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(My) Life Imitates Film
Just remembered to repost this now that this new home for Steve’s Not Nice is kind-of sort-of unpacked.
For many years, I think, Pedro Almodovar was directing my life. That’s when I would see things like an old minivan full of clowns driving down the street. Clowns in full makeup and costume, not just goofy people. It was weird, but it was quirky. My life had these bizarre but whimsical moments.
I still have bizarre moments, but they’re less whimsical. For a while I thought maybe Guillermo del Toro had taken over the role of director. I was even more certain when I saw Pan’s Labyrinth.
But that was before I learned about Chris Rentzel, director of The Many Strange Stories of Triangle Woman. I’ve just seen the trailer and a description, but I’m pretty sure he’s directed a vignette or two of my life lately!
Respect
This post first appeared April 12, 2007, on the original Blogger format for this blog. It addresses what were immediate news events at the time: the dismissal of the criminal case against the Duke lacrosse players and Don Imus being fired for sexist and racist remarks. And how does that have anything to do with Respect?
What a weird, paradoxical day it was in the news! Yesterday two windows focused the country on the deep and complicated wounds of racism and sexism.
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Integrity
This post first appeared April 4, 2007, on the original Blogger format for this blog. As I move the blog to this hosted site I will be reintroducing past posts along with new content.
So I was driving along Grapevine Highway with my 16-yr-old son in the car and we passed this new ice cream place, “Woolley’s.” Actually, it’s frozen custard, which I think means a little softer and a lot more fattening than ice cream.
I told him, “I finally got to try that place the other day when I took your little brother.”
He said, “I know you’ve been there. You took me. Remember?”
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I Am Not Nice
Over the years I’ve been accused of being nice. I used to feel very worried when I heard that, thinking that somehow I had misrepresented myself and given people the wrong impression. Don’t blame me, I would think. I didn’t do anything to give you that idea. I figured that comments like that came from people who had only seen a little bit of me trying to put my best foot forward, or were simply too hasty in their judgment.
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