The solution

presents itself politely.

I guess it was faith.

The kind you have when you're very young and don't know any better.

I may

not always love you.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt,

finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious,

and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

I wish that I could talk

in technicolor.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason,

then all possibility of life is destroyed.

That's what you get for standing around

watching a war.

Alas, a previous engagement.

The King's Speech - 7.5/10. Geoffrey Rush plays magical negro to the king's speech problems. Well-done, occasionally very funny, and it doesn't seem to let accuracy get in the way of telling a good story. Everything builds up well, leading to the final speech, and a man becomes a king. But weirdly, and unnecessarily, it brings up tangents that it never tops off. We learn that Geoffrey Rush is a failed actor. Nothing comes of it. People keep saying that Colin Firth is the bravest man they know, if he'd only get over his fear. Presumed fear of his family. Never arriving at a realization, or some understanding of why he is so brave. So it just ends up this movie about friendship. Which isn't bad. It just seems like it's trying not to be.

Thing I made.

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising.

Jaf Slifly? You're not gonna get this one, bro.

Bricoleurs

are comfortable in unfamiliar realms of learning and experience because they learn best by using indirect connections to known information, even if the details of the skills are not exactly related. They try things out until they figure out how to do something.

ADD and carpal tunnel.

Greenberg - 6/10. I hate how Ben Stiller moves his face. Greta Gerwig! and Rhys Ifans are interesting and both people, with less screen-time, have more defined (and more interesting) story-arcs, while Greenberg himself seems to start and finish at the same place, despite what the last scene would lead you to believe. OH, SHIT, Y'ALL – MAYBE THAT'S THE POINT???

They come to snuff the rooster.

Reality Bites - 6/10. It tries very hard to be a movie that defines its period. I generally dislike 'the 90s' as a plot device.

Written in blood, by the hands of fate.

The Corsican Brothers - 4.5/10. 'The Count of Monte Cristo,' but instead of being locked in prison for twenty years, they live generally good-to-great, carefree lives not knowing of the tragedy that befell them. And when they find out, they have to get revenge. Because they have to. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is a charmer in one of his two roles, and that's all that's really worth watching. One of the last scenes in 'The Princess Bride' is a little bit cribbed from one of the last scenes here.

Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Winter's Bone - 8.5/10. Oh, I thought it was great. Fighting for your little piece of nothing. Natalie Portman will probably win Best Actress, because her movie's *about* acting, but Jennifer Lawrence is my favorite performance of the year.