Another winner from Grumpy Eleanor of Aquitaine: I love the disclaimer on the source page: Yes, I know her costume is not historically accurate – she was a commission and was specifically requested *not* to be! To be clear, I in no way blame the maker for this. He orContinue Reading
I am not a fashion-nazi. I am not going to complain because the hem is a bit off or you’re not using the right buttons. I’m not going to quibble over whether that dress is from the 1550s or the 1560s. Nor am I expecting a CW show to haveContinue Reading
When the CW announced it was going to do a historical drama in the form of Reign, I knew it was going to be bad. Maybe not Noah bad, but bad. First hint? While the show is clearly about a royal character, the advertisements never said which royal character…as ifContinue Reading
After a quick debate, I decided to file this under religion. I don’t always have to be scholarly.
My husband and I have seen the Noah trailer before. That’s why the new ending had us in tears today. I start laughing. Jerry, paying slightly less attention to the TV, asks why, and I tell him to replay the ad. He gets only that last line: “We believe theContinue Reading
Just days after I posted about the idolization of Pope Francis, Francis himself has stated: “To depict the pope as a sort of superman, a sort of star, seems offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps tranquilly and has friends like everyone else, a normalContinue Reading
From the moment the current pope took the name Francis, which I knew had to be a nod to St. Francis of Assisi (a rich man who turned to poverty and tended to humanity for the rest of his life), I figured things were about to get interesting. That’s aContinue Reading
The Kennedy family never fails to produce bizarre events. In the spotlight today is Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert Kennedy, who is on trial for driving – and crashing – her car under the influence of Ambien. News articles have been focusing today on her rather out-of-place injections of familyContinue Reading
February 24 marked the death of the oldest living Holocaust survivor. Certainly there are still survivors out there, but they are growing scarcer by the year. Someone who was 15 in 1945 would be 83 today, and most people under the age of 15 didn’t survive the Holocaust at allContinue Reading
Back in November, Miranda and Elytte Barbour lured a man via Craigslist and then violently murdered them for no better reason than they wanted to kill someone as a couple. The Super Serial Killer Now Miranda, 19, is claiming that she has killed more than 22 (“When I hit 22,Continue Reading