Ready To Friday: Slow Ride Edition

Wait. What? Is that really a thing?

You Better Be Ready To Friday: Hefty Edition

If you weren't ready to Friday last week - I know why that was, and I know who is to blame.

As the story goes, if you're going to post something online, you better double check yourself. I didn't do that last Friday. I thought I did, but instead of going online, in my haste, the catalogue of information was lost to the abyss. By my own standards, I always work with a text file copy, but it wasn't until the weekend was over until I was alerted to the absence of Readiness.

Mea culpa.

Literacy declined. Chaos reigned in the streets. An entire weekend went to waste. In light of what happened, I will hold myself to a higher penalty for failure. Though most of you have likely already lost faith in the process, I assure you quality will come before all else.

Now, if you'll prepare yourselves.

A Learning Experience - 9.7.2010

Respect age, intelligence, kindness, style – in that order, at all times.

Do not respect money, power, fame, ripped jeans – if nothing else is available.

Nostalgia gives off a distinct impression. Done correctly, it's engaging and exciting. Done incorrectly, it's deeply offensive.

No matter how hard you try, the hat isn't coming back in style (doesn't mean you can't wear one though).

But do take your hat off indoors, that's just ridiculous.

Ready To Friday: Oh Rally Edition

It was all about art school this week.

Which for you, translates into brevity.

Scott Pilgrim & Rob Gordon vs. The World

Maybe I'm getting too old, or maybe my proclivities have aged faster than my body has.  There should probably be some reasonable explanation for why I can't manage to relate to any of the trendy characters in the film Scott Pilgrim vs The World (based off of a comic by Brian O'Malley). The whole movie operates under the conceit that the main character, Scott Pilgrim, contextualizes his world through the filter of video game principles and logic. I like video games. I don't like Scott. At least, that's the impression that I have after seeing the movie for a second time. I don't really hate him, though. The character isn't nearly as repellent to me on screen as he was in the comic. This might have been a reaction to how much better the narrative worked as a film as opposed to its meandering, sloppy origins. But I decided on a different explanation that I think covers both my distaste regarding Pilgrim himself, and how the cast of snarky, tragically-hip characters couldn't draw in this one out-of-touch audience member, among its many young fans.