So I sort of got sucked into the NBA action when I watched former Jayhawk star Paul Pierce lead the Celtics to a NBA championship. Ironically, while Pierce outplayed Kobe Bryant and earned the MVP nod for the NBA finals, he's not on the US Olympic team. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to getting a hoops fix in the days ahead before I gear up for NCAA ball in a couple months.
DIME has the schedule for the US Olympic basketball games. First one is on Sunday at 10:15 in the morning Eastern time...which means I may be able to catch most of it after Aidan's early wake up call ("Daaaady, Daaaaady!) and before church. Here are game times:
Sunday August 10th, 10:15 AM EST
Team USA vs. China
Live on NBC
Tuesday August 12th, 8 AM EST
Team USA vs. Angola
Live on the USA Network at 8 AM
Thursday August 14th, 8 AM EST
Team USA vs. Greece
Live on the USA Network
Saturday August 16th, 10:15 AM EST
Team USA vs. Spain
Live on NBC
Monday August 18th, 8 AM EST
Team USA vs. Germany
Live on the USA Network
Quarterfinals will be at undetermined times on August 20. Semifinals August 22, and the championship on August 24.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Schedule for US Olympic Basketball Team
Theological Book Reviews
Book reviews up on the other site: The Hope of Glory by Sam Storms and Spiritual Leadership by Oswald Sanders. If you go in for Bible commentary, devotional reading, or leadership take a look.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Naive Uncle Unleashes Chaos
My brother Johnny and his wife, Stephanie, are expecting their first baby any day. Over the last couple years, though, Johnny and Stephanie have used our kids to get slowly acclimated to world of children, what is otherwise known as Unbridled Craziness. We always love it when Johnny visits, because he teaches Aidan and Asher safe, useful skills like How to Push a Young Baby in a Plastic Dump Truck and How to Ride a Bike When Your Feet Don't Reach the Pedals.
The boys love it when when Uncle Johnny comes over to play, and personally, I'm looking forward to the day when I'll get to hang with his new baby and help to instill skills like Cupboard Sabotage, Laundry Wrestling and Potty Diving...
Sherlock Holmes Movies: Cross Your Fingers
Just a couple weeks ago I was talking to Lindsay about how a modern film rendition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was long overdue. (That either reveals what a geek I am, or how cultured I am, you make the call. ;) I mean, what have we got to work with? The Young Sherlock Holmes movie? Disney's Great Mouse Detective?
Then I stumbled across this news from The American Culture:
Two forthcoming films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character Sherlock Holmes will take very different approaches to the material. Judging by the reports, each could be either very good or very bad. Jud Apatow (The Forty Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) is producing a comedy film featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Sherlock Holmes and Will Farrell as Dr. Watson. This obviously could be very funny if well-written, and just horrible if not...
The other forthcoming Holmes film likewise takes a somewhat unusual approach to the material.
Directed by Guy Ritchie (who made the excellent crime films Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch), Sherlock Holmes will star Robert Downey Jr. as the great detective. Ritchie's film will emphasize a side of Holmes and the stories that has too often been forgotten: his superb physical abilities and the strong doses of action in many of the stories.
These were, after all, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle titled the first volume of short stories about the character.
I'm not holding my breath for the first movie. Farrell can act, as demonstrated in Stranger Than Fiction, but the presence of his usual sidekick, Cohen, isn't a good omen for the integrity of the Holmes story. Which leaves me with middling to high expectations for the second film. After Ironman, we know what Downey, Jr. brings to his hero roles: cerebral awesomeness.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
4th Bourne Movie...w/o Matt Damon?
That's the news out of ifMagazine, where director Doug Liman says the franchise will roll on, with or without Matt Damon. Personally, I'm not sure it would work. Has Jason Bourne achieved the James Bond-like status that would allow his character to continue without Damon? Not from my perspective.
Fortunately, there's got to be a good chance that Damon will succumb to the piles of money that will be offered for a 4th Bourne film.
We're Back
Lindsay, Asher and I had a great weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, a hybrid urban/suburban city that contains huge, old-school parks within the city limits, a brick & steel downtown not unlike Kansas City in miniature, and a clear demarcation between the haves and have-nots that no doubt contributes to the fact that Ottumwa is the drug capital of Iowa.
For more on why we were there and what happened, check the church planting blog.
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Cheap
Due to his fiercely confessional lyrics, people tend to either love Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) or hate him. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning was the first Bright Eyes album I listened to, and for awhile, it was love at first light. I've mellowed a little on Bright Eyes since then, but this continues to be my favorite CD of his, an indie folk masterpiece with some brilliantly written songs. $2.99 for the next 24 hours.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Out on Assignment
Tomorrow Lindsay, Asher and I will be driving up to Ottumwa, Iowa for the weekend. Why, you ask? (Details here.) Or maybe you didn't ask. Either way, we'll get back late Sunday, so the blog will have a quiet weekend. Drink some very cold lemonade for us while we're gone.
Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie - for $5
You can download Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie for just $5. I'm not sure whether the appropriate response here is YES! or Aargh! since I just paid full price for this album a few weeks ago. Price good through Monday.
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