Categories: "Culture"
Film treatment of The Return of the King
January 4th, 2004I (again) largely agree with Bill's review of the final LotR film. I'd give it a B overall; a good execution, but the departures from the book were at times incomprehensible, especially in as much as they diminish the humanity of some of the major char… more »
Turrell lights
December 7th, 2003No one should miss the James Turrell exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery more »
a pile of rocks
August 25th, 2003
While 5 AM isn't much earlier than I normally get up during the week, it is a few hours before I normally arise on Sundays. But I awoke with a start nonetheless, knowing in an hour I needed to be at the meeting place in Tukwila. So I got dressed and f… more »
Life and Debt (2001)
February 23rd, 2002Life and Debt (2001), Stephanie Black, Director - there are other factors effecting the island economy, and what the film failed to address was even the existence more »
what terrorists want
October 31st, 2001The desire for control of nation states is a reasonable terrorist motivation; power lust has motivated so many criminals to government in the past. more »
discriminating response
September 12th, 2001If the police in our town were to spray bullets into a crowded street in the hope of stopping one criminal who might be there, we would gasp in horror. Let us not then allow our government to do the equivalent on a international scale, by recklessly bombing cities around the world. more »
Hempfest 2000 heavy on toke-lore
August 22nd, 2000[At] a festival such as this, it was no wonder to find people agreeing that the drug war is a complete failure and should be abolished. However, it was also inspiring to see such a large number of people extending their confidence in the benefits of freedom to the other areas of our lives, areas in which government interference causes far more harm than good. more »
