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Continue reading “The Iron Claw: Cry Like a Man”“Ever since I was a child, people said my family was cursed. Mom tried to protect us with God. Dad tried to protect us with wrestling. He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, nothing could ever hurt us. I believed him. We all did.”
Kevin Von Erich (in The Iron Claw)
You probably saw the trailer and thought, “blue people… again?” You already had The Smurfs, the genie from Aladdin, Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men, Avatar #1, Sulley from Monsters Inc., Onward, Sadness from Inside Out, Paul Giamatti in Big Fat Liar, Sonic, the girl car from Cars, Megamind, Stitch, the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka, and, while not movie-related but impossible to exclude, The Blue Man Group. At this point, being blue is just cliche.
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The Martian by Andy Weir is the type of book that should make one feel smarter after reading. Yet strangely enough, I only felt depressingly dumber. Throughout the course of this book, I couldn’t help but let my mind wander over my own chances if I were in the midst of similar circumstances. If I woke up stranded on Mars, with a metal pole sticking through me, with a space suit low on oxygen, I would probably be throwing up my hands, sighing regretfully, “well… life was fun.” Of course, I’d first recite the pledge of allegiance, pray my last prayers, and, if I had time, maybe deliver my eulogy to vast space. (I wouldn’t go down without dignity, mind you.) But that would be immediately followed by my abrupt bleh (death) as I collapse to the martian floor in a display of drama accurate to the adjusted gravity for Mars. On the other end of the spectrum, however, there’s Mark Watney who rebuilt a space system, created water by repurposing complex machines, and traveled 3200km across an unsurvivable Martian wilderness. It’s rather emasculating to be honest.
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