“Bringing Up Baby” is a screwball comedy that features Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Screwball comedies thrive on situational and physical comedy, a quality which has endeared me to the genre since I first came into contact with it. Mistaken identities, ridiculous chase scenes, and outrageous characters are all a staple.
That’s no less the case here. Cary Grant plays a timid and nerdy scientist, David, who has spent the last four years working on the reconstruction of a brontosaurus skeleton …

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I have a friend who is trying to raise money for her mission trip to Rwanda. You can visit her site here.
Any small amount will help or at least pass this along to someone who can donate something. Also prayer helps.
Also if you’re interested in film projects you should check out this site. It’s a film student who did a documentary on the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (who is now deceased). He interviewed friends, family, actors and collaberators in …

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I’ve been having a dry spell in blogging lately, mostly due to my class I was taking at El Centro.
This past weekend has been awesome. My cousin and his family came down for my sister’s graduation and stayed down here for the weekend. We’ve been in drain pipes, under bridges, everywhere I can think of in Dallas. I’ll be posting pics up later. Here’s some stuff to whet your appetite.

I just finished Lauren F. Winner’s book, Muddhouse Sabbath. Winner is …

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Blankets thrown on a couch
lumps stir beneath
a foot here, an elbow there
giggles and shouts
“You’re tickling me!”
“Get your foot out of my mouth!”
A bright red face emerges out into the open,
To gasp for air before diving back beneath the layers.
Knees and foreheads bump together.
Love is weird

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Sometimes life just keeps chunking lemons at you but you don’t have any sugar or even a pitcher. You do the best you can, but your best just leaves you standing in a puddle of lemon juice. Then at the end of the day you just shrug it off and go grab a burger and a coke. That’s kind of what today was like.

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I was listening to NPR today and this little nugget of a story came up. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104310443 Basically they scanned very religious people’s brains while they were praying. Apparently those who set aside time for prayer on a consistent basis become more compassionate and even have better immune systems. interesting quotes from the article

“You can sculpt your brain just as you’d sculpt your muscles if you went to the gym,” he says. “Our brains are continuously …

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I see you little girl,
Shrinking away from bright smiles and warm embraces.
The glint of suspicion in your eyes.
A pad of paper and pencil clutched to your breast.
A portal to imaginary friends,
the only kind to be trusted.
I know why you are afraid.
The sins of the father unjustly forced upon the daughter.
Will this cycle ever end?

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I remember there was this one girl named Sarah in first grade who liked me. She would chase me on the playground and try and give me kisses. On the playground we had these huge tires that were half burried in the ground. You could hide inside them. One time Sarah ended up cornering me in the tire and planted a kiss on my cheek. I wasn’t really interested in her though. Instead I thought another girl was really cute. …

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I just finished watching Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rebecca. It was a great film. I was somewhat skeptical at the beginning as it seemed to be your typical romance movie with all the cheese that entails. However the movie soon moved past this toward more meaty dramatic material that seemed to me like watching a trainwreck and a 40 car pile up all thrown together into a big pot with just a dash of intrigue thrown in for flavor.
In typical Hitchcockian …

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One of my favorite directors, Andrei Tarkovsky, understood the power of water. It constantly changes it’s form, never the same. Film can capture it’s essence in a way that no other medium can.
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I love the rain. There’s something innately divine about it. Almost all religions give water some sort of significance. It’s the force that gives us life. We are dust and water, but more so water.
Jesus describes himself as the living water. Whenever I think of Christ in terms …

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