Brevity...

Only a few weeks into blogging and already I have complaints on the voluminous quality of my blog entries. I sincerely apologize - it is a challenge to convey all this critical missing information in an appropriately concise manner. In an effort to address this problem, this blog entry will be light.

Interesting tidbits to share:

• Somewhere in the world there is a murder mystery novel set at a Renaissance Faire. Cracks me up. "Hear ye, hear ye, mi lords and ladies, pray attend. To the individual who left the rotting corpse at the tourney grounds, please move it so the jousting may commence!"


• They're making a new Star Trek movie and Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) will be playing Scotty. "Och, captain, she's ready to blow!"


• Brendan Fraser is coming out with not one, but two corny "blockbuster" action films this summer: Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor - all to be followed by GI Joe next summer. It seems that Brendan has embraced his role in the universe as the plastic all-purpose action figure well, is making money hand over fist and probably only occasionally haunted by his occasional job as a real actor (see Gods and Monsters or The Quiet American).


• A fond farewell to George Carlin - a brilliant comedian and sharp satirist. Perhaps his seminal work:

• And I'll close with a quote from "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver, because it shows that I actually have a soft side: