Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

My parental units offered to front me the money to fly home for Thanksgiving this year (flew into Milwaukee on Tuesday evening, return to Nashville tomorrow afternoon) so I'm writing this from the computer in my folks' bedroom.

Although I got a chance to (finally!) start reading Jes Battis' book on Chosen Families in BtVS and AtS while waiting in the airport, my thoughts aren't yet organized enough to write on.

So all I've really got to talk about right now is how incredibly, eternally grateful I am that my sister and brother dragged me off to see Superman Returns at the Budget Cinema on Wednesday afternoon, for my last chance to see that beautiful, intriguing movie on the big screen.( Read more... )

I'll need to say more behind cut-tags later, when I've got more time, but I'll just conclude by saying that NOW I get why so many of my students seemed to want to write their Bible papers on parallels or comparisons between Jesus Christ and Superman this semester!