One of the more interesting sites in my commute to work everyday from the suburbs to downtown Pittsburgh is passing through Wilkinsburg. Like other parts of Pittsburgh, it is a study in contrasts. There are parts of it that are certainly depressed; the store-fronts are rundown or closed. The houses are boarded up and dilapidated. [...]
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While watching the Oscars on Sunday, I was struck by the obvious passion of and ridicule engendered by actors and those in the film industry. They dream all their lives of winning an Oscar and when the moment comes, many get blubbery, fumble with their speeches, take too much time and then get cut off [...] At the end of his brilliant novel, Ender’s Game, the author Orson Scott Card develops the idea of a Speaker for the Dead. “When their loved ones died, a believer would arise beside the grave to be the Speaker for the Dead, and say what the dead person would have said, but with full candor, [...] It appears as though pitbull that attacked Steelers’ linebacker James Harrison’s son will not be put to death. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the new owner is, “is a woman who specializes in rehabilitating pit bulls.” Pitbulls are not easy dogs to own and are too often adopted by folks who just want to look [...] The freedom to change our lives, as we ostensibly have in Amrikan society, is largely an illusion without possessing the courage to change our lives. It is believed that roughly 80% of the people on this planet (if not more) do not like their jobs. But they find a way, some way, somehow, to [...] I still go to dawats, those Bangladeshi dinner parties where the men prattle on about religion, politics or football, the women discuss jewelry, religion, politics or football and the children run around like chickens with their heads cut off… and discuss football. (Hey, we live in Pittsburgh). By this point in my life, I’m often [...] The early critics’ reviews of the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as well as a perusal of Rotten Tomatoes have not been good. The PG gave it 1 1/2 stars. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an aggregate 37%, with the top critics landing it an abysmal 18%. This reminds me of a [...] Senator Arlen Specter’s switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party has been hailed as a victory for the Democrats. I’m inclined to agree but with a caveat. Senator Specter has always been categorized as a moderate Republican though my Republican friends called him a RINO – Republican-In-Name-Only. He was brought in to the [...] I went to see a performance by Dance Alloy Theatre last Friday called Exposed. It was three independent performances designed around the concept of being ‘exposed’. Lord only knows what that meant. I’m not going to describe each of the performances or how I analyzed them because the truth is that I didn’t. Modern dance [...] I’ll go ahead and say it – I’m a Battlestar Galactica fan. Such an admission instantly conjures images of acne-scarred nerds being thrown into a dumpster but that’s ok. Most folks don’t understand the true power of science fiction. It’s not about mysterious histories, fast starships or hot alien women (though BSG has all those). [...] |
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