Cloudy Thoughts

Sometimes life gets hard and heavy and I feel the need to lie down on the ground and stare up at the sky.

The clouds are large and peaceful and floaty and the blue sky is soothing and smooth and helps to lighten my mind.

 

Sometimes I stare for too long. Staring for too long makes it hard to get up again. The clouds are fluffy and the sky is blue and it's nicer to stay staring up at it than to stand up and go back to reality and all of its difficulty.

And then I start thinking.

Drawings galore...

How to talk about movies that you haven't seen - Volume I: Citizen Kane

We've all been there. In the middle of a discussion about a very famous and important movie that you should have seen, but you haven't.

Let's face it. We lead busy lives. Watching a movie takes a lot of time. And, often, watching a classic movie takes a lot of brain power. There's a lot of pressure, too, watching a movie that's generally beloved and respected. Sometimes it's better to watch a lightweight movie. Or an episode of a television series.

Or five episodes of a television series. Mmm, Bunheads.

But that puts us in the awkward position, when people we're talking to start discussing, say, The Godfather, of having not seen the movie.

And thus we have two choices. We can either tell the truth, say we haven't seen The Godfather, and spend the rest of the discussion alternatively being berated for not having seen SUCH A CLASSIC MOVIE!!! and being told to go and watch said movie AT ONCE. Or...we can lie. Pretend we've seen The Godfather. Use the accumulated knowledge floating around in popular culture, and a zillion references from The Simpsons, to flub our way through the conversation. Peppered with vague comments like, "Oh, yeah, it's such a classic!", of course.

And this is where I come in.

This is what happens when you drive for 12 hours straight...