A friend of mine in Germany introduced me to this great short today. (No worries if you are as sadly singular-lingual as I; the minimal words in the actual short are in English.)
The beginning made me think of James Thurber’s “The Great Quillow,” then it gets darker (and brilliant).
http://www.ehrensenf.de/node/7462/
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*no sex involved
Archive for the ‘Sociology’ Category
23 Oct
The best-spent consecutive 8 minutes and 33 seconds of my day so far.*
9 Oct
Thoughts On The Week
If giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is to help him accomplish something worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, would giving him a Heisman make him a better football player?
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Though Death Cab for Cutie has shattered my confidence in – well, humanity in general – by creating a song exclusively for Twilight, this here video did make [...]
19 Sep
Between books and people, I prefer not the latter
My nano-town has a library sale every year. Despite the prefix, the town’s library is quite decent, especially with the inter-library loan system, and the book sale has always yielded happy things for me and mine.
This year’s stock was nowhere near as substantial as past years. Last year there were sagging bookshelves around the walls, [...]
9 Sep
Dirty Capitalist Swine, Of Which I Am
After I talk to you, I usually go analyze what I said. Don’t worry, unless I actually really like and/or admire you, I don’t lose sleep over it.
Lately my analyzations have uncovered a lot of money talk. Or rather, lack-of-money talk.
Money money MON-ey.
I feel I should tone it down, but I know why it’s coming. Because [...]
28 Aug
Qu’avez-vous dit ?
Foreign movies.
Seriously, why do other countries even bother? Hollywood can produce anything worth watching, with better, smarter, better-looking actors. English is the only important language anyways. Have you ever seen a foreign rip-off of an American movie? Why did we need a movie about some samurai when we can just make The Magnificent Seven? And it’s three [...]
24 Aug
Spoiler Alert: The following is politically incorrect.
I have come to appreciate more and more the variety of experiences I had while growing up. More than many I got to experience the Melting Pot effect.
Then I came to Wisconsin. Another different culture and new experiences, but unlike most of the rest of my surroundings, the things to learn and experience ran out [...]
22 Aug
Tour de US
My friend Jason is a US citizen, but grew up most of his life in Germany. Two weeks ago Achi,* one of his best-friends-since-childhood whom I met when I was in Germany a few years ago, came over to the US for three weeks. Two of those weeks he is spending in Wisconsin and one of which he spent [...]
13 Aug
It amuses me (that) they ryhme with ‘guppie’
The premise of yuppies (and scuppies) bother me not so much as their manifestations of shallow taste.
By which I mean, their proclivities for participating in indie and culturally significant (cultificant) activities simply because they are such. And then laughing at all the wrong times.
I recently saw (500) Days of Summer. Which, incidentally, was brilliant. But [...]
21 May
Pardon My Tardiness, I Was A Bit LOST
Here’s what it all comes down to.
Jack is fighting to erase his mistakes, to get a new start (in which hopefully he would not cry every three-and-a-half minutes), and to bring back a second chance
Sawyer is fighting to keep the good he’s done, the women he found, the restitution he made, the closure he had [...]
20 May
True Equality?
As I’ve pointed out before, I have overcome my mother’s best intentions/breeding, as well as the attempted brainwashing of a certain subculture which has been rather prevalent through my formative years, and have quite a few close platonic friendships with guys.
We go out in groups and alone together. We go to movies, go shopping, play [...]
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