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miriam_eHey, y'know how most legends have some truth at their origin? Well, I have always had this horrible feeling about the legend of Medusa.
Imagine that there is a brilliant woman who creates sculptures. She lives with her sisters (or girlfriends) on an island in the Mediterranean, where she works creating wonderful statues. She is possibly from the African continent and braids her hair with brightly colored string in the manner of some people there.
One day a young adventurer named Perseus, big on muscle, but short on brains, comes to the island, having heard of the legends of the woman-monsters with snakes for hair that dwell there. He believes the silly stories that they can turn people to stone with a look, in fact he sees plenty of "evidence" of it in the many sculptures there.
Medusa is rather amused to see this dumb, young, musclebound clod walking backwards up from the shore toward her looking in the reflection of his shone-up shield... until he decapitates her with a sudden swing of his sword.
The stupid superstitious shit kills a talented sculptress and goes down in history as some kind of hero.
Imagine that there is a brilliant woman who creates sculptures. She lives with her sisters (or girlfriends) on an island in the Mediterranean, where she works creating wonderful statues. She is possibly from the African continent and braids her hair with brightly colored string in the manner of some people there.
One day a young adventurer named Perseus, big on muscle, but short on brains, comes to the island, having heard of the legends of the woman-monsters with snakes for hair that dwell there. He believes the silly stories that they can turn people to stone with a look, in fact he sees plenty of "evidence" of it in the many sculptures there.
Medusa is rather amused to see this dumb, young, musclebound clod walking backwards up from the shore toward her looking in the reflection of his shone-up shield... until he decapitates her with a sudden swing of his sword.
The stupid superstitious shit kills a talented sculptress and goes down in history as some kind of hero.
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Date: 2003-04-22 10:49 am (UTC)I'm pretty proud of my niece and nephew too. (Just met them for the first time in September...it's a long story I'll tell you some time.)
As for their dad, (big time cop in the LA area..note-NOT an LA cop! He hates them) we have just started to get to know each other too. We've grown close in the past year.
Saw that you enjoyed "Lilo & Stitch," well he was the "Police Consultant" for the picture. (no credit) The two guys who produced it are friends of his. They are working on another animated film and one of the characters may actually be based on him.
Sorry..I have no connections there; just him. I was invited to the opening in Florida, but since I had just changed jobs, I couldn't go. Big bummer! Really big bummer!!!
But when I visited him (our 2nd ever meeting), we had lunch at the Disney Studios. And we even managed to get in to the famous "Club 33" at Disneyland. But actually the highlight of my trip (besides spending time with my big bro) was the 1 1/2 police tour in a helicopter!