the groundhog day project

You want to know what's really amazing? I've been waiting for you every day for ten thousand years. I dream of you every night of my life. You've been my constant weapon against total despair, and just knowing you exist has kept me alive... (Ramis, 1992, 12 January, p. 115) That's Phil Connors near the end of the second revision of Groundhog Day . I bring it up today because just this morning, Cracked posted a link on Facebook to an old article from 2011: "7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions that Totally Have Answers." One of those questions: Why Did Bill Murray Get Stuck in a Time Loop? In their answer, they cite the second revision to bring up Stephanie Decastro and to mention that Phil was in the loop for ten thousand years. Now, let us engage our critiquing, nitpicking masks. First of all, Bill Murray was never stuck in any time loop, as far as I know. Phil Connors was. Second of all, looking at that quotation above, I gotta say, I don't think Phi...

I'm infecting people. That is to say, I made a guy watch Groundhog Day last night, and I didn't even mean to. My friend Juan heard me talking about the film and my blog yesterday at the tournament, and as he described it, it was like when you get a song stuck in your head. He said today, you "just put it in my head." Also, yesterday, I got my friend Stephanie to watch the movie for the first time. It wasn't the best of viewing environments, at the ballot table at the tournament, but, hey, at least she's seen Groundhog Day now. And, if you're wondering about the rest of my Woodstock photos, don't worry, I will get back to them tomorrow. Yesterday, I had some issues with the image coding on my iPad, and correcting single bits of code in the Chrome app is annoyingly difficult. Eventually, I saved a draft, got on a desktop computer and fixed in a couple minutes what had taken about half an hour to deal with on the iPad. I will return to Woodstock t...