DaVinci's Transposed Code Broken!

Well Leo has done it again. "Hidden" inside an already highly scrutinized painting of his, "The Last Supper" is *gasp* someone with a baby and Templar knights! How can this be, ad sarcasm. I propose that we take all DaVinci's paintings and hide them from...everyone. Of course by doing this, I don't know where else we will find good suspence/thriller novel plots. Can't we all just give it a rest? Pick some other poor dead sap and pick on his sculptures or poems for a while. Can't we get any other good ORIGINAL fantasy topics?
Or better yet lets make up our own. Here is my entry for the world's most "look-at-it-long-enough-and-it-can-be-anything" picture:



Now, if you, like the DaVinci painting, put the mirror image superimposed to the orignal, being careful to line Homer Simpson's eyes, what the f@*! is that?!? It's a "Simpsonized" version of Spongebob Squarepants' Patrick's head. What is Matt Groening trying to tell us? Will we ever know? Something deeply spiritual is taking place here, stay tuned for further development in this history changing story!

An AMC Channel original drama, Mad Men, is growing on me. I watched out of curiousity based on it being produced by the same producers as The Sopranos and it being about advertising, of which is my profession, loosely speaking.
So far, I really like it. It is based on ad men in New York in the 60's. The characters are played very well and very believable. I like the way the era of time has been portrayed. Lots of cigarette smoking, early drinking of cocktails, cheating on wives, kids not wearing seat bealts, TV dinners. A really fascinating look into a quickly fading era of time. There has only been two episodes, but they have been really great. I am looking forward to Thursday nights again (I used to really enjoy NBC's Must See TV, Wings, Seinfeld, ER). If you haven't seen the episodes and don't want to pay for them on iTunes, you can read the synopsis on AMC's site. Main character Don Draper says, "What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons", and I am persuaded that he is right based on what I have seen.

The Crucible

I just watched the movie, The Crucible, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. To be honest, I didn't know anything about the movie, or couldn't remember, but I didn't need any prior "setting up". After watching the movie, I can safely say that this was a great movie. A movie is great in my opinion when it not only gets me thinking but effects me physically. I can say that during the movie and even now, I feel anger towards the girls, led by Ryder's character, that caused the death of innocent people deemed practitioners of witchcraft. Really sad display of religious fervor. This would make a great discussion starter I think. This movie has made my favorites list.

Jim and Casper Go To Church

Well my idea of writing more often isn't panning out the way I'd hoped. I would however like to put an entry here about the book, Jim and Casper Go To Church. I picked it up from the library Wednesday and read cover to cover the same day. A really easy to read and sectioned book. I really appreciated Casper the Friendly Atheist's insights because they were coming from an "outsiders" POV. I really thought that if I could have gotten this book a few years ago that it would have helped me understand things maybe quicker. Jim, the pastor, I thought was a casual observer of Casper while Casper observed the church services. Interesting book idea but also an interesting, albeit for some risky, enterprise. I thought Jim's idea of sending church congregates out once a month to observe other church services, of the same and different denominations, was a good one. Really the only thing better than that would be to actually try to listen to those that don't go to church anywhere. Maybe do what Jim did and pay people to come to their church and fill out a survey. No strings attached. No whammy. Just fill out this survey, pick up your money. The only stipulation is you have to be thorough while filling out the survey. After all, you are being paid! That is the out-of-the-box thinking that needs to take place. There have been some strong critiques against this unlikely duo, but I guess you have to consider the source. All in all I really enjoyed this book. When I finished the book I felt like I wanted to have a round table discussion. This would make good church staff reading material.
The duo made statements like there may be another book. I hope there is one.

Twilight Zone

Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Sci-Fi channel ran a Twilight Zone marathon. Usually I watch a few episodes, but this time I DVR'd a bunch and have really been enjoying them. Granted, they are pretty corny at times, but some of them really make good points. Alot of the time, the moral is, "be careful what you wish for" or "nothing worth having is easy". Rod Serling was a brilliant writer who was before his time.
Not much else to say. I'm trying to force myself to make more entries in this blog. So...there went!