What Jeni said

I think there is a fine line between "criticism" and "judgment". To me, a critical person has room to alter their perception. A judgment has weight and permanence.

I don't get many comments here on the blog, so I wanted to thank Jeni for chiming in with the above statement regarding my "critique" of Alice in Wonderland. She makes a great point and I feel a bit better about it all.

I think what Jeni meant to say though is that judgment day is coming- a day when critical minds and judgemental minds will all be stepped on by terminator feet. Giant waves of napalm will be viewed at and no one will take the time to update their blog about how the napalm should have been hotter or the wave taller or the ashy skeletons more ashy. We will all just run for our lives and hope our loved ones don't become terminated too tortuously.

Critics are cartoons, judges are jokesters and we are all just people pointing in different directions. There is no reason for me to write this. It will only be scanned for vitals by the mother-terminator and then used against the human resistance. It is obvious to me. On a day like today, the sun was shining, the blossoms were falling and not once did I breath in and say, "man, this air smelt so much better in 1997." This is because I can't time travel! I am not from the future and can't go to the past. I will not crouch naked and awaken atop a crater in a seedy part of 1997 telling myself how awesome the air smells. If I could, I would make a bet on the Phillies to win it all in 2008.

I just looked it up. Judgement Day isn't until July 11th 2029. The Phillies could win another one by then. I will have just celebrated a 48th birthday and would not have judged anything in a good 20 years. I will be telling my niece about how happy I am she became a Phillies fan despite growing up in Boston and maybe we should travel to the moon when the Phillies play the Moon Men in an upcoming Orbit-League exhibition. She will probably tell me that she prefers a good pitching matchup and dislikes all the 4,000 foot home runs that are hit in low gravity. On this day air will smell of injected fragrances that remind us all of ex-girlfriends and people will constantly be cringing. The wave of napalm won't be so bad after that.

Luckily for them, the Phillies will be on the moon on judgement day hitting homeruns and the napalm will only look like a fireworks show from their vantage.