days in a row, but now that it's halfway done, I think I need to take an intermission and have a typical American life for the weekend.Today will be spent watching the entire 2nd season of Beverly Hills, 90210 while cooking chili and Swedish meatballs (from scratch, I might add) for our friend's annual Super Bowl party. If I run out of episodes, I may have to go rent Season 3.Tomorrow will be spent sleeping in followed by drinking beer and eating unhealthy food while watching the Patriots break Baby Manning's heart in the Super Bowl.This weekend, instead of worrying about the future, I'm going to enjoy how great we still have it in the present. My tin-foil hat, and quite pos

THE MEME While the projectionist threads up Dark Star it seems as good a time as any to take care of the latest meme. This time around Will Cubbedge from Fish In A Barrel has tagged me with one of the various book memes floating around. The Rules 1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five people. Believe it or not, the book closest to me at this time is the Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever. Honest. I'm not lying. Weeding out the credits, the fifth full sentence on page 123 starts the review of Blade Master. "In this sequel to "Ator the Fighting Eagle," O'Keeffe as Ator is back as the Blade Master. Ator defends his people and his family name i

As I was just reminded by D. G. D. Davidson, The Sci-Fi Catholic, I once again completely forgot about the film club THAT I STARTED. That probably doesn't bode well for the film club as a lasting feature here, but we'll see. Anyway, once again, those still interested in having a paragraph or two included in the film club review of the Vincent Price classic House On Haunted Hill, feel free to leave a comment in the combox, drop me an email at eegahinc@gmail.com with your review, or just send a link to your post sometime over the next couple of days. My excuse this time. Snow! It's impossible to explain to those of you who don't live south of Tennessee the extent to which apocalyptic zeal seizes this part of the country when white stuff begins falling from the sky. How much did we get

For those of you who may be stumped, the correct answers for the previous post are B- X-ray and D- Pronation. Fortunately the other exam questions were up to scratch and proved more challenging. Still, couldn't help but snigger uncontrollably in the exam when those questions came up, though 45 questions in 30 minutes left little time for jest. As for the SSMs, no idea what happened there, still waiting on our choices to be allocated I guess…And now for something completely different - the autonomic nervous system!Shit! That sounds like real medicine??So far so good. It's only this week in preparation for our cardiorespiratory module after Christmas, but the content and lectures are generally far more interesting. Furthermore, the lecturer actually kicked out the late-comers who protested "But I'm only like, five minutes late"…yeah, try fifteen. Needless to say, it was nice to be able to hear the lecturer rather than some obnoxious prat sitting behind me chatting abo

For those of you who may be stumped, the correct answers for the previous post are B- X-ray and D- Pronation. Fortunately the other exam questions were up to scratch and proved more challenging. Still, couldn't help but snigger uncontrollably in the exam when those questions came up, though 45 questions in 30 minutes left little time for jest. As for the SSMs, no idea what happened there, still waiting on our choices to be allocated I guess…And now for something completely different - the autonomic nervous system!Shit! That sounds like real medicine??So far so good. It's only this week in preparation for our cardiorespiratory module after Christmas, but the content and lectures are generally far more interesting. Furthermore, the lecturer actually kicked out the late-comers who protested "But I'm only like, five minutes late"…yeah, try fifteen. Needless to say, it was nice to be able to hear the lecturer rather than some obnoxious prat sitting behind me chatting abo

Although writing usually helps me heal, it's making me feel worse rather than better. So, in order to stave off an impending depressive episode, I'm turning to other wellness activities...working outdoors, taking photographs, walking, spending time with friends, and playing music.Hopefully, I'll be better soon and plan on resuming posting on Monday, December 10. To those of you who have written such thoughtful and kind comments, thank you. I'll see you in a week or so.

Yes, I know I just took an intermission a couple of days ago in order to complain about the whole Golden Compass hubbub, but just as I was settling back down in the auditorium, something else came up. Father Tim from The Spirit of Vatican 2 "Catholic" Faith Community has tagged me with yet another meme. This time around it's the "8 Random Facts" one. The rules call for each tagged person to post 8 random facts/habits about themselves along with these guidelines. At the end of the post, they are to choose 8 people to be tagged and list their names. I have to assume, since I'm on SOV2's banned list, that this is somehow meant to be a form of penance as I'm now forced to try and answer this meme while staying in character. Let's give it a try. That little guy up in the corner of my blog is the vicious Zuni Fetish Doll from the 1975 made for TV movie Trilogy of Terror. As a child it alternatingly filled me with dread and made me laugh hysterically. It's one of the things I

...and I haven't even read or seen the thing yet. Still, it's a movie, so I feel compelled to throw my two cents in. The film itself is only now getting some early screenings, and some accompanying reviews, so I'm sure the movie proper can be addressed soon. But the movie's director Chris Weitz recently granted a three part Q&A with the MTV Movie Blog and had a few things to say about about a lot of the negative publicity surrounding author Phillip Pullman and his views on religion. [Everything which follows in block quotes are Weitz's words as reported on the MTV site. Also, this is an excessively long post, but I don't want to misrepresent the director. Criticize him, maybe, but not misrepresent him.] I think there's some telling stuff in there. "A lot of people — mostly those who haven’t read the books but are only repeating what they have read in some biased chain e-mails — are saying that Philip is “against religion” or “against Christianity.” These p

Well, it's that time of year. A time for pumpkins, for getting treats, for dressing in costumes. That's right. It's time for the annual Hallowed Be His Name Fall Festivals at your finer protestant churches! It's also that time of year we see quotes like this one from Jerold Aust of The United Church of God. "Halloween is anything but harmless. It focuses one's attention on witchcraft and demonism, which flies in the face of the holy God Almighty! When parents not only allow but also encourage their children to celebrate witches and goblins, they are teaching them that it's acceptable to deal in demonism."There's no denying that a few people (usually teens) with an interest in the occult find some of the darker imagery accompanying Halloween especially enticing and will use it to further their obsession. But does that mean we abandon the holiday altogether? From a Catholic perspective, the answer isn't as simple as trotting out a couple of Bible verses and calling the whole thin

"Run for your lives, children! RUN!"Knoxville, TN is only about 3 1/2 hours away, so it's not too much of a stretch to imagine a small group of Spirit of Vatican 2 parishioners forming a convoy of VW vans and Toyota Priuses (or maybe even just hitching a ride in order to further conserve fossil fuel consumption) for the purpose of traveling down here and picketing outside my theater. It appears that their EcoChurch Director Che' Lovell (or perhaps his evil doppelganger) is currently scripting a play with the hopes of getting it produced on the stage, or maybe even someday as a movie. (You never know, I hear the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos is always on the lookout for fresh talent.) And it appears the SOViers were hoping to convince me into reviewing the work in progress.Of course, I tried to explain that The B-Movie Catechism is a film-centric blog, but they started going on about the suppression of the freedom of self expression and my being a slave to th

I have a writing project that requires my undivided attention. Hence, for now, posts will be on hold as I shift my writing energy over to getting a book finished. (Deadlines and all, ya know…) When I’m done, I’ll be back to pick up where we’re leaving off. So, just think of this as an intermission between acts. In the meantime, to all my blog buds, a big Thank You to each of you for making my life richer for sharing in it. I’ll be seeing you around at your places. Likewise, a big Thank You to all my lurkers. Even though your voices may have remained uncounted, your numbers were (anonymously) counted and appreciated. If you’re interested in updates: If you’d like to know when when I’m back at it again, please consider adding me to your blog reader (if I’m not nested there already) so you’ll automatically be notified of new posts without having to check back. If you don’t have a blog reader but would like to know when

Wow, it's been a while since I stepped outside the auditorium. But who wants to? Have you checked the temperature outside lately? I don't know what it's like where you are, but my part of the world has gone all Damnation Alley like. (Hmm, should really review that one sometime.) It's just so nice and dark and cool in the theater. It's already calling to me,"Come back, coooome baaaack". But anyway, I'm in the lobby for a few minutes, and it looks like someone's left a message.Dadwithnoisykids (he's got like thirty of them or something) over at Scorpion Stalking Duck has tagged me with the Why I Love Jesus Meme. The rules on this one are pretty simple. Those tagged will share 5 things they love about Jesus and must tag 5 other bloggers. Those tagged must provide a link in the comments box here with their name so that others can read them. Fair enough. But as my close friends already know, and what those who visit here shouldn't be surprised by, is that I can rarely make it throu

It happens sometimes. You're sitting comfortably in your theater seat, a ginormous tub of artificial buttery-flavored popcorn in your lap, a drum of cola in the cup holder, all is well with the world.... and then the phone/pager/whatever goes off. So it's back out to the lobby to see who's calling. Turns out it's D. G. D. Davidson over at The Sci-Fi Catholic passing along a meme he inherited

For those of you who are old enough--like me--you'll remember the early days of going to films when there was an intermission. Usually, they continued to run the sound track throughout and it was an opportunity to stretch, use the facilities, and buy refreshments.Well, for the next day or so, I need to take an Intermission from blogging. Last night, due to a family commitment, I didn't return home until late. Today I have a big project due for the photography class I'm taking at a local community college. We had to pick a photographer whose work we admire and who's got an least one published book of photographs, shoot 12 images from the book--outside on a table and bracket them--(Marja, it's too bad you live in another country. I sure could have used your expertise.), prepare a five to ten minute talk, and make an oral presentation.I chose Irving Penn because I like his style and there was a wonderful book of his photographs in the college library. What I particularly enjoy

When Red Mummy approached me to be an invited Advocate in Blogger Kickstart, I thought it would be cool until it set in to me much later and I thought - "Hang on...what does it take to be an Advocate in Blogger Kickstart. I'm no Red Hot Blooded woman like Red, I don't have a sharp expandable vocab like Simon Cowell and worst....what if I myself make no sense to the question given ..then what?? That's when I got my thinking cap and submit my proposal to the Main Judge and the Creator of Blogger Kickstart (but of course, i seek permission) and thus an assignment adjoining Red Mummy's favourite topic - RED and what I know best - DESIGN is created. The twist, I'm not actually expecting to be reading design thesis. Here's a review of the question set : "Sekeping gambar boleh mencerminkan seribu perkataan". BKS mengkehendaki setiap perserta untuk : - 1. Mengekprestasikan gambar hiasan dalaman (interior image) yang telah ditetapkan kepada setiap perserta, dalam bentuk ceri

At some point, even the most rabid of movie lovers has to leave the comfort of the darkened theater and wander out into the lobby. And on those rare occasions when I can actually tear myself away from the screen, I think I'll use the time to pass along some of the interesting things I run across while preparing my movie reviews. It looks like Father Roderick and the folks over at SQPN will

Whilst trying to recover from my gastric flu which hit me last Saturday whilst we were in Seam Reap, I'm taking it slow mo at my end. And whilst compiling the photos and the posting for the Cambodia trip, I took a breather to follow up with a new event in the blogging world..Thus an intermission at the moment - An event that will be a blast..... What really hit me about this event is the objective and the concept of this event : - Blogger Kick Start adalah salah satu Program yang mana tujuan Utama dibuat adalah untuk mengeratkan lagi hubungan sesama Blogger serta sekaligus dapat menambahkan lagi ilmu pengetahuan secara langsungnya.. Blogger Kick Start diadakan juga adalah semata-mata untuk mewarnai Dunia Blogging yang semakin hari semakin meriah dengan kehadiran blogger-blogger baru yang mula menjinakkan diri dalam penulisan ini.... Blogger Kick Start is one Program where the main objective is to create a bonding amongst Bloggers and exchanging or/and to gain knowled

a bunch on deck, previously mentioned and whatnot. a "correction" of sorts--and an announcement re: the haphazard shuffling of content across several blogs is also forthcoming. local/national hip-hop posting will resume shortly. Most likely this afternoon. Q&As will likely emerge in multi-media over the next week or so--please bear with me. ...

So I lied when I told you I am going to unplug myself for the rest of the day. I decided a little bit of posting here and there will keep me going with my mission to clean up the clutter in my house. I swear I am making progress. I actually took a photo of the before so I can post a before and after. This is sort of an immediate rewards every step of the way :)So what's the graphics here for? Oh, that's what I meant to tell you about. Sharlee is hosting a carnival of Cheap Dates. Sounds interesting and fun. As much as I would love to reserve a room for my hubby and I at Four Seasons this Valentine's Day, we have no budget for that. So let's see what everyone will come up with. Visit Sharlee's Diner today for more info.Now that I'm done with my intermission on my series of "Musings of a Christian Working Mom", I better go back to work. Afterall I promised to post a photo of before and after - Yikes!

I was hoping someone would take a stab at the meaning behind the elemental order… First Fire, then Earth, then Water, then Wind, and finally, ‘Ideal‘. Where do we see this pattern in nature? Here’s a visual representation I cooked up on Photoshop: Did these hints help? Also—-lately, I’ve been fighting a battle with my own dialogue. There are two parts [...]