Just Go With It is a romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler as plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee who wears a wedding ring to occasionally pick up women. He meets a girl (Brooklyn Decker) named Palmer who sleeps with him and ends up falling with him. Danny Maccabee convinces his assistant Katherine (Jennifer Anniston) to pose as his soon-to-be ex-wife and to convince Palmer that he is not an adulterer.
When I grade movies I like to break it down on 10 different variables for each movie type. The most a movie can receive is 10 points in each category so the best a movie can do is 100.
1. Originality: Now with romantic comedies, there is not a whole lot of room for originality. Before we watched the movie, I remarked that Adam Sandler is going to end up with Jennifer Anniston. Of course everyone accepts this going in. The fact that Sandler would wear a wedding ring to pick up women sounds like a Seinfeld plot. George wore a wedding ring to pick up women at an apartment party and of course it backfires although in a much better way, I thought. The fact that Sandler would continue the lie was pretty funny but overall not very original. Score: 7.
2. Humor: There was some laugh out loud moments in the movie. Overall, it was funnier than I thought it was going to be and it was full of traditional Sandler movie moments that I still find pretty funny. For a romantic comedy it was very funny but if it stands alone as a comedy it wasn't as funny. Score: 8.
3. Likability of protagonist: Part of a romantic comedy is that you have to want the main character to succeed. You have to root for the main character to get the girl in the end. Adam Sandler kept on lying to everyone and building various lies. He threw the girl onto the forest ground. He neglected the children emotionally including yelling at them after they had been crying for what seemed like hours. Of course all of this was forgiven because he taught the boy how to swim. Ummm....Score: 4.
4. Suspension of disbelief: In a movie like this, you would have to assume that most of the plot points are going to be pretty realistic because there was no alternate reality or anything like that. I thought there was many points to the movie that just didn't make too much sense. So much so, that it distracted me from the rest of the movie. I'll cover them briefly here.
A) Palmer was a teacher but could inexplicably take enought time off of work to go to Hawaii for a few days without any advance notice. School could have gotten out, except Dr. Maccabbee visited her while she was at work just days prior to the vacation.
B) Palmer accepting that Katherine was Dr. Maccabbee's ex-wife. This is really the crux of the issue. Katherine was introduced as a spoiled woman who was greedy, selfish, pill-popping, etc. This is not a huge deal except throughout the vacation to Hawaii she turns out to be nicer and nicer eventually turning into the exact replica of Katherine, the girl next door, instead of the spoiled rich doctor's wife that she was supposed to be playing. During the spa day, Palmer remarks that Katherine knows so much about Dr. Maccabbee, well of course she does she's his soon to be ex-wife! This is only a surprise if Palmer is not accepting that Katherine is his ex-wife. While Dr. Maccabbee is teaching the boy to swim, Michael is swimming and his sister is yelling his name out. This is not that big of a problem except Palmer shows up in the middle of this and hears this but the boy's name as she's been told is Bart. Soon after, Eddie pushes her into the pool because she is about to be introduced to the real Devlin.
C) Katherine is fine with Dr. Maccabbee banging Palmer throughout the vacation then just deciding that he is in love with Katherine.
D) The children start crying because their dad doesn't have time for them. Dr. Maccabbee is supposed to be their dad but instead of saying he (while pointing to Sandler's character) doesn't have time for us they go on about their dad.
E) Sandler's character has problems coming up with quick lies to Palmer despite the fact that he goes out every week lying about his wife while wearing his fake wedding ring.
F) He's paying $20,000 per night for his two suites at a hotel but he flinched at paying money for Michael to swim with dolphins.
Score: 1.
5. Acting: Sandler acts just like the rest of his characters. In fact, all of the actors are pretty typecasted into their roles. Score: 3.
6. Dialogue and/or other writing: I guess it was alright. There was no glaring holes in the dialogue or other writing. Score: 7.
7. General Plot: There was many holes in the plot, see above with suspension of disbelief, that coupled with a general lack of originality leaves something to be desired. Score: 6.
8. Expectations: I had pretty low expectations going into the movie. The movie exceeded those expectations but not by much. Score: 8.
9. Idea of the movie: The idea of the movie as far as I could tell was that you can lie at all times but if you're honest to one person that person is the one that you'll fall in love with. Or something like that. Score: 5.
10. Re-watchability: Chances that I will re-watch the movie on a scale of 1 to 10. This score is entirely subjective...well the rest of the ones are as well. Score: 3.
Total Score:52.
Not a great score but not the worst movie I've ever seen.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Thoughts while watching Donnie Darko
I've watched Donnie Darko over ten times. It is one of my favorite movies of all-time. I think there are several issues that happen in the movie that are worth discussing as well as some of my random thoughts that I had while watching it while trying to work on my weekly blog post about the all-star voting. For those who haven't seen the movie, this should give you a good starting point.
1) This is Seth Rogen's film deubt. I was unaware of this for the longest time. After hearing that he was in the movie, I decided to look for Seth Rogen throughout the movie. It took me two more times to realize that he was the bully's friend, Ricky Danforth (I'm not making this up, see). After realizing that it was Rogen, it's almost impossible not to realize this. The scene in which Donnie walks Gretchen home, you can hear him say "I like your boobs" and then laugh. The laugh and him saying this reminded me of Knocked Up (which is shown on the E! channel on Halloween, as it is the scariest movie they can imagine). In fact, I'm relatively sure he has said that exact phrase in another movie at some point.
2) The scene with the therapist in which they discuss sex. Donnie begins to talk about "fucking Christina Applegate" and how he enjoys watching Married with Children. The old trivia on IMDB said that was done to imitate Al Bundy who would put his hand down his pants. I always viewed this as the wrong way to look at the scene as it is pretty clearly Donnie about to masturbate. In the scene, the therapist has to end the hypnosis early and Donnie and the therapist are both embarrassed by what had just happened. That is now taken off of the IMDB trivia.
3) How does one "suck a fuck"? In the opening scene of the movie Donnie Darko asks this question and unfortunately it is never answered.
4) The relevancy of Dukakis- Elizabeth Darko states at the beginning of the movie that she is voting for Dukakis. When the engine crashes through the house, Mr. Darko is watching the political debate between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. The brief mention that she would vote for Dukakis must have angered Mr. Darko at least a little bit, subconsciously, to him to want to watch the debate in order to prove that his daughter is wrong.
5) Why are they so mean to Cherita Chen? Donnie's friends and others are extremely mean to Cherita, telling her to "go back to China". All the meanness and everything is supposedly taken away when Donnie promises her that one day everything is going to be better for her.
6) Time Travel, finally. This is the most interesting concept in the whole movie to me because it deals with something that I'm very interested in. Here are the central arguments that focus on time travel:
a. Time travel is not possible.
b. If you travel to the past something as small as killing as a mosquito might affect how the future is.
c. A lesser version of point b, in which any changes in the past are kept in the present (or the future).
d. Time travel would really be traveling through parallel universes.
e. Time travel is only possible to the point that there is a time machine (meaning you cannot travel back in time before the first time machine is created)
f. Time travel is in a read-only mode.
The movie Donnie Darko focuses around point d instead of the other ones. I'll discuss the other ones and what I believe is the right answer to the time travel paradox.
Point a- time travel is not possible. I do not think that this is correct. The basic idea is that if you travel faster than the speed of light then you would be able to go back in time. (Well, this is the basic concept as explained to me). If you could have a vessel that could travel faster than the speed of light then you would be able to go backwards in time. Or if you had a device that was able to travel in the fourth dimension, which is time. I think either way you're able to travel back in time.
Point b and c-basically what happens in the past would have to affect the present and future. This is true to a certain degree. However, if you believe in this idea then you're faced with a problem that I call the Hitler problem. The Hitler problem is this. Imagine a situation in which you are able to travel back in time. One of the immediate things you would do would be to kill Hitler to circumvent the pain and suffering of millions of individuals. However, everyday we are faced with the idea that Hitler rose to power and committed suicide. We cannot live in a world where both Hitler was able to kill millions of people and was not able to kill millions of people. The Hitler problem creates some different situations and points about time travel. These new situations are that: a) there is an infinite regress of people going back in time preserving the past, b)we have a distorted reality where things both did and did not happen, c) you are unable to interact with the past if you time travel, d) you cannot travel back in time past the point where the time machine did not exist, or e) changing the past does not change the immediate present or future. I'm ruling out possibility a, because at any point there will be a chance that somebody would not be able to undo something that happened in the past and we would live in a distorted reality. Possibility b ties into a central argument about time travel and that is you would be unable to interact with the past. I think there is something to this point of view. In traveling faster than the speed of light you would be able to see the past unfolding in terms of what you are actually seeing. However, this does not entail that you are able to interact in the past. I'm afraid that this possibility might actually be correct but I think you should be able to interact in the past because of the vessel. The vessel would have to be in the past, thus it interacts, thus it stands to reason that you would be able to interact in the past similar to the vessel. Possibility d is a suggestion my friend Red had stated to me before. I confess that I haven't really thought of this idea before. My initial gut reaction to this is that this argument is based on the fact that changing the past changes the immediate present/future which I do not believe is the case.
The idea about time travel that I think is correct and the one that Donnie Darko endorses is the idea of traveling either through wormholes or parallel universes. The idea of parallel universes is that each universe exists in such a way that they rarely interact and when they do there creates the phenomenon known as deja vu. A parallel universe is created each time a decision is made, there are an infinite numbers of universes. Each time you say yes instead of no, there creates a parallel universe where you said no. Traveling in time only requires that you are able to travel through these parallel universes. Back to the Hitler problem, I could go back in time and kill Hitler, I would then exist in a parallel universe where Hitler was dead. The rest of the world would still exist in both a universe where Hitler did not get killed and where he did, just as they had for thousands of years. This line of belief requires a rather large leap of faith that there are infinite versions of yourself out there only colliding with you when you experience deja vu. However, the other possibilities that are out there for time travel are not possible.
7) the ending/crazy Donnie- there's another possibility for how the movie can be interpreted. The idea here is that Donnie Darko is a schizophrenic. Like paranoid schizophrenics, Donnie has both auditory and visual hallucinations, he also feels persecuted, has a messianic complex, and regularly sees a therapist. There are several hints throughout the movie that suggest this. Some paranoid schizophrenics also find that some numbers have specific meanings. In the movie, the number 8 is very prominent (thanks to IMDB for pointing this out to me), I'll quote from their trivia section here "The movie takes place in 1988. Frank tells Donnie the world will end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. If you add these numbers, the sum is 88. When Samantha asks when she can have kids, Donnie says: "Not until 8th grade." Donnie mentions to his therapist that his dog Callie died when he was eight." Also, According to the television reporter, the fire at Jim Cunningham's house was extinguished "sometime after 8:00 last night." The flight number has to deal with the original time that he is told the world will end, as well, so there is mention from the director to pay attention to the numbers. There is a scene in the movie when the therapist alludes to the fact that Donnie has schizophrenic tendencies. The scene in which Noah Wyle's character asks Drew Barrymore's character, what about Donnie Darko and they both start laughing, it's a very disturbing scene. More proof of this idea is that Roberta Sparrow only talks to Donnie. It's an opinion that Donnie's mental state is exacerbated by his use of alcohol in the movie. Further, he has occasional emotional outbursts for seemingly no reason. Finally, at the end Donnie is laughing while the engine comes crashing in and it's possible that he thought of this crazy situation to help to try and explain why he was going to die. The very end of Donnie's mom waves at Gretchen even though supposedly Gretchen was new and had not really met any of the characters if we are to believe the time travel scenario. There are two conclusions, one Donnie's mom is a friendly person who felt like waving to a stranger. Or two, Gretchen had previously met Donnie's mom because she had dated Donnie and the part of the delusion that was not true was her in fact dying. If we are to accept that Donnie is in fact a schizophrenic, then the movie for the most part is a delusion created by Donnie to explain why he is going to die.
This idea is hopelessly depressing, I choose the time travel idea.
8) For whatever reason, I have found Maggie Gyllenhaal ridiculously attractive, I don't know if it's because of this movie or what.
1) This is Seth Rogen's film deubt. I was unaware of this for the longest time. After hearing that he was in the movie, I decided to look for Seth Rogen throughout the movie. It took me two more times to realize that he was the bully's friend, Ricky Danforth (I'm not making this up, see). After realizing that it was Rogen, it's almost impossible not to realize this. The scene in which Donnie walks Gretchen home, you can hear him say "I like your boobs" and then laugh. The laugh and him saying this reminded me of Knocked Up (which is shown on the E! channel on Halloween, as it is the scariest movie they can imagine). In fact, I'm relatively sure he has said that exact phrase in another movie at some point.
2) The scene with the therapist in which they discuss sex. Donnie begins to talk about "fucking Christina Applegate" and how he enjoys watching Married with Children. The old trivia on IMDB said that was done to imitate Al Bundy who would put his hand down his pants. I always viewed this as the wrong way to look at the scene as it is pretty clearly Donnie about to masturbate. In the scene, the therapist has to end the hypnosis early and Donnie and the therapist are both embarrassed by what had just happened. That is now taken off of the IMDB trivia.
3) How does one "suck a fuck"? In the opening scene of the movie Donnie Darko asks this question and unfortunately it is never answered.
4) The relevancy of Dukakis- Elizabeth Darko states at the beginning of the movie that she is voting for Dukakis. When the engine crashes through the house, Mr. Darko is watching the political debate between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. The brief mention that she would vote for Dukakis must have angered Mr. Darko at least a little bit, subconsciously, to him to want to watch the debate in order to prove that his daughter is wrong.
5) Why are they so mean to Cherita Chen? Donnie's friends and others are extremely mean to Cherita, telling her to "go back to China". All the meanness and everything is supposedly taken away when Donnie promises her that one day everything is going to be better for her.
6) Time Travel, finally. This is the most interesting concept in the whole movie to me because it deals with something that I'm very interested in. Here are the central arguments that focus on time travel:
a. Time travel is not possible.
b. If you travel to the past something as small as killing as a mosquito might affect how the future is.
c. A lesser version of point b, in which any changes in the past are kept in the present (or the future).
d. Time travel would really be traveling through parallel universes.
e. Time travel is only possible to the point that there is a time machine (meaning you cannot travel back in time before the first time machine is created)
f. Time travel is in a read-only mode.
The movie Donnie Darko focuses around point d instead of the other ones. I'll discuss the other ones and what I believe is the right answer to the time travel paradox.
Point a- time travel is not possible. I do not think that this is correct. The basic idea is that if you travel faster than the speed of light then you would be able to go back in time. (Well, this is the basic concept as explained to me). If you could have a vessel that could travel faster than the speed of light then you would be able to go backwards in time. Or if you had a device that was able to travel in the fourth dimension, which is time. I think either way you're able to travel back in time.
Point b and c-basically what happens in the past would have to affect the present and future. This is true to a certain degree. However, if you believe in this idea then you're faced with a problem that I call the Hitler problem. The Hitler problem is this. Imagine a situation in which you are able to travel back in time. One of the immediate things you would do would be to kill Hitler to circumvent the pain and suffering of millions of individuals. However, everyday we are faced with the idea that Hitler rose to power and committed suicide. We cannot live in a world where both Hitler was able to kill millions of people and was not able to kill millions of people. The Hitler problem creates some different situations and points about time travel. These new situations are that: a) there is an infinite regress of people going back in time preserving the past, b)we have a distorted reality where things both did and did not happen, c) you are unable to interact with the past if you time travel, d) you cannot travel back in time past the point where the time machine did not exist, or e) changing the past does not change the immediate present or future. I'm ruling out possibility a, because at any point there will be a chance that somebody would not be able to undo something that happened in the past and we would live in a distorted reality. Possibility b ties into a central argument about time travel and that is you would be unable to interact with the past. I think there is something to this point of view. In traveling faster than the speed of light you would be able to see the past unfolding in terms of what you are actually seeing. However, this does not entail that you are able to interact in the past. I'm afraid that this possibility might actually be correct but I think you should be able to interact in the past because of the vessel. The vessel would have to be in the past, thus it interacts, thus it stands to reason that you would be able to interact in the past similar to the vessel. Possibility d is a suggestion my friend Red had stated to me before. I confess that I haven't really thought of this idea before. My initial gut reaction to this is that this argument is based on the fact that changing the past changes the immediate present/future which I do not believe is the case.
The idea about time travel that I think is correct and the one that Donnie Darko endorses is the idea of traveling either through wormholes or parallel universes. The idea of parallel universes is that each universe exists in such a way that they rarely interact and when they do there creates the phenomenon known as deja vu. A parallel universe is created each time a decision is made, there are an infinite numbers of universes. Each time you say yes instead of no, there creates a parallel universe where you said no. Traveling in time only requires that you are able to travel through these parallel universes. Back to the Hitler problem, I could go back in time and kill Hitler, I would then exist in a parallel universe where Hitler was dead. The rest of the world would still exist in both a universe where Hitler did not get killed and where he did, just as they had for thousands of years. This line of belief requires a rather large leap of faith that there are infinite versions of yourself out there only colliding with you when you experience deja vu. However, the other possibilities that are out there for time travel are not possible.
7) the ending/crazy Donnie- there's another possibility for how the movie can be interpreted. The idea here is that Donnie Darko is a schizophrenic. Like paranoid schizophrenics, Donnie has both auditory and visual hallucinations, he also feels persecuted, has a messianic complex, and regularly sees a therapist. There are several hints throughout the movie that suggest this. Some paranoid schizophrenics also find that some numbers have specific meanings. In the movie, the number 8 is very prominent (thanks to IMDB for pointing this out to me), I'll quote from their trivia section here "The movie takes place in 1988. Frank tells Donnie the world will end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. If you add these numbers, the sum is 88. When Samantha asks when she can have kids, Donnie says: "Not until 8th grade." Donnie mentions to his therapist that his dog Callie died when he was eight." Also, According to the television reporter, the fire at Jim Cunningham's house was extinguished "sometime after 8:00 last night." The flight number has to deal with the original time that he is told the world will end, as well, so there is mention from the director to pay attention to the numbers. There is a scene in the movie when the therapist alludes to the fact that Donnie has schizophrenic tendencies. The scene in which Noah Wyle's character asks Drew Barrymore's character, what about Donnie Darko and they both start laughing, it's a very disturbing scene. More proof of this idea is that Roberta Sparrow only talks to Donnie. It's an opinion that Donnie's mental state is exacerbated by his use of alcohol in the movie. Further, he has occasional emotional outbursts for seemingly no reason. Finally, at the end Donnie is laughing while the engine comes crashing in and it's possible that he thought of this crazy situation to help to try and explain why he was going to die. The very end of Donnie's mom waves at Gretchen even though supposedly Gretchen was new and had not really met any of the characters if we are to believe the time travel scenario. There are two conclusions, one Donnie's mom is a friendly person who felt like waving to a stranger. Or two, Gretchen had previously met Donnie's mom because she had dated Donnie and the part of the delusion that was not true was her in fact dying. If we are to accept that Donnie is in fact a schizophrenic, then the movie for the most part is a delusion created by Donnie to explain why he is going to die.
This idea is hopelessly depressing, I choose the time travel idea.
8) For whatever reason, I have found Maggie Gyllenhaal ridiculously attractive, I don't know if it's because of this movie or what.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Bill James' Popular Crime
I bought the book Popular Crime by Bill James on my Literati (an electronic reader put out by Kobo and Borders) and read the book in a matter of three days. I would probably have finished the book in a shorter amount of time if I devoted more of my time to read the book. I highly recommend the book, by the way, it was very interesting and made me think more than any book I have read recently. It also inspired me to do some research into these different crime stories that James writes about. The number of books that have inspired me are few and far between (all of Malcolm Gladwell's books have, but that's besides the point) so the book comes highly recommended.
I have a few thoughts that were highlighted by Bill James in his book that I want to write about briefly here and I will expand into more thoughts (and more posts) as I do more research. James writes briefly about false confessions. He estimates that anywhere from 70 to 90% of confessions made by criminals are actually not true. I'm not the first one to find this interesting there was a review I found of the book that talks about this as well (it can be found here). My point in this is not to question where he found this statistic (as I will do my own research to confirm) but this was such a pertinent piece of information to me because I had just finished watching the documentaries on the West Memphis Three in Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations. For those who have not watched the documentary, I would argue that the reason for their convictions of the crime was mainly due to the confession of one of them (not that it should be considered, I don't think but I'll talk about this at a greater length in a different post). It would seem extremely relevant if in fact, it is true that the majority of confessions are false confessions (which I believe to be the case) but as Bill James is not an expert in the field (nor does he claim to be) it would not be fair to cite James in a courtroom and say see here is an expert who thinks that most confessions are fake.
There will be more thoughts on this book as I post later with more coherence and research to back up what I'm saying.
I have a few thoughts that were highlighted by Bill James in his book that I want to write about briefly here and I will expand into more thoughts (and more posts) as I do more research. James writes briefly about false confessions. He estimates that anywhere from 70 to 90% of confessions made by criminals are actually not true. I'm not the first one to find this interesting there was a review I found of the book that talks about this as well (it can be found here). My point in this is not to question where he found this statistic (as I will do my own research to confirm) but this was such a pertinent piece of information to me because I had just finished watching the documentaries on the West Memphis Three in Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations. For those who have not watched the documentary, I would argue that the reason for their convictions of the crime was mainly due to the confession of one of them (not that it should be considered, I don't think but I'll talk about this at a greater length in a different post). It would seem extremely relevant if in fact, it is true that the majority of confessions are false confessions (which I believe to be the case) but as Bill James is not an expert in the field (nor does he claim to be) it would not be fair to cite James in a courtroom and say see here is an expert who thinks that most confessions are fake.
There will be more thoughts on this book as I post later with more coherence and research to back up what I'm saying.
A Joke
I started a joke with my friends that I was going to start an "emo" band that is called Slit Wrists and Skinny Jeans. I even wrote a song to commemorate the formation of my band. It's titled "I'm so Emo it Hurts (Emotionally and Physically)
when I'm slitting my wrists, sometimes my tears
hits my cuts and it makes me cry
even harder. My eyeliner keeps running
I don't know how to stop it. My razor
doesn't even have my favorite band on it....
I'm so emo it hurts, emotionally and physically
Just listen to my music, all those bands really get me.
Do you think it's easy to make my hair have the sideway part?
Well it's not, I have to wake up early and it leaves me tired all day.
Sometimes maybe I think I just shouldn't be emo today...
Put the mascara on the shelf, androgynous guys aren't in, anymore
I'll think of something new to make me stand out.
My skinny jeans are drying, what should I wear today?
I'll wear a long sleeve shirt with my favorite band on the front
Their name doesn't make sense but neither does life...
I can't feel anything, that's why I cut my wrists
I listen to bands that sound like Evanessence
I wear skinny jeans with huge studded belts
I go to the mall in hopes that Hot Topic has sales....
(But They Don't!)
Introductory Post
This blog will have less sports information on it and will focus on political, popular culture, science, books, pretty much anything that I find interesting. I am really doing these two blogs because in his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hour rule. I'll quote extensively from the book here to help to try and explain what I am doing here. The study was done by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and two colleagues. Basically they studied the best of the best violinists and pianists and found that the practice levels of the different levels of musicians without fail were staggered. "The students who would end up the best in their class began to practice more than everyone else...In fact, by the age of twenty , the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice."
Writes neurologist Daniel Levitin, "The emerging picture from which studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, what have you, this number comes up again and again." There are other books and studies done that prove the 10,000 hour rule. I would like to practice writing so much that I can try and reach the 10,000 hour mark as quickly as possible.
The point of this blog is not to entertain those who stumble on to this blog which I'm sure it'll do so minimally but rather to allow me the chance to practice writing as much as humanly possible. I apologize in advance if the writing is poor, I am going to write as much as possible, and hope that my writing improves as I go through this. I hope I can entertain you in the process but again is not my primary goal in establishing these blogs and maybe you'll learn something you wouldn't have learned without me being here.
Writes neurologist Daniel Levitin, "The emerging picture from which studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, what have you, this number comes up again and again." There are other books and studies done that prove the 10,000 hour rule. I would like to practice writing so much that I can try and reach the 10,000 hour mark as quickly as possible.
The point of this blog is not to entertain those who stumble on to this blog which I'm sure it'll do so minimally but rather to allow me the chance to practice writing as much as humanly possible. I apologize in advance if the writing is poor, I am going to write as much as possible, and hope that my writing improves as I go through this. I hope I can entertain you in the process but again is not my primary goal in establishing these blogs and maybe you'll learn something you wouldn't have learned without me being here.
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