Everyone loves to attack big business. I'm not a big business attacker, for the record. (An unintended pun, btw.) I have noticed something peculiar with the music industry. Sure, there's movie pirating. And software pirating. But both are so relatively affordable (depending on the program and purpose I suppose.) We can buy our favorite movie at Walmart for five dollars. What savings! And I even got a swell movie at Circuit City for three dollars -- a brand new "Charade" with Audrey Hepbur...

These amazing books by CS Lewis are the tales of another world and a country called Narnia. Kings, Queens, dwarfs, Satyrs, tree gods and goddesses, and a magnificent Lion who is High King over all. My daughter and I have been reading this a chapter a night since Christmas and are halfway through the books. The amazing lessons in this book are so unforgettable. As a Christian parent, they hit me hard sometimes. The Lion, Aslan, represents Christ throughtout the book. We've read how Edw...

I just bought Julieta Venegas's CD "Si" a week ago. It has not left my CD player. I know all the songs now. I have no favorite song. I look forward to the next song as much as I'm sad the last one is over. This whole CD rocks. She is an amazingly talented muscian! She plays the acoustic guitar in her songs, the accordian, sings (como no!) and WROTE all the songs herself. She has a talented cast of musicians filling in the gaps (record scratches, bass, synthesizers, electric guitar, et cet...

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react.You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man'...

This is one of my favorite fiction books I've read since I got out of college. I enjoyed this book deeply. I read half of it in one day. I was entralled with the way the author told the story through the child involved. Moreover, I was kept in suspense throughout the book wondering what "really" happened. I didn't want to believe the child deserved to be where he is. The story is of a child who took what adults told him very seriously who meets another child who also takes adults lite...

Celebrity worship… nothing new I suppose. I chuckle at the thought of a guy walking past the forum and some guy saying, “Hey, you look just like Socrates!” and the other guy saying, “Really?” while saying to himself, “ALRIGHT!” I’m not sure why a woman who gave much thought to it would want to look like a celeb. I mean really, who ever became famous for looking exactly like someone else who’s already famous? Typically, people become famous for a new look. Its something about them that’s d...