“Just so you know, I’m a mess.”
Part of the 2005 USA Film Festival)
At the root of being human is a recognition that we are finite, and thus vulnerable. This recognition doesn’t go away when we “grow up,” it just gets subverted and worked out differently.
The following is a debate I had with the operator of this site: www.starfast.org, a site conscripting Christians to “fast” from watching the upcoming episode of Star Wars…
I had the good fortune of being recommended to a local university student as a videographer for her creative project…
My apartment complex is a “gated community”, meaning they have large iron gates that give the impression of security, thereby allowing them to charge more rent. Along with a key, each tenant receives a remote control to open said gate as well as the garage door to the apartment.
For a brief few weeks over a year ago, I was gauging my life in a literal fashion, where others might keep such internal dialogs to themselves. As Homer Simpson adroitly described the phenomenon:
I said the loud parts quiet and the quiet parts out loud.
At least that’s the most eloquent way I can put [...]
“(Given the opportunity) a developing country will not vote itself into poverty.”
Date: 02/14/2006
