SUNDAY READING INTO THE WILD:There’s a great story about the film adaptation (written, directed, and sometimes shot, too) by Sean Penn of Jon Krakauer’s extraordinary 1996 book, Into the Wild, in today’s New York Times (Arts&Leisure section). A must-read for fans of Krakauer’s book (like Mr. Penn, when I first read the book in 1996 and got to the last page, I quickly turned back to the front and read it a second time), but also for those intrigued by... Read more

Because sometimes ya just gotta … One of, if not THE, best pressure-relieving tirades in cinematic history. Hallelujah! Holy shit, where’s the Tylenol? Indeed, Clark. God bless ya, Sparky. Read more

GODSTUFF: Priest finds stage life scripted in faith Before I was a journalist, I was an actor. Briefly, a semester or so ahead of my debut in the pages of the Wheaton College student newspaper, I became a member of its theater company, a group known simply as “Workout.” The company performed in the Arena Theater, a simple black box that was transformed miraculously into (variously during my tenure) an enormous rope cage for “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?”... Read more

I just love this story From today’s Toronto SUN: September 13, 2007 HIS LUCKY STAR:Hunk Colin Farrell’s touching friendship with street guy shows what a class act he is By MIKE STROBEL The beggars of Yorkville have eyes as big as pans these days. All those film stars. All that spare change. But a street regular known as Stress has struck gold. Pure Irish gold … Lunchtime. Eighty fans with Kodaks and pens are poised outside the InterContinental Hotel on... Read more

YUSUF ISLAM (CAT STEVENS) EXPLAINS RAMADAN Ramadan Mubarak! Read more

TODAY IN GOD:RELIGION NEWS BITES FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE ____________________________________________________________________________________‘Catholic Church isn’t hiding apocalypse secret’ The only surviving witness to a decades-long conspiracy theory has firmly denied the Catholic Church is hiding details about a predicted apocalypse. The 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul IIThe third secret of Fatima, revealed in 2000, referred to the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II Archbishop Loris Capovilla, 91, said there was no truth in the rumour that the Vatican was... Read more

‘Hebrew Crunk,’ apparently Sweet fancy Moses. Happy Rosh Hashanah indeed. Thanks to our friends at Birthright Israel for the above, um, masterpiece. Yay-uh. Read more

Holy Pomegranates: Shana Tova! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins today at sunset. One of the traditions connected to Rosh Hashanah is the consumption of pomegranates (the world’s sexiest fruit, IMHO.) Did you know:In the Hebrew scriptures, Exodus 28:33–34 directed images of pomegranates be woven onto the borders of Hebrew priestly robes, and in 1 Kings 7:13–22 pomegranates are described in the decorations of the King Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. According to Jewish tradition, the pomegranate is a symbol... Read more

PLEASE PRAY FOR CLEO Our elder cat, Cleo — the light of our lives, grace with paws — is headed into surgery any minute to remove some tumors from her little kitty mammary glands. Please remember her to her Maker. We’ll keep you posted. Thanks,GGHQ UPDATE: Cleo came home today (Tuesday) with a stitched-up incision from her armpit to her groin and with half of her mammary glands gone. She’s groggy and in some pain, but she’s home and more... Read more

Just because:A Woman to Love “I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we’re all afraid of it and when we’re afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.”— DIANE KEATON Read more