Happy Independence Day! (And a belated Happy Canada Deh to my friends up north). Gonna keep it light on the blog this month because July is a time for getting out in the summer sun, not reading the internet all day. But I’ll still drop some fun posts each week like today’s gem. I’ve been […]
No way any words of mine will add anything to this. Just watch this video. [Yahoo doesn’t allow embedding for some reason so follow this link] WATCH HOW A PRO SURFER INSPIRES AUTISTIC KIDS TO SMILE I love the clarity Izzy has about his purpose in life. Just awesome. Visit the Surfer’s Healing […]
Time for Classic Cinephiles with Melissa Tagg and yours truly. This week we’re chatting about Singin’ In The Rain which stars Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Jean Hagen. I casually kicked things off by declaring SITR the greatest movie musical ever made. “Oh yeah?” said Melissa and others. Time to figure this thing out. […]
WARNING: Spoilers will be all over this. Don’t read if you don’t want to know major spoilage! Check out Part 1 of my review: The 5 Best Things About Man of Steel To hear me discuss Man of Steel, check out my StoryMen podcast! ~*~*~ Superman is a rare character in my life. I would always be […]
WARNING: Spoilers will be all over this. Don’t read if you don’t want to know major spoilage! To hear me discuss Man of Steel, check out my StoryMen podcast! I started writing my review for Man of Steel the morning after catching the first midnight showing available. I wrote and rewrote. I edited, revised, and mostly […]
Time for Classic Movie Gush with Melissa Tagg and yours truly. This week we’re chatting about Some Like It Hot which stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and the amazing Jack Lemmon. The American Film Institute considers this movie, directed by Billy Wilder, to be the greatest comedy of all-time. I disagree but did only recently […]
We at The StoryMen LOVE our Star Trek and have been anxiously awaiting the new film Into Darkness which released a couple weeks back. So we thought we would dedicate an entire episode to all things Trek. We cover everything from the original series that launched a thousand ships through some of the modern variations. […]
Today, June 6th, is the anniversary of D-Day. On this date in 1944 Allied forces including Americans, Brits, and Canadians launched the largest amphibious assault in history as three million men stormed the beaches of Northern France to take back Nazi Germany’s stronghold in Europe. It is an event we should never forget. Like most […]
Here’s the pitch: A funny girl from Iowa named Melissa who just wants her hair to stop frizzing out on humid days meets this guy named Clay from Pennsylvania who probably likes peanut butter and hockey a little too much… Wait, that’s a terrible pitch. Melissa Tagg is a friend and fellow author. Her debut […]
This week The StoryMen welcome Tom Krattenmaker, an author and regular contributor to USA Today. Tom describes himself as a secular progressive yet writes about the positive work of new evangelicals. We had a fascinating discussion that is an important conversation. If you think you have Christians OR secularists all figured out then listen to this […]