Quote of the Week

Perhaps the biggest reason why intellectuals excoriated entertainment was that they understood all too well their own precariousness in a world dominated by it. For whatever the overt content of any particular work, entertainment as a whole promulgated an unmistakable theme, one that took dead aim at the intellectuals’ most cherished values. That theme was the triumph of the senses over the mind, of emotion over reason, of chaos over order, or the id over the superego, of Dionysian abandon of Apollonian harmony. Entertainment was Plato’s worst nightmare. It deposed the rational and enthroned the sensational and in so doing deposed the intellectual minority and enthroned the unrefined majority.
--Neal Gabler, Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Mi Hermana!

It is my late sister's birthday today. I hope she's enjoying herself, wherever she is.

End of an Era -- Or a New Beginning?

I have been debating whether or not to end this blog after the end of this month since I am not especially fond of the incoming system and I won't have any choice about using it after the first of September.

On one hand, I have a lot of fond memories of this site. On the other, it's hard for me to pretend that I have the same enthusiasm for blogging that I had back in 2005. While I've always wanted to be a writer, I seem to be more and more obsessed these days with writing my own stories as opposed to analyzing someone else's -- which means if this blog survives, I will probably concentrate more on short stories than on movie and TV reviews.

Still it was a nice time while it lasted and I feel silly trying to stay the same when it has become increasingly obvious that I am not the same person I was back in 2005. I thank all my readers for your loyalty and I'm sorry I have not been more prolific.

If I do decide to start posting elsewhere, I will undoubtedly post a link to my new location. Until then, I wish you all the best.