I recently watched in it’s entirety “Arrested Development“. The simple critique: the first season is an elaborate set of “jumping the shark” story-lines that quite ironically move the story toward a surprisingly humane treatment of of the species Americana (dysfunctional) familia circa 2001. Even as good as the first season is, I found the second [...]
It is a funny thing growing old(er). This requisite activity called life has convinced me of one thing with every passing moment; and, it is this: with every passing moment I grow ever more certain I know less than the moment before. As of today the count-down to my financial resolution to my last “adventure [...]
A very dear friend of mine recently commented on my Facebook about a Tweet I recently posted. The comment itself included a statement trying to clarify his “(c)omment on this story (my tweet) of unrequited love.” And it is to this “unrequited love” that induced in me thoughts of whether this (unrequited love) is a [...]
Some analogies have a way of sticking with you even as you forget them, only to remember them anew years (even decades) later. I love sailing even though I am not a sailor. I neither own a sailboat nor have I been on a sailboat more than a dozen times in my life. Even so, [...]
It is maybe a strange thing to say, but I love my commutes. I happen to live along a bus-route that has direct connections from a bus stop right outside my home, dropping me off nearly to the doorstop of my office building (if a 76-story building can have a doorstop). On the better days [...]
((This may be remembered as the post that sent me to a place with nice people and padded walls.)) Some years ago there was an Iranian film festival in Seattle held at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). While every film I saw moved me in ways that are too distant to fully recast [...]
Fuck Fate. I am sure some will cringe reading that. And maybe those who do will think my use of the expletive “fuck” is offensive, or as a minimum you consider it (even me) crude. But it is not; nor am I. Although, I will concede to these people that for in sooth the sentence [...]
It is an interesting thing: growing old. I expected a few things to happen. Thinning hair: check. Worsening eyesight: check. Epidermal blemishes: check. Crow’s feet: check. Biological clock: what?! I recently finished reading a book where in one of the early protagonists is a very young girl of all but six years in age. As [...]
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In Words Redux I tried to differentiate between to love and to be in love; however, in the process of conversing with a friend I was presented with a conundrum: they did not agree with my usage. Naturally, not agreeing is oft times the very hallmark of a good and meaningful conversation, and as such [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
This is in response to Dave M. post over at Lost In Translation. I wonder if some of the general objections made of Avatar and others in its vein can be rolled up to a difference between preferring a story (implying human archetypes) and creating an alternate reality. Namely, how far should a movie or [...]