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I was worried (in that odd only-know-their-words way) about papersky, who seems to be okay. (Huzzah!)

The post makes me notice again how a writer, entering deeply into the sensory/cognitive experience of an event, even one personally traumatic--

uh, that's an alarmingly dry way of saying it was absorbing and disorienting to read about.

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film review: the view through MirrorMask - spoilers of various shapes and sizes

Despite my ongoing ambivalent relationship with the works of Neil Gaiman, I admit that ( I squeaked when I found MirrorMask in the Cinecenta calendar. )

I enjoyed the film hugely as a sensory adventure park, and recommend it on that basis. It made me want to infuse everything I do from now on with whimsy and hyperbole and absurd curlicuing grandeur because really, why the hell not? Cover the walls with drawings. Speak entirely in yawns. It made me want to forget all about being cool or clever or worldly or sophisticated or Valid Aesthetically, and just be mad foolish and golden.*

I think I will.

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*I'd just been wondering about that--if I was giving more playfulness to my everyday life as an escape from putting my energy towards serious creativity. I think I will decide not to worry about it for the marmoset.

**Another cool thing was that the credits for the various scenes and objects of animation were divided up and assigned to the people who'd created them, instead of treating the computer animation people like nameless functionaries serving another's vision, which is what usually happens. I applaud this and hope to see more of it in Future Fruit.

Yaaaawn. And now to bed.