So, I’m trying something different with comments now. I had totally forgotten about changing code (d’oh!), so now I’m going to play around with different comment features. It may be a spam nightmare, but at least people will be able to comment without registering themselves.
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The other day I mentioned the illegal dumping that people are fond of doing in the parking lot here. Well, it happens all over the city, as Helder Mira shows us. While you’re over at his site, check out the other photos he’s taken.
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Because I’m a late bloomer, I saw Persepolis for the first time only yesterday. In fact, it’s been the only film I’ve felt compelled to see in the theater in months. I’ve read pieces of the graphic novel while tutoring students who have had it assigned to them, and had been wondering how they would make a film out of it. To me, it worked: subtitles, in French, punk and metal music, mostly black & white…I loved it. For one, the French was a dialect that was slow enough for me to actually understand some of. I’ve tried understanding other French films, like Amelie, and the pace is too quick. Of course, with subtitles it doesn’t really matter, but I’d like to believe my semesters of learning French were not an entire waste. Anyway, they did a great job of coming the very serious issues (war, revolution, oppression of women) with humor. This is playing at Real Art Ways until Wednesday.