Episodes

By Steve on August 16, 2010

There are few places left in the world that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is still welcome…and those places that still welcome him tend to not be places one would want to visit…except Hong Kong. On…

China / Hong Kong / Steve's Life

Living on Park Island

By Steve on August 13, 2010

When Tammy and I moved back to Hong Kong last Christmas we had a decision to make…Where to live? We had lived for a number of years in different places around the territory from the…

Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Paris Hilton

By Steve on August 12, 2010

The news in Hong Kong the last few days has been fun to watch. The niece of a prominent judge named Amina Mariam Bokhary was pulled over by the police for drunk driving and during…

China / Foreign Affairs

Balance of Power: The South China Sea

By Steve on August 6, 2010

Balance of Power politics are back! Recently China had re-iterated its sovereignty over the entire South China Sea as being one of its “core interests”. Such a declaration upped the International stakes as it essentially…

Film / Movie Review

Movie Review: Inception

By Steve on August 3, 2010

(Rest assured…no spoilers in the review 🙂Christopher Nolan’s new psychological thriller, Inception, combines the best of earlier “dream” movies such as Dreamscape and Brainstorm, mixes it with the complexity of his own Memento, and bakes…

Americana / Christianity / literature

On Anne Rice and Christianity

By Steve on August 2, 2010

The blog-o-sphere seems to be lit up lately with the news that author Anne Rice has left Christianity. The news though isn’t all bad as she declares an unswerving faith in Jesus Christ…its just some…

Christianity / Jesus Movement

Larry Norman & Keith Green: A Study in Contrasts

By Steve on July 30, 2010

I just had a chance to watch the new documentary on the life of Larry Norman titled Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman. Its created and produced by David Di Sabatino, a man who has…

Christianity / Jesus Movement

“So which guy is Daniel Amos?”

By Steve on July 28, 2010

A few years back I was at The Ark Bible bookstore in Denver Colorado. Being one of those really big Christian stores with a large music selection, I was hoping to get some classic Christian…

Christianity / Film / Guy Stuff

Mel Gibson’s Fall from Grace

By Steve on July 13, 2010

2004 was a banner year for Mel Gibson. His Passion of the Christ defied critics to be one of the most acclaimed (and profitable) movies of all time. He was the darling of both Hollywood…