arts and entertainment

If my calculus is somewhat right April 1st and/or a couple of days before or after should be known as fun as well as fail/success day depending on how you see the period.  For in only 9 months many couples will be visited by a Stork and he won’t be carrying pickles maybe Huggies instead. My conclusion is drawn by discovering that on Facebook there are more birthday’s on today’s date then almost any other day of the year. Even taking into count that some come earlier and some later it appears that this date is the winner. Therefore when April 1st comes along have some fun but be ready if that fun produces consequences that last for many, many years later.

Has Hollywood gone up in smoke it appears that it finally has.  You can’t be surprised with their “big films” becoming “big flops” you have to wonder what the top executives in Hollywood have been smoking lately? They are making many films that only in a drugged up a state would appeal to be enticing with predictable characters and themes that are as bland as sitting on the couch, eating Doritos and smoking some Green stuff.  Hollywood needs to kick the habit and come up with original themes and characters that will get you high on life not the stuff you smoke.

If you are cruel to a robot have you sinned and/or could this cruelty stay in the robotic world or move to your real world?  Westworld the show explores the topic on the surface and as robots take on more human aspects in this world (ex voice, look, attitude) will or should we react differently to them? We need an outlet to get out of our dark side(s) but sometimes if we lean to far in that outlet it could give us energy to act out in the real world.

Many of us escape into a sleazy, cruel world as we entertain ourselves with books and movies that deal with difficult people and subjects but we know that we are just absorbing the information and not actually participating in it. Some violent/sexual games give us a chance to participate in the action and now with 3D it appears more real the ever. Where does the line cross from just playing to causing harm with ourselves and maybe others? We need to explore this morale dilemma as our world moves more to the West at a quicker pace then ever. I personally hope I can stay in the White Hat but know the journey to the other side might take me to far so maybe I won’t go for the ride.

RIP Debbie Reynolds who’s passing a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher shows sometimes a heart won’t move on.  Debbie Reynolds an extraordinary talent in her day got to see those skills passed on to her daughter on the big screen under bright lights and for that she must felt she lived two lives instead of just one.  It is a strange irony that for those of my generation we knew her daughter Carrie better but for those of the earlier generation they knew Debbie.  There passing leaves two generations in sorrow just before the New Year is about to begin.

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