a.c. rodríguez

I'm getting to the post I said I'd do. It's about "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea."  But, first, I will direct you to  this genius review of my piece  on StoryGraph, because whoever this savant is, well, nailed it. Nailed it. Got the whole point of the piece. Yes, I am painful, and my prose is painful ("almost"). Cringe! And, yes, it resembles edgy bad fanfiction that "doesn't land," no, not like a Sp/\c3X space-craft would land. I am obsessed with this person for their wisdom in observing these facts (?), and you can say I'm stalking them in the night hours while they continue rating literature. You should too. Who wouldn't want to witness such stellar brilliance? Their avatar is so beautiful, too; that person's account is so art-fully constructed in its intelligence. You could say it's art-intelligent. But, behind the account is a soul, right? A human, right? I mean it's human and artistic, not artificial nor even auuuuu... All ...

From " Monster (Kaibutsu 怪物)" dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda This is not the post I've been planning on for some time, but, I'd like to post it and save the other for next week or the following. My Storygraph Giveaway ends on the 19th and with certain politics here in USA I do have a review about an artwork that speaks more closely to my own home and my art (current and as-yet-unreleased) than this one. Surprisingly, it's not the humiliating-to-Latin-Americans 2024's "Emilia Pérez:" I don't want to talk about that egregore, even to criticize, though it's tempting; I don't want to feed it. No, I've been planning a review of an old kitschy Colombian artwork, nothing to do with narcos and exploitable violence, in a funny format that's made a come-back. But, I do want to make this post about "Monster (Kaibutsu 怪物)" now. This is also an important topic. Introduction   It's award-season and MUBI offered me three months of subscr...