Tuesday, March 08, 2005
.....Of Cabbages and Kings
We have a great thrift store near us (The Second Mile Center) and yesterday I got cassette tapes for 60 cents each of dramatic readings of Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" and all of the nonsense poetry from his two Alice stories. Alice in Wonderland was one of my favorite childhood stories I even had Alice curtains, sheets and bed spread. I am looking forward to listening to them and sharing them with the kids.
Being an Archeologist and having seen the King Tut exhibit when it toured the US during my junior year in highschool, I enjoyed this new news on the child king. I think it is great the way modern technology can help give us new information about the past without destroying it for the future. I also heard/read somewhere that they are going to retour an updated version of the King Tut exhibit sometime in the next few years. I would recommend keeping your eyes out for it. I loved it when I saw it in '77.
I rented the DVD of Hidalgo the other night. I liked it, but then how wrong can you go with beautiful horses and Viggo Mortensen. It was not nearly as sappy as I thought it might be, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had no or little profanity, no nudity and no real sex/infidelity in it. I also hadn't realized that it was based on a true story. Some parts of it dealing with white/native American Indian relations were a bit slanted toward the nobel savage vs. stupid evil white man perspective and there was a strong feminist tilt to the part of the story line involving the sheik's daughter. I am not saying that the treatment of these two sets of people was or is all that it should be but I think the movie's portrayal was a bit slanted to one point of view and wonder how true to the actual experience the sheik's daughter part of the story was.
Yesterday it was almost 70 out and we were playing in mud, riding bikes and running around with out coats. Today it is snowing and cold and blustery. I think I will go curl up with the kids and read them some more Farmer Boy, another favorite book series from childhood.
Being an Archeologist and having seen the King Tut exhibit when it toured the US during my junior year in highschool, I enjoyed this new news on the child king. I think it is great the way modern technology can help give us new information about the past without destroying it for the future. I also heard/read somewhere that they are going to retour an updated version of the King Tut exhibit sometime in the next few years. I would recommend keeping your eyes out for it. I loved it when I saw it in '77.
I rented the DVD of Hidalgo the other night. I liked it, but then how wrong can you go with beautiful horses and Viggo Mortensen. It was not nearly as sappy as I thought it might be, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had no or little profanity, no nudity and no real sex/infidelity in it. I also hadn't realized that it was based on a true story. Some parts of it dealing with white/native American Indian relations were a bit slanted toward the nobel savage vs. stupid evil white man perspective and there was a strong feminist tilt to the part of the story line involving the sheik's daughter. I am not saying that the treatment of these two sets of people was or is all that it should be but I think the movie's portrayal was a bit slanted to one point of view and wonder how true to the actual experience the sheik's daughter part of the story was.
Yesterday it was almost 70 out and we were playing in mud, riding bikes and running around with out coats. Today it is snowing and cold and blustery. I think I will go curl up with the kids and read them some more Farmer Boy, another favorite book series from childhood.
