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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Make fun of yourself 
| | So that thing over there in the left column (also above) is a pointer to a Christmas gift recommended by my friend Bernie DeKoven, aka Major Fun, of Deep Fun fame. |
| | The gift is Thepollgame, which is tops among the Major's Five Funnest Family Games. What I like about Thepollgame is that, in spite of its name, it has nothing to do with politics, which is a Good Thing these days. In fact, his award-winning games are almost the opposite of politics. Here's how he explains: |
| | With the holiday season coming up, most of us are in for extended visits with the family. Sometimes painfully extended. The right game can make all the difference. Most games, even the ³good² ones, tend to divide people more than they get them together. Especially the kinds of games that people can take too seriously, where winning becomes too important, and playing is about overpowering or fooling each other. The games I chose as Best Laugh Out Loud Games are games of ŚLoving Fun:¹ Fun that is like a hug, that makes people feel more together, in every way." |
| | It's interesting to me that there are umpty-zillion blogs about war, tech and a pile of other issues. But darn few, really, about what we've wanted most since we were kids, which is Fun. I think we need to correct that. |
Taking the law into their own blawgs
| | Back in August, The Curmudgeonly Clerk said about the former, Although I cannot be certain, this appears to be a first: a weblog directly associated with a law firm that does not have any sort of impersonal institutional voice. |
| | Nor does "Beds" Bedsworth, whose latest notes include this: |
| | I grew up in a part of L. A. patrolled by the Lennox Sheriff¹s Substation, which is the Ice Station Zebra of southern California law enforcement. I could identify an unmarked car before I could differentiate between Mickey Mouse and Mighty Mouse. If unmarked cars had sported spots on the door and handcuffs in plain sight, I would have gleefully turned to a life of crime. |
| | I believe neither blawg is yet on Denise Howell's extensive (and perhaps now canonical) list. (Correction: I've just been told by Craig Williams that both blogs have been there for a long time. Must've just missed 'em.) Craig's favorite Beds quote: |
| | The police had probable cause to pull over an ax-wielding bicyclist at 3:00 a.m. |
Angels in Television
| | It's still yesterday, my time. (West Coast. The blog is East Coast.) I'm watching Angels in America on HBO. What a stunning, amazing piece of work. I saw both parts in the theater, but I don't recall being as moved as I am by this production, even though I remember thinking at the time that Tony Kushner might be the our closest equivalent (even admitting the impossibility of that distinction) to Shakespeare. |
| | Here's a story about it. In it Al Pacino, who plays Roy Cohn, says this: |
| | Once in a while you find a role that is actor-proof. It's just there to be played. It's like a great piece of music. If you feel you have the instrument for it, the right temperament to hit some of those notes, it's just there for you to play. |
| | Ah, but what musicians. Except for Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, who are all perfect, I don't recognize the other actors. They're perfect too. Kudos to Mike Nichols, who directed, to Tony Kushner, and to everyone else involved. I had forgotten how good TV can be. If I ever knew. |
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