Today I found myself thinking of a quote from a movie that has a lot of personal resonance lately.
“Life is a shit storm. And when it’s raining shit, the best umbrella you have is art.”
— Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) in Tune in Tomorrow
Yesterday I read about something that really warmed my heart. The TV show Firefly was cancelled just about four years ago. Since then, a very successful DVD release, a movie, and various related books, CDs and comic books have kept it alive in the minds of the fans. In addition, the show’s creator, Joss Whedon, and a number of actors and other associates have stayed in touch with the...
Wow, I really feel like an anthro major right now. I’m currently listening to “The Battlestar Roundtable“, a podcast available on the Battlestar Galactica web site, and sitting back amazed and delighted that such a window on the personalities and process of artistic creation has been opened to me. The voices of Jamie Bamber (Apollo), James Callis (Baltar), Tahmoh Penikett...