Superman is still an icon figure, but Man of Steel shows what happens after 80 years of random writers and artists taking their best and worst shots. Man of Steel is mix tape of Superman Greatest Hits with a little bit of everything tossed in for good measure. It wasn’t bad, but it was a little long winded on aspects of Clark Kent’s story that I have to believe anyone with a pulse is already familiar with. I really liked the look of Man of Steel, until he actually put on the cape and became Superman. Man of Steel feels most like a…
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The Time Traveler and Charlie Chaplin
There are few things I love better than people looking at mundane images and deciding that something amazing has been captured. I really liked that whole Face on Mars business and the Woman on Mars photo really does look like a woman. So I have to be impressed with this little bit of video showing what looks like a woman talking on cellphone in 1928-pesky time travelers. On first viewing I didn’t even notice anything odd about her. Even having been told that I was looking at footage from 1928, I am so used to seeing people walking around talking…
Trading Almonds for Fritos
Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted. This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him. At one point he mentions how hard this process was hard for him, because everywhere he went, he found that people wanted to kill him. Ok, maybe kill him is a little bit of an overstatement. He found that everywhere he went, people wanted to feed him,…
The Language of Trust
In The Post-Trust Era no one believes anything anyone says-not at first anyway. The reasons are simple, we are constantly being lied to about how New, Improved, and Updated everything we buy is. You want to believe that you are getting a good deal, you want to trust people, but you know that everyone wants something from you. Stores want you to buy stuff, websites want clicks, restaurants want you to buy their food instead of the food from the place across the street. The Language of Trust teaches you how to win a little bit of trust from your…
Glasses
I’ve gone almost fifty years without glasses. I once had an employee at the DMV ask me if I were wearing contact lenses because she didn’t believe my eyesight was that good. But now time has caught up to me and my eyesight has started to bail on me. I choose a boring set of black frames that were on sale. The regular sight part of the glasses is pretty light, but just enough magnification to shift the world an small uncomfortable amount. The reading part of the bifocals is about what I have been using in the reading glasses…