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Monday, February 08, 2010
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Friday, January 01, 2010
2010 Rose Bowl Champions
It took losses to USC and Purdue to figure it out, but once Tressel decided on his his game plan (defense, ball control, minimizing turnovers), he stuck with it. Against the Ducks, the Buckeyes executed as well as they have all year. An excellent win that is less a culmination than a lead-in to next season. What can they achieve next fall? The haters will hate and the Buckeye nation will talk National Championship.
Pryor gets the MVP, but Posey (#8) was the difference maker.
Avatar
Everyone agrees that Avatar is a beautiful movie that is cliched in its storytelling and racist in its politics. Good job internet, you win again.
If you've seen The Abyss or Aliens, you've seen John Cameron make this movie before: gung-ho militarism and corporate greed failing to comprehend or control whatever exists beyond normal experience.
If you've seen Dances With Wolves or Pocahontas, you know what everyone's complaining about: white guilt, white assimilation, white privilege. Paternalistic attitudes toward the "primitive" other.
The problem with the social-historical reading of Avatar is that it fails to account for Cameron's science fiction concerns. What interests Cameron is the way that an unchanging human nature deals with and conflicts with both technology and the natural world.
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