About
The blog name refers neither to a snot-like substance nor a Hungarian delicacy, but rather the town I’ve spent much of my life in.
The site itself is going to reflect my fluttering butterfly nature. It will be primarily biblioblogging, but I am also interested in many other things, like movies, music, books, and–gasp!– politics.
My politics are somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, so there’s the politics for you. Hope it holds you for a year or two.
I stay up late but I don’t sleep around, I wear my sunglasses night and day because I have transitioning glasses, and I try to obey the rule of threes. Thus I am either a Trinitarian or from Mars.
Oh yes, I am one of those weird people who watch DVDs with the commentaries on first viewing. In fact, I often rate DVDs by the commentaries rather than the actual film.
Is that enough useless trivia for you? Serves you right for reading past the first bad joke. There are a lot more where those came from. Fair warning.
Education: B.S. in History from University of Southern Mississippi
Religious Affliation: Southern Baptist of the Calvinist kind
Interests: Biblical history, Biblical textual criticism, history, Patristics
Favorite Movies:Hammer horror films, Asian cinema, Silent cinema, Action/Thrillers, Horror for the funniest commentaries
Favorite TV: Classic Doctor Who, Most incarnations of Star Trek, Farscape, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet (Derek Meddings’ Old School model work fascinates me.) More recently: The Unit, Life, and Burn Notice
Favorite Music:Classical especially solo string works, Film Scores
Favorite Books:
NET/NA27 New Testament diglot,
Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus,
Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations 3rd Edition,
Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts
Wayne Leman said
This week we moved Better Bibles Blog to WordPress. When you get a chance, please update the address for Better Bibles Blog on your blogroll to:
http://betterbibles.com
Thanks,
Wayne
Nancy said
Horror films will injure your brain if not your spirit… (so, just stop seeing them immediately!)
Chuck Grantham said
Nancy: Sir, Yes, sir.
Vaughn R. Jacobs said
Send me a mail when you get a chance would love to host your blogs
steph said
Mozart string quartets are my favourite. The Amadeus String Quartet in particular. And not to forget his divertimenti. Of course I could eat Elgar’s cello concerto for breakfast lunch and dinner and often sleep to it. One day, when I fix my broken cello, I’ll learn to play better – like Jacqueline…
Chuck Grantham said
I have an outrageously large collection of Romantic violin concerti. And I listen to a lot of transposed Bach. The solo violin sonatas and partitas are still good on viola and cello, and the cello suites good on double bass and viola da gamba. And there are a number of good Bach cello suites on viola, too.
steph said
I love it all!
Jason said
Burn Notice! Ah, yes, my favorite show! I’m a few episodes behind, though.
Chuck Grantham said
Jason,
I assume you mean “favorite ongoing series” since you clearly ID’ed “Seinfeld” as your favorite show. I’m a good season behind on “Burn Notice” since I wait and buy the DVDs. I enjoy a bit of silliness myself, so I was pleased to discover TNT’s “Leverage”, which at least in the first season was routinely silly.
Speaking of silly and being behind, I’m just now watching Stephen Chow’s “Royal Tramp” films, which I bought ages ago. “Makes no sense” films they indeed are, and not just because the conedy is often aimed at Cantonese speakers!
Jason said
You are correct–Seinfeld is my favorite of all time, while Burn Notice is my favorite current (along with Monk and Psych). I’ve heard of Leverage, but not Royal Tramp. Just curious (as I’ve read you’re an SBCer)–where do you serve?
Chuck Grantham said
Jason,
“Royal Tramp I and II” are Hong Kong films made by comedian Stephen Chow, best known stateside as the creator of “Shaolin Soccer” and “Kung Fu Hustle”.
I attend First Baptist Church Pascagoula, MS. This blog is my only church service, if you call it that.
Alan Wiley said
Chuck,
Are you THE Chuck Grantham that used to sit next to me in Jr High (that’s what we called it back then). You used to write Star Trek episodes in your spare time. You even let me read a few of them although I don’t think you really believed that I was really interestedl. I often think of you and wonder whatever became of you. You existed on a much higher intelectual plane than I and it is only now that I look back and smile at your dry humor!
Chuck Grantham said
Alan,
I am that Chuck, and I am still geeky after all these years. I recently bought all the classic Star Trek episodes on DVD, in fact.
Nice to hear from you!