Monthly Archives - July 2021

Monday Catchup 7/5/2021

There hasn’t been much in the way of big stories but there have been some little ones I haven’t covered yet. Black Widow is Tracking Badly From my friends at Bounding Into Comics:  “Box Office Pro predicts that Black Widow will have an opening weekend between $65 and $90 million. However, they specifically home in and predict the movie will make $77 million in its opening weekend. As for its domestic total they believe it will make between $155 and $225 million. These numbers are...

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Was Raiders of the Lost Ark a Rabbinical Parable?

Stories are the prism through which we view the world. Whether we agree with them is completely and absolutely immaterial.  What matters is that we were exposed to them.  They affect how we view the cosmos, no matter if we like how those stories do that, or not. From my article on Eastern Story Structure.“Hakawati, is the Arabic tradition of storytelling wherein each story must have… and teach a moral lesson.  I suspect this tradition is more Middle Eastern than specifically Arabian because the story of...

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