Backward Mutters

Category: Story

  • Responsing Lost

    Kevinstein reads and responds thoughtfully to my earlier quips. I really enjoy this banter. At least no one is indifferent to the finale. I agree that the writers got in over their heads and clearly didn’t not how to get out. Whether they were caught up in the speculation as…

  • Lost Finale Thoughts

    Here are a few thoughts about last nights finale of Lost. Thankfully, Jeeves and Wooster came from Netflix today and will be filling the void or the hatch or the cave or whatever. I’m being snarky. I get to be on Mondays. So, have at it. It’s a story about…

  • On adult fairy tales

    When a the movie is better than a book “This grew out of a conversation I had yesterday with a student over lunch. He was talking about why the books are nearly always better than the movies that are made based on them. I said that this is true, but…

  • Of dragons and stories

    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G.K. Chesteron

  • A System Story Case Study

    Every organization has a story about how things began, who was there, why they did what they did, and what the desired outcome or ethos of the organization was. When Grace Church moved into its facility in 1999, the church story changed. I don’t believe this was an intended outcome,…