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Happy Halloween to My Grandbabies!
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"Trick or Treating" with Zacchaeus
“Trick or Treating with Zaccheaus” – Luke 19:1-10Pentecost XXIII - Proper 26C – October 31, 2010 All Saint’s, Rehoboth Beach, DE(the Rev’d Dr.) Elizabeth Kaeton, Priest in ResidenceTonight we celebrate Halloween and before you know it we’ll be inundated with wee costumed ghosts and goblins and ghoulies and angels and superheroes, all come begging at our door for treats while threatening harmless tricks.Perhaps that’s why...
My idea for a really cool slasher movie!
I must admit I never got into those slasher movies. Seems to me they’re all the same story. The popular kids who were too good to ever go out with you in high school all frolic off to a cabin for some holiday and some disfigured skeesix in a goalie’s mask terrorizes and one-by-one graphically slices them up. Yes, it’s grizzly and horrible but isn’t that sorta what they deserve? Would it kill them to agree to dance with us just...
Katey Sagal sings
Here's an episode of the MARY series that David Isaacs and I created for Mary Tyler Moore in 1985. Thanks to reader Benson for posting it on YouTube. This is the episode that features Katey Sagal singing. We knew she was a terrific singer (she was one of Bette Midler's Harlettes) but the character she played in the show was a real curmudgeon, not the kind of person...
Merrill Markoe's Book of Genesis
Finally, some actual PROOF of the Book of Genesis, compliments of esteemed theologian, Merrill Mark...
A cautionary fable
My Canadian Colleague Malcolm+ has a wonderful blog he calls Simple Massing Priest, which is, in fact, quite brilliant.This morning, he has posted one of Aesop's fable's - "The Frogs Desired a King" - as a cautionary tale about the proposed Anglican Covenant. I thought it so keenly brilliant that I've posted it below, with thanks to Malcolm+. If you are of a mind, it might be good to pass this one 'round to your British Anglican...
How a baseball is made
As the World Series continues, I'm always looking for baseball posts for people who don't give a crap about baseball. Here's one for anyone just curious or that entrepreneur looking to start his own sweat shop. How a baseball is made. This is from the Discovery Channel and it's pretty fascinating. Before you can "play ball" you gotta "make ball"....
It Gets Better . . . With Age
I'm working on a project today that is consuming a bit more of my time than I intended. I hope to post it later today or tomorrow.In the meantime, please take five minutes and fifty-two seconds to watch this clip of some LGBT elders in Boston who can attest, with great authority, that "it gets better."A few of them talk honestly about surviving their suicide attempts. One of them is Sheri Barden,...
What is the best spec to write?
Working through these Friday questions as fast as I can. Here are a bunch more.Ajjjj asks:What show do you recommend to spec? You’ve mentioned 30 Rock, but since it's in its fifth season, is it maybe getting long in the tooth? Is it wiser to write for a young show with promise (Raising Hope, Modern Family) or to write for a show that might be too stale in a year or so (Always Sunny, 30 Rock?)Thanks, and I'll take my answer off...
Raising the Dead
Photo of The Poconos, Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA, Elizabeth Kaeton I've just returned from the annual clergy retreat in the Poconos in Pennsylvania which was led by "Jesus Freak" Sara Miles, who is also Director of the St. Gregory of Nissa Food Pantry in San Francisco. The focus of our time with her, however, was her latest book, Take This Bread.Just so you'll know what we were dealing with, here's a brief except from Chapter Four:One...
One of the true idiots I've ever worked with
Early in my directing career I did a couple of episodes of ASK HARRIET for FOX. It actually was not a bad show and I worked with some wonderful actors like Willie Garson, Ed Asner, and Julie Benz. But one of the producers was maybe the worst writer I’ve ever encountered in the business. And he really stuck out because the rest of the staff was terrific. For purposes of this piece let’s call him Shecky because he pretty much...
Charlie Sheen, the World Series, the Kardashians, and Crusader Rabbit
Random this and thats…So Charlie Sheen was found naked and drunk and trashed a hotel room in the Plaza in New York. The naked hooker he was with was screaming from inside a closet. And what was the spin this time? Why it was merely an allergic reaction to medication. I dunno. On all those drug commercials when they list the possible dangerous side effects I’ve never heard them say “may cause patient to get naked, drink...
How to avoid the "casting couch"
One would have to be incredibly naive to believe that the “casting couch” does not exist in Hollywood (or more correctly -- East Hollywood). Gwyneth Paltrow, in a recent edition of ELLE magazine (I never miss an issue) said that early in her career, despite her parents’ stature in the industry, she was propositioned during a casting session. She quickly bolted but said she could see how someone who didn't know better might...
Reaction to my airline rant. They hate me more than when I blasted Katherine Heigl
Usually I don’t respond to comments. It’s your forum and I’m the hockey referee. I just drop the puck, get out of the way, and let you guys go at it. But my Sunday post on airline treatment has sparked such a heated and bizarre debate that I just had to chime in. So to some of my dear commenters, and I say this with the greatest respect, are you fucking nuts?! You’re DEFENDING the airlines? Really? And with such vitriol!...
Here's how you can watch all of your favorite shows all at once!
Yesterday I was introduced to the Red Zone channel. For those unaware, this is the NFL on crack. RED ZONE cuts from game to game to game while an offstage announcer (impressively) sets up what you’re about to see. But it’s impossible to follow anything because you blink and you’re on to another one. There are not as many quick cuts in the BIG BANG THEORY opening titles. At one point a receiver barreled over someone on the...
Open letter to airlines: We hate you
RANT WARNING: Sometimes I really go off. This is one of them. Here's just the latest example. I'm up in the Bay Area this weekend. On Friday I tried to check in on line on Southwest Airlines. Pre-check-in site was down, but it said if this continues to call and they provided a number. So after three hours of trying I called the number. Had to wait fifteen minutes. When I finally...
