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Previews that intrigue me

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I probably won’t see these until they come out on DVD, but they look interesting. (Note: I got these from apple trailers. The aspect ratio will be off unless you have a pretty wide screen–and it may still not be right even then. Go to the Apple trailers page to see a better picture.)

I hope this movie succeeds in dealing with a distinctively modern situation.

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This one is probably going to be unredeemable. I’ll keep my eyes on the reviews. However, I have to say that the trailer is poignant and, if I thought it was representative, I would see it:

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I tried to use the smallest preview to make this fit better. It looks like it could be amazing. I hope they don’t blow it for political reasons.

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This looks hysterical but the R rating probably represents enough gratuitous stuff that I won’t see it. (I also notice that the anarchy code fixes a different aspect ratio and there’s nothing I can do about it.)

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Ok, the normal trailer is missing so here’s a hi-def view. Let’s see if it works. If this proves suitable I’m thinking about taking Evangeline to it as a special father-daughter treat. We’ll see… May not be age appropriate; depends on the amount of consumer propaganda and the boy-girl stuff which is obviously a disney marketing ploy.

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Forget about Paul; what does this say about Giuliani?

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I replay the classic footage:
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I’ve been waiting for my favorite new political blog to mention this, but I guess I will have to do this myself. Other than youtube.com, does Ron Paul have any greater campaigner and promoter that Rudy Giuliani? Giuliani actually heard what Ron Paul said and decided to demonstrate what sort of uber-“patriotic” grandstanding Paul is standing against.

Could not he simply have said, “While we always need to be careful about what we do, I think Mr. Paul’s description of American policy is way to simplistic. In any case, it doesn’t matter. We have been attacked and we have become responsible for Iraq and while many understandably regret this, it is still irresponsible to act like we can simply ignore it and revert to a policy that may or may not have worked at different times.”

If he had said that or something like it in a dismissive but non-rancorous tone, he would have cut Paul off at the knees in terms of public debating. If he had said nothing at all, he would have still prevented a huge swell of interest in Paul.

(In fact, I wonder if the Ron Paul campaign paid off the Republicans who tried to bar him from future debates.  What else could possibly explain such behavior guaranteed to garner both coverage and sympathy for Paul?)

What I’m trying to say is that Giuliani’s behavior shows an amazing lack of judgment due to a misreading of the American people or a desire to grandstand.  He could be right in policy (which isn’t remotely the case, but save that for others to argue) and still this should mean that he has real problems in leadership.

Well, since I’m posting video, I must do more.  Tucker Carlson is so much better than anyone at Foxnews, in my opinion, so here is a double treat.

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Oh, and who can be surprised at this reaction on the part of Giuliani:

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Hearkening back to the days when this blog had a pop-culture-tv reference as a title

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For some inexplicable reason, it never occurred to me to look on YouTube for Buffy clips.

This is especially relevant for season six, which was way over the top, fundamentally inexplicable, and probably the reason SMG decided to leave the show–and thus the last season I am interested in owning.  Thus, it is great to be able, when I’m jonesing for the musical, to be able to watch the first song, or the final showdown, or Sweet’s song, or Spikes song.

Not a bad thing (with the usual many caveats related to television).

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“Church Marketing Sucks” asks a good question

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Online entertainment has been taking the world by storm. Homestar Runner. Ask a Ninja. lonelygirl15. ZeFrank. For the most part these were projects started by small groups of people with small amounts of money. They are media empires on shoestring budgets. They can be created by folks in their pajamas and they have incredible impact.

While watching Ask a Ninja co-founder Kent Nichols talk about his rules for success in this new entertianment world in a video from Pop!Tech, I wondered where the church is in this new online entertainment phenomenon.

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This really intrigues me.  I have been looking down on Vlogs and rambling podcasts because I consider it inately superior to ramble in print.  But what if it was done well.  Truthfully, I think an entertaining and funny video podcast that unbelievers would watch would  do far more good than all the apologetist blogs put together.

Hey Jon, you’re already vlogging, so maybe you could recruit some people.  We obviously have some talent available as is plain in this liturgical training video…

Are our bodies transportation devices for our heads?

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A friend sent Jennifer and I this video of Sir Ken Robinson. Despite the odious Gore reference at the end, we watched it quite intently and I’m feeling pretty convicted about some of the educational values I’ve been pushing for my children.

And I can’t help but think there is something to learn here about theology and theological education. I’m tempted to say that a lot of the controversy of over emerg-stuff is, at bottom, very much related to the issues Sir Robinson [Oops, I’m informed that is incorrect: Sir Ken] raises…..

(And does anyone else find it impossible to get Milne cadences out of their head? Brave, brave, Sir Robinson…)