Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
At dinner the other night, the boy, in his very matter-of-fact tone of voice, proclaimed, “You know where I wish my head was attached to my body? Between my legs.” He did clarify. He...
Author: Kyle Cupp
Echoes on the Road
“The performance of a play, like that of a ritual, cannot simply be detached from the play itself, as if it were something that is not part of its essential being, but is as...
Ah, Henchmen
Be sure to read Tod Kelly’s front page post, “The Henchman’s Diary.” It’s a fattening, super-delicious bowl of awesomesauce. And, while we’re on the theme, let me say, if the life and times of...
Creating the Morality of Christ
While we can point to the Sermon on the Mount as an originary expression of the “morality of Christ,” we cannot fully arrive at the sense of this morality through a textual analysis alone....
Church and State: Still Learning This Whole Democracy Thing
Two initial remarks: 1) this will be a particularly important presidential election and 2) I care little about who wins. The election will be important, not primarily because Barack Obama or Mitt Romney...
We Interrupt this Movie for a Message from Captain America about Health Care
Joss Whedon tells The New York Times about a scene he decided to cut from The Avengers: One of the best scenes that I wrote was the beautiful and poignant scene between Steve and...
Joss Whedon Makes a Living
Writing in The New York Times, Dave Itzkoff profiles the geeky, grumpy writer-director Joss Whedon, who’s at the helm of the upcoming sure-to-be blockbuster The Avengers: As he recently recited a list of familiar...
