Purdy Good

Just finished watching the first episode of AMC’s Preacher. Initially, I was a bit conflicted. Beyond the character names and types, it didn’t follow the plot line of Ennis and Dillon’s comic. But the more I watched, the more into I got. Realized that the show is telling its own…

(photo credit: The Stranger’s Bookshelf) I’m a month shy of turning 33, and one of the things I want to do most is play a round of Dungeons & Dragons, or at the very least, some other type of pen and paper role playing game (RPG). I suppose my age…

(photo credit: The Moving World Scott Pfeiffer) I watched 2013’s Whiplash earlier this month and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Evidence of a solid flick. Gets inside the head and doesn’t stop moving around. Why is this film captivating? Why am I still thinking about it? Do I identify…

I’m tucked away in my basement, penning this missive, while outside the temperatures continue to fall. Today is the coldest day it’s been this winter in Minnesota thus far, with a high of zero and a low of seventeen below. Days like today, it’s unadvisable to go outside. Every breath…

Greetings and Happy New Year! How was your evening? Did things get a bit crazy? My evening sure did. I ate way more than I should have, which in all honesty has been a recurring theme for me this holiday season. We bought a bunch of appetizer type food: chicken…

Since starting a family my attitude toward Christmas and the holidays has changed. In my younger days, as an embittered man in my early 20’s, I railed against the holiday season, whining of corporate greed and commercialism and the injustices suffered by pagans at the hands of early Christians co-opting…