the groundhog day project

I was... am tempted to keep today's entry short, to say something simple and cheesy about love. I told my daughter Saer this and she took my keyboard and wrote the following: Happy Valentines Day to my beautiful readers! I can't find the words to properly express how much I love you all for the support you show by reading this blog. But I guess that's what Valentine's Day is all about--love. And the world needs more of it. I'd hug all my readers if it were possible but it is not, and it's sad so *cyber hugs* LOVE. I was going to go with something shorter. Like love is love . Whether or not you want to believe that Alvie and Boots are gay , there is definitely love between them, and they definitely play well at being domestic, at being parents. And, if you watch this movie and don't feel some empathy and love for both of them and for Savannah, you have no heart. Watching this as a kid--and remember that when this movie came out I was a year younger than ...

So, for future readers, the Winter Olympics are going on this week and next. Among the competitors is Adam Rippon, a male figure skater from the US who is openly gay. On a post (which I cannot find the specific one I saw yesterday) on Facebook by some conservative page I follow, maybe Fox News, maybe the page that used to be called People Against Obama's Liberal Adgenda [sic], about Rippon, some immediate (and expected) comments were all about how his sexuality is irrelevant, just do your sport and leave politics out of it... Which 1) of course they don't care when it's not about them, or doesn't agree with them. Like they--and I will lump them all together under one "they" for the moment, because fuck them--tell celebrities not to talk about politics, just do their acting job, dance like the trained monkeys they are and shut up about anything else, because actors, as we all know, are not people, are not voters with the same rights as everyone else, and of cou...

I don't think that I knew that Bridgette Andersen died from a drug overdose back in 1997. Back when I was a kid, her Savannah Driscoll was basically an absolute innocent. And, while I know that Savannah Smiles is a deliberate mix of childish innocence and tragic circumstance, I remember the film as quite innocent even in its worst moments...           We start with a prison break, of course. Would be totally serious but there's just enough silliness with the camouflage car and the branches sticking out of it, and it being amphibious. Plus, Alvie (Mark Miller, who also wrote the screenplay) is getting "paroled on Friday" but Boots (Donovan Scott) breaks him out anyway. Boots tries to steal a chicken, and there's an old lady who shoots at the two of them with a shotgun with very little prompting. And then we meet Savannah (Andersen), sitting alone on the stairs as her parents host a dinner party. Savannah's father Richard (Chris Robinson) is run...