The Lincolnite Blog: Lincolnite: Lincoln, Nebraska's Online Community

The Lincolnite Blog: Lincolnite: Lincoln, Nebraska's Online Community

Talent Plus wants to build an adjoining building. The local property owners, ticked off that they didn't win their argument last time the they somehow own the 'view' around their house are gearing up again to keep the business from adding on.I think they should be business friendly unless the business will negatively affect the quality of life, e.g. hog confinement in College View (my neighborhood). Just because you purchased property with a 'view' doesn't mean much to the person whose property abutts yours-the 'view' is not in your deed and you don't own it. I appreciate the modernness of the building so Mr. Wilson (the blog poster) and I disagree there, but overall I am a home owner too, I dont appreciate my neighbors renovation going on at all hours, either or the debris from it, but you know what? I didn't 'buy' quiet in my deed, any more than HWY 77 property owners did when they purchased acreages adjoining the city's edge and now say they don't want a drag strip outside of Lincoln. You own and control YOUR property, not your neighbors. Wahhh.....

Good Movie

So, Kol and I got to curl up on the couch and watch a movie last night. Its the first for awhile, and while I usually will watch romantic comedies and whatnot with her because its on, this particular movie was a treat to have shared with me. I wasn't feeling that well, but I actually didn't notice it during the show. "Stranger Than Fiction" falls into one of those categories with the "Truman Show", "40 Year Old Virgin", and "Eternal Sunshine". Its an existential comedy/slice of life story of a man who discovers that his life is being narrated by an author that has no idea that her muse is a living person. Like Steve Carell in "40 Year Old Virgin" Harold Crick is a sad man, leading a formulaic life by the numbers as an IRS auditor. Hated by everyone and imprisoned by work that will never be done, nor get any thanks, he trudges (to trudge, the slow weary depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in his life except the impulse to simply soldier on) on through his daily routine.
The characterization was believable, and there were some dark moments in here if you look for them, such as the literary theory prof. (Dustin Hoffman) that thinks the ending of the manuscript should stay as it is merely for the sake of its poignancy and its perceived future place in the genre of American fiction and Karen Eiffel's 'method' writing technique of observing situations to get ideas for her books ending are both neurotic and self serving enough to be believable. All in all a pretty good first outing for a fledgling director.