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We watched Uncle Buck tonight, in honor of John Hughes, and by association, in honor of John Candy. There are so many sweet/funny moments it's a joy to watch several times.
The music was such an integral part of Hughes' films, and this one is no exception.
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Signs have been posted for some time at work, noting the days passed since each department's lost-time accident, and the reigning person in the sign shop, who has had a headache for way too long, posted two. Don's headache he thinks has to do with extensive kicking up of dust during simplification. I fervently believe it also has to do with the fact that his office, about twice the size of our bathroom at home, was well-known as a haven for creativity and expression. Simplification is, at its core, antithetical to expression. Its themesong is "Do it this way or else". I can live with it, but I fully understand how someone like him could not.
Don's two signs are one virtually duplicating the "This department has had 35 days since the last lost-time accident", only it says, "This department has had 36 days since the last nasty papercut incident." The other one is a plastic-laminated playing-card-size image of an oldfashioned diagram of a man showing the brain inside his head. It's labeled "Don's headache ______ days", with the number of days filled in by hand, as is customary with such things.
Self-expression still lives on.
The music was such an integral part of Hughes' films, and this one is no exception.
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Signs have been posted for some time at work, noting the days passed since each department's lost-time accident, and the reigning person in the sign shop, who has had a headache for way too long, posted two. Don's headache he thinks has to do with extensive kicking up of dust during simplification. I fervently believe it also has to do with the fact that his office, about twice the size of our bathroom at home, was well-known as a haven for creativity and expression. Simplification is, at its core, antithetical to expression. Its themesong is "Do it this way or else". I can live with it, but I fully understand how someone like him could not.
Don's two signs are one virtually duplicating the "This department has had 35 days since the last lost-time accident", only it says, "This department has had 36 days since the last nasty papercut incident." The other one is a plastic-laminated playing-card-size image of an oldfashioned diagram of a man showing the brain inside his head. It's labeled "Don's headache ______ days", with the number of days filled in by hand, as is customary with such things.
Self-expression still lives on.