Lovely
This afternoon we had lunch at Newport Arms for my grandmother-in-laws birthday. It was so good! Those folks sure know how to do a good meal. I had beer-battered flathead and chips. So much for my diet...
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“Somebody kill me please! Put a bullet in my heeeeeeeaaaaaaad.” I don’t actually want to die but days like this remind me of that Wedding Singer song. I didn’t get left at the altar but I kind of feel...
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I didn’t notice until a lecturer pointed it out this week Gattaca, the name of the movie, is a combination of the four DNA bases GATC. Clever! We’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, and apparently...
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Sunday Night
Watching Buffy, the final episode of season 4, I have realised something that I never have before. Funny, since I’ve seen it so many times. The final slayer comes to kill them in their dreams because...
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The Kingdom
We saw The Kingdom last night. Having read the one sentence synopsis on IMDB it wasn’t what I was expecting. If I had seen the trailer or looked at the official website I might have been expecting...
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Death Proof: a movie by Quentin Tarantino
We saw Death Proof tonight. It was a choice between that and Death at a Funeral. Gee, did it feel like the wrong choice. Glenj summed it up nicely when he said “The best part of that movie was the...
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Sorry to see you go…
Dang. I’ve been on holidays for a couple of months so any exposure to the news that I got through other people has essentially gone. It was pure chance that I turned the TV on today and it was on the...
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Good Friday, 12noon, Channel 7 was a documentary by John Dickson, The Christ Files. It’s supposed to be a historical exploration of the facts behind the stories about Jesus. I didn’t get home in time...
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Dress-up ideas
One of our friends had his 21st recently. Since he is an enormous movie buff it was a dress-up party: “retro TV/movie characters or actors”. I was so plagued by indecision that I almost didn’t want to...
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Fervr Launch
The Website Last Saturday I attended the launch of Fervr: a website to encourage young Christians to live Christ-centred lives, encourage non-Christians to think about the values of our society, a...
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