Thursday, April 8, 2010

My Wife the Dragon Trainer

Apparently people have been telling my wife she looks like a character from the new animated movie "How to Train Your Dragon".  We looked it up I can definitely see the resemblance. 


Funny how we constantly seem to be finding resemblances of people we know in the media.  Like that whole doppleganger thing.  

As a side note, "How to Train Your Dragon" has a 98% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes.  Guess I know what movie we'll be seeing tomorrow. . .  

 

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Media Literacy and The Princess and the Frog

First of all, let me just say that my wife and I LOVED "The Princess and the Frog" and were thoroughly entertained.  However, I couldn't help noticing some things I might not have been sensitive to before our class.  

First of all was this scene.  I definitely laughed, but I would not want my kids acting out these things.



One other little thing I noticed was in the last scene it shows Tiana's (the Princess's) friend dancing with the Naveen's (the Prince's) little 6-year-old brother and she says something about how she can wait for him (suggesting she wants to marry him to become a princess).  The thought crossed my mind of what a double standard this was.  It was meant to be cute and funny, but if the roles were switched - a grown young man dancing with a 6-year-old girl implying that he wanted to marry her - then it would seem creepy and unacceptable.  

Anyways, these were just a few passing thoughts I wanted to share.  If you haven't seen this movie yet, go see it!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Student Ratings

Just finished.

All 5 classes in like 12 minutes. 

And I'm pretty sure I get extra credit for at least 3 of them.

Clicking circles and writing a couple sentences never felt so good.