Yours Truly has placed in the top 325 for the American Gem Competition with his entry “What the Dragon Said.” Woo-hoo! American Gem and The Write Brothers are pleased to announce the top 325 screenplays in the American Gem Short Script Competition. American Gem’s 5th Competition attracted a total of 1176 entries worldwide. Top 200 …
As I have an academic article being considered for book publication, and as said article is due on September 1, and as I need to facilitate a great deal of improvement on said article, therefore I shall be blogging but lightly between now and said due date. But fear not intrepid readers and eager listeners… …
(click here for the first part of this essay) The Five Obstructions, perhaps one of von Trier’s most optimistic movies, answers that question with the idea that making art–and in this case, films–might hold the key to surviving this world with one’s honor intact. The setup of the movie is that von Trier challenges the …
Check out this story by Sanjay Suri, “Muslim Leaders Begin to Doubt the Plot” for some futher information that might not be on the mainstream news.
Politics: With the use of terror as a political weapon growing to be the norm, both for terrorists and elected officials, Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, offers a clear review different viewpoint of the alleged plot in Britain, pointing out facts that most other news outlets have neglected (such as the fact …
J & I went canoeing this afternoon. Canoeing on the Gowanus, or, as Southbrooklyn.net calls it, “an incredibly dirty body of water located in the heart of Brooklyn.” Yes, how scary is that. Actually, the next picture captures the greenish tint of the water (and not a good greenish tint at that!) a bit better: …
The first Lars von Trier film I saw was Zentropa, which I saw sometime in the early 90s. This was back in his “stylized” phase and the film was beautiful: black and white, but with various bits of color added in during some of the scenes. Starting with the amazing voice of Max Von Sydow …
It is a grumpy day for LtL – too little sleep, too little actually accomplished, too much chaos and rubble in the apartment. I’ve tried to turn it around by simply making it a reading day and have read (well, skimmed) a rather quaint book called City of Bits. Quaint because it was written in …
This post is especially for Jocose. I’ve been reading The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson and came across this passage I wanted to share: Consider the curiously persistent notion that sentences should not end with a preposition. The source of this stricture, and several other equally dubious ones, was one Robert Lowth, an eighteenth-century clergyman …