September 2018 – A Clever Puppy Who Yips Loudly In Restaurants

Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 214)

Do all humans eventually come to the same general conclusions and revelations about life and meaning?

And if so, are we doing a favor or stunting growth by recording them for the future?

The Shape Of Water (2017)

It’s beautifully (and carefully) made.

It wasn’t what I expected, and it wasn’t as good as I thought it might be; I felt like it could be great, that everything established slowly in the beginning would produce more than it did.

But it’s still an achievement, and it’s something worth watching before you read the plot.

Grade: B

In A Bunch

“Intuition is the journey from A to Z without stopping at any other letter along the way. It is knowing without knowing why.”

“Do right by him, he’s a good guy. I wouldn’t be inside if it wasn’t for him.”
“No. No. Long Beach Mike is not your f@cking amigo, man. Long Beach Mike is a f@cking scumbag. He’s selling out his amigos. That’s what kind of a nice guy he f@cking is, alright?”

“Gradually trees became fewer, smaller, and less important. By the time the last fruit-bearing adult palm tree was cut, palms had long since ceased to be of economic significance. That left only smaller and smaller palm saplings to clear each year, along with other bushes and treelets. No one would have noticed the felling of the last small palm.”

“The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”