WISDOM
OF THE SAGES
EPISODE I: WINTER 2019
EPISODE I: WINTER 2019
Hello
People of the World;
Here
we are in the new year and as I write this, in the middle of a “polar vortex”.
It got to -18 degrees below yesterday and it is supposed to warm up to 20
above. I hope you are all keeping warm out there. Nothing snide to say about
the weather this month, as you can see, it can still kick our ass on occasion.
All right, let’s get going:
1:[ It struck me the other day why there is so
much air in a potato chip bag – you know how we all endlessly fucking complain
that we are being cheated because the amounts of air whenever we open a bag of
chip to stuff into our big, stupid face.
First,
the amount of chips in a bag is measure by WEIGHT not size. Secondly – I think
I remember seeing this on an episode of “How It’s Made” – they put air in it to
cushion the chips during shipping. Have you ever ridden in the trailer of a
semi-truck? Yeah, the air in the bags makes sure that you have a lot of
unbroken chips to stuff our big, stupid faces with when we open them.
Sure,
there are some broken chips in there when we do open them – which does nothing
to prevent us from still stuffing them into our big, stupid face by the way –
but it would be a bag of crumbs by the time the bag of chips gets to the store
shelves. That is why there is so much air inside a bag of chips….
2:[ I have a slew of movie to review. I have
fallen behind in my Ticket Stub photos and review. Here is a list of all the
films I saw since listing the review of the new season of “Doctor Who” in
November:
“Creed
II”
Bohemian
Rhapsody”
“Widows”
“Mary
Queen of Scots”
“Wings
of Desire”
Then,
this month, I had to catch up on some I missed:
“Spider-man:
Into the Spider-verse”
“If
Beale Street Could Talk”
“Glass”
“Citizen
Kane”
I
will be posting new images and review as soon as possible…
3:[ Next month, I will be returning to the
University of Wisconsin Parkside to teach the “Native Americans in Media”
course. I have been doing this off and on for many years. They have a cyclical
way of determining when the course returns – every two years. The last time I
taught this course was 2017. Before that was 2014 during the fall semester. It
shifted to the spring semester in 2017, which is why looks like there was a
three-year gap.
I
do enjoy teaching the course. It honed my philosophy of Native media and art
and helps me organize my thoughts about them.
4:[ So, I have been getting caught up on books
these past few months. I forget what a joy it is to read. I bought some James
Baldwin for the first time, since seeing “If Beale Street Could Talk.” I read a
galley print of “African Samurai” about Yasuke, an African Samurai who served
Oda Nobunaga. So, I am always trying to read things from a perspective not my
own, if only to build my lacking empathy.
5:[ WE have been caught up in the freeze his past
week here in the Midwest. The further north you are, the colder it is. But of
course, Chicago has to try to make itself the center of everything. It was -26
in Minneapolis according to my Char, but here we are in the Windy City
comparing our fricking temps to Mars. Seriously? Mars? Come on. We’re not
special, it’s fucking cold everywhere dudes.
6:[ I will be posting my annual BEST OF 2018 very
soon. I know but I had to also catch up on some movies I missed out on. Stay tuned
for that.
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That
is it for this month.
My
apologies for not posting completed writings last year. As you can see it hs
extended to this year as well. With the move and all the jobs I rarely have
time to sit down and plot out any of the month’s editions. But I will get to
finishing them once I have a consistent time-off schedule. I know you all
waited with baited breath to read my ramblings on the news of the day. Also, worry
not, I will be re-posting for August, September, October, and November, once I
have those writings completed.
As
always, I invite you to comment, correct, or contradict anything I write here.
I am open to a critical debate. Thanks for taking the time to check out what I
write here and I will see you in a month.
Happy
New Year. Again.
Until
next time, remember “I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to
control everything really are.”
2019
Ernest M Whiteman III
