A Quick Thought On Valkyrie

Tom Cruise is proud of Valkyrie*. He thinks it’s a noble story, about noble men who plotted and attempted to kill the most evil man in the history of evil men.

But I have a small question, one that didn’t occur to me until just now.

Why doesn’t anyone mention that Operation Valkyrie actually took place on July 20, 1944?

To hammer home why that’s important, Victory in Europe Day, the official end of WWII, was May 7, 1945. So these Nazis tried to kill Hitler… 10 months before the war ended. Or, to put it another way, they tried to kill Hitler something like 6 years after Hitler implemented the concentration camps and started invading other countries to destroy their Jews.

Were these men noble men? I’m sure that could be argued. I’m not exactly going to say they’re not. But I’ll put it this way: I’m decidedly unimpressed.

* – I have not seen Valkyrie, the movie. So I’m not passing judgment on it. Even though all the critics seem to hate it.

“I Will Continue To Write What I Write Until The Day That I Die.”

Harold Pinter died yesterday, Christmas Eve, at the age of 78. As a young woman interested in theater, writing and plays, I discovered new parts of my own writer self through the exploration of Pinter’s exceptional work. As a playwright he was sharp, witty, and insightful. As a man he was brash, confident, and unusual. He is a talent and a force that will be missed by the world. Luckily, we can all keep his plays on our shelves.

Hey There, It’s Been A While…

Hi. As you can (hopefully) see, this blog is going through somewhat of a facelift.

Some of the posts are gone. Others are getting convenient little “read more” tags put in them for convenient reading.

The header image has changed. The layout has changed.

I have changed.

I’m going to be putting a lot more work and focus back into this blog. It’s been months — MONTHS — since I’ve written on it. It’ll still have news and satire, but it’s going to have more me. More of my life. More of my writing. More of what it should have had from the beginning.

Thanks for bearing with me.

–Sara