Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher, once said a metaphor for cinema could be found in a scene from the 1974 film, “The Conversation”: Gene Hackman, playing a paranoid detective, flushes a hotel toilet experimentally and is horrified to see the clean water replaced with blood which overflows the bowl and spills all over the floor. [...]

Sadly, I’ve been neglecting my blogging; the struggles associated with trying to find a new job in the midst of a recession have taken their toll. Fortunately, I’ve been successful, though not quite in the way I thought I would be. When I sat in the Human Resources Manager’s office while on my way out [...]