Caffeine + Cosmos
Have you ever just stared longingly at the ring made from the last dregs of coffee, the edge it produces in the floor of your cup? Today seems like one of those days, the sun sitting fairly calmly in the blue southern sky. Which makes me ponder the other day when Fernando and I saw a matinee of 2012, probably my most anticipated movie of the year. Well, it was basically long and just OK. I’m fascinated by what-ifs, conspiracy theory, dna logic and the like. This disaster movie, based in our time, had some keen special effects, all rotating ’round the aforementioned star above - and the Mayan prediction of the end of time. With consumption, waste, tsunamis, quakes and other earthly realities the movie paints a big picture of cataclysm and the throes of survival. But it is all so overly dramatic. And it misses its opportunity to massage the historical relevance of prophecy by slight mention only. Sure, science dictates the charted courses of our icebergs in New Zealand and Greenland, and the ozone has long had its depleted holes, though the soul of the movie is debatable given this key component. I guess while peering at my coffee ring I was truly staring into my own version of the cosmos.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Interesting choice of graphics. I remember buying one of these “Aztec Calendars” in Mex City about 35 years ago. It was made of old crushed bones. Not sure what the Mayan calendar would look like….
Anyway, I was at the Anthropological Museum in Mex City last year and they have now decided..is NOT Aztec….and not even a calendar. Best of all, they think it may have been a wrestling platform (which sounds pretty HOT to me!)