Issue 184
News: Really Haven't Been Updating, Have I?
Don't you remember the good old days a few months ago when I was constantly worrying about how little I had been updating my blog? Back when I was in high school, I updated every Sunday. Eventually, that dwindled down to thrice a month. By college, it was only once in a blue moon where I managed to post even that frequently. However, by this semester I've been having trouble trying to post even that frequently. I've posted only two times in as many months (not including this post), and I'm not really sure of the reason. The closest thing I can come up with is that I could very well be in the process of burning out. I haven't written an actual short story in about a year, no matter how many ideas have come to me. I've actually begun to sleep in between classes at college, despite the fact that my sleep cycle has had little change in the past few years. Looking at the work I've been handing in, I keep seeing massive amounts of typos in my papers, which, oddly enough, are usually "A" grades. And for once, I really wish I could say that there was something really problematic happening with my life right now, but apart from the health of an uncle I haven't been in regular contact with for years taking a turn for the worse, and transferring to a four-year college, I can't think of anything at the moment. Quite honestly, I don't know when I'll be updating regularly again; probably by December, when my last exams will have been finished. Maybe I'll write another entry the next time Jack Chick comes around with a new tract.
Film Idea: Sofie is a girl who finds herself locked in a dungeon trying to save her mother from a man who uses an electric violin to control robots into torturing or killing people. The complication is that her mother finds out she's into that sort of thing. At one point, she also has sex with her own doppelganger.
Film Review of the Day: Well, I have been watching a lot of films since I started my hiatus. Perhaps I'll review two of them in each entry for a while, in lieu of providing a link.
Temple Grandin. This is certainly a good film about Autism, particularly in providing a way of putting the story from the point of view from the patient; and while I have seen several films about autism, none of those other films managed to find a way of putting the film into their own subjective points of view. Not even Mozart and the Whale or Adam have been able to do that. And for that matter, I hope Chris-Chan ends up seeing it; at the age of 28, Temple was getting her Master's, and at that age, Chris is sitting in his room, unaware of the sort of jobs that would employ anyone with a CADD certificate 10 years after graduating high school.
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. This film is an unjustly overlooked classic created by none other than Dr. Seuss, and as much as he was known for writing books for very small children, it also seems unusually naturalistic for a writer known for creating entire species out of whole cloth just for the sake of creating a decent rhyme. Of course, by the standards of 1950s film, it is amazingly bizarre, and I think it manages to hit the perfect balance between the normal and bizarre for my style.
Quote: "We should always believe children. We should even believe their lies."
—Mr. Zabladowski
Don't you remember the good old days a few months ago when I was constantly worrying about how little I had been updating my blog? Back when I was in high school, I updated every Sunday. Eventually, that dwindled down to thrice a month. By college, it was only once in a blue moon where I managed to post even that frequently. However, by this semester I've been having trouble trying to post even that frequently. I've posted only two times in as many months (not including this post), and I'm not really sure of the reason. The closest thing I can come up with is that I could very well be in the process of burning out. I haven't written an actual short story in about a year, no matter how many ideas have come to me. I've actually begun to sleep in between classes at college, despite the fact that my sleep cycle has had little change in the past few years. Looking at the work I've been handing in, I keep seeing massive amounts of typos in my papers, which, oddly enough, are usually "A" grades. And for once, I really wish I could say that there was something really problematic happening with my life right now, but apart from the health of an uncle I haven't been in regular contact with for years taking a turn for the worse, and transferring to a four-year college, I can't think of anything at the moment. Quite honestly, I don't know when I'll be updating regularly again; probably by December, when my last exams will have been finished. Maybe I'll write another entry the next time Jack Chick comes around with a new tract.
Film Idea: Sofie is a girl who finds herself locked in a dungeon trying to save her mother from a man who uses an electric violin to control robots into torturing or killing people. The complication is that her mother finds out she's into that sort of thing. At one point, she also has sex with her own doppelganger.
Film Review of the Day: Well, I have been watching a lot of films since I started my hiatus. Perhaps I'll review two of them in each entry for a while, in lieu of providing a link.
Temple Grandin. This is certainly a good film about Autism, particularly in providing a way of putting the story from the point of view from the patient; and while I have seen several films about autism, none of those other films managed to find a way of putting the film into their own subjective points of view. Not even Mozart and the Whale or Adam have been able to do that. And for that matter, I hope Chris-Chan ends up seeing it; at the age of 28, Temple was getting her Master's, and at that age, Chris is sitting in his room, unaware of the sort of jobs that would employ anyone with a CADD certificate 10 years after graduating high school.
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. This film is an unjustly overlooked classic created by none other than Dr. Seuss, and as much as he was known for writing books for very small children, it also seems unusually naturalistic for a writer known for creating entire species out of whole cloth just for the sake of creating a decent rhyme. Of course, by the standards of 1950s film, it is amazingly bizarre, and I think it manages to hit the perfect balance between the normal and bizarre for my style.
Quote: "We should always believe children. We should even believe their lies."
—Mr. Zabladowski
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