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Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Sympathy for Kilgore
I assume almost all of you are well familiar with Apocalypse Now (I’ve watched it many times) as well as the best-known quotes and catch phrases, such as “Charlie Don’t Surf!” But there’s one throwaway line from this scene which I’m thinking about………….
12 Angry Slopers
There are rare occasions when I’m alone for a few days, and I normally make use of this surplus time by:
- Working on Slope even more than I normally do;
- Taking on some big house project and/or obsessively cleaning;
- Watching a classic movie I’ve never seen before.
Well, I’ve been doing all three of these things in the past few days, and the classic movie I just watched for the first time in my life was 12 Angry Men, which is about two-thirds of a century old. Each of the twelve actors who comprised the jury are dead now (with Jack Klugman, funny enough, being the longest to survive – – he died a decade ago on Christmas Eve) but the drama could absolutely be portrayed today with no change in content.
(more…)Love Lines
Sigh. OK, I’ll preface this once again and say that I have been in a so-called mixed-race couple my entire adult life, so that’s my disclaimer for not coming off as a total douchebag. Having offered that free pass, I’ll say once again that it’s becoming ridiculous how every single commercial, advertisement, and movie is going super-Woke. Check out this latest movie from Amazon. Kindly note the ecstatically happy couples are “mixed” (black/white on the left and Asian/black on the right) whereas the miserable ones in the middle are the oh-so-terrible white/white couple. Just sayin’ it’s getting kind of obvious.
Portrait of a Great Trader
And one of my favorite movie scenes, featuring the incomparable Hailee Steinfeld:
