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Berger Talks About The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Howard Berger, creature supervisor for the Prince Caspian movie, discusses the plans and complications in making The Voyage of the Dawn Treader into a movie, namely to huge amount of CGI characters involved.
Christmas Contest for Moms of Girls
Let’s balance all of the manliness on this blog (and risk our blog gender analysis) by posting information about a contest the little girls in your family will love.
Pam Davis, creator of Girls ’n Grace, and Authentic Books, the publishing portion of the International Bible Society, have announced a Christmas contest to give away a Girls ‘n Grace doll and book. To enter the contest, submit a story about your “best teachable grace moment with a child” in your life to mystory@girlsngrace.com. You must include that you read about the contest on Brandywine Books or copy a link to this blog. Send in your story by December 17. Author Pam Davis will read the entries and pick a winner.
The winning participant will recieve one of two character dolls in the Girls ‘ Grace line: Sydney Claire or Mesi. When you submit your story, note which doll you prefer to receive.
There are a handful of books and dolls in this series, so if you or your girls are interested, browse the Girls ‘n Grace website.
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Too Little Too Late
“Russia needs Russians to survive.” Apparently a very high rate of ending pregnancies continues in Russia. It’s unthinkable.
In other news, Planned Parenthood doesn’t believe child rape is a cause to fight against. Another clinic worker has been exposed for trying to sweep the rape of a 13-year-old under the rug in favor of aborting her baby.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Kiss Her!
Officials in the Guangdong province of China are warning the overly affectionate to kiss with care, if they must kiss at all. An unfortunate incident, in which a woman had hearing loss following a kiss, “prompted a series of articles in the local media warning of the dangers of excessive kissing. ‘While kissing is normally very safe, doctors advise people to proceed with caution,’ wrote the China Daily.”
But can we ever be sure that a kiss is safe? Maybe we should tax kissing to help pay for the health care costs it may incure.
(I shouldn’t do two posts like this one day, but perhaps you’ll understand.)
The Story Behind ‘The Blob’
Anyone with a “serious” understanding of the world knew the old sci-fi horror movie, “The Blob,” could have been based on true accounts from the so-called real world, even if the writers/directors/producers denied it. Now we have a heinous story of a potato farmer who simply thought his growing spud was more affectionate than other potatoes. Little did he know, the tater had a taste for him!
Wendell Berry on Being a Poet
Again in the vein of writer’s block, Jason Gray posts a poem by Wendell Berry called How to Be a Poet.
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill—more of each
than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment. . . . read on
Take on Your Own Brain!
Mr. Bertrand writes: “January is National Brain Surgery Month, or Na-BS-Mo for short. Each year, people across the country get out their hacksaws and X-Acto knives and perform daringly complex between-the-ears procedures. You may not realize it, but each of us has at least one brain operation inside us. The trick is to let it out!”
Insightful.
Andrée Seu on Writing
How to write an essay: You’re drifting off and a thought pops in; and it sounds like a lead sentence so you jot it on the pad you keep under the bed. You look for sleep, but it tugs at your ear, till you finally give in and brainstorm the idea for all it’s worth — the gems and the junk alike. Come daylight, you mentally solve syntactical problems — while folding laundry, molding meatballs, conversing with your neighbor.
Then you sit in front of a white page, terrified. . . .
Isn’t that the way? Andrée has a new book, We Shall Have Spring Again.