Ye Olde Staging Point

Wow, these constant holidays are wreaking havoc on my original commitment to write a post each day.

I see that it is the "in" thing to do to post one's New Year's resolutions on one's "blog." Well I'm not usually big on the whole making-resolutions thing, and the few resolutions I have made this year are on a strictly Need To Know basis, so unless you have the appropriate clearance (for instance, if you're getting married to me this May) I'll just keep them to myself. Trust me, you don't really want to know them anyway.

Oh, Michele and I watched Pi (I'm getting sick and tired of linking everything to IMDb, sorry) last night. Pretty much the mere mention of Kabbalism is enough to get my undivided attention, and this movie happened to not only feature Kabbalism as a central element, but was also just a great film. This movie has a lot in common with Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, which also explores the idea of universal patterns and connectivity, using Kabbalism as an interpretive framework thereof. Michele and I enjoyed Pi, although we had some rather different interpretations of the significance of various scenes. Michele's knowledge of Hebrew was quite handy. I'm still trying to collect my thoughts on the film (i.e. figure out what the heck was going on) but will post once I get them into some semblance of order.

11:45: restate my assumptions. One: watching Pi and Muppets Take Manhattan back-to-back on New Year's Eve is dangerously surreal. Two: Romulan ale not to be served at official occasions. 11:46: press RETURN. Happy New Year!