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  1. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I can remember being taken to St. Peter's by my mom & grandmother as a kid. Never did the Red Mass at Holy Name, but I used to sing at Old St. Mary's (9th & Wabash) when I was a boy chorister.
  2. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Darkest Hour. Admission upfront that Winston Churchill is a hero of mine, albeit a flawed hero. Gary Oldman gives us a Winston with more emotional range than Brian Cox in the other 2017 film about the man, Churchill, but what really was interesting to me was the political balancing act that...
  3. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I was poisoned against the franchise before even seeing the first movie, thanks to my dad. He & his wife had walked out: "It was RIDICULOUS! Talking animals and s***!!" So, I was never into Star Wars. And part of it was my "If it never happened, or never COULD happen, I won't waste time with...
  4. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Divining what it originally was has become the obsession of many over the centuries (the Campbellites, the Plymouth Brethren and others in the Nineteenth Century alone) and often with vastly different results. The Ante- Nicene Fathers are all over the map on a lot of theological points, and...
  5. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Likely because even most adult Catholics have never even heard of them. A nun whacking a nine year old in the back of the head or across the hand with a metal ruler rings a lot more bells - many in the PTSD category- for those of who have survived a parochial school experience in the late...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

  8. ChiTownScion

    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    My dad wouldn't allow "Hogan's Heroes" on the television when he was home. Part of it was that he saw nothing funny about a POW camp, but I think that turning his former enemies into hapless clowns was a sore point. His view was that it took the world to defeat the German Third Reich and that...
  9. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Second only to one Thomas Jonathan Jackson as the most overrated general in American history. Never prevailed in battle unless he enjoyed the advantage of superior forces.
  10. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    My War is well worth the read. One of the things that I appreciated most in the book was his assessment of Patton: far more realistic than the hero worshipping pap written by Ladislas Farago that was the basis of the movie starring George C. Scott.
  11. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    The sad part was that Paul Ruben's public indecency bust- and the show's immediate demise- took place right before my wife and I became first time parents. We loved watching the Playhouse as we were enjoying breakfast in bed together and would have loved sharing its genuinely creative antics...
  13. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    "You know, Pee Wee, there's a real twisted side to you!" If only Captain Carl had really known how twisted..
  14. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I did make my first trip to Europe in 1985: honeymooned in Germany. My wife broke her foot in Nuremberg, and two days later we were atop the Zugspitze. The highlight of the trip, however, was spending a few days in the small village from whence my paternal great grandfather emigrated to the...
  15. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Justly so. Heard it was a sweatshop.
  16. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Fred Rogers was after my own ankle biter years. We had Miss Frances (Horwich) and "Ding Dong School." And even though she was a professional educator with a doctorate in primary education, the same sort of crass product pitching that both Buffalo Bob and Captain Kangaroo engaged in...
  17. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Politically, I was far different in the 80's than I am now. I think that if 80's Me encountered 2017 Me he'd cry out in agony, "Get that #@!##@ old hippie outta here!" This really isn't so much a comment on politics as it is on how aging has changed me. You're supposed to become more miserly...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Graduated law school and admitted to the bar: June and November, 1981. Got my toe in the door in what became my dream job- after the worst bout of unemployment in my life: October 1982. Bought my first car, at age 28, May 1983. Dream job became full time: December 1983. Got married, August...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Ecclesiastical Boys From Marketing, they. Usurping many of the more popular trappings of the waning pagan culture and incorporating them as enticements to their agenda of advancing their increasingly popular religion. Not just as to Christmas, but Easter as well. Doubtful that there was any...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The "X," of course, having its origin in the Greek "Χριστός." Or as transliterated into English: Christ. "X" (actually, Chi) is the first letter of the word, Christ, as it is written in extant manuscripts of the books of the New Testament. A lot of Pastor Billy Bob types, who never had to pass...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And as I always admonish:
  23. ChiTownScion

    Changes in Attitude in Marriage & Divorce from the Golden Era to Now.

    My favorite cases in law school were written by Roger Traynor of California. Concise, easy to read, and easy to brief. There's a lot to be said, sometimes, for putting the cookies on the lowest shelf.

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