My Dinner With Chuck
November 3rd, 2008It’s a MADDDDDDHOUSSSSE!
I have always loved Bible movies. This was true even before I became more religious. I don’t know what it is about Bible movies. I love watching Victor Mature beat on Philistines. I like watching Charlton Heston race chariots. How can you beat this stuff? It’s like superheroes and Jedis, only the miracles are based on truth.
Today a package arrived from Amazon. A Chuck Heston double feature! The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur! I can’t wait!
I just put a Costco rib roast in the oven at 250. It should be ready right when my McCain/Palin fast ends. What could be better than slow-cooked rib roast, a baked potato, garlic butter, horseradish, and Charlton Heston? Not hardly anything I can think of.
I also made a horrible impulse buy. Sarah Lee now makes little cubes of cheesecake in an ice cream carton. I know it’s not as good as homemade, but fasting has a way of altering your standards at the grocery store.
I’m not nervous at all about the election. In fact, I’m having a great day. Does that mean God is going to answer our prayers, or just that he helps Christians relax right before their countries go socialist? Hard to say. Whatever the explanation is, I’ll take it.
I think I’ll do the Ten Commandments tonight, with my rib roast. Oh, YEAH.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 PM
“Sarah Lee now makes little cubes of cheesecake in an ice cream carton.”
You had to point that out. Now I’m doomed to seek them out in a moment of weakness (and when you’re as sleep-deprived as I am, they’re all moments of weakness).
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Ben-Hur is one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies.
Surprisingly I have relaxed about the election too. I don’t know why, maybe because I gave it up to God, I know that there is little I can do other than vote and pray.
One thing that helped me to relax was remembering that at this time four years ago, and eight years ago, Bush was behind in the polls as well. Polls mean nothing. Pollsters truly underestimate the vast majority of Christians in “flyover country”.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 PM
You mean “misunderestimate.”
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 PM
I feel like I want to belly flop into a giant cheesecake. But then I always feel like that.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 PM
“BEHOLD HIS MIGHTY HAND!”
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Mmmmm, Costco rib roast. You’re killin’ me, Steve 8^(
As to the election: Three weeks ago I had almost made myself mentally ill over this election. Now I’m almost with Steve and Heather. God and the good sense of the American people will save us this time. It will be up to us to change our society and help ourselves after that, I think. He helps those who help themselves.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 PM
I have always loved Bible movies.
The best Bible movie is Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jesus of Nazareth”. It’s not a Catholic movie or anything like that. It’s just the Gospels as written. Six and a half hours long. Tremendous.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 PM
Judah Ben-Hur! (subtitled: “A Tale of the Christ”). What a great movie. And to anyone who has only seen it edited for commercials: Rent it! All four hours of it!
I bought it after seeing it on TCM.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 PM
I will fast tomorrow. I will feel ill all day and won’t be able to stand the sight of food. But I will stop in at Starbucks for my free coffee; if those libs want to give it away, I’ll take it. Less money in their pockets!
Hopefully that will end after sundown, in a good way.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Oh MOEZ-uz, MOEZ-uz, allow me to throw myself at you.
Beauty is but a curse to our women….
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Some Bible movies could be atrocious, though, too. Ever see “Esther and the King” with Joan Collins? I think I fell asleep halfway through it when it came on TV several years ago.
That said, I’ve always had a soft spot for the enjoyably cheesy “Demetrius and the Gladiators”. Sometimes I think Victor Mature was born specifically to play in religious-themed movies.