If your high school English class was similar to mine, you probably learned something about The Great Chain of Being. This, we were taught as we drummed impatiently on our copies of whatever Shakespeare play happened to be on the curriculum this year, was an Elizabethan concept of the order…
Okay, my “short” reviews don’t seem to be that short anymore. So, in the interests of returning to my terse roots, reviews in three sentences or fewer! Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Jonah Lehrer, 2007) —
Did I already give a blog entry this title? I could swear I did. I could probably go through the archives and check, but that would be Letting the Terrorists Win. (Also, for those of you picking this up on Facebook, I’d just like to maintain that I really do…
You know what makes me feel super accomplished? Putting together IKEA furniture. An essay is just, “So what?”, because when you’re done, all you have is a slightly larger Word file on your computer, and you can never finish a story just the way you wanted it when you set…
So a few weeks ago, when my cousin Emily was visiting me in Toronto, we went to see the new movie by Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop. And it brought me to this conclusion: I don’t like art.
But first… (teaser beneath the cut):
In my head, the title of this entry is spoken with the same intonation as The Muppet Show’s “Pigs… In… Space!” *ahem* The title actually might as well be “Religion… In… Stories!”, but as I’m Jewish, this is really the only aspect of religion I’m somewhat qualified to blog on.…
But first! Happy Easter to all you Christians out there! And for your brief edifitainment, the slightly thematically relevant difference between promos and TV shows: PROMO VOICEOVER: Next week, on House! When Princeton-Plainsboro turns into a hospital of revelations… HOUSE ON THE PROMO: I… have to tell you a secret.…
At the climax of Le Petit Prince, our young protagonist tells a garden full of roses just like the precious one he has on his comet, “Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides” – “You are beautiful, but you are empty.” This is the sentiment that filled my mind watching…