Well, first things first. I took a bunch of people off of my "Friends" list, and if this includes you, then please don't take it too personally. I just figured that, if we don't interact at all, there's really no point for our respective names to be showing up in our pages.
That having been said...
Sometime tomorrow I'll find out if I can go to Greece for Christmas. Personally, it would be very special for me, seeing as how I'm getting ready to deploy again, but mostly I think it would be nice for my family there to see me for more than a month in a year for once.
Thanksgiving was OK, but not too terribly exciting. I did get to relax though, which was good. On the bad side, I got to see Oliver Stone's "Alexander". Twenty-four years of waiting for a movie to come out aside, I can't emphasize how disappointed I was by this flick. The one thing that struck me about this movie was how much time was taken away from showing historic events (his journey to the temple of Amon-Ra, his coronation as Pharaoh, the daring night-time climbing of a cliff to assault a citadel with suicidally low numbers) in the name of throwing even more unnecessary melodrama. Aristotle got less screen time than a eunuch butler who doesn't even speak a line in the entire movie; Diogenes and the Gordian knot get no screen time whatsoever; and Alexander's darker side (the massacres of Gaza and Thebes, for example) is cast aside in favor of a few minutes of drunken debauchery.
The sad thing is that, if the audience in my movie theatre was any indication, so many movie watchers will focus on how "gay" or "bi" the movie was, as opposed to how badly it managed to depict its subject matter's life.
Sigh.
If any of you have read a particularly good tome on Doric Greek culture/society, please share the author's name or the title. It would cut down on time spent researching a decent read. I have to update my travel library before early January, and I don't feel like going to Iraq without some brain food.
P.S.: I was just reminded of this little tidbit, so I decided to share it here.
I got to entertain (some might say, babysit) a very good friend's five year old--a.k.a. my favorite "nephew" in the world--this past Sunday. He's a cute kid and I love him like family, so of course I was dastardly enough to try to use him for all he was worth by taking him with on my holiday shopping spree.
What can I say? He's a great conversation piece.
Of course, it backfired. Almost everytime a girl fulfilled the criteria of
1) being near him and
2) looking at us with that "aaw, cute" look
he was sure to either let her know that he was "not really lost" or exclaim rather loudly that he'd like to know where his mommy was.
Hours later I came to find out that, aside from being quite bright for his young age, little Aedan shares his father's sense of humor where setting his friends up is concerned.
That having been said...
Sometime tomorrow I'll find out if I can go to Greece for Christmas. Personally, it would be very special for me, seeing as how I'm getting ready to deploy again, but mostly I think it would be nice for my family there to see me for more than a month in a year for once.
Thanksgiving was OK, but not too terribly exciting. I did get to relax though, which was good. On the bad side, I got to see Oliver Stone's "Alexander". Twenty-four years of waiting for a movie to come out aside, I can't emphasize how disappointed I was by this flick. The one thing that struck me about this movie was how much time was taken away from showing historic events (his journey to the temple of Amon-Ra, his coronation as Pharaoh, the daring night-time climbing of a cliff to assault a citadel with suicidally low numbers) in the name of throwing even more unnecessary melodrama. Aristotle got less screen time than a eunuch butler who doesn't even speak a line in the entire movie; Diogenes and the Gordian knot get no screen time whatsoever; and Alexander's darker side (the massacres of Gaza and Thebes, for example) is cast aside in favor of a few minutes of drunken debauchery.
The sad thing is that, if the audience in my movie theatre was any indication, so many movie watchers will focus on how "gay" or "bi" the movie was, as opposed to how badly it managed to depict its subject matter's life.
Sigh.
If any of you have read a particularly good tome on Doric Greek culture/society, please share the author's name or the title. It would cut down on time spent researching a decent read. I have to update my travel library before early January, and I don't feel like going to Iraq without some brain food.
P.S.: I was just reminded of this little tidbit, so I decided to share it here.
I got to entertain (some might say, babysit) a very good friend's five year old--a.k.a. my favorite "nephew" in the world--this past Sunday. He's a cute kid and I love him like family, so of course I was dastardly enough to try to use him for all he was worth by taking him with on my holiday shopping spree.
What can I say? He's a great conversation piece.
Of course, it backfired. Almost everytime a girl fulfilled the criteria of
1) being near him and
2) looking at us with that "aaw, cute" look
he was sure to either let her know that he was "not really lost" or exclaim rather loudly that he'd like to know where his mommy was.
Hours later I came to find out that, aside from being quite bright for his young age, little Aedan shares his father's sense of humor where setting his friends up is concerned.
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