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An Old Choice

In Aldous, Muse, Residue on 28 December 2007 with no comments

As I am invariably wont to do, I have pulled some old stuff to post here. There’s no sense in having all these posts unless they’re to serve for multiple feedings. Originally posted February 5th, 2005. Enjoy.

I find the path of my learning curve takes me in zigzag fashion across a landscape [...]

Incredulous

In Residue on 23 May 2005 with no comments

Like many thirtysomethings these days, I grew up on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons. And, like many of these thirtysomethings, I remember the brash novelty of Aeon Flux, and I remember falling in love with it. Initially, there was no dialogue, no insipid banter to diffuse the stylized action, subterfuge, Orwellian [...]

Please

In Residue on 19 May 2005 with no comments

Unfortunately (for whom I’ll let you argue), I don’t have the leisure to describe my near outrage as completely as I’d like. However, it can’t escape my noting that, if you’re looking for any kind of political prescience from any movie, let alone any Star Wars movie, you are an inescapably fruity idiot. [...]

Relativism

In Residue on 17 May 2005 with no comments

“This may be the best of them all.” This being Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. According to some reviews, “[i]t’s…the scariest, most exciting, most visually prodigious of the sextet”.

Let me tell you folks something, before you destroy the U.S. economy: to say that this film will be the best of the [...]

Help!

In Residue on 17 May 2005 with 2 comments

Roughly half the times I take Meredith for a walk, I find at least one worm struggling during its cross-sidewalk migration. It’s common for these worms to appear in bad sorts, dehydrated and less than naturally flexible. I take some small amount of pride in bending down, grasping a wiggler between thumb and [...]

Speak

In Residue on 12 May 2005 with no comments

Apparently, I’d f’ed up my template, and made it less than smooth for visitors to comment. Since I value commentary, and the potential for thoughtful discourse is at the heart of why I’m boxing any jewels, I went ahead and fixed that.

Silver

In Residue on 12 May 2005 with 3 comments

I’m no movie snob. I don’t pretend to constrain myself to watching “cinema”. Rather, I will tend to watch most anything, and more often than not, will glean some satisfaction from among even the worst. This is as much a function of the fact that I’m usually only to be able to [...]