He'd only ever be her baby -- her son -- she knew. But that doesn't mean Martha doesn't have more than a few feelings about Clark's biological parents, especially when she learns who they are after all this time. A ficlet in the "Martha..." series that explores Martha's feelings...
The issue of half-French children also comes up, as the headmaster, who is quite Chinese-centric and has sent his son to China (not knowing the situation there) to avoid the Vietnamese draft, falls in love with a half-French, half-Vietnamese girl and has a child with her. As it ...
If machines are increasingly in charge of decisions, how does society vet them and whose interests do they serve? Who owns the machines? Problems of inequality and issues of responsibility will seriously weaken social cohesion, trust, and accountability. The logic we know to date is that ...
Naturally, I don’t mean that I won’t continue to obsess and discuss. Please. In fact, I’m going to take advantage of my current rewatch and finally post a couple of personal top ten lists. But from here on out, where 1013 goes, I can’t follow. Not on the screen, anyway. I...
Does it also feel authentic, like could I picture my own children doing something like this when they were younger? Absolutely. (I mean, my son did warm to a restaurant straw wrapper that he kept on his bedside table for months.) Is it all kinds of delightful because the story is ...
Like I'm in a relationship, but I'm not looking to get married. I decided a long time ago, I didn't want to have kids. So I often find reading books for like, it's either a wife-centric or mother role, I find them to be tiresome from my perspective. I'm like, "I never ...
While most critics are claiming this to be the best film of the Coens’ career, I’m nowhere near as exclamatory; however, that doesn’t mean it’ll simply come and go in my head. In fact, the film’s lasting power in my thoughts is exactly why I dig it so much. Sitting there ...
(You can ignore the Finland-centric comment.) Stuck between Sweden and Russia, and very much regretting the arrangement. Zooming in on Oslo, we have this map: The main train lines arrive right next to the Visitor Center near the middle (very clever of the planners to direct them there),...
I mean, don’t get me wrong. It is plenty real in the sense that you can’t fake falling off a ladder through a table. You can plan it in advance. You can do everything to mitigate risk, but you can’t fake it. …but that’s not why – and this is an old wrestling fan tr...
Oh, yes. You will likely get knocked down but that is actually a good thing. When I started out, I was an ego-centric unteachable @$$ and writing taught me humility. Still have the scars. But it also taught me that getting knocked down wasn’t the biggest deal. What mattered in th...