I just saw Lady in the Water and then An Inconvinient Truth–two amazing films. After seeing Lady in the Water, I was left with the idea that the most powerful films these days are those that tell stories of people finding inspiration, finding joy and youth, truth beyond the benality of the life we know–finding [...]

I dreamed that my friend Deric died of cancer. I heard about it on the web. Nobody ever told me he had cancer but everyone else seemed to know. Everyone in Arcata threw him a wake but I was only able to watch it over online streaming media. Everyone was there. Our high school English [...]