SO, it's the third of july, there is very little happening here.

I've called a staff meeting for my team. Two hours.

They are NOT HAPPY

until, of course, they see that it's downstairs in our corporate conference room...which has a wii console...and I've brought in MarioKart and two wii wheels.

best boss evah - that's me!

When i was a child, i would often go to the big (or so it seemed) old art deco theatre in downtown Renton and watch movies - my mom would drop me and my brother off for the occasional flick - usually something old.

One weekend they had a sci-fi marathon - The day the earth stood still, War of the Worlds - and Metropolis. At the time, I had trouble sitting through the long, quiet film - even with the minimal orchestration of this particular print. But something of the magic seeped out of the screen and pulled me in. In the 80s, when georgio moroder did a version, i dragged a bunch of my goth friends to see it. They were totally high and it freaked the heck out of them.



Metropolis was, until yesterday I suppose, a 'lost' masterpiece - nearly 25 minutes of the original cut was removed to make it more 'accessible' - and then over the years more and more was cut out. Well, the owners have had all but those lost minutes - and now, it appears the nearly complete, original vision of Metropolis may be seen again soon.

To put this in perspective for those not into old old old sci fi - this film cost nearly $7 million dollars in 1927 - adjusted for inflation, that means it cost nearly $200M to make. Those extrasuperperhapstoolong versions of The Lord of the Rings films - this is one of those - from 80 years ago.

squee

I walk in the door last night.

Sean: Tell mommy what you said when I told you mommy's home.
Ian: Silence
Me: Did you say Yea!
Ian: No!
Sean: Did you say you missed mommy?
Ian: Yes! Runs over and gives me a hug.

Later he tells me he's proud of mommy. :) Not sure why, but still cute.

Later still we're in the living room and Ian and Lucy are playing. Ian is leaning against me and we're doing the book thing. I start to say something to Sean and Ian announces, Ian doesn't want mommy to talk to daddy. Um, ok. So I read with him a bit more, and tried again. I received the same admonishment with him putting his hands over my mouth. 

After he had been in bed for awhile I heard him near his door and I told him to go back to bed. He said no and started crying. I went in and picked him up and wiped away the tears. He says, Ian had tears on his cheek and mommy took them away. Yes she did, and for that he got many kisses on his cheek. 

Such a cute booger.

EthicsDaily.com reports today on the amazing conclusion reached by Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Ware says wives that refuse to submit to their husbands create the environment under which husbands abuse their wives:

“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged–or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,” Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

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