Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Review

One more thing...

For those of you interested in the short film I made with the help of some friends, it has been uploaded to Youtube and Videos on Facebook. The title is Along Came Maple. Let me know what you think.

Update - it seems that it takes some time to process. I'll let you know when it's fully up.

Updated Update - it's processed, but may not show up in a search for up to 8 hours. Try the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83vybrkUOA

End of an Era

It certainly feels that way, doesn't it? Life life is changing, and I'm not sure that it's gonna be better on the other side. Of course it will, it has to be, right? It's just hard to imagine. I was really touched reading the Suiteness farewell post (http://www.xanga.com/Suiteness), and decided maybe it was time for one of my own.

At this point, I'm not coming back to Cornerstone. I'm fairly confident I'm not coming back to Michigan on a permanent basis. I'm seriously not sure what I'm going to be doing in September. And that terrifies me. And that's okay.

It does really feel like life is changing in significant ways for everyone I know. Maybe this is one of those stages in life, where it happens - kinda like the end of High School. Except... I don't know. It's just crazy. I keep reflecting on how everyone I know has spread throughout the country - Dave to pennsylvania, Laura to Arizona, Tiffany to Colorado, Justin and Jesse to Kansas. Heck, even Jim Keat isn't in GR anymore. Holland is a close second, but it's still not the same. I know there are still a bunch of you in Grand Rapids - but most of you have told me you won't be there long. Even Sexy Rexy is done with Cornerstone...

So what now? Do I cling to an old life, or throw myself into something new? I'm certainly trying - and there are some amazing Godly people here in Charleston as well.

So I guess this is farewell, my few remaining faithful Xanga readers. We had some good times (that comedy website was sure fun) and some bad times (being attacked my girlfriends family would certainly qualify). There are too many loyal readers and friends to list here, and I'm sure I'd forget a bunch, so I won't even try. Thank you all for a great time, and stay in touch.

Love ya.

Freaking Fish

Updates....

Red Wings will play San Jose in the semifinals. That will be a tough series; I am a bit worried for the Wings... However, no one is respecting them. For being the top seed in the West, a sure lot of people are picking against the Wings...

Finished Shane Claiborne's "The Irresistable Revolution." Great book, I highly recommend it. It's a dangerous book, so I offer you that caution. It's hard not to read it and be dissatisfied with the current state of christianity and the church. One part I particularly enjoyed simply because it sounds to me like Dave Morgan wrote it:

"Who cares! A freaking fish had a coin in it's mouth!"

If you know Dave, that sounds a lot like him. 

Heinlein

"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine 'that violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom."

"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. The third 'right'? -- the 'pursuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."