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Time Wasn’t The Only Thing They Stepped In: Beware Mary Poppins The Musical

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Films of Finding Your Voice (without finding a dude)

Once again, a faculty member here at MHGS, soon to be renamed The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, asked me to come up with a list of film recommendations for a class. For this list, the goal was finding films that show a young woman coming into her own voice/coming-of-age. Sounds easy at first [...]

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Block-Busted

Only a few weeks ago, I stepped out of the Closing Sale of the Lower Queen Anne Blockbuster holding the copy of Jane Campion’s Bright Star I’d just purchased for $5.99, and found myself facing the closed movie theater across the street where I had seen the film one year ago. Both businesses now bereft [...]

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For Unto Us A Hobbit Is Given

It’s an amazing day to be alive. It’s as if Father Christmas made it possible to relive all your favorite Christmases past, only you’d be reliving them in the present and receiving all new gifts. It’s as if, when walking out your front door this morning you discovered, instead of being in your cul de [...]

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“What Yankee Candle Means to Me” Episode 4

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Bulletin Board of the Brain Video Blog Segment 2

My video series on the Yank Can continues, with ANOTHER 12+ minutes. (sorry for the shaky camera at times- the weight of the candles affected the surface I was filming from. oops)

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Film Prescriptions

A friend and I are doing a trade where he’s giving me a list (CD) of music I should know and I’m giving him a list of films he should know. To keep it simple, I started just with films I own. It’s not comprehensive, and it’s got some he’s probably already seen, but as [...]

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The Time Machine of Not Leaving

Early last December, I was checking movie times online and it appeared that my favorite Lower Queen Anne movie theatre was no longer operating. “That can’t be!,” I thought, for just a few days ago, I had picked up my friend Richard there after he watched a matinee of “The Social Network.” How could it [...]

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There and Back Again: An Annual Journey

For the third year in a row, I joined a faithful fellowship of travelers for a New Year’s Day Lord of the Rings Marathon. I love starting the year with this epic film journey. Sets a good precedent for the months to come. This year, two of our fellowship came equipped with swords. Yes, swords. [...]

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Enchantment: Living in Magical Reality

en·chant –verb (used with object) 1. to subject to magical influence; 2. to delight or captivate utterly; fascinate; charm; 3. to impart a magic quality or effect to; “Enchantment produces a Secondary World into which both designer and spectator can enter, to the satisfaction of their sense while they are inside.” –J.R.R Tolkien, ‘On Fairy [...]

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