Books and Reading Movies/Video/TV Science Fiction and Fantasy
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John W. Campbell’s Birthday
John W. Campbell (1910-1971) was both a writer and editor of science fiction. My favorite short story that he wrote was “Who Goes There?” a short story which was made into the movie The Thing from Another World and then (re)made into the movie The Thing.
I came late to Campbell’s editorials in Astounding/Analog (I didn’t read any of them until after I had been reading SF for many years), and several years have passed since I have read any of them, but my impression was that the positions he took on issues, while unconventional and sometimes daring (seeming even more so in this era of political correctness), were very well reasoned and well defended. Whether or not I agreed with the stance he was taking on any particular issue, I developed a great respect for the mind that defended that stance.
Art and Design Books and Reading Creativity and Creating Fun/Funny Quotations
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Scott Adams’ Birthday
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Happy birthday, Mr. Adams!
The Screwtape E-mails
Angie from Bloggin-Dazs captures the spirit of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis extraordinarily well, preserving the humor, too!
From: “Screwtape” screwtape@wormneverdies.org
To: “Wormwood” wormwood@wormneverdies.org
Date: May 7, 2007
Subject: Re: Theology ListMy Dear Wormwood,
I gather you are distressed because your patient has joined an online theological discussion group. You fear, perhaps, that his participation will foster a sense of community with other servants of the Enemy as well as providing him with indoctrination in the Enemy’s cause—spiritual nourishment, I believe they call it.
Nothing could be further from the truth, my dear nephew.
Read the rest here.
From my reading . . .
The Christian artist will often be an irritant, disturbing the anthropocentric view of the world that fallen nature naturally gravitates toward. Just as people think they have removed God from all consideration of a particular question, the Christian annoyingly puts him back on the agenda in some way. And when God is back on the agenda, people are forced to deal with him, even if only to try to marginalize him again.
From Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts by Steve Turner
If life gives you lemons . . .
. . . give them to your babies!
I can’t believe how many people have done this to their children and put it on YouTube. I just linked to one of the funnier/nicer clips.
