A friend just gave me the “creepy” news that some people want to canonize “Saint Stalin”.
Saint Che?
Interesting, since I recently read that Ernesto “Che” Guevara is already considered a saint in parts of Bolivia. And, to be honest, Stalin I could do without – a Saint Che would be more my cup of tea.
Just think of the possibilities: whenever I run into one of those annoying rich spoilt brats wearing a T-shirt of “that dude” like he’s some arbitrary Andy Warhol creation, I can now tell them that they’re mocking my religion, ahem, and would they please remove it?
And then, as soon as the twits have forgotten all about him, I could maybe finally get a Che T-shirt of my own without anyone knowing I’m a copycat.
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Puzzling it out for himself
Watching WALL-E, I was impressed. There were not nearly as many silly, superfluous visual gags as there could have been. The minimalistic, dialogue-less opening was a bold move for Hollywood.
But there was one even bolder move, plot-wise, that they could have made, that would have lifted the movie up to a level of real art:
When WALL-E followed EVE back to the mothership Axiom, wouldn’t it have been great if that, too, had been as deserted as Earth was? And both robots were pointlessly following “Directives” to prepare Earth for humans that would never return?
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I’ve been in a patch of “writer’s block” for some years now: few photos, few poems, little writing of any kind. In a sense this blog is an attempt to break out from that; and in the process of launching I have rediscovered some valuable lessons. Perfectionism can be a drawback.
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