‘Precious’ Both More and Less Than You Expect
Precious is so much more than the depression fest you expect. It provides a shocking and enlightening view of life in the inner city, where faith in the power of literacy and creativity can wring some small bit of hope from the crude morass of poverty and abuse.
Connections: The Blindness of Cultural Arrogance
What do these Amazon natives have to do with the length of newspaper articles and white people’s Messiah complex? Connections is my attempt to make sense of some of the seemingly disparate things I learn in a given day of Web surfing.
Random Things
Catchphrases that have jumped the shark (hasn’t ‘jumping the shark’ become a bit tired as well?), a holiday commercial that worked for me, leftie whining about commercials, how do you pronounce ‘niche’? And are Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Stiles the same person?
