In order to “cleanse the palette,” so to speak, Samantha and Chelsea and I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian today at Legends in Kansas City. After the painful experience we had with a sequel last week, I was apprehensively hopeful for Narnia to redeem my summer movie-going. Prince Caspian is the [...]
If you don’t want to know anything about the new Indiana Jones movie, STOP READING. There will be MAJOR spoilers below if you have not seen it and have been living under a rock for the past 6 months. I caught the midnight opening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls last [...]
In case you don’t have my Bible blog in your favorite RSS reader (try Google Reader), you might go visit it and catch up on the last few posts. I’m currently going through the book of John (I’ve given up on trying to stick to the daily bible reading schedule, as we’ve all seen how [...]
“…It isn’t just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.” Ryan took me to see Cats on Saturday night, tickets courtesy of his mom, Julie (thank you, Julie!!). I had never seen Cats before, but being a [...]
A team of archaeologists, engineers, and many others worked for 10 years to develop a complete 3D model of Rome as seen in 320 AD. The model isn’t out on the Internet yet – they’re still working out the plan for that. But you can see pictures and a few features at their website. Click [...]
The Palace is showing cult movies on 35mm every Friday and Saturday through June. Last night Derin & Amanda treated us to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was fun watching it on the big big screen – I never realized how much we missed out on with the VHS copy. For example, when [...]
Walking the Bible: A journey by land through the five books of Moses Bruce Feiler is an American Jew on a quest to reconnect to his roots. He uses the Bible (Torah) as his map and together with his archaeologist guide, Avner Goren, travels the same routes followed by the patriarchs, Joseph, and Moses. I [...]