This will be a short post. Just a two-minute rant. Not overthinking, not analysing – just a little grumbling about how annoying it is when someone is careless, lazy, or simply stupid. Translating a movie is a huge job. English is full of expressions that are extremely hard to translate… Read More
Why do so many people believe “everything was better in the past”? Why do they even believe it was different? My son’s grandparents are about the same age as I am – my wife is only one year younger than my daughter from my first marriage – so I constantly… Read More
I often marvel at how my 12-year-old son doesn’t have any kind of “defined” musical taste. I, on the other hand, fell in love with rock music at the age of 10, though, to be fair, it wasn’t exactly hard back then. Many people—including myself—see the ’80s as one of… Read More
I have quite a few stories where I no longer remember the names of the people involved. Not because they didn’t matter — they did, very much so — but because their names were the least important thing about them. It’s as if the mind deliberately smudges out the trivial… Read More
I like sitting in the park. I used to play a game where I’d try to figure out people’s stories from the few words I caught from their conversations as they walked by. Where did they come from? What do they do? Are they married? Secret lovers? These days, people… Read More