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A Prediction and a Response

This is not a political web log, but it is personal. I’ve usually avoided political topics here because they haven’t been a big enough part of my life to be worth alienating my friends and family who disagree with me. This election was important and troublesome enough for me, though, that I discarded my usual…

November 13, 2004
Movie: Children of Heaven

What a relief, we finally got a movie nearly free of violence. It’s the story of a coverup opertion conducted my a 9-year-old Iranian boy – to keep his parents from finding out that he lost his sister’s shoes. It may go a little overboard trying to be heartwarming here and there, but right now…

November 7, 2004
Horsetooth Reservoir

I peer over at the fun roof I just climbed on toprope, during which Ann was too busy waiting to catch me when I flew off to snap a picture. But I managed to keep myself scrunched up in there with my hands working quickly into the smooth crack long enough to get over it.…

November 7, 2004
Movie: The Pianist

A holocaust movie that chronicles the survival of a concert pianist. It’s another one of those movies that makes you appreciate how good we have it. I think watching too many of this kind of movie too close together puts one at risk of depression instead of appreciation, though. This was a little soon after…

November 5, 2004
Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

This movie pays homage to a long list of Sci-Fi predecessors, but I think I would put Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic Metropolis at the top. Live-action actors play in a computer-generated set that is stylized to the hilt. The story is very comic book-esque – a fantasy that is pretty campy but entertaining. I think…

November 3, 2004
Bummer

I took the morning off yesterday – my second day at my new job – to drive to Denver to vote. It was another hour in line, this time in an elementary school. Kids went by in lines, some whispering ‘Kerry Kerry Kerry’ quietly as they went by. I had to cast a provisional ballot,…

November 3, 2004
Movie: City of God

A harsh look at the brutal life of children in the City of God, the slums outside of Rio De Janero. This is one of those movies, like the The Killing Fields, that explores the role of journalism in showing us truths that we would rather ignore. It too is based on a true story.…

October 30, 2004
The 2004 Election Fiasco Begins

Today I decide to take advantage of early voting while I’m in Denver for a meeting. I stop by a few polling places, but the lines are hours long. Finally I decide to get it over with, and stand in a line through the isles of a Safeway on Federal for over two hours. When…

October 29, 2004
Book: Heir of Autumn / Giles Carwyn and Todd Fahnestock

Update: The book’s been published! It’s now listed on Amazon. One of the authors of this book, Todd Fahnestock, gave a xeroxed, hole-punched, string-bound copy to Ann for me to read. She worked for him last week on a temp assignment. I don’t know anything else about him, but it appears he’s doing pretty well…

October 28, 2004
We Move to Fort Collins

Once again we schlep our stuff, this time from the storage locker in Denver to a house we have rented near campus in Fort Collins. The process looks eerily similar to the scene when we packed up last March.

October 23, 2004

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