{"id":1407,"date":"2006-05-15T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/15\/the-weather-man\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:05:00","slug":"the-weather-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/15\/the-weather-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

D’s comment after we watched The Weather Man<\/span> last night was that it was basically the same story as Our Time is Up<\/span><\/a>, one of the Oscar-nominated shorts from 2005, but not done as well. I mostly agree. The performances were good, and most of the situations were believable, but the film overall was a bit meandering, and lacked any sense of real epiphany or catharsis.<\/p>\n

Call me sentimental, but I live for the “What have we learned, Charlie Brown?” moment. I live for the St. Crispin’s Day speech, the Agatha Christie denouement<\/span>, and every other episode of Buffy<\/span><\/a>. I want the time I’ve invested in my fiction to have a meaningful payoff.<\/p>\n

In other news, The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 AD<\/span><\/a> has been living on our nightstand for the past few weeks, and I’ve been enjoying a few strips every night before bed. AND LOVING IT. Last night I read ” being able to transform a compliment about a fact you know into a compliment about yourself is another perk”<\/a>, which, though undoubtedly without legal foundation, was more thought-provoking than most copyright law discussions by EFF or similar activist groups.<\/p>\n

This was particularly salient because when I loaded the Weather Man<\/span> disc into our DVD player, the first thing it auto-played was an obnoxious anti-piracy propaganda<\/a> film. Bleah.<\/p>\n

For more of T-Rex’s musings on copyright law, check out these other Dinosaur Comics:<\/p>\n