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Best Comedy of the Web

If you happen to read the Mere-O Abridged sidebar you’ll notice that we’ve highlighted the Telegraphs’s Top 50 Must Watch YouTube videos for some time now. The other day I sat down to review their picks, and was amazed at […]

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Scheduling and Research

It had been about a month since Dizzy and I sat down and decided to write a screenplay. We had each done our own research and internal development and come

Keith E. Buhler

Mary for Evangelicals II

My friend Vicki responded in person to my first post about Jesus’ mother, saying that she (Vicki) does feel a certain sense of wonder about small objects that were touched or used by famous people of the past, Abraham Lincoln’s […]

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Ethical Adventure 2: Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

No preface, just a link to the series introduction and previous adventure. ---------------- You just got back from a long day of flying supplies into the military area of responsibility (AOR)

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Exploring Creation Ex Nihilo

When someone says, "I had an idea," what exactly do they mean? Where do "ideas" come from? This is a question not often-enough asked in

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Underground Life

The showroom was filled from floor to ceiling with hand-thrown and hand-painted ceramic works of art. Every piece approached perfection in form, in intricate detail, and in color

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month One: Brainstorming a story

I confessed in my last post that I wanted to write a screenplay, and why. But I had a problem: Having friends in the film department at Biola, I knew

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Ethical Adventure 1: Way Too Christian

I will be presenting, good reader, a weekly predicament, either actual or possible, that someone in my situation might be reasonably expected to face as a conservative Christian officer serving

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Lungs and Mortality - Part III

Part III - Death and Vulnerability People are more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. One study (I heard of but haven't seen) showed that people

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Lungs and Mortality - Part II

Part II - Re-expansion of the lung may take several days with the chest tube left in place.   The second time my lung collapsed was one of the worst experiences

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Lungs and Mortality - Part I

Part I - The objective is to remove the air from around the lungs I was eighteen the first time my lung collapsed. The ER doctor called it a “spontaneous pneumothorax.

Keith E. Buhler

Confessions of a Screenwriter, Preface: The 'Why'

I like writing. Fiction, non-fiction, lyrics and verse, whatever, it’s all good. Some of my heroes in history were writers, (though some were not, notably Jesus and Socrates) and I have found myself desirous and verbally able to begin an […]