It is a constant argument, generally between the liberals and the conservatives, as to weather this U.S. Constitution is a living documents, whose meaning is open to interpretation through the filter of changing culture and societal mores, or if it has a fixed and unchanging meaning imparted by the founders. The answer in my opinion is, ‘yes.’ Continue reading
I dont’ care personally about this quarterback’s on field antics as I am not a sports fan, but the video was funny to me.
These are not resolutions in the New Year’s Eve ‘I’m going to promise to utterly change my life, eat right, exercise, and then feel awful when I fail’, but rather SMART goals that I want to achieve in the coming year. Continue reading
Frequent visitors, who don’t avoid the political postings, will no doubt notice that I tend to more often criticize Republicans politicians over Democratic ones. Such visitor might get the impression that I am more favorably inclined towards the liberal arguments and that such criticism is mostly just attacking ‘the other team.’ This is not the case. Continue reading
While there are many things I am looking forward to in 2012, there are also sadly many things I would love to do or take part in that I know I will have to give a miss this year.
So, now let’s look at the second of 2012 and see what sort of thing your humble host and narrator might be interested in.
So, the other day I was thinking about plans in the offing and I realized there seemed to be a lot of things I was looking forward to in 2012. So here are a few lines each about the things I am happily awaiting in this coming year.
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Awoke fine at 6 am, but by 7:30 photophobia and a slight headache had developed A single dose of Treximet resolved all issues.
The only Disney cell animated movie in my library is Aladdin. (I used to have The Lion King, but that was back in my pre-DVD laserdisc days and the laser-disc player has long since expired and the discs discarded.)
I saw this film on its theatrical release back in 1992and thoroughly enjoyed it. While it has all the usual hallmarks of a safe family film from Disney, it plays well for both adult and younger audiences. There was a controversy upon the film’s release. In the theatrical release the opening songs has the lyric “Where they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face” and after the controversy the home video version altered the lyrics with a similar but somewhat distinctly different voice singing “Where it’s flat and immense and the heat is intense.” I have the first issue of the CD soundtrack with the original lyric, but later ones were altered to match the home video release.
The story, of course, is a bastardized version of the tale of Aladdin from 1001 Arabic Nights. In the movie Aladdin is a street orphan in a fictional Arabic city, surviving day-to-day by stealing bread and avoiding the city guard. His only companion is a mischievous monkey name Abu. Aladdin life is turned upside down by the appearance of Princess Jasmine in market place after running away from home to avoid the prospect of an arraigned marriage.
Events are further complicated by Jafar, the sultan trusted Vizier, who needs Aladdin to steal a magic lamp from a trapped cave. Jafar, sporting a traditional goatee of evil, with visions of a palace coup dancing in his head is, naturally, plotting against the Sultan. (In at least one of the tales from 1001 Arabic Nights I remember Jafar being the most reasonable character. As the Sultan kept drifting towards disaster and poorly thought-out plans, it was Jafar who tried to remind the sovereign of his word and commitments.) Jafar seeks the magic lamp that would release a wishing granting Genie, playing with manic vocal energy by Robin Williams.
Aladdin is a musical and its songs are a through joy. I thank this film for introducing me to the absolutely stunning voice of Lea Solonga, I have an album of hers and her voice is never unwelcome.
Certainly for anyone with children, or whose childhood has not died away within their soul, this is an enjoyable bit of movie making.
01/8/12 after going to bed early feeling a bit odd I awoke with a low-level migraine. (Pain, photophobia). Took 1 Treximet, symptoms relieved but then suffered minor vertigo.