Virtual Memories

I don’t want readers to think I’m spending all my time worked up about Mel Gibson’s theology. In fact, I spent most of yesterday working with Vince on the rec-room in my house, which I’m trying to convert into a library/study of epic proportions. We made some pretty good strides with that reclamation project. Photos [...]

My coworker Jack liked the previous entry about the Passion, and wrote: Jim has said well what so many of us try to say. I guess that’s what separates the men from the matzoh. One minor observation in response to his comment about visiting Golgotha and feeling it, the weight of the slaughter. I was [...]

It doesn’t seem like all of Christendom is mad at me because of that entry I wrote about the Passion flick. One guy writes: You seem very passionate about the passion. Im sorry that you feel so bad about this movie but it is an accurate depiction of the life and death of Christ according [...]

More response to the issue about Mel Gibson’s flick, from my buddy Elayne. No word on whether she plans to watch Club Dread this weekend. First, I am still stunned that Signs did not shut down all serious discussion of Mel Gibson, period. But since I was mistaken about that, I think we now must [...]

By next week, I hope to get a “comments” function added to VM. Until then, I’ll post any e-mailed responses people have to the blog. This one comes from someone I don’t know. One of my coworkers has forwarded my Passion Play to some people, and it’s begun meme-ing around: Mel Gibson is no more [...]

I haven’t been out to see The Passion of the Christ. I don’t really plan on doing so, but I have a question for those of you who are going to see it: If this movie was directed by someone who wasn’t a Hollywood movie star, would you go to see it? If the answer [...]

I’ve been a little busy procrastinating lately, so here’s an entry from Sirk, one of my devoted readers: My iPodMini passed away this morning at the ripe old age of 5 days. In those 5 days it played 2 complete songs and 20 minutes of an audiobook, twice completed syncs with no songs present on [...]

Record traffic for Virtual Memories this month (and there’s still a few days left, plus it’s a short month)! Now if only more of you would buy The Immensity of the Here and Now, that novel about 9.11 by Paul West that I published last fall. Last week, I mentioned that I needed a translation [...]

My pseudonymous buddy in Iran now has a blog! Check out the Brooding Persian!

(Here’s the From the Editor page of my magazine this month) A recent New York Times article, “Fraud Kicks in Months Ahead of Medicare Drug Discount Card,” discussed the practice of con artists going door-to-door selling ‘Medicare-approved’ drug discount cards, despite the fact that the drug discount program has yet to be instituted and enrollment [...]