HE IS RISEN. HE IS RISEN INDEED!
An entire Guard of Roman soldiers saw the angel by the empty tomb; this meant their deaths.
With us for 40 days.
Appeared to His disciples several times.
Met Paul on the road to Damascus.
Over 500 people saw him ascend.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The ANT and the GRASSHOPPER
OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
I emailed Entertainment Weekly. Great article in their March issue. Right on!
March 4, 2011 Issue, The Movies article
To: "ew_letters@ew.com"
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This comment may not make it in time to be considered for inserting in the next issue, but I don’t care. (Well. Yes I do.)
I was so ‘there’ with everything mentioned in this article.
Particularly Can the Commercials. I’ve told others that instead of commercials theaters should use that time as an opportunity to show shorts from film students. We, the public, would get a hoot out of them, I’m sure. Let the previews be all the commercials we ever see in movie theaters.
And Pixar before the main course is a win/win for the theater. Who doesn’t love Pixar? Everyone would be seated on time for once.
And Create Separate Screening for Schmucks! Yesssss! The kicking of my chair is so bad now that if I notice the person sitting behind me is a teen, I will ask them not to kick my chair BEFORE the movie starts. With a smile, of course.
Make Better Movie Theaters is awesome. I often wondered why I had to put up with horrible tiny restrooms, pathetic/unhealthy food choices, and sardine-like seating.
It’s expensive now to take a family to see movies. Make it an Event!
To: "ew_letters@ew.com"
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This comment may not make it in time to be considered for inserting in the next issue, but I don’t care. (Well. Yes I do.)
I was so ‘there’ with everything mentioned in this article.
Particularly Can the Commercials. I’ve told others that instead of commercials theaters should use that time as an opportunity to show shorts from film students. We, the public, would get a hoot out of them, I’m sure. Let the previews be all the commercials we ever see in movie theaters.
And Pixar before the main course is a win/win for the theater. Who doesn’t love Pixar? Everyone would be seated on time for once.
And Create Separate Screening for Schmucks! Yesssss! The kicking of my chair is so bad now that if I notice the person sitting behind me is a teen, I will ask them not to kick my chair BEFORE the movie starts. With a smile, of course.
Make Better Movie Theaters is awesome. I often wondered why I had to put up with horrible tiny restrooms, pathetic/unhealthy food choices, and sardine-like seating.
It’s expensive now to take a family to see movies. Make it an Event!
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