l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

Behold, all ye faithful - a veritable  Christmas Miracle : a movie made this very year  available for viewing right now  on the venerable YouTube! Now spend the next 90 minutes or so  pondering this question: is this merely a Canadian movie  (hence the why it is available for free) or is this really a bonafide Christian film (pro-Christian, we mean) - one with an agenda! And the agenda would be... well, putting The Christ back in Christmas ! Succeeding in this endeavour,  in this secular day and age,  would be nothing less than a miracle indeed! Now watch the movie: Directed by: Terry Ingram Screenplay by: Joseph Nasser  Starring:  Allison Hossack Aaron Pearl Dan Payne Luminous Rating: Three Stars And A Half out of five! ***

Last year, I had chosen a different blog altogether  in order to participate in this thing - this year, let us just ponder the question asked,  indeed - and, hey, whattayouknow ... I have got a blog just perfectly set for  the task at hand here...! And I've had it for years, too... (But that is another question...) #Inequality  what is it, for you and me?  First and foremost, it is a bad word, all right;  one that shouldn't even be, any longer,  in this civilized world of ours - and yet  it endures,  in concept as in fact. There is inequality between every bracket of society,  pretty much: be it genders, races or religions -  depending on the geographical location  and various other factors,  one or several can and will be  advantaged while the other(s)  will be severely oppressed. Why so much inequality? Why?  Our society appears to breed it.  ...

Friday The 13th   *and*  a Full Moon too...! WOW... It's ''double your fun'' time, hmm...? Wiccans, witches and assorted creatures of the dark side  are all jumping for joy over this ''event''... For it so rarely occurs indeed, that the next one should be  only in 2049... If the world still spins around...!  Personally, I always thought  Jason Voorhees would have been  so much more interesting  were he to be revealed as  a werewolf, too... Now there could have been no doubt have THAT would have ended: no kids would have escaped THAT summer camp...! But let's face it:  the above GIF was most probably concocted  to laud an entirely different Jason's howling-est turn -  Momoa . So, we're pretty much back to square one, then -  and all we can hope for, one day, is that they'll waste  even more celluloid on this ''un-saga''  so that we can see Voorh...

If the following doesn't play  you know who to blame:  Makes me you wanna cry, eh? No? After all, what's so ''happy'' about  chalking one more up on the countdown to... ah... oblivion? But that only applies if  you are devoid of faith,  the proper perceptive powers of things,  or plain ol' luminous sight! Because... That should apply to everyone: anonymous or luminous , yes! ;-)

Jagr We just couldn't score today. That's what you love or hate about hockey; games like that. We weren't able to score and it was just perfect game by him. Like baseball, it was just a perfect game. Sometimes you don't know how that happens, but it just happens. — New Jersey forward Jaromir Jagr on Calgary goalie Karri Ramo after the Devils were shut out by the Flames 1-0 on Monday night Actually...  Isn't it absolutely normal  to see flames engulf devils...?

Women are, primarily, mothers - right? They're our mothers, our leader figures, our bosses! Whether chauvinism and sexism lash out repeatedly, it does so out of frustration for we truly are living, in fact, in a matriarchal society, folksies!  Never have a second's doubt about that. ..! Who's the boss over at Google? If it's a man, he knows all that well and green lit the truth to be told, via an umpteenth doodle here: If it's a woman - well, blow your own horn while they can hear you roar, hmm?  Yeah! Stupendous work on thy doodle -  once again, Google! If only Gmail followed suit... We usually would take this opportunity to run an extensive, drawn-out list of all the women we admire in the world - past, present and fictitious - but that would be over at our brother blog/sister site The Luminous Blog ... but we have neither the time, nor the energy for that here, we are afraid!   Mama will be understanding...! :-!

Here is what this Dale dude down in Florida had to say after trading away the winning goaltender from the memorable 2011 Stanley Cup Finals - and acquiring, in a separate trade, the losing goaltender from that very same memorable 2011 Stanley Cup Finals... You know which one it is - the one that produced the most ridiculous riots seen this side of Montréal morons rioting because they actually managed to steal a first-round series they didn't deserve to win, two years prior to that or something... (We forget, ok? Or we try to...Sue us!) The one, in definitive, that produced this most memorable romantic shot of all right here: Photog: Rich Lam - 2011 Recouped by Getty Images  Now old news... Betcha they aren't even together anymore; for that is how fickle true canucks really are! But that's another story... But back to the funniest quotable nhl.com has ever posted in its life: QUOTE OF THE DAY It is huge. He's a big name down here and it sets ...

Some other blogger of renown felt inspired by the demise of the year to put together his list of thirteen music albums released in the course of said year that he deemed worthy enough (and the thirteenth there  was... drum roll please... drum roll some more... drum roll a little longer... drum... bah - enough of that already!  It was Lily & Madeleine. WHO... you ask? Exactly. But that's another story...) Cross-starred lesbian lovers of the 70s  or cross-eyed cloned sisters of the new millennium?  We don't wanna know... Oh, what a feeling to finish number 13 - you must be jumping for joy after that, EH? It got us thinking, though... You know *us* - anything and everything will get us thinking...!  It was true in 2013, it was true all those years before that most ominous year *and* it will be true throughout 2014 and beyond ; we can assure you of so much! Thus, why not compile our own lists - right here and right now - regarding 2013's thirtee...