Back after a couple of weeks off...

Books read...
*The Soul of a Leader: Although about political leadership I found it a good read.

*The Case for Historic Pre-Millenialism: A set of essays on Post Trib Rapture and a challenge to the Left Behind position. A good subject. The essays were a mixed bag.

*The Darwin Awards: Who can't get a guilty pleasure of reading how creatively and stupidly a person can remove themselves from the gene pool.

~ Having finished my goal of the 1/2 marathon I am working towards a full marathon next year. Covered 10 miles today. Slow and difficult.

~ Movie review: Star Trek: 3 stars. Loved the beginning. Like the new guys playing the characters. It entered into predictability at warp speed by the half way point. Good but not great.

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Apr 26 opening video

Alice Cooper and his faith

Some years ago Alice proclaimed a saving experience in Christ. Having listened to AC since the mid-70s such news interested me. Unfortunately you hear of these things from time to time such as Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton "conversions".

Listening to his new CD 'Along Came a Spider' I wondered if his faith would be reflected. The CD is pretty typical AC, not a musical masterpiece but pretty standard fare of what he has produced over the last 40 years.

Then I came across 'Salvation'. It is hardly an Isaac Watts tour de force but for someone with his rep over the years this is a very straight forward claim to faith in Christ.

So for your listening pleasure (?) Here is salvation by Alice Cooper.

All 451 degrees: Book #21 ~ #14 for Tweety Pie

Finished 451 Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury. Really amazing and insightful.

Happy 14th bday to Alyson aka to her Dad as Tweety Pie. She makes me happy.

DVD and .05 book review

Doubt Review: I wanted to see this in the theaters but never did. I was glad to find it on DVD yesterday. Here is my review: I DOUBT if it was worth the $1.06 it cost me to rent it. I DOUBT if I would ever recommend anyone to waste 90 mins of their life on the movie. I have no DOUBT that the cast, writers and directors were very smug and self congratulatory on what a clever artistic movie it was. Thus I DOUBT they understand why it was and is such a goose-egg. I have more I could say but I DOUBT it is worth my time to do so.

On the other hand Fahrenheit 451 is EXCELLENT!! I'm only half way through but the whole premise of how books and thus ideas and the life of the mind is done away with to be replaced by giant wall TVs and days filled w/ fun and entertainment is so relevant. Again, excellent.