Well, this blog idea hasn’t gone according to plan. Full disclosure? I’ve started a number of posts about various pieces of media and all of them are lingering as drafts without adequate resolutions. I have never been able to summarize, resolve, or generally tie everything together at the end of a piece, but I have many and sundry thoughts and feelings that need to be set down and organized. So let’s take a brief look at a cross-section of the types of stories I’ve been consuming this year. Impolite (1992, dir. David Hauka) This movie is, in the words of podcasting’s Lani Diane Rich, made specifically to delight me. It is a meandering path through humanity and history via symbolism and philosophy, asking more questions than it bothers to answer by invoking religious mysticism I cannot decipher. So, of course, I love it, because it is a slice of emotional questioning by way of various cultural beliefs and I am a sucker for the combination of the universal and the personal. Th...