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Lucy in the Sky (2019)
In Lucy in the Sky, Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy’s world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels.
Directed by: Noah Hawley
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Ellen Burstyn, Colman Domingo, Nick Offerman
Release date: October 4, 2019
Tues-DIY with The Ladies of the Offerman Woodshop!
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Calvino and lightness
Italo Calvino has a wonderful essay, “Lightness,” in which he honors lightness as an aesthetic choice and a difficulty, rather than as something to be easily dismissed. You cannot, after all, get something airborne on a mere whim…
A suspicion that lightness is not deeply serious (but instead whimsical) pervades aesthetic discourse. But what if lightness is a philosophical choice to temper reality with strangeness, to temper the intellect with emotion, and to temper emotion with humor? Lightness is then a philosophical victory over heaviness.
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Score Threadless Design: Together Like Bacon and Eggs
Threadless has approved my new design for scoring! Yay!
It’s for their Odd Couple challenge, so I chose Ron Swanson, from NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and Paul Bunyan. I figured they would be a match made in heaven. Both with their passionate love of breakfast food, and their fondness for woodworking. Not to mention their distinctive and well kept facial hair.
I thought it was a fitting contrast between new and old story telling. They’re both the standards of manliness from different eras.
Who knows, Paul Bunyan may have loved a woman named Tammy.
Only a few days left!
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First Impressions: Good Omens on Amazon Prime
In these current dark and tumultuous times it can often seem like we’re rushing faster towards an impending apocalyptic like end. But fear not, the world continues to turn and we can rest assured that in the meantime watching Amazon Prime’s new series Good Omens will alleviate some of that tension. The show is based on the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett authored 1990 novel of the same name.…
