Tears in Rain
Technology can be a useful tool to connect people. It can not be a substitute for connection.
Does Chatbot Cry?
All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die. Rutger Hauer as Batty in Bladerunner The monologue including that line was ad-libbed by Rutger Hauer in the film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. A lot of the novel's…
Reality Bites: Child Abuse
Any regard for the wellbeing of hypothetical children begins and ends with denying bodily autonomy. Consistently.
Internet Killed the Movie Star
“A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.” film scholar Richard Schickel Recently people like Quintin Tarantino have bemoaned the death of the "movie star" just as others, some of them actors, agree with the overall sentiment but approach it less mournfully. Many attribute it to…
Truth in Fiction: Cutting Onions
Man, what a weird week. As I said on social media, I'm torn between the editing I need to do, and the writing I want to do about recent events and last year's Last Night in SoHo, which I finally got around to watching late last night. It's a thought-provoking…
The Cat’s Meow 2022
I decided to make a wrap up of everything I enjoyed in the arts an annual tradition. Adding gaming with ArenaNet's stunning debut of the End of Dragons Cantha expansion for Guild Wars 2. It was everything I hoped for and more: beautiful artwork and music, great voice acting and…
Truth in Fiction: The Sandman
I'm going to do something today I haven't really done in my blog despite it being a passion of mine, and examine an episode of television. In this case it's the disturbing "24/7" episode of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Spoilers and dark subject matter ahead. John is a sorcerer of…
Reality Bites: Reframing Buffy
"My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest". Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders in Dollhouse When I was making the awkward and painful transition into adulthood, worsened by unidentified ADHD, two of the biggest things in pop culture were Britney Spears and Buffy the Vampire…