tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51152782024-03-17T23:04:05.293-04:00The Knight ShiftBeing the chronicles of a simple man trying to stay true to himself in a world gone fuzzy.Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.comBlogger5529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-31243533631781205612024-02-13T12:44:00.005-05:002024-02-13T18:19:47.332-05:00Lent 2024: A respite from bloggingTomorrow is Ash Wednesday: the beginning of the Lenten season.There have been some years when I have observed Lent on this blog. The first time, in 2006, I refrained from posting at all. This blog was two years old then and it was a commitment to keep the content fresh and poppin'. So no blogging for seven weeks presented a dire temptation to write something, to write anything. Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-66694150141461710522024-02-07T07:57:00.006-05:002024-02-07T07:57:50.052-05:00Happy 50th Birthday to Blazing Saddles!It was on this date in 1974 that filmmaker Mel Brooks released his western spoof upon an unsuspecting world. And comedy was never the same again...It's probably the number-one movie that has been said "it could never be made today." Which makes it all the more special. Blazing Saddles is unadulterated political incorrectness as only Brooks and his crew could have made it.How Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-29939231460305678912024-02-06T03:22:00.001-05:002024-02-06T03:29:48.606-05:00A meditation upon Matthew 7:7Every so often Matthew 7:7 comes to mind. The verse reads (from the New International Version): "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." It comes to the fore of my thoughts when I think about my own salvation journey. How it progressed from being a person very angry and bitter toward God, to realizing that He couldChris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-85991287938467456032024-01-31T19:34:00.001-05:002024-01-31T19:34:59.534-05:00God and mental illness: Why won't He heal my mind?Obviously the notion entered my mind that maybe this could be an installment of the Being Bipolar series (which there may be much more material for coming soon). But Being Bipolar is more about the disease itself, and is intended to be a resource for those looking for insight and information from someone who lives with that condition.What I'm sharing now, on the other hand, has less to do Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-27100751179464738282024-01-29T12:29:00.001-05:002024-01-29T12:29:18.687-05:00I plan on wearing my Ghostbusters uniform on opening day of this New trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire dropped a few hours ago and I've watched it a few times now. I'm getting a vibe that this might be the best film since the original. It's hitting on all the right notes. And hey, it even has the return of Walter Peck!Watch it here: Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-63156026705863806072024-01-18T17:13:00.000-05:002024-01-18T17:13:08.488-05:00Reveal trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!Word is breaking loose at this hour that Bethesda's new Indiana Jones game has finally been revealed... Coming later this year it's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Looks set pre World War II aka the "golden era" of the saga. As for the "MacGuffin" of this particular adventure, there are hints of in in the trailer that went live a little while ago.So let's take a look at it!I'm notChris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-12861776003281956212024-01-16T22:55:00.008-05:002024-02-13T14:14:39.009-05:00"Why We Fight": Three qualities I aspire for in my writingI am a writer. I chronicle things. Including both mundane and wondrous happenings in my life.I write, laboring under the notion that examining one's own being will further illuminate that magnificent thing known as "the human condition". I don't write for power, or money (though I have earned a little over the years). I don't even write for "the masses". Having a fan base Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-21011482467677188092024-01-10T16:35:00.001-05:002024-01-10T16:59:30.267-05:00The Only Hope For America: A video commentary by Yours TrulyHave had a lot of thoughts over the past few days and weeks about the upcoming presidential election, and the general state of America.If you've ever read "Isaiah's Job" by Alfred Jay Nock, and you found it resonated with you, then this video may interest you too.Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-30503737154598665562024-01-08T09:03:00.005-05:002024-01-08T09:35:59.835-05:00The Berenstain Bears learn about sound economic policyI knew it! I just knew that I hadn't imagined this. A cartoon from 37 years that I saw only once ago and I still remember it!Around the mid-Eighties there was an animated series based on the beloved Berenstain Bears children's books. The show ran on Saturday mornings on CBS. It was pretty good as I seem to recall. And often quite humorous.Well, the other Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-7460120250342393622024-01-06T18:42:00.001-05:002024-01-06T18:42:17.761-05:00EEEEEEEEEEEEK!!! All this time for the past several years I've been trying to write a book. About my life especially regarding the impact manic depression has had on it.I've been working on a number of bits and pieces of it, going back and forth on those. But there has never been a "plan" per se. I've been assembling fragments but this project lacked structure. I was stumbling aroundChris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-3771295962174718782024-01-04T19:48:00.001-05:002024-01-04T19:48:33.219-05:00Latest "episode" of my new video seriesStill very early in this endeavor. Right now I am mostly working on camera angles, lighting, a better intro sequence... and my own presentation. I used to publicly speak better than I do now and I have to wonder if the meds I take to manage my manic depression might have taken some of that away. But there's no way to improve without jumping in and DOING it. Perhaps I will Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-33555204679547878912024-01-02T06:38:00.001-05:002024-01-04T23:09:27.521-05:00The Knight Shift turns TWENTY! Twenty years ago today, on January 2nd 2004:"Here we go, fast and furious..."I'll be honest: I really never thought this blog would make it past the first year or so, It would be something for me to play around with and then I'd get bored and abandon it.This has not happened yet.I think The Knight Shift fulfilled a need in my life. To actively chronicle the human condition of Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-24057260297727176162023-12-29T19:20:00.002-05:002023-12-31T07:23:04.473-05:00Tammy's decoyLast night Tammy, my miniature dachshund, got on the sofa. And she brought along one of her Christmas toys: a plush dachshund toy, which came courtesy of my cousin Lauryn and her husband.So she got up under her blanket, on my lap, and I noticed that she and her toy each had their tale protruding out:Which one is Tammy?? In real life it really does look like there are two dogs in my Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-58516971885868699982023-12-28T22:55:00.008-05:002023-12-28T23:02:44.392-05:00Twelve Years Later: Forgiving MomThe realization hit me this morning that today is the twelfth anniversary of Mom's passing. I've written about her before, here. Maybe too much. Sometimes all the hurt and anguish builds up and demands, even needs a
vent. Some people do that with art. Or going out for a drive. I
learned a long time ago that I can't paint and I'm a threat to everyone
on the Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-79307675093292054422023-12-21T17:00:00.075-05:002023-12-21T17:19:16.243-05:00Christmas 2023: Return of a TraditionTo be honest, I don't know if I should do this. It seems like it would be more ideal to bring this back during a better Christmas.But when would that be? We aren't guaranteed a tomorrow, much less a holiday that could be years from now.It's like this: for a very long time, every year in the days before Christmas, I would post an article that I wrote for my college's newspaper, in 1998Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-5462032687687129632023-12-17T16:52:00.005-05:002023-12-19T15:32:09.348-05:00Tammy and me at Kitty HawkToday is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.In May of 2017, not long after coming back east after nearly a year of traveling across America, I took my dog Tammy on a day trip to the Outer Banks. I wanted her to be able to say (to other dogs anyway) that she has seen the Pacific and Atlantic Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-26973919403199147762023-12-12T06:40:00.001-05:002023-12-12T06:40:56.808-05:00Got to see Godzilla Minus One last nightMany years ago an idea hit for a Godzilla movie. There are strong doubts that I'll ever get to make it but the notion still occupies my mind whenever a film about kaiju is released. My idea for a Godzilla film is to set it in Japan in 1954, the year the original film came out. To treat Godzilla as a force of nature like an earthquake or tsunami. Shoot the movie in black Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-83516197730061867052023-12-10T00:01:00.262-05:002023-12-10T00:01:00.136-05:00DOOM is thirty years old today!Doom, arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. It was at 12:01 AM on the morning of December 10th, 1993 that the team at id Software uploaded the first one-third of the game - the shareware version - to an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Within minutes wanna-be players crashed Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-49453641853477427702023-12-06T19:45:00.001-05:002023-12-06T21:12:48.880-05:00Testing for un-named weekly seriesIt was my friend Matt Smith who first encouraged me to start a weekly video series like his own Sunday school videos. He suggested some equipment and I've been playing around with shooting footage with my iPad Pro. Today I tried it again, this time with a wireless lavalier microphone.This is still VERY rough, but I thought it could be shared with y'all. Few things from Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-27417286432356750262023-12-05T10:54:00.004-05:002023-12-06T03:51:34.704-05:00The Knight "Many Santas" HypothesisWork with me here. This is something that popped into being inside my gray matter a few weeks ago. Personally, I can't find any argument about how this is not a viable theory. Although I confess that I did ummm... "borrow" some things from current pop culture. But as Santa Claus is a character who has borrowed much else across the centuries I think it's Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-58769438200254033102023-12-03T20:21:00.007-05:002023-12-03T20:23:31.478-05:00Sharing something very special tonightSo, this past week a memory just popped into mind. About something I had written a long time ago as a student at Elon. Awhile back I discovered an online archive of every issue of The Pendulum, which was the college's newspaper. I've shared a few of the op-ed pieces I wrote for the paper already.I don't know why I found myself thinking of it but I went looking for it. And Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-90097581332252175512023-12-03T19:56:00.004-05:002023-12-03T19:57:58.911-05:00I'm feeling as if Kipling is in order... The Godsof theCopybook HeadingsRudyard Kipling1919~As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-55699683347325608012023-11-26T19:48:00.006-05:002023-11-29T11:34:00.372-05:00Chris sees Doctor Who's "The Star Beast" so you don't have to"Doctor... I let you go."~ final words of the Twelfth Doctor Oh dear Lord. It was so much worse than I was ready for.I keep hearing Peter Capaldi's last words as The Doctor, now several minutes after watching "The Star Beast": the first of the three hour-long specials "celebrating" the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who. Because that is what I'm feeling now.This GIF Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-64005024569076572462023-11-20T10:23:00.000-05:002023-11-20T10:23:30.988-05:00God and me: How I found my faith againI wish that I could tell you, faithful readers (all two of you) that my spiritual life is one that has been a beautiful one. A life that has somehow escaped all trouble and heartbreak. This month is the twenty-seventh anniversary of my first coming to having faith in Christ. And you would think that all of that time would have resulted in... well, something beyond losing that Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-60249739456845903912023-11-18T10:16:00.007-05:002023-11-19T02:03:56.876-05:00Changing Doctor Who's Davros is officially the STUPIDEST thing I've seen all yearThe Doctor - the titular hero of the long-running BBC series Doctor Who - has had many, many enemies in his sixty years of saving the universe. Everyone from Cybermen to The Master to the Weeping Angels to... well just about anything you can come up with has been a potential threat.But there is one foe who is above and beyond the rest: Davros. The insane creator of The Doctor's oldestChris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.com7