View From the Bushes

I watched Troy last night (actually, I watched most of it on Sunday). It was good, not great, and too long, but good nonetheless. My wife even liked it (interestingly enough despite, rather than because it had Brad Pitt in it.) The genius of the Greek tragedies is that there are no heroes. That is, of course, also their great weakness. I guess Hector comes off okay, but other than that they're all horribly flawed individuals. Surprisinglym they didn't change nearly as much as I expected which I also appreciated. So there you gom that was my half-hearted review of "Troy."

GenCon registration started yesterday. I'm trying to decide which events and such I want to participate in before everything fills up. Right now the only thing I'm committed to is True Dungeon, a thoroughly geeky event where they create an actual dungeon for you to go through. You play a modifyed version of shuffle board to see if you hit the monsters, disarming traps consists of tracing a pattern bordered with one of the "Operation" shock things, etc. So yeah it's pretty geeky, but at least there's no dressing up involved.

I wanted to say something about the Newsweek story which killed 16. It's pretty self-explanatory, but I think I have to agree that it's an example of media bias. Though I don't know that it's their liberal bias or their bias towards the current administration, but rather their bias towards bad and inflammatory news over positive news. To illustrate what I mean, think of how many stories have been run about the US's efforts to be understanding to their Muslim captives, to provide chaplains for them, etc. and compare that to the number of stories which have been aired and written about how barbaric we have been...

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Ross