ST. BLOG’S RED CARPET SEASON And you thought the campaign season was over! The 2005 Best Catholic Blog Nominations are now open! Click here to – let’s face it! – let Amy and Mark know how great they are (and hopefully coax Mark out of seclusion!). I really wish they had a nomination category for movie/tv/pop culture reviews from a Catholic/Christian perspective. Beyond just expanding the glory of COTM, it would be one way to find out who else is... Read more

GENDER IS NOT AN ACCIDENT Here’s a fascinating article reprinted at Godspy about current psychological research into the whole area of sex-changes. Turns out, gender is something determined in genetics and is not just the result of a vast societally-based conspiracy. Again, of course, this insight has come from a scan of yet another wasted-life strewn battlefield of the “Sexual Revolution.” Here’s a snip… Reiner, however, discovered that [infant] re-engineered males were almost never comfortable as females once they became... Read more

NEVERMIND ME… If you are interested in Christians and Hollywood and culture and all the stuff of this blog, click on over to Jan “the (brilliant) Maven” and read her piece for January 27, 2005, “AN ARMY THAT WILL NOT RUN AWAY.” She’s talking about believers who come to Hollywood and, then, fade away or run away. Here’s the heart of it: I’ve seen people run away because they didn’t realize how hard the task before them was, and didn’t... Read more

KEEP YOUR MOVIE OFF OUR WORLDVIEW! One of the most galling things about Million Dollar Baby is that the characters are actually pagans dressed in Christian clothing. Why did they have to make them us? First of all, the career ambitions of the main characters, Frankie Dunn and Maggie Fitzgerald, all have to do with beating the crap out of other human beings for sport. I found this troubling as a human being, not even as a Christian. In the... Read more

ACT ONE BLEG We have these lovely spanking new brochures for our upcoming Act One programs – both for Act One: Writing for Hollywood and for the studpendously ingenius and fabulous Act One: Executive Program which launches this summer. Now, all we have to do, is get them in people’s hands. If any of you would be willing to put a stack or more out at your church, ministry, prayer group, bible study, bookstore, university, business or spaceship, I have... Read more

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CYNTHIA! Sending out happy 43rd (dark, gurgling laugh) birthday greetings to my (long-lost) older sister, Cynthia. Cynthia has been scholaring in Europe for a decade, only traipsing back to the States as necessary to renew her visa. The rumor is Cynthia is in Ireland these days. Studying still, I imagine. She doesn’t read my blog. But just in case, have a great day and year, Cyn! Come back soon! I promise, America IS big enough for both of... Read more

“Just because nobody understands you, doesn’t make you an artist.” (found in my fortune cookie tonight…still laughin’) Read more

SINNING AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT The Oscar Noms are out, affirming once again, just how very, very sick America’s storytellers have become. I know many of you are very dismissive of the culture’s storytellers, but that is short-sighted. A country with sick storytellers dreams sick dreams, or doesn’t dream at all. Both are societal suicide. When Jesus healed, some people called Him a demon. Jesus then noted that, “All sins will be forgiven men, except the sin against the Holy... Read more

EMILY MONDAY 1427 To earn it by disdaining it Is Fame’s consummate Fee — He loves what spurns him — Look behind — He is pursuing thee. So let us gather — every Day — The Aggregate of Life’s Bouquet Be Honor and not shame — Read more

OWNING JANUARY 22 On this, the High Holy Day of the Culture of Death, please take a moment of silence to mourn the loss of much of the future. This is the day that will live in infamy, for it sactioned the deaths of 30,000,000 Americans before they were born. It is an incalcuable loss. Mourn the lives that wont inspire, the sacrifices that wont be there to save, the words of comfort and wisdom that will never be spoken,... Read more