Dec 31
Well you know, We all want to change the world…
Alright. You want a resolution 2010? Here it is.
Within the next 365 days, I’m going to blow up. I’m going to prove to this world that I’m the greatest voice you have yet to hear.
And you will hear it.
Happy New Year World! Let’s make it a good one.
Dec 30
It would be very easy and in some ways accurate to talk about this decade as the one in which we finally understood who or what a hero was. Many of us have the images of ash covered rescue workers diving into the rubble of the World Trade Center, searching for any signs of life. At the time, many people wrote about who the real heroes were, dismissing the on screen larger than life cartoon heroes that had defined the word for decades. A hero, they reasoned, was not Superman or Robocop or Arnold. But were flesh and blood in the ruins of the world.
And they were right. Those were real heroes.
But the decade still provided many heroic fictional stories. It was a decade where entertainment nearly became completely democratic. Technology had produced a means for people to make dreams into reality. And the cinematic onslaught resulted in dozens of superheroes taking to the screen.
Dec 28
Every story has a prologue — a “what came before this” tale that seems to be important enough that the story teller feels the need to share it with you. The first decade of the twenty-first century is no different in that regard. It has a prologue and it’s a very important one. The first ten years of this century are a golden lesson in harvesting the crop that the 90′s planted. And its prologue begins during those closing moments of the last decade.
It had a cute little acroynm that by now brings chuckles but at the time, for many people, was a real fear: Y2K.
That’s right. The decade began with many in the world afraid that the world was going to collapse on its self. The age old fear that technology run rampant was going to throw off its shackles and overthrow its masters through a collapse of biblical proportions, collared the first few seconds of the decade. The news leading up to the 2000′s was rampant with Y2K updates. And some people, in an effort to do what was right, hoarded and built survival kits. If you had grown up in an age where there was a tangible threat that at any moment a Soviet nuclear missile could destroy you, the idea of the world turning upside down in moments might not seem so laughable.
But when the first clock in the first part of the world hit midnight, and we officially left behind the 90s, the apocalypse never came.
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In 2000, the first film of the Final Destination series entered theaters. The film series follow a basic premise that a group of people become aware of and cheat death. Death — portrayed as an entityless cosmic force, spends the rest of the movie making things right. An incredible number of people viewed entering the year 2000 as an achievement and that we as a global community cheated catastrophe. If that is true, then catastrophe spent the rest of the decade trying to fix that.
Oct 06
Take a seat. Get comfortable. The paint is still drying, the carpet’s new, the furniture should be here soon, but we’re live and ready.
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