Ken Burns: The Civil War

Tonight I finished watching the last episode in the nine part series.  I've been watching them for the past few weeks as I rented them from Netflix. This documentary was excellent and very moving.  It's amazing how defining this era was to our national conscience.  I highly recommend it to everyone. While affirming the Sovereign God, from a human perspective, if we do not learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat its mistakes. So much for what we fight and clamor for is so vain and fleeting. It's just another reminder of the futility that we live under. The futility that wrecks some and humbles others. It can lead us to seek great glory for ourselves in a whirlwind of selfish exploits designed to deny our mortality or it can drive us to seek the glory of Another; to seek the glory of the One who created us for His own purposes. The One whose greatest passion is Himself, and who demonstrates His own love by laying down His life for us. Men have fought for centuries for tracts of land and great wealth only to lose them to some stronger group. Great men and women will rise and fall, kingdoms will reign then crumble, I will live and die, but God's truth is marching on.

Fathers and Sons and March Madness

I cannot recommend this blog entry from CJ Mahaney enough. He talks about how fathers can teach their sons to glorify God in and through playing sports.

Excellent.

Together for the Gospel

Blogger Widget

I'm checking out the new Blogger widget for Mac OSX.

Never been easier to blog.

Now will I actually do it?

Lucas: Big pics are doomed

Interesting prediction from the Flanneled One.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Leave it to 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas to pronounce the death of the Hollywood blockbuster.

'The market forces that exist today make it unrealistic to spend $200 million on a movie,' said Lucas, a near-billionaire from his feverishly franchised outer-space epics. 'Those movies can't make their money back anymore. Look at what happened with 'King Kong.'' The portly Lucas, whose 'Star Wars' sequel was nominated for the Oscar in makeup, was clearly in Yoda mode at Saturday's Weinstein Co. party -Harvey Weinstein's first Oscar bash since he abandoned Miramax to Disney last year. 'I think it's great that the major Oscar nominations have gone to independent films,' Lucas told me, adding that it's no accident that the 'small movies' outclassed the spectaculars in this year's Academy Awards. 'Is that good for the business? No, it's bad for the business. But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!'

Was that a smirk?

'In the future, almost everything that gets shown in theaters will be indie movies,' Lucas declared. 'I predict that by 2025 the average movie will cost only $15 million.'

Excerpt From New York Daily News.