The word of the day* for February 17, 2007 is “incendiary” — noun 1 a : a person who commits arson. : ARSONIST. b : an incendiary agent (as a bomb). 2 : a person who excites factions, quarrels, or sedition : AGITATOR.
We went to the movies again today. This time to see Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider—talk about a pyromaniac’s wet dream! Actually, it was a fun movie. Lloyd stayed awake through the whole thing. Nicolas Cage did his dead-calm-to-incendiary-rage-in-less-than-ten-seconds very well. Peter Fonda is getting old enough to look vaguely like his father. Sam Elliot does Sam Elliot with style.
The movie is based on a Marvel comic book. Like most comic books that I have read out of Marvel, there is a strong moral streak to this one. When the Ghost Rider prevails because of the bad guy’s mistake, I said to Lloyd, “That’ll teach him.” And the moral to the story was basically that “you can’t live with fear.”
The quote† for today is from Rafe Esquith, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56:
For that one moment, the only thing that mattered to me was that this girl should have a successful experiment. She was going to go home that day with a smile on her face.
;^) Jan
* Unlessotherwise attributed, the definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
† Unless otherwise attributed, the quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
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