At last! Our favorite etymologist, Arika Okrent, gets down to the nitty gritty. Here it is, the foundation for what to most writers is – our absolute true love:
How many of you are sitting there right now and scratching your heads? Yeah, us too.
Sigh…
—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—
May 2, 2018, YouTube Red released the first season of Cobra Kai, a TV sequel (well, YouTube is sort of TV) to the classic Karate Kid films. I’ve binge-watch Season One and was surprised and delighted by what I viewed.
The series begins thirty years after the last Karate Kid film that ended with the very satisfying All Valley Tournament between Cobra Kai dojo leader, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio). Daniel (Macchio) was the victor, defeating the bully, Johnny.
Whoa. At last a web series that’s truly ambitious.
Distance is the story of a long distance relationship from two entirely different perspectives. Instead of being one creator’s take about the effect of such a relationship on those in it, this series uses two different directors – a man to tell the man’s story and a woman to tell the woman’s – and shows each episode in two distinctly different ways.
Received this email yesterday. In a word – okay, two and a half words – “We’re trying.”
For which all of us I’m sure are grateful. This is a hell of an important and very complex issue, but I for one am confident that more improvements will come.
Truth comes in many forms.
For example:
