Lately I have noticed an unusual number of squirrels scampering around my yard. A whole lot of them. Now I am not sure that the population density of squirrels in my yard is necessarily more significant than similarly situated yards in my neighborhood, but there just seems to be way too many squirrels around this…
One of my favorite sci-fi films is the classic 1973 movie Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston. The movie takes place in the year 2022 when overpopulation, pollution and climate change have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. Not such an unrealistic premise given where we are in 2020. Charlton Heston stars as…
As some Bruce Springsteen fans (who also attended Catholic school) know, some of Bruce’s songs are influenced by his Catholic upbringing. Perhaps people would enjoy attending mass if the hymns were written by someone like Bruce Springsteen. So that got me thinking about existing Bruce songs that could be converted (get it!) to hymns. …
Oh, God! That’s right, ‘The Almighty’, ‘The Supreme Being’, ‘The Divine One’, ‘The Big Guy Upstairs’, or my favorite, ‘Morgan Freeman’ from the movie “Bruce Almighty”. God would like to relay the following message to the readers of The Welcome Matt: “You’re going to die eventually. Deal with it. Cleanup your act now while there’s…
