Month: October 2009

Writinga host of reviews of bad shows you don’t like requires a certain amount of creativity. How do you moan, complain, and whine without sounding like you’re moaning, complaining, and whining? With GINO, the simplest way to do that was to highlight the absurdity of the series’ central claim, reiterated at the beginning of the ... Read more

Tomorrow, The Plan, the final piece of the pile that is GINO - i.e. Galactica In Name Only, will be released to the public. For whatever reason, I decided to watch the entire series from beginning to end. It wasn't very good. I will very likely watch The Plan, too, as I'm a completist, ... Read more

Thefirst people to use surfboards had big, long rough boards, but no one knew what surfing was really about until Big J. did it. Big J’s real name is Jack. People liked watching him go inside the wave and come out on his back soaking wet with cold salty water. One day I’m going to ... Read more

Andrew's original is in green; my responses are in black. Let's look at Alma 32. OK. Start with 17 & 18 to find out that faith isn't knowledge. Faith isn't to know something. Faith isn't having a sign. Correct. "Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man ... Read more

SoI broke down and opened up a Twitter account. If you want to follow me, I’m at twitter.com/stallioncornell. I don’t know how or why I’ll use it, but there it is. The first few days, my updates consisted of such one-word entries as “poop” and “Clytemnestra.” If that turns you on, then sign up to ... Read more

Thisbegan as a response to Andrew S., a thoughtful commenter on my Monday post, and it got long enough to be its own blog entry. So here I am, bringing it out onto the main page. Andrew masterfully demonstrates that atheism and theism can both include varying degrees of belief and doubt, and that agnosticism ... Read more

Despitemy Yul Brynner avatar, I need to say at the outset that I have a full head of hair in real life. So I suppose I can’t really identify with the follicly impaired, and I probably have no right to say anything on this subject. But when has that stopped me before? So here it ... Read more

Overthe weekend, I took the lovely Mrs. Cornell to Ricky Gervais' latest, The Invention of Lying. I have yet to see Mr. Gervais in anything that was less than entertaining, although this came the closest. It's a very clever conceit - Gervais plays a guy who learns how to lie in a world where dishonesty ... Read more

OnFacebook, I posted a link to one of the best LDS Conference talks I’ve heard in many a moon. It’s Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s piece on the Book of Mormon, and it’s just as powerful on the page as it was when he delivered it live. (And his delivery was pretty powerful, indeed!) This prompted ... Read more

Look,Orson Scott Card went nine months without updating his world update blog. Two months and I get a gazillion whiny comments! Come on, people! Have some faith in Blogboy! Or don’t. Whatever. Some behind-the-scenes info: I had hoped to have moved this blog to a bigger and better locale, but, after considerable wheeling and ... Read more