Category: social critique
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You can’t be a critic and a friend
What a lonely life a critic must lead! Especially in the circles that most interest him or her. For how could one remain unbiased or completely forthright if you had to critique a friend’s production? I tend to have strong opinions about things – especially all things related to performing arts or film. I find…
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If you can’t read the news without spreading rumors, then …
It gets tiring. Hearing complete falsehoods from well-meaning people who happened to have read it on the Internet. We know the Internet is awash with reliable sources. I live in Malaysia. As you can imagine, the gossip mill has been cranking out hits at a dizzying rate since the strange disappearance of Malaysian flight 370.…
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Creator or Consumer?
Tina’s Book Review recently published a guest post from me entitled “A Creator or a Consumer” – She also did a nice spotlight of The Recluse Storyteller. Please click on the link to read the original post on her website. Below, I’ll re-blog my guest post as well. Tina’s Book Review Spotlight & Guest Post…
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The Vain, Slim Thread of Humanity We Call Celebrity
Oh, celebrity! The tortured souls they must be. I happened to see some pictures from Miley Cyrus’ MTV performance (No, I didn’t watch the show), and my immediate thoughts were, “What kind of freakish person is this?” This is what America celebrates? Yes, but not exactly. Celebrity comes from the Latin root cele- meaning ‘honor’. Honor is…
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El Cid: A Timely Hollywood Message for This Day and Age – Part I
Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in a three-hour epic against the breathtaking backdrops of the Spanish countryside. El Cid (1961) is one of Hollywood’s great epics which I finally just watched. (Here’s the IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054847/) It’s highly entertaining and intriguing. I highly recommend it. I’m not going to go into the detailed plot and pick…
Author Mark W Sasse 