Stacey E. Bryan's Blog, page 4
February 28, 2022
Hold The Dark
Hold the dark, but once you’re lost
home will never find you.
Loosen ties because the clock
will murder all behind you.
The strangest stars are silent still,
the ancient light is bending.
No message yet to warn of
your beginning or your ending.
Rhyme I wrote for one of hubby’s sci-fi screenplays involving deep space travel and time dilation, and you can bet your butt that nothing good comes of anyone in this tale.
Who would want to jump into a ship and trav...
January 30, 2022
ANTEBELLUM…and beyond
An enslaved Black woman in the Antebellum South hears a cell phone ringing.
A Black man visits his white girlfriend’s family and discovers brain transplants taking place in the house’s basement.
While the mechanisms of storytelling in both Liongate’s 2020 Antebellum and Jordan Peele’s 2017 Get Out were unusual and intriguing, I couldn’t stop wondering, like a tongue probing a sore tooth, why we were taking a ride down this ...
December 27, 2021
And To All a Good Night!
I think these birds say it all: teamwork is key! And having a little fun can’t hurt.
So happy holidays of all kinds, everyone, and a happy, hopeful 2022. And to all a good night!
(I would just like to know how the yellow ones know the left basket is theirs and the green ones know the right basket is where they can score) LOL !
November 29, 2021
Guest Writer Pamela Lowe: We Belong to Us
Fellow blogger/writer, teacher, and humorist Glen of Scenic Writer’s Shack (https://scenicwritersshack.com) started this. He was the first to post about his first love: https://goosefleshsite.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/first-love-endless-love/
Inspired by his passionate and exciting tale, I re-posted it here and am now once in a while inviting whomever cares to dredge up those long-ago thoughts and emotions to share them on my humble blog.
Among those so far have been movie & actor reviewer/inter...
October 23, 2021
Afternoon On A Train
I wrote a small memoir about my dad a couple of years ago, showed it to him, then posted here. Then I decided recently to spruce it up and send it out. Why not? I was happy to have it accepted by The International Human Rights Arts Festival where it was finally published this past week.
Here’s the link…if you have time….ever. It’s longer than the average blog, and I know I only have a certain amount of minutes a day to go through people’s material. But I’m glad I did it, someone liked it, ...
September 19, 2021
The Double Edged Sword of Women in Film: Part 2
“A Hymn to Him” from My Fair Lady:
Women are irrational, that’s all there is to that!
Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!
They’re nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating,
maddening and infuriating hags!
Pickering, why can’t a woman be more like a man?
I love how far the ladies have come in movies, regarding roles and representation, which have improved, although my lists spotlight Caucasian actors simply because they have the numbers on their side an...
August 17, 2021
The Double Edged Sword of Women in Film
Fellow blogger and resident poet Lisa of Tao Talk (https://tao-talk.com/2021/07/19/dverse-prosery-ama/) left a comment for me a while ago that she’d like to see a blog on how females have been portrayed in the movies and how that’s changed with time. It’s a little too long, though, so I split it into two parts.
My first thought was, “Ugggghhh. It’s not gonna be pretty,” ‘cause it feels like between T&A, insipidness, and now all the over-the-top (and usually unbelievable) run and gunning, there’...
July 5, 2021
Guest Writer Michael Sullivan: First Love
Fellow blogger, teacher, intriguing writer, and buddy Glen of Scenic Writer’s Shack (https://goosefleshsite.wordpress.com/about/) was the first to post about his first love: https://goosefleshsite.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/first-love-endless-love/
Inspired by his passionate and exciting tale, I re-posted it here and am now once in a while inviting whomever cares to dredge up those long-ago thoughts and emotions to have them posted on my humble blog.
We were also treated to the unexpectedly fabu...
June 13, 2021
Only English Spoken Here
It was NASA funded.
It happened for ten weeks in the 1960s at Caribbean-situated Dolphin Point, often called the Dolphinarum.
There was inter-species salaciousness.
And it ended in dolphin suicide.
When we tuned into the middle of the documentary “The Girl Who Talked with Dolphins,” it almost immediately felt like (for me) the villain here was Margaret Howe, the untrained 23-year-old who took it upon herself to teach English to Peter, an adolescent bottlenosed dolphin.
Invited by Gregory Bates...
May 2, 2021
Skirts Weighty With Water
“The iron pump-handle was cold, and even with her mitts on, her chilblains flared as she heaved the water up from the underground dark and into her waiting pail.”
The opening paragraph of Jo Baker’s 2013 “Longbourn,” strikes like a wave, immersing one immediately into the world of 19th century British working-class life.
I miss words. What were chilblains? I had an idea but wasn’t sure. Cold iron. Water pulled up from the underground dark. I was watching an old game show from the ‘50s...
