“Snow White” Had Better Be the Fairest Film, Dammit
Permit me to echo io9’s causes for hope and causes for concern regarding the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman. Like them, I so desperately want it to prevail for its own sake and...
Author: Kyle Cupp
Paul Thomas Anderson Returns!
No other filmmaker can hold a sacred candle to writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson when he directs his mind, heart, and camera to American religiosity. Those who’ve seen Magnolia and There Will Be Blood can...
Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
I expect that my son will expand his vocabulary in kindergarten, but I was nonetheless momentarily dumbfounded when he came home one day, asked me to help him with a project, and informed me...
Vote Like a Baby
For reasons I’d rather not guess, the Texas Right to Life mailed us the above advertisement. When you flip it over, you see it’s an endorsement of Scott Turner for the TX State House. ...
Revelations of Art
Evening Mood by William Bouguereau, one of my wife’s favorites. We have a framed print of this painting hanging on the wall in our dining room. Guests learn immediately that ours is not a...
Echoes on the Road
“Let us beware of that caricature of an economist who, watching people cheerfully disporting themselves in their suburban allotments, thinks he has said everything there is to say when he observes that this is...
My Alma Mater, Making National News
Franciscan University of Steubenville is a small Catholic college not especially well known outside of a few niche Catholic circles, but its decision to drop student healthcare coverage, ostensibly in response to the HHS...
Vote Well or Go to Hell
I don’t have a TV and I seldom listen to the radio, so I’m spared the unseemly barrage of political advertisements that most Americans must suffer. Alas, I cannot evade all the campaign season’s...
Waking Up, Geek Style
We had a rough morning with the boy, who protested getting ready for the day from the moment I opened his window blinds. He was still in full Occupy Waking Up mode when I...
