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Too often, political and/or religious ideologies stop open dialog. It’s time to speak freely and break down the barriers that keep people separated. Let’s have an inappropriate conversation about …
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Dec 25, 2014
Dec 25, 2014
49 min
It's both accurate and inaccurate to describe Boxing Day as a time to remember people who are in working class positions or struggling economically. When I was told that December 26th was the day set aside for sharing old and no-longer-wanted toys with others, that actually drifts a bit from the true Commonwealth history of the holiday. All the same, it is a nice and fitting idea.
Different Drummer: Elvis Costello
Songs recorded by Elvis Costello
Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014
49 min
Most Americans probably perceive the "12 days of Christmas" to be intense retail shopping days before Christmas. The expression actually refers to the true period of Christmas celebration starting on the selected date of December 25th and counting from there. It makes me wonder why many people are so focused on pulling down decorations and silencing all holiday hymns right in the middle of those 12 days. I understand the argument that we start too soon. I would also understand an argument that we end too soon, too.
Different Drummer: Jean Shepherd
Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014
33 min
Whether serving at a food bank or soup kitchen is more worshipful than what we call church?
Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014
1hr 52 min
Even from an Advent Calendar perspective, I prefer music to chocolate. This includes Christmas music, both reverent and irreverent, along with songs that would be more accurately described as "winter holiday" than Christmas music.
Different Drummer: George Frideric Handel
Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014
1hr 7 min
Happy Thanksgiving week! As an Advent Booklet of sorts, the content for this episode really applies to next Sunday. Advent begins on November 30th this year. You can listen all at once or take the content one week at a time between now and Christmas.
Different Drummer: John Fahey
Nov 4, 2014
Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014
54 min
The best thing about suspense films, whether thrillers or horror, is the build up not the payoff. Getting the the edge of your seat doesn't happen at the moment of shock or surprise, it happens on the way there. Les Diaboliques is one of my favorite examples. It's a movie that might be described as the one that got away from Hitchcock.
Different Drummer: Alfred Hitchcock
Spoiler scene from the 1954-55 Clouzot film