by zen | Dec 30, 2013 | Monitor
[Mark safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Bilbo cowering at the approach of Smaug’s henchmen, Darth Vader and Magneto My review of the first Hobbit movie was blistering. The second Hobbit film, The Desolation of Smaug, is such a travesty, I lack sufficient...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 20, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Zero Dark Thirty & Manhunt, fact and fiction, that old saw about who it is that gets to write history, thence onwards to theology & the arts, von Balthasar & Tolkien, winding up watching UK & US versions of House of...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my updating of Mahdist issues, also surprising parallels and oppositions ] . By the time you’ve learned the various signs of the times — pre-, mid- and post-trib rapture dispensationalist, preterist, Mormon, I dunno,...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 6, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a follow up to my previous post — and it’s not religion that’s the alternate reality this time, but games ] . . I just posted a long and potentially contentious post about what I called a person / position paradox: that...
