THE SOPRANOS FINALE: DON’T STOP BELIEVING Journey.Onion rings.Parallel parking.Fade to black. So … what do you think? Did Tony wind up with justice, mercy or grace? I’ve got my own ideas, but I’d love to hear yours. UPDATE: David Chase speaksThe Newark Star-Ledger landed an exclusive interview with ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase after the finale aired Sunday night. Television columnist Alan Sepinwall spoke to Chase by phone from France, where the writer-and-director of the final ‘Sopranos’ episode had fled to... Read more

G8 Roundup: Bono’s pissed God bless his furious Irish heart. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE. Read more

GODSTUFF TONY SOPRANO: HERE’S WHERE THE STORY ENDS Tony Soprano has 61 minutes left to find redemption. When the head of the Soprano crime family lay down in an unmade bed alone at the end of last week’s penultimate episode of “The Sopranos,” with an assault rifle across his chest, ostensibly waiting for his executioner to come through the door and wrest him from his (mortal) reverie, perhaps it was already too late. Judgment Day is nigh for Tony as... Read more

MEH, AGAIN: VERDICT IS IN … And the doctor says it’s food poisoning. Merde! (Perhaps literally, in fact.) Our bloggerina is on uber-antibiotics that are supposed to kill the crud (bacterial and/or parasitic) and we hope she’ll be back in fighting form in a day or so. In the meantime, wanna do something that might make her feel better? Huh? Do ya? Here’s an idea: The paperback edition of The God Factor hit the shelves of bookstores across the nation... Read more

Say a little prayer for Paris “Back the hell up off me or I’m gonna beat you like the dude you look like.”Hee. Read more

ANGELINA: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? I read something just now in the new issue of Esquire, the one with Angelina Jolie on the cover, that was utterly provocative, spiritually and socially speaking. Toward the end of the multi-paged profile of Jolie, the writer, Tom Junod, makes an extraordinary statement, both for its maddening verbosity and striking profundity. After quoting Erin Trowbridge — an advisor to the economist Jeff Sachs at the UN’s Millennium Project and sometimes travel companion of... Read more

SOMETHIN’ TO TALK ABOUT: LIVING LA VIDA PORNO Of late, a few things have hit our radar about the cross-section of faith and pornography, the meeting of sexuality and spirituality, the corner of belief and be-dunk-dunk, if you will. The Associated Press yesterday published an interesting psycho-social analysis of the hypersexualization of American culture. I’ve excerpted it below for your reading enjoyment. Living in a porn-driven, ‘look-at-me’ cultureCHICAGO — Porn used to be relegated to a video hidden in the... Read more

Mmmmmmmllllllaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwh. Still feeling lousy, but this made me laugh out loud and almost spill my diet ginger ale when I spotted it a few minutes ago whilst surfing the gossip sites. Come on. We’ve all been there. GG (from sick bay) Read more

Madea’s Bible Study ‘GOD OF SHADRACK, MESHACK AND THAT BILLY GOAT. GOD OF MARY … J. BLIGE.’ I love Tyler Perry’s character “Madea.” I can’t help it.I think this is fantastic and it makes me laugh, even when I feel bloody awful. GG Read more

COMPUTER SAYS NO. Morning, kids. God Girl is feeling a little under the weather today and therefore not up to bloggerina snuff. So … talk amongst yourselves. Or take a cyber field trip and hang out with our homies at: Busted Halo The Door HeebThe RevealerOn FaithView AskewLandover Baptistor for a little something weightier, The Pew Forum. We’re pushing fluids and hope to have GG propped up in front of her computer by tomorrow. Inshallah. GGHQ Read more