Inappropriate Conversations

"There's a saviour born every day in the valley of your soul." Sophie B. Hawkins John 3: 13-17 (God so loved the world that Jesus didn’t come to condemn it) #IC 81: Singing a Song for Lovers (2/11/12) Sophie B. Hawkins - Tongues and Tails  

"Could I really be this thirsty if there weren't something more?" Chris Rice John 2: 1-11 (water into wine) #IC 118: Where Would I Be Without God? (4/8/13) Chris Rice - Past the Edges Inappropriate Conversations website

Lost in Translation, The Return (Vozvrashchenie), Memories of Murder, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Dogville, among others.

The apparently upcoming demise of a former employer has led me to thoughts about topics I've sidestepped in the past on Inappropriate Conversations, keeping work and personal life separate. Perhaps it makes no sense to protect an organization that no longer exists, and I don't think the stories I could tell are really that embarrassing. I consider them to be more revealing about the gap between wh...

Battleship Potemkin,  The Gold Rush,  The Big Parade,  The Lost World,  among others.  

The Incredibles, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Downfall, Brothers, among others.

Sherlock Jr. Greed The Enchanted Cottage The Thief of Bagdad among others

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Serenity Brokeback Mountain Capote among others

Whether words of Truth become false based solely on who is speaking?

Our Hospitality Safety Last! The Grub-Stake A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate The Street among others

Stranger Than Fiction, After The Wedding, The Lives Of Others, Children Of Men, among others.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Nanook of the North, Haxan, among others.

Whether Christians should reject atonement because it is unfair to all who lived and died in the distant past without being washed in the blood of the Lamb?

No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, Once, among others.

The Kid, The Phantom Carriage, Destiny, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, among others.

I suspect we know few, if any, people who have directly caused inflation. When it comes to pushing the button that raises prices in hundreds of stores, though, I am that exception. Whether economic pundits on talk shows want to acknowledge it or not, my reasons were simple and obvious. It was crucial to update prices in stores to cover the cost of tariffs, the kind of "across the board" tariffs th...

Waltz With Bashir, Milk, Synecdoche, New York, The Dark Knight, among others.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Mark of Zorro, Way Down East, The Scarecrow, among others.

Up, The White Ribbon, A Serious Man, among others.

The next podcast I post will be a new short-form considering movies by year. I'm not replacing Inappropriate Conversations or Walk The Earth, just adding something new. The starting point will be Film Year 2009. Different Drummer: Charles Tashiro Note: the first half of this episode raises questions about the consequences of a recent Supreme Court decision, and I don't know the answer for how this...

Whether reaching out in love to LGBTQ+ people is following Christ? Past episode: Walk The Earth 54

Is "Shut up and kick" the correct response to recent statements by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker? Was that the correct response in recent years to USA soccer star Megan Rapino? That, and the "Shut up and dribble" replies to Lebron James, were just as wrong regardless the type of questions or comments being spoken into microphones. Having said that, it is completely unacceptable to sugg...

Feeling challenged in more than one way, I'm recommending the 2022 movie Close as one of the best films in years. It directly reminded me of a past Inappropriate Conversations podcast with Mark Greene as the Different Drummer . His work, and the director of Close, directly refer to this episode's Different Drummer, too.  I was reminded of my childhood, at the same age as the central characters in...

"Each juror who is seated in the jury box will be asked to answer the following 42 questions." Well, what would you do if called to answer these questions? That can be answered. What I don't know is whether my answers would have kept me in the jury pool or not.  Different Drummer: S. Epatha Merkerson #IC 113: Raised On Robbery

In 1986, I wrote an essay in a letter exchange with a friend. I haven't shared it here. Reasons why aren't important. I called it "Love and Contemporary Inter-Sexual Friendship" and many of the concepts noted in this podcast -- and, to be fair, other past podcasts -- reflect the same ideas as that essay written almost four decades ago. These thoughts are both conscious and subconscious, which will...