the groundhog day project

Near the bottom of the end credits for Life as a House , there is this: This film is dedicated to RAMONA EVELYN ANDRUS "Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns..." --William Wordsworth After a Google search, I cannot tell you who Ramona Evelyn Andrus is. Clearly, she's related to Mark Andrus, who wrote the film, but I can't find anything more specific. The references that come up just come back to this dedication. His mother maybe? As for the Wordsworth, that's line 97 of "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798," more commonly known as simply "Tintern Abbey." It's an example of what's called loco-topographical poetry. Some other notable examples are John Denham's "Cooper's Hill," Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest," John Dyer's "Grongar Hill" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Sonnet V. To the River Otter....

Some random thoughts about Phil Connors: Maybe he spoke French already and he just had to get over his impulse to laugh in that restaurant scene. Maybe he already knew how to ice sculpt, he was just such a misanthrope he had never bothered to share his talent with anyone. Maybe his father really was a piano mover... not that that necessarily made Phil a great piano player. And maybe his "six months" of card throwing didn't even happen within the time loop but when he was a teenager and had mono. Just the other day... Oh man, how long ago was it that I rambled on about the use of that phrase, " the other day in TV shows? I think that was early on in this blog, back when I was still wide-eyed and innocent. But I digress. Just the other day, 24 April to be precise, Charles Murray at Fox News was describing some scenes from Groundhog Day that he says "illustrat[e] the unplanned and bumpy trajectory that Phil's thirty or forty years [referencing Rami...