Green Water

The sea is almost always quiet. One of the guilty pleasures on the beach is to watch frustrated surfers repeat their futile effort trying to climb up on a pitching mount. Transparency is an oxymoron: No sign of movement is visible from the surface. The water does not...

A hunch is not an answer: It is a question

What I have in my mind before I write is always different from what I end up writing. A painter/designer/choreographer friend of mine told me once that he does not know what he is painting until he finishes it. I hear that crazy truth over and over: We can only figure...

It’s the end of the world as we know it (again)

Brad Pitt vs. Zombies. Seth Rogen & Pals vs. Freak of nature. Simon Pegg & Nick Frost vs. Aliens. Robots vs. Kaiju. Will Smith & Mini Will Smith vs. The Earth. They have all arrived, or about to arrive, in local theaters this summer. They have one theme in...

The one reason we are losing the privacy war

I often hear that if we really want to know a person, we should read what he writes. I find this true too. I cannot, of course, know a person’s detailed profile, such as his physical appearance or size of income or brand of clothes, just by reading his writing....

An Education

“A Separation” is a cinematic masterpiece that captures the difficulty of living a simple in the modern world. Everybody acts on good faith and reasons yet cannot stop causing troubles to each other along the way. We as the audience feel as if we are in the same house...