The Belle Isle Mermaid and the Rumrunner - At Passages North, Mary Alice Rapas takes us on a trip through Belle Isle's rumrunner days, when a sad mermaid passes her time in a grungy tank, and the rumrunner who falls for her. An enchanting tale, bizarre yet believable, romantic but not maudlin. Good work all!
Fairy Tales:
I've been reading Turkish fairy tales. Some are eerily similar to European tales, but they all have their own logic. The Rose-Beauty, for instance, starts with a simple premise: The youngest daughter wants to marry. From there it goes through a woodcutter, a prince, tears of pearls, death, switched brides, proxy childbirth, resurrection, and a happy ending.
Culture:
Over at Hobart Pulp, Matt Sailor contiunes his excellet series of great moments in cinematic drinking. This time, he examines world-weary drunk Morris Buttermaker in the classic kid-sport movie The Bad News Bears, which is anything but a kid's movie.
Schlock Movie trailer of the week:
I, Frankenstein looks like someone tossed the goth public domain library and every action-horror cliche into a Yahtzee cup and threw what came out - Frankenstein, Gargoyles, a centuries old supernatual feud, some hot babe - into a screen-writing guide, then threw money at a CGI sweatshop to do the heavy lifting. In other words, a perfect Hollywood movie.
This actually looks like a pretty good airplane movie, actually. Something to watch while dozing off.
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