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Saving the World from Nonsense: Words and pictures from within my bubble.
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Sometimes it is not a matter of what is said (or being the first to say it) but a matter not being the only one saying it.
I began blogging with the hope that it would reacquaint me with writing. I had taken a long hiatus – Almost 10 years! – from writing, frustrated with my life and my aspirations in poetry and fiction. My first posts were very personal (at least as personal as I was comfortable…
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Bitter Tea
Recently Turner Classic Movies played The Good Earth and The Bitter Tea of General Yen back to back. I caught the former as the locusts descended upon the crops and continued to the latter as a “Chinked up” Nils Asther rode away in “Yellow Face” without care or concern for the rickshaw driver his car had just hit.
I grimaced as I watched Nils Asther’s exaggerated Yellow Face – painfully narrowed…
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Arbejdsglaede
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Hamlet was my introduction to the Danes; Him and Danny Kaye prancing around a Hollywood set as Hans Christian Andersen.
According to the Gallup World Poll Denmark is the “happiest place on earth.” Forbes says this is because “good times probably have more to do with the size of your wallet…” and quotes the developer of the happiness poll at Gallup:
“The…
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Elvis: The King and the Dream
In middle school I spent an entire Sunday transcribing the lyrics to “Return to Sender” so I could memorize and sing them later.
But while Elvis was singing: “Return to sender, address unknown,”
I was writing: “Return December, address and phone.”
As an adult I’ve had the opportunity to tour Graceland and to attend a party among Elvis’ cars. It was a celebratory event held as a part of a company…
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Christmas, Santa, and Jesus
As a parent, two stories I would like to tell better are the story of 9/11 and the story of Christmas. With the former, I’m still trying to get it “just right.” Both my children were born after 9/11 (my older one just nine months after). They are still so very young and naïve. People are still “linear beings” to them. There is a distinct line between right and wrong, good and bad — And good…
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The Art of Edie Sedgwick
I was always intimidated and self-conscious when I talked to her or was in her presence because she was like art. I mean, she was an object that had been very strongly, effectively created. (Robert Rauschenberg, Edie: An American Biography, 1982)
George Plimpton did an excellent job editing all the interviews Jean Stein gathered for her book, Edie: An American Biography. The amazing thing about…
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Remembering Sir
Right around the fifth paragraph of Marie Lee’s op-ed in the New York Times To Sir With Love started playing in my head. It’s right around there she introduces us to Ms. Leibfried, her high school English teacher. It is Ms. Leibfried who “appeared at a critical juncture” in Marie’s life and gave her the confidence to go on as a writer.
In asking “how exactly do we measure the value of a teacher?”…
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Watching Farewell My Concubine As A Teacher and A Father
Netflix is streaming Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. The movie is as good as I remember it. But watching it now as a former New York City school teacher and a father of two, there’s a message there that wasn’t there when I first saw the movie (pre-classroom and pre-parenthood). It’s a message about the subtle disparities between what we (the adult world) teach and what they (our children)…
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Dandadan: Allegory or just immature fun
Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu can be read as an allegory about male pubescent ascendance and anxiety.
Or it can just be fun.
It can be a silly immature schoolyard joke that the author has imagined into an exciting fast-paced supernatural horror comedy.
According to Anime Hunch, Yukinobu Tatsu wrote Dandadan as a desperate final effort to have an ongoing series. His illustrations were well…
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Not a huge Star Wars fan but this is too cute not to share. But I need to know how it ends.
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Anime NYC 2023
I only managed to attend one panel last year. It was a “reserved” event for Hajime Isayama, the creator of Attack on Titan. The process to get in was poorly managed and I missed the start of the panel in spite of the planning and getting there early to wait in line. The Anime NYC staff working the doors seemed to have just given up. Attendees charged the entrances, cut the multiple lines that…
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Not sure why but The Sundays’ “Where the story ends” popped into my head at the start of the week and has been living there since.Â
The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Official Music Video)
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At Anime NYC my sister and I spoke about the series finanle of Attack on Titan. It reminded me of Ovilee May’s great recap of the show on G4′s Attack of the Show.Â
Attack on Titan in 8 Minutes! | TLDR Theatre
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An interesting book concept and contest but is it a good read?
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The word “replicant” has been popping up on the social media channels I follow. Every time I see/hear the word I think of Blade Runner and the Voight-Kampff test. Most of the clips online show the one with Harrison Ford and Sean Young but this one with Brion James is my favorite because I ask similar questions whenever I have to do a survey or scan sheet test!Â
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“helping” in Jame Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children
I read James Tynion IV's "Something is Killing the Children" as an exploration of "helping."
James is the sole survivor of an otherwise innocuous sleepover game of truth or dare. He and his friends go into the ravine in the back of his house in search of a monster he swore he didn’t make up. Unfortunately, there is a monster there and it kills all of his friends. The book begins with James recounting the sleepover to the sheriff during his interrogation.
Erica is a part of a secret…
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Honestly the most fun I've had at a @newyorkcomiccon panel in a while. Tauburaya Production and Bandai did not skimp on the live action!
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