Son of Rambow...a review...

ms scribe & i went to see a preview of Son of Rambow last night...wonderful movie...funny, insightful, well made all around...but let's get this out of the way up front...it's sweet...it's cute...but not disney saccharine sweet, and not too cute...disney would never make a movie like this...it's got promiscuous pre-teen french kissing...the rejection of religious piety...and criminal acts by minors...the fellas of hammer & tongs...get great performances out of their cast, and deftly balance child like wonder in a believable adult world...this is one of the big differences between a children's movie and a movie about children...more importantly, they really capture the the essence of imaginative youth...who would have thought we could look back at the 80's as a time of innocence...

so, yeah, we liked it and recommend it to everyone...

what would HST say...

last night...as i watched HRC choose to trod on...i missed HST and what he might think about this year's presidential race...he was, after all, an admitted political junkie...he had witnessed the most insane elections of the modern age...and was never without some wild eyed, left field observation...that bring clarity to the situation...

ask for butter...

everyday when i come home from my commute...my eyes seek out the license plate of a car a few blocks from my home...it reads...ask not...i love it...yeah, jfk rocked a block rocking beat that day...but more than that...it reminds me of an old saying...if you don't ask...you don't get...

here's one thing that's been on my mind lately...

the disappearing black ceo...not that i knew how many there are before i read the article...and not that i have any coherent thoughts about the state of black ceo's...i find it odd...or maybe...less than coincidental...that two of them got run out on rails...in the space of a week...i don't know all the details...perhaps they deserved the axe...it's the timing i find suspect...if only i knew who wins when black ceo's get humiliated in public...

(BTW...i'll have something to say about mr mailer when i finally finish one of his books..)

i've missed a lot...you've missed a lot...

since last you heard from me...this is what's happened...since we last parted...a minor...and i do mean minor...health scare...the unsurprising...yet inevitable...existential crisis...the job shuffle...(again)...the new addition (nephew style)...the new addition (pet style)...the summer escape...more cheerleading...and my growing reading list...let's promise to meet back here...soon...and never let this happen again...