Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film written, produced, directed by, and starring Michael Moore, in his directorial debut.
We watched a good piece of it in the cold wind at 9500 feet at the Monarch Motor Lodge in Colorado the other night.
You should watch it too, even though you are almost certainly never going to hear that advice …
Still, you should watch it too.
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It’s half past four in the morning on a Friday, and I am
- awake
- alive
- alone
I’m rested and unwound and I’ve got this solitude in abundance at last.
Yesterday I started to clean all the cat bowls. That’s even less pleasant than it sounds. In the meantime …
Burning Man
Some brilliant analysis about what it was, and what it is.
The high point comes at about the twelve-minute mark, where a bright rich little Burner complains about having to hike out through six miles of mud. And then same said Burner is later proven to be a lawyer who spends his days fighting against the constitutionality of child labor laws.
The American inequality, encapsulated.
When I was driving down the mountain I listened to an hour’s worth of breaking news on NPR about this tragedy of a missile killing 17 people in a Ukrainian market. There was never a hint of any explanation other than the Russians being responsible.
But now there is.
The Western propaganda, encapsulated.