Divers and Sundry

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker was suggested to me by The Elder Son. I think he has the second of this trilogy, and I'll b...

The President's Analyst is the last movie we'll watch for our fun Family Film Festival focusing on political satires. It stars Ja...

Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: a Handbook to Jesus on DVD , by Jeffrey L. Staley and Richard Walsh , focuses on describing ...

If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... by Sharyn McCrumb is one of the Elizabeth MacPherson series and won the Agatha award in 1995. Th...

The Mouse That Roared is a political satire that was not included in the yahoo list that inspired our fun Family Film Festival , but none o...

How to Split an Atom suggests these: Foundation - Isaac Asimov The Time Machine - H.G. Wells Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip ...

When we saw The Road Warrior on that yahoo list of political satires we had a hard time remembering the movie in those terms, but we thoug...

The list is from a British survey done last year. Ones I've read are in bold print. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of t...

Mad Max is not on the yahoo list of political satires, but it's the prequel to a film that is, so we watched it in preparation for the ...

Today Mother, The Younger Son and I went to the zoo . Mother had never seen the China exhibit , though we had seen pandas at this zoo befor...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1925 of Erik Satie . There are short biographies here and here . The Gymnopédies :

The Younger Son and I decided Mongol would be worth seeing on a theater screen if it played here, and lo and behold it did. We were surpri...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 2003 of Robert McCloskey , author of Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal . These were ...

Since today was Sunday I thought Monty Python and the Holy Grail would be the most appropriate movie from the political satire list to watc...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1940 of artist Paul Klee . There is a short biography and pictures of some of his work here and h...

Psalm 13 1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my s...

The Younger Son selected Dr. Strangelove to be tonight's Family Film Festival movie. We've seen it before -several times. There...

Our church had a prayer retreat today at the Cancer Survivors Park . There was a short introduction to the origin of the labyrinth and its...

Brazil is on the yahoo list of political satire movies we're considering for our fun Family Film Festival . We watched the full-lengt...

I read Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller because it is the first in a long-running series by an award-winning author. I've rea...