tags: long defeat

2007

March

2007 Mar 10

the battle of thermopylae

Stacy Taylor, the host of the KLSD morning radio show, broke down the movie ”300” for me. I was all psyched to watch it, having thoroughly enjoyed ”Sin City” but (1) my dad and my brother watched it without me and (2) Taylor’s deconstruction of it kind of took the wind out of my sails.

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2008

June

2008 Jun 16

so you see, lonestar, evil will always win, because good is dumb

We all want the good guys to win. Most major religions prophesy that Good™ will triumph in the end, even against overwhelming odds, even if it seems that most folks are playing for the dark side.

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November

2008 Nov 12

milestones

What are the little worries of our lives, against the backdrop of tumultuous history?

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2011

April

2011 Apr 11

i still got soul

"if you don't have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul." — Charles Bukowski

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2015

December

2015 Dec 30

Space Taoism

Given the fact that the Dark Side of the Force (as the Sith, the Empire, or the First Order) always build a planet-destroying weapon that has a single point of failure and the Light Side of the Force (as the Jedi Council, the Rebel Alliance, or the Resistance) always manages to destroy it, I've started to see "Star Wars" as a version of the myth of Sisyphus.

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