Marma-duped
Parents everywhere will soon be rushing out to theaters with their children and spending close to 50 or 60 bucks just so they can watch this movie... Read more
Hey Iron Man fans: Want to See Joss Whedon as Head Coach of The Avengers?
I've had pretty much ZERO interest in The Avengers as a movie, since I've never been interested in those comic books. But if Joss Whedon brings them to life, I'll be counting down the days until the movie opens with great excitement.Read more
Are There Any Tarkovsky Fans in Seattle?
If you're going to be in Seattle on Sunday, and you're curious about the work of master filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, you don't want to miss this.
It's a film about Tarkovsky, by Trakovsky. (And no, I didn't misspell anything there.) And the documentarian will be at the screening!
Here's the trailer...Read more
Pop Damage reviews Raven's Ladder
Who says Monday mornings are a drag?!
I was minding my own business, getting some work done here at the office, when lo... I was blessed by a friend who sent me this link.Read more
Pop Damage reviews Raven's Ladder
Who says Monday mornings are a drag?!
I was minding my own business, getting some work done here at the office, when lo... I was blessed by a friend who sent me this link.Read more
Rod Dreher on Missing Walker Percy
Walker Percy:
In my last novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, I tried to show how, while truth should prevail, it is a disaster when only one kind of truth prevails at the expense of another. If only one kind of truth prevails, the abstract and technical truth of science, then nothing stands in the way of a demeaning of and a destruction of human life for what would appear to be reasonable short-term goals.
It's no accident that I think that German science, as great as it was, ended in the destruction of the Holocaust.
The novelist likes to irritate people by pointing this out. It's his pleasure and vocation to reveal, with his own elusive and indirect way, man's need of and openings to other than scientific propositions.
The novelist, I think, has a special calling to truth these days. The world into which you are graduating is a deranged world. It is his task to show the derangement.
The Crazy Interview Begins.
Having completed a long list of online interviews for Raven's Ladder, I've challenged fans and friends at my Facebook Page to ask me questions that I haven't seen on an interview before. (I've answered "What inspired you to write this series?" about 25 times.)
So people are sending in questions. Some of them are interesting, some are hilarious.
This has given me an idea...Read more