Very few people play with dragons for a living. Consider Chris Sanders one of the lucky.

Sanders directed (along with frequent collaborator Dean DeBlois) DreamWorks' new 3-D animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon, which boasts scores of scaly, fire-breathing critters. He was heavily involved with designing many of them—including the film's real star, Toothless.

Sanders is no stranger to worlds filled with childlike wonder and fantasy, of course. When the future professional animator was attending the California Institute of the Arts, he spent summers working at an amusement park. After he graduated, he hooked up with Disney, diving in to the fantasy-laden realms the Mouse House is so well known for and working on such classic fare as Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and Lilo & Stitch.

In person, Sanders is much as you'd hope: genial, jovial and still enamored with his craft. I had a chance to sit down with him and talk about Vikings, dragons, the art of animation and how Disney once made him loose his lunch.

It was a brillig day in Underland, the borogobes being mimsy and all. But Alice was in no position to either gyre or gimble.

It had, after all, been a trying day already. Mere moments before, a supercilious lord asked for her hand in marriage—a wonderful compliment, to be sure. But Alice doesn't love the man (who has a cantankerous digestive system besides). And then there was the well-dressed white rabbit to consider, scurrying through the gardens and brandishing a charming pocket watch.

Naturally, Alice did what any normal 19-year-old girl would do under similar circumstances: She left her hopeful suitor to chase the white rabbit and—again, quite naturally—fell down a rabbit hole.

Eli's world is a dry and weary one. There's no water, and he walks through the ash of a jagged place, where men eat men and the sky's torn in two. Godforsaken, many would call this dystopian earth. But God is not gone, nor forgotten. For Eli carries, along with his gloves and guns and cruel, broad blade, something special. Something sacred.

A book. The Book.

In the age gone by, Bibles were burned by the bushel. They caused the War that tore a hole through the sky, the people said. It's a book of evil, the people said. It must be destroyed—wiped from the face of the earth. But they didn't burn them all. Eli found one—or it found him—and for the last 31 years he's carried the thing, protecting it by day, reading it by night. He carries it west, always west, where the sun comes down from heaven and seems to set upon the ground.

The movie "Collision" recounts several debates between atheist Christopher Hitchens and Christian pastor Douglas Wilson. First, let me say it's worth getting and viewing.  It has a run time of 88 minutes which fits some longer college-level class times.  The movie is produced by a Hollywood director and is done with high quality, although some may doubt its artistic direction.

GO here to download the movie for $9.99!

Americans are raised on hope. It lies at the core of the country’s DNA, imbued within its founding documents and stitched tightly into its shared identity. Those of us who live here have been taught from the earliest of ages that our destinies are not shaped by caste or duty, but by talent, work, drive and desire. Even in the midst of misery, our lives often are predicated on hope—that our next job will be more fulfilling, that our next round of chemotherapy may do the trick, that the next sunrise will bring a brighter day.

And yet, there are places here where hope dares not go. There are places where life is but a biological fact, where liberty is laughable, where happiness is a pointless pursuit, best left to those in other neighborhoods, other situations.Other Americans.

Clareece Jones is 16. Sweet 16. People call her Precious. And she is. But no one believes it.

Hello everyone! The Alpha Jan here and I am bringing you the review of the movie Slightly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Now I went to see this movie on Sunday night with my baby sister. It was a good day to watch the movie too since it was in 3D and the movie theater wasn't packed so I got to stretch my legs out and take up as many seats as I wanted to take up. My sister thought it was awesome too.

The story is about a boy named Flint Lockwood who dreams of becoming a very popular scientist. He lives in a small fishing town in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which is famous for their sardines. He however is very misunderstood but because of the support and love of his mother, he does his best to make something wonderfully spectacular that everyone will love him for.