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Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Associate Press Music Writer, was apparently bored by the MTV VMAs. He gives the awards a negative rating, why? Because apparently it was too normal or too clean. Here’s what he writes: “You didn’t bring the thunder. You didn’t bring anything,” host Jack Black, looking at himself in his dressing room mirror, [...]

From time to time, I tune in to hear Frank Pastore on KKLA (99.5 FM) here in Los Angeles. He has a talk radio show from 4pm to 7pm on one of the most popular Christian radio stations in Los Angeles. Though I disagree with (most of) his politics, I appreciate his articulation and it [...]

I can’t believe we’ve lived life with Layla for a year. She is such a joy to us. I figure it’s fine to devote an entire post to celebrate her! The Ekmekji Family Layla eats her first Chocolate Cake! For more pictures, check out http://www.ekmekji.net/

For many of us, wikipedia has become the authoritative word on any subject. For those of you who don’t know, it is a huge, online collaboration on articles. It is formed, edited and updated in community. It encourages anyone and everyone to contribute to it, and assures contributors that mistakes are usually caught pretty quickly. [...]

Layla had her one-year doctor’s appointment today, and she was up for four shots–three in her thighs and one one in the arm. The nurse told us that the one in the arm would be the most painful one and so she would do that one last. The nurse came in and one by one [...]

The LA Times had a blurb today about “The Jesus Christ Show” on Saturday mornings on KFI-AM. The producer (Neil Saavedra), a professing Christian, has set up the format of the show where Jesus preaches on a topic and answers questions from callers. I know there are many Christians who say they sometimes hear an [...]

Update #1: We received a phonecall at 2:59am from someone who said that he doesn’t send faxes to us at 3 in the morning. And the phone number I called on Tuesday is no longer working. Interesting. So in the past two months, we go through these seasons where someone tries to send us a [...]

The other night, I had dinner at Jose Antonio Peruvian-Chinese Restaurant in Chatsworth. Yes, you read that correctly, “Peruvian-Chinese”. The LA Daily News food critic titled his review, “When in Peru, do as the Peruvians do – eat Chinese food”. It was delicious. It is a small, quaint restaurant, and the moment we walked in, [...]

(Part 2 in an occasional series. Part 1 can be found here.) One of the most important elements of waging war and gaining a country’s support for war is propaganda. Wikipedia defines the word as “Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed at influencing the opinions of people, rather than impartially providing [...]

Numbers as a result of Operation Change Direction, Israel’s operation “for the return of the two kidnapped IDF soldiers and for the removal of terror aggression from Lebanon against Israeli territory.” (according to IDF) Length of Operation: 34 Days Number of Lebanese civilians killed: 842 [1] Number of Hezbollah guerillas / terrorists killed: 530 [2] [...]