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Movie reviews by stand-up comics and filmmakers Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini
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Time Has Come
+ Read moreWhat life exists for you outside your comfort zone? How does one cultivate the strength, courage and faith to move beyond the fears that hold us back? Graham Wardle explores the personal journeys of his guests and how they have stepped beyond what is familiar/safe and into the unknown.
Categories: Arts, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality
Tags: courage, enthusiasm, faith, graham, heartland, timehascome, wardle
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Babcock
+ Read moreA fat boy with the blues. A skinny girl who runs marathons. And a con man on the lam. If you liked Clear Heart, or if you liked Boone Barnaby, you’ll like this one, too. The themes are a bit more grown up than Boone Barnaby, but it’s still family-friendly for reading. For any age it’s my brand of writing: humane, down to earth, good-natured, sometimes funny and sometimes sad. Babcock plays electric guitar. He’s writing songs – and trying to figure out the true meaning of rock and roll – but he keeps coming up with the blues. Babcock is trying to start a friendship with a girl, Kirsten, who is as different as can be: Kirsten is skinny; she hates insects. And she’s white. Babcock is fat; he speaks to dragonflies. And he’s black. In some ways Kirsten is like a dragonfly: quick and bright. She never walks; she runs everywhere. Her family has money. Her mother thinks Babcock is a little too “rough.” Opposites attract. But can they make music? Babcock’s family is struggling for money. Then Babcock’s Uncle Earl moves in – and he moves into Babcock’s bedroom with Babcock’s menagerie of animals (including Martin Luther Kingsnake.). Uncle Earl is a con man on the lam. Uncle Earl used to play drums for Chuck Berry. Babcock wants to be Chuck Berry. Uncle Earl wants to coach a Little League baseball team – as a “business venture.” Babcock hates baseball. Babcock wants to learn “charm” from Uncle Earl. Uncle Earl wants to learn how to live a normal life and marry a normal woman – who happens to be Babcock’s schoolteacher. Maybe Babcock and Uncle Earl have something to teach each other. Babcock’s father runs a car repair shop. At night, in the kitchen, he draws cartoons. Some day he wants to quit repairing cars and sell his cartoons. But nobody’s buying. Kirsten is hotheaded. Sometimes she needs protection – from herself. Her mother tries to protect her – from Babcock. For help with his problems Babcock goes to an unlikely source: his Uncle Earl, the man with good charm and bad behavior. But the biggest lessons from Uncle Earl – and, perhaps, from rock and roll – are not what anyone expected. In short, it’s about character. About making music. About family, hard work, about love and loss. Sometimes there’s laughter. Sometimes the lights are off in the kitchen; papa’s got blues. But always life is rich and deeply moving… I call Babcock a post-Obama novel. It’s about the friendship of a black boy with a white girl, and it isn’t about racial issues – well, not much. Have we really reached that point? Is our cup half full? The odd thing is, I wrote this novel in 1992 when nobody, including me, had heard of Barack Obama and when book critics wanted bloody racial conflict whenever black and white characters mixed in the pages of a novel. Maybe I was 16 years ahead of the times. Babcock is part of the San Puerco trilogy, which makes it a companion book to Boone Barnaby: same characters (plus a few new ones) and more adventures in the scrappy little town of San Puerco. The book won awards as a novel for children, but it has many adult fans, too. Most of the issues appeal to an adult perspective as well as a child’s, though with different understanding. Other issues, of course, only a young person can understand. That’s life. That’s rock and roll.
Categories: Arts, Kids & Family
Tags: babcock, caroline, cottonwood, graham, joe, michael, minard, susan, walker
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Redeemer Church of Graham: Sermons
+ Read moreA weekly podcast of the sermons preached at Redeemer Church in Graham, Texas. redeemergraham.org
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
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Living in the Light with Ann Graham Lotz
+ Read moreCalled “the best preacher in the family” by her father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and authority of years spent studying God’s Word. The New York Times named Anne one of the five most influential evangelists of her generation. She’s been profiled on 60 Minutes, and has appeared on TV programs such as Larry King Live, The Today Show, and HannityLive. Her “Just Give Me Jesus” revivals have been held in more than 30 cities in 12 different countries, to hundreds of thousands of attendees. Whether a delegate to Davos’ Economic Forum, a commentator to the Washington Post, or a groundbreaking speaker on platforms throughout the world, Anne’s aim is clear – to bring revival to the hearts of God’s people. And her message is consistent – calling people into a personal relationship with God through His Word. Anne is a best-selling and award-winning author. Her releases include “Wounded by God’s People,”, “Fixing My Eyes on Jesus,” “Expecting to See Jesus” and her first children’s book, “Heaven: God’s Promise for Me.” Anne and her husband Danny Lotz have three grown children and three grandchildren. She is the founder and president of AnGeL Ministries.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
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A Monty Python Podcast : Python Up The Missus
+ Read moreFrom the makers of Carry On Up The Missus, Carry On Up The Village and Quantum Of Missus comes a 50th anniversary celebration of all things Monty Python
Categories: TV & Film
Tags: british, chapman, circus, Cleese, Comedy, eric, flying, Gilliam, graham, Idle, john, jones, michael, monty, Palin, Pythion, python, s, television, Terry
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White Label Films’ Videocast
+ Read moreFeaturing the biggest DJ’s and clubs in NYC and Miami’s Winter Music Conference. Take a sneak peak in to White Label Films upcoming DJ documentary “LOUDER!” [itunes pic]
LOUDER! DJ Documentary Promo July08 I sneak preview of the documentary LOUDER! that includes interviews with the most influential DJ and Producer talents from around the world.Categories: Arts
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Danny Ain’t
+ Read moreDanny’s father goes into a hospital for a while, leaving Danny to live alone in a trailer with no money and little food. That’s when the coyotes start coming to visit. Coyotes are tricksters. Coyotes are clever survivors. So is Danny as he learns what kind of human being he truly is — and what kind he ain’t. DANNY AIN’T is part of the San Puerco Trilogy, three award-winning novels that have been loved by adults and children alike, about the adventures of three boys in the scrappy little town of San Puerco, California. Other titles in the trilogy are BOONE BARNABY and BABCOCK. “A finely crafted story. The characters are enormously appealing.” — School Library Journal “The author of THE ADVENTURES OF BOONE BARNABY returns to the small town of San Puerco for another engaging, well-told tale.” — Kirkus Reviews “Brave, compassionate Danny, who embraces his incorrect grammar as symbolic of his identity, is worth cheering for.” —Publishers Weekly DANNY AIN’T won the BABRA Award (Bay Area Book Reviewers Association) as Best Book for Children in 1992
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