Month: February 2004

I don’t think I would have done this if I’d known how time-consuming it would be, but the short film reviews in the sidebar can now be browsed alphabetically and by category, as well as chronologically (by which I mean the order in which I watched them). There weren’t quite enough films or interest to warrant a search function, and I stopped short of categorizing them by ranking, but I’m relatively pleased with how it turned out.

Of course, nobody ever wants to talk about the films, but that’s okay.

For those of you who might be interested in this sort of thing, I’ve uploaded the first four issues of the Penn State Monty Python Society newsletter. These issues excerpt extensively from Dedicated Idiocy, Alyce Wilson’s terrific personal history of the Society, and, as always, they feature lots of silly things like fake horoscopes, fake reader polls, naughty words, and reviews of toys, books, and fresh fruit*. Check them out, if you’re so inclined. I think they’re funny issues, but I’m probably a little biased.

*kumquat: funny word, evil fruit

I haven’t been watching a lot of movies lately, but the few I have seen are now briefly reviewed in the sidebar. I’ve been spending most of my free time writing and reading. (Okay, and just a little bit of television.)

I notice I didn’t have much, if anything, to really say about “Aguirre: The Wrath of God”. It’s a good movie, though. I was particularly taken with a line of dialogue from the character Brother Gaspar de Carvajal:

“You know, my child, for the good of Our Lord, the church was always on the side of the strong.”

A far cry from “the meek shall inherit the earth”, but sadly also probably a whole lot closer to the truth.