The End is near...

It's been a week of endings. I finished Hardcore Zen which was often brilliant, sometimes annoying, and occasionally off-base, but worthwhile in the end. Another ending came in the form of getting the online version of the Introduction to Humanities course approved and ready to go. It's officially the end of summer: classes begin on Wednesday, although we're all required by LAW to attend a series of inane seminars on Tuesday. Most significantly we ended the Planet of the Apes series with the fifth film: Battle for the Planet of the Apes. I think I heard a collective sigh of relief at that one. Okay, perhaps it does come under the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the Constitution, but I refuse to have children who, like the one at dinner the other night, say something like "I've never seen a John Wayne film," or "What are the Yankees" or other examples of sheer ignorance of previous generations' popular culture (yes, they are both direct quotes). However, my kids balked tonight when I wanted to end our seventies film fest with Return of a Man Called Horse, so I'm going for that one alone I guess.