Song Lyric of the Day:
You stand in the line just to here a new low / You’re faking a smile with the coffee you go / You tell me your life’s been way off line / You’re falling to pieces everytime
Daniel Powter / “Bad Day”
12:09PM.
Yesterday ended up being the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Rich and I. Long story short: overslept, locked out, food left cooking on stovetop, late to work, poison ivy. Thankfully, things had calmed down by last night. Although my poison ivy is flaring up again today; my right arm looks like it’s afflicted with leprosy. See, volunteering to do yard work does not pay off.
I’m counting down until Saturday morning. Mom, Samantha, and I are driving to Atlanta to fly non-stop to New York City for my inimitable Aunt Bea’s Sunday wedding (it’s actually a lot cheaper for us to fly Air Tran out of Atlanta than to fly out of Knoxville). I can’t wait to be back in the city! The last time I was there in warm weather was 1991, so I’m doubly excited knowing I’m not going to freeze my ass off this time around.
In the interest of things to do, I found a list of filming locations for Rescue Me; I can only hope we’ll be lucky enough to stumble across the show filming. And I have an appointment to get a tour of the Food Network offices; my job does have its perks, you know.
1:10PM.
I’m winding up my lunch break. I finished another episode of 24–only 10 more to go! Oy.
I found a review of the new movie, The Da Vinci Code, where they agree with what I said when the movie was cast–Tom Hanks is all wrong for the role. Don’t get me wrong, though–I love Tom Hanks; the man is one of our best actors. I just think that he’s completely wrong for the role of Robert Langdon, which I wrote about here.
Miscasting aside, I’m not sure I’ll even see the movie, particularly since I really loved the book. I say this as someone who was raised Catholic and, more importantly, as someone who understands what the word fiction means. I understand why some devout Christians are protesting the movie, and that’s their right. It’s also my right to say that if you have a problem with it, don’t see the movie. Simple as that. I’ve never had any tolerance for people who try to force their beliefs on others, and that’s what some people–emphasis on some–are using this movie to do. I respect those who are instead using the movie to open dialogues about their faith. So I choose to ignore the naysayers and will decide on my own if I want to see the movie or not. Really, it boils down to how entertaining I think the movie will be. And if I feel like spending $10 on a movie ticket.
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It WAS a truly awful day.
Hope things go better in NY…..Inasmuch as you are glad that not all Christians are taking this DaVinci Code phenomenon too seriously, I applaud your actually taking his book for what it is….fiction. In my opinion, Davinci is harmless enough on the surface,with most of its prevaling ideas coming from long misproven theories about the divinity of Jesus….I say misproven because the person who made them up later recanted most or all of it as politically motivated. However, living in America, as we do, all conspiracies floated are given serious attention, and this is the biggest of them all…the ultimate “sacred cow”…It has not only sold books, it has become a religion unto itself for some. As to opening a dialogue about religion, I think some Christians are prepared for this and others must get prepared. If we hold, as I do what we believe to be absolute truth, then it must be defended. C.S. Lewis said, “Christianity ,if untrue, is of no importance, and if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it can’t be is moderately important.”