Some may recall that an evangelist by the name of Luis Palau was featured at the recent LifeLight Festival. Looks like Palau thought it was a good idea. According to The Revealer, he’s got a gathering planned in Washington, DC, this weekend that includes “all-day performances by contemporary Christian musical groups.” Somewhat surprisingly, my review […]
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Serenity was Number 2 at the box office this weekend, raking in an estimated $10.1 million. A few commentators says it’s a “tepid” opening, “one of the year’s biggest flops” and that it “pretty much kills off the Firefly/Serenity universe.” I guess box office numbers are another thing I don’t understand. As I read the […] As its subtitle indicates, this blog stemmed from feeling wholly alien in an area that is a bulwark of conservative ideology. Imagine my surprise to find that one of the most radical political novels I’ve read in years comes from Sheldon, Iowa, some 70 miles away. Mike Palecek’s Looking for Bigfoot is a no-holds-barred onslaught […] My Serenity review noted that I felt there was a strong libertarian theme. I saw via the newsgroups last night that Reason magazine, which many (including myself) would consider a libertarian magazine, takes it a bit further. An column there describes the movie’s themes as “existentialist libertarianism.” (PLEASE NOTE: The Reason article contains serious […] Okay, I’m extremely biased. I am probably one of the few people who saw the very first and every subsequent episode of the canceled Firefly television series when they first aired. I came to love the characters so much that seeing them come on the screen in the movie Serenity was like having old, close […] |
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