Looking for a provocative, thoughtful read?
Go to Jay Currie daily.
As Jay (and family) are in the throes of a move from Vancouver’s west side to Galiano Island at the moment, he’s not been updating his site recently, but all should be back to normal shortly.
A self-styled ‘urban conservative’ soon to become a ‘rural conservative’, although our respective political positions are “at odds” to one another’s, Jay adds stimulating and refractorial consideration to the issues of the day.
Thus a recommendation from this corner (in the interests of full disclosure, the estimable Mr. Currie was an editor of mine at the now defunct, and woefully missed, Two Chairs magazine).
Monthly Archives: February 2004
American Dreams
American Dreams, NBC’s relatively low-rated but eminently watchable Sunday night series has been picked up for a full 2004 – 2005 season.
There is a God in the heavens, and she is all right.
This is not a dialogue, it is a lecture
One of the great joys of writing on a weblog is the feedback that comes from readers.
Unfortunately, not all feedback arrives offered in quite the positive vain of encouragement one might hope. The question then arises, how does one respond to criticism which one feels is unwarranted, unfair or you just plain don’t give a damn about?
The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg seems to have come up with the answer.
Monster
Richly textured, uncompromising and transformative, Monster, writer/director Patty Jenkins’ award-winning interpretation of the life and death of Aileen Wuornos, dubbed America’s first female serial killer after her arrest for the murder of eight men along the Florida coastal highway in 1982, devastates almost from the first scene, as it presents the pitiless life story of its harridan / whore central character.
One of the must-see films this Oscar season, with an almost assured Best Actress Oscar for the bravura, ferocious central performance by Charlize Theron, Monster demands to be seen.