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The Long Run (UPDATED)
It's summer. The sun is shining. Nights are longer. Grills are ablaze. It's summer and that means there's yardwork to be done, beer to be drunk. Only handle fireworks while sober. Mostly. Ah, the beautiful noises - the birds chirping, a basketball bouncing. Can you smell that? Fresh-mowed grass. Tomato vines. Say - what's that? Ah, now I'm getting it - a zest of COVID-19 in the air.
Parasite: A ghost story
It keeps following me.
Gongshi, or scholar's rocks, are particularly aesthetic phenomena in nature. In all likelihood you have stumbled across one in your life. Skipping rocks. Canoeing. Dodging pedos at summer camp. At some point in your life-adventure you came across a misshapen object, a rock that was seemingly put in that place for a reason. A divine reason. Did you take it home? Did you hold it in your palm, admire it and then toss it away?
Whichever you did, what does it say about you?
Sobre Roma (in English)
Alfonso Cuarón's most recent film, Roma (2018), is a masterpiece. The film has received unanimous applause; some critics even call it Cuarón's magnum opus (no small thing - ahem, Children of Men).
Sobre Roma (en español)
La película más reciente de Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (2018), es una pura obra de arte. La película ha recibido aplauso casi unánime - muchos críticos la consideran su obra maestra (no es algo de chistes - ejem, Hijos de hombres).
I must not fear.
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."