My second favorite movie in the whole world: Scenes from a Marriage.
Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone […]
serious
Stuff that doesn’t attempt to be funny.
My favorite movie in the whole world: The Mirror.
There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The […]
Great Books – Warlock by Oakley Hall, 1958
The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the central stories in American mythology. Good and evil, law and […]
Q: Is Origami Art? A: Sure, but…
Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its […]
Archetypical – Part I – The Guardian and the Bridge
This is my contribution to a zine of art, photography and writing loosely centered on the theme “person place thing”. […]
The Many Nuanced Themes of Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis is one of my favorite comic book writers. But after reading his entire runs of Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer, […]
Boys will be Boys: Double Standards in McLintock! and The Awful Truth.
There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my […]
My Favorite Movies 5 — The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30’s and 40’s. The name “screwball comedy” is a pretty apt […]
Just what exactly is infinity plus one?
The notion of infinity is one of those concepts that seems beyond the realm of our understanding. Endless, forever; ideas […]
The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years […]