Divers and Sundry

You've heard of watching grass grow ? Well, try watching cheese age for a change of pace. HT: NPR

I had seen this Othello before, but The Younger Son had not. It stars Laurence Olivier , Maggie Smith , Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay . ...

The Poet by Michael Connelly is a crime/thriller/mystery novel and winner of the 1997 Anthony Award . from the back of the book: Death is ...

Meshes of the Afternoon is a 1943 experimental silent film short: This article (there are spoilers in the article though not in this ...

Simon Sellars , self-described "co-author of Lonely Planet 's recent guide to homemade nations ," is in Sealand. Welcome to th...

A Day in the Life by The Beatles (1967): The list of 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll comes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Mu...

Sorry, Wrong Number , a 1948 film noir, stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster . This is the first few minutes of the movie: 6/29/2008: ...

Sam Cooke sings A Change is Gonna Come (1965): The list of 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll comes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Psalm 17 1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come f...

I mentioned this last year.

National Geographic has a fun video of Blue-footed Boobies . And an iguana...:

Today is the last day of Strange Culture 's Film + Faith Blogathon , so we watched The Apostle , #16 on the Arts and Faith list of 100...

You can read the Lotus Sutra here , here , here and here . More about the Lotus Sutra can be found here and here . More about Nichiren B...

We divided Andrei Rublev into 3 sections and watched them during lunch on 3 consecutive days. The film is well over 3 hours long, and we c...

In reading one of the Film + Faith Blogathon posts I remembered a project I researched for church several years ago. I wanted our church t...

Miscellaneous posts related to this blogathon: Christ Figures in Film Nam Myoho Renge Kyo I am looking forward to reading the posts in the F...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1893 of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky . The Russian composer's best-known works are the 1812 Overtu...

a film by Michael Dudok de Wit HT: Cinemathematics

Today is Guy Fawkes Day . Remember, remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason Why gunpowder treason Sh...

The Red Scream , the first Molly Cates mystery by Mary Willis Walker, won the Edgar Award in 1995. It is a page-turner. It's a crime ...