Tagged: Homer

A Little Odyssey Through Time

It seems that the vast majority of film critics, both the professional ones and the peculiar number of amateurs among the public chattering class who felt they just had to insert themselves into this particular discussion, are agreed that Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is an exceptionally good film, falling somewhere within a range from “epic masterpiece” (my combination of the two words...

The Sad Odyssey of Civilization

Morbid curiosity getting the better of me this morning, I made the momentous decision to give almost two minutes of my earthly life to popular movie director Christopher Nolan. I watched the trailer for his latest award-baiting film, The Odyssey. Well, to be honest, I should say that I gave about fifty seconds of my life to Nolan, after which the trailer continued...

Stigmatizing Human Breath

I just read a new headline from The Washington Post that absolutely crystallizes the essence of our hysteria pandemic: “The coronavirus is airborne. Here’s how to know if you’re breathing other people’s breath.” The details of the article, urging the use of carbon dioxide monitors as a proxy gauge for determining whether the air in any given space has traces of human breath...