Apple – Trailers – The Chronicles of Narnia

pretty cool.

And they’re starting with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

I didn’t read any of this Andrew Sandlin/Douglas Wilson postmodernism flap while I was on break, so I’m catching up a bit on it now.

And, while some of it I don’t get, and other of it I won’t bother commenting on, I will say this: Sandlin is a bit of jerk when it comes to the sarcasm bit.

Why? Because he is so critical of Wilson for using “the serrated edge”, and yet is always using it to serve his purposes. And that includes using it against “blood-washed”, “born-again believers”.

Just look at the pre-election posts at CCL. Any christian that didn’t intend to vote for Bush, and actually encouraged others to likewise not vote for Bush, but for a third party candidate, was a “whining, pessimistic, backwater contrarian.”

My Christmas loot included Randall Goodgame‘s new cd, War and Peace. It’s a great cd. I encourage you all to check it out, and support an independent christian artist.

I also got Jeff Meyers book, and a few Wilson books on education (one of them was just $3.50!), and The Silmarillion. I also got the extended version DVDs of The Return of the King. All the info packed into the appendices from that (and the other two movies) has made me rather excited about reading The Silmarillion.

As usual, I read Leave It To Psmith over Christmas break. It was better than ever. I actually read most of it before the new year, but couldn’t bear to not have it on my ‘read list’ for this year, so I left the last few chapters (both of which are rather short) to be finished after the new year. The call goes out all round blogdom, “Psmith is still on Richard’s books read list!”

Also, to continue the update, we watched several movies over break. We kicked it off with Napoleon Dynamite which was just hilarious. Not much of a story to it, really, but man, it has some of the best lines of all time. It is one worth owning, I think. We also watched The Manchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington. That was a pretty cool movie. Twisted and complicated storyline, which always makes me happy.

I also watched several episodes of Lost. Very cool show. I don’t really watch television much, but this show has made me want to keep our tv out for a while. New episode this week! If/when the DVDs are for sale, they are definitely on my wishlist.

Those of you that have joined via my referral link, I will post your links here if you give ‘em to me.

I haven’t got five completed offers yet, but I have two completed offers, and two other people that have told me they are in the process of completing an offer, and that means just one other person must complete an offer. And I have seven other people signed up. Surely one of them will complete an offer. So I took my link down, and, if you are thinking about getting a free iPod, I ask you to help one of the folks that helped me.

And I have to thank kristen again, for asking folks to help me out. They came in droves!

This year I’m giving up soda pop. That’s for the record… accountability and all that.

I should add, however, that I don’t intend to give it up entirely. I reserve the right to welcome the hopsitality of a friend should I be graciously offered a soda. And I also reserve the right, should we go out to eat, to order myself a dr pepper.

But, other than that, I’m giving it up.