Posts Tagged ‘film’
‘Boyhood’ is full of storytelling magic, minus the story and any wizardry
Modern movie stories generally goes a little something like this: Hero. Hero travels to a different world (you can go metaphorical or literal on this one). Hero meets companion. (In Western society, this companion is almost always of a minority race, or disabled, or female. Look, this is what they taught me. I don’t make…
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Right, so what I've learned by having a very loud young man sitting about a yard from me in the offices — a sales rep, no less — is that I am a complete snob. Sure, it's probably a reflex action because he's loud (I did say that) and he ends every sentence he makes…
Read MoreHome again, home again
Better than one At left, the latest in the continuing selection of "Two Heads Together" photos. This is what happens: SXSW is such a huge, overwhelming event with so much going on at all hours that the idea of blogging it is just insane. Some people appear to have more than 24 hours in a…
Read MoreSouth By Interlude
Right. So. About to drop over from too-much-movie-itis (I know, boo fuckin' hoo), and will hopefully have something useful to say next week about the craziness that is SXSW, but in the meanwhile: My record at not voting for viable candidates stands. As I noted a few weeks ago, I've never backed the winning horse…
Read MoreIt’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
A little headline fun for the day. I came across this teaser headline (the first one): Piercing revelation And initially, I was thinking, "Damn, they've got a knife-shooting gun out there in Sacramento!" So I clicked over. Not nearly as exciting. Then I came across this gem: Robots After reading that headline I just had…
Read MoreA Dog’s Life
Useless More from the Irish. What you've got here, see, is a farm dog who's afraid of sheep, but rather fancies the cows. Wonderful. P.S. If anyone knows how to get Vox to let me embed the video, I'd love to hear it. Talk about useless.
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