Because life got ahead of me, it’s two weeks worth. Sort of like when you skip a meal and then binge at the next one to make up for it!
The big stories for the last two weeks were:
1) The Amish make their move from an agrarian-based to an entrepreneurial-based economy. Going to make it a little harder to negotiate with technology and culture — it’s a short step from a Bluetooth at work to Akon playing on the buggy stereo. Or buying some blow off a biker gang guy to take to the neighborhood hoedown.
2) Silent Light has hit New York because it’s getting reviewed by everyone now even though I feel like I’ve been writing about this movie for the last bazillion years.
- Salon liked it (except for the ending)
- Time loved it
- MTV liked it
- Paste liked it too
- We already knew that the New York Times loved it
- New York Magazine was kinda bored by it and
- Spout gives the best explanation of why anyone should see a f**cking movie in Mennonite.
And there’s more happenings after the jump
- The Amish pop up in the weirdest places. Like on an engineering ethics blog.
- And under the tag “odd couplings,” Sonny Bono and Felix Manz share a death date.
- I’m sorry. It’s not a real whoopie pie if it uses marshmallow fluff in the filling. I don’t care how many Amish people make it that way — it just isn’t right.
- Somebody absolutely has to call for a moratorium on Amish romance fiction. Isn’t there a publishing crisis going on? Are people buying these? Really?
- It’s harder to disguise arson as something else in an Amish barn.
- It’s going to be next year’s Silent Light. Meaning that the six people who have actually seen it will rave about it and everyone else will curse the film distribution gods.
- Hmmm, guess he won’t be visiting any Chicago-area Mennonite churches anytime soon. Worse, I think I know who he’s talking about.
- Amish-built homes that violate building codes don’t kill people; faulty vents kill people.
- Apparently, Chinese lead in toys should be avoided but we don’t have any problems with Amish lead.
- My church isn’t making any money having the Bluffton kids stay with them. And isn’t getting any free publicity either. Hrmph. But how jealous am I that Bluffton has a Young Democrats Club. Pretty jealous. I think we would have been tarred and feathered off of EMU’s campus; we knew who we were but we didn’t talk about it or gather in large groups.
- Someone needs to make a movie about how a Jewish Irish girl hooks up with a Mennonite boy from Georgia. A good movie — not a Kate Hudson comedy.
- A Mennonite got fired. And he’s not being quiet about it.
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