Long time no blog. I’ll be honest with you in saying that I’ve lost a lot of steam for this. I dunno. It’s summer. I’d rather do almost anything than gaze inwardly long enough to generate a blog post. But that said, I feel like I should, so here goes.
Aside: My publisher has unleashed some [...]
So I’ve just signed another contract with Moody Publishing for a project called “To Hell With the Devil: 365 Days of Christian Music, from Al Denson to Alice Cooper.” The idea is that I’ll listen to nothing but Christian music (concerts, CD’s, videos) for a whole year. This will be especially challenging for me since [...]
Oysters are best ordered in months containing the letter “R” and are also a “wildly delicious way to satisfy the cocktail hour.”
That a custom suit is “a graduation into the world of serious dress.”
That, according to Marvin R. Shanken, publisher, on the perilous state of our economy, we need to “just take a deep breath [...]
Imagine my surprise when, last night, my good friend Pastor Zach came over with two fine maduro cigars bearing my name, and, almost the same font/color scheme utilized on my Ted Wins. t-shirts and bumper stickers. It’s almost as though the cigar gods (ps – I know there aren’t cigar gods…just a figure of speech)said, [...]
As most honest evangelicals know who’ve traveled abroad, while we’re supposed to be out pounding the pavement, redeeming the culture, what we really want to do is go back to our flat, eat American food, and watch DVD’s. That said, I’ll be focused heavily on movie-related cultural items. And again, the random, arbitrary five-sausage rating [...]
Greetings Ted Wins. Army! I’m holed up ina tiny flat in Kiev, where the power goes out if I write on my laptop and heat up a schnitzel at the same time. That said, I’ve consumed nearly all of the cultural items I brought with me…and have reviewed them all, in apallingly un-thorough and uprofessional [...]
Has anyone seen Atonement? This is a beautifully shot and directed film, which stars a positively gaunt Keira Knightly, and concerns her character’s love affair with the son of a servant (whose name, oddly, is Robby…calling to mind mullets, Camaros, and the late 1980’s…but anyway). Young Robby, after a handful of his own moral failures, [...]
The Office (season, the latest)
So I’m what you’d call an appointment-viewer of The Office. We watch it every week. And after two episodes of the latest season I have to say that the show has taken on a darker tinge, mood-wise, than it’s had in the past. This has mainly to do with the [...]
Rock of Love (VH1)
You may be asking yourself, what’s a totally almost respectable Christian sports journalist doing watching VH1’s Rock of Love starring former Poison frontman Brett Michaels? I ask myself the same question, and can only answer that I watched a few episodes recently when I was sick, recovering from the flu at my [...]
When I was in my mid-twenties I loved David Fincher’s Fight Club. Like a lot of twenty-somethings, I thought it spoke to me and for me, to a certain extent. I dug the whole “corporations and posessions are bad” vibe. I dug the fighting and the male bonding stuff. I really resonated with the whole [...]
