Being a writer myself, I have a deep affinity for words and their smithing. I have long maintained that it’s one thing to tell a great story, but another to tell it well, and beautifully. I would consider popular tales like the Millennium Trilogy, the five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, and the Harry Potter series to be […]
WRITING
On Mindlessly Crying “Wolf!”
I recently saw the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leocapro DiNardio (which is what I call him now, because I like it). I had been hearing that the movie was somewhat controversial because of its supposed glorification of the lifestyle enjoyed by Jordan Belfort, whom DiNardio portrays in the film. That’s right, I said […]
I AM
By Sky Oscar Wilde wrote, “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Yeats wrote: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion […]
The War About the War on Christmas
By Christian In the United States, Christmas is the only overtly religious federal holiday. No other religion’s holy day gets this kind of preferential treatment. It’s a good thing to keep in mind as you read on. For Christians, it’s a time to celebrate the incarnation of God in human flesh (we’ll call this Group […]
Hashtag, Gadget-Mastery
In case you missed it, here’s what happened: This past Friday Justine Sacco, a PR director at InterActiveCorp, was boarding an eleven-hour flight from London to Cape Town. Just as the announcement was made to power down all electronic devices she tweeted this to her 200 followers: Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just […]
Duck Diplomacy
My first encounter with the whole Duck Dynasty craze was when I was last in a Christian bookstore (still trying to get the taste out of my mouth), and I came across what I can only describe as a shrine to the show, and to Phil Robertson, one of its stars. And now, apparently, he has […]