Recent content by Parthian King

I consider "What About Bob?" with Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray to be the most annoying movie of all time. Inexplicably, I also enjoy it, though I have to be in a very peculiar mood to get through it. Anyone else?

OK, stop the presses, write your congressperson, call in the National Guard: Hot Tamales has come out with a new flavor--Hot Tamales Ice, which are a sort of cool mint gummy confection. This causes me great inner turmoil. When I saw them on the shelf in Wal Mart, time stopped. Everything began...

After reading an excellent post by POTW in the "LOTR: Really Christian?" thread concerning similarities between The Silver Chair and Tolkien's epic quest in The Lord of the Rings, I began thinking more on this subject. Might there be significant thematic parallels between the works of these...

The Hobbit: The Movie Well, great news. Peter Jackson has been axed from his role a director of The Hobbit. Check out this link. Can the new director and others involved in this make up for some lost ground?

OK, last night (Nov 3, 2006), just before dusk, I was driving home from work. I live in a semi-rural area outside a mid-sized city in Missouri, USA. On the road ahead of me was a truck, stopped dead in the road. He started to drive away when he saw me, but shen I got to the same spot, I slowed...

This thread is entirely devoted to the best candy in the world, Hot Tamales. While deeply in discussion over Bible prophecy, the theme inevitably turned to Hot Tamales, as all worthy discussions are wont to do. Frankly, it is a wonder that no one has started such a thread earlier; perhaps I am...

This is the feminine counterpart to my world famous "Official Dancing Lawn Brother Poll." I will take nominations for a few days (must be seconded and all that Roberts Rules of Order stuff), then set up the poll for voting. In the Official Dancing Lawn Sister Poll, the idea is to nominate and...

OK, everyone's doing it, and seeing as it isn't jumping off a bridge or anything, I thought "why not?" So here it is: The Official Dancing Lawn Brother Poll. I will take nominations for a few days over who you consider the closest to being a brother to you in any way. Then I'll set up a poll...

Ok, there it is: For strange fruit, I name one we saw in Latin America, which we only called the "eyeball" fruit. It fits in the palm of your hand, has a rubbery rind with little reddish and green tentacles all over it. This peels away very neatly, and inside is a smooth, translucent milky...

Now Galadriel, you know that's not very punny, er, funny. :) Oh, the Emperor wrote the Rules...

Sorry guys, but some stories defy old paradigms and the games that go with them. This conflict couldn't ever be represented by a chess set, because once Aslan is on the board, no other piece is his equal. Lewis makes quite clear that there is no "opposite" to God, and the "opposite" of Satan is...