Everyone should go out and watch Children of Men right now. Really, I’m serious. Amazing and humbling because it is only a few more steps down the path of our reality.
Ewww, I am so glad I wasn’t anywhere nearby when this happened.
I just finished reading Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (it’s for a book club people, I didn’t actually choose the book myself) and wasn’t so impressed. The author followed a family in the Bronx for about 10 years, and the level of detail she provides is phenomenal. But that same level of detail can weigh a 400-page book down substantially. I feel the revelations you come away with need only a hundred pages to express themselves. And don’t get me started with the fact that she doesn’t even once address her role in the lives of the individuals she follows over the course of 10 years — to ignore that is to ignore a significant element of the story.
Also, on this cold holiday weekend, I watched A Scanner Darkly on DVD while I nursed my sniffles and sore throat. The story is fantastic, to say nothing of the incredible animation that took 18 months to complete, even after they finished filming the movie! It makes me want to read the actual novel by Philip K. Dick.
Oh, and if you haven’t heard yet, New York City now has its own brand of condom. I am absolutely giddy from the idea of the government associating itself with the use of a product that prevents HIV, STIs and pregnancy! Novel idea, isn’t it? Make sure to check out the website here.
I read that LeBlanc book a few years ago, and really enjoyed it. (I got my bachelor’s in sociology, so I’m interested in those kind of studies.) I still read books like that even though I’m no longer in college. :)
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I read that LeBlanc book a few years ago, and really enjoyed it. (I got my bachelor’s in sociology, so I’m interested in those kind of studies.) I still read books like that even though I’m no longer in college. :)