TRM Round 1: When Dinosaurs Roamed America (Narrated by John Goodman) vs. We’re Back! (Rex, voiced by John Goodman)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America (Narrated by John Goodman) – Here we have a family of T. rexes demonstrating the power of cooperation. When one of the younger T. rexes tries hunting alone, he struggles, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Most hunts, after all, end in failure. The next day, with the whole family working together, the rexes are able to separate an Edmontosaurus from the herd and lead it into an ambush by the mother T. rex. Sadly, their victory is short-lived, as this is yet another documentary that takes place in the last moments of the Cretaceous.
We’re Back! (Rex, voiced by John Goodman) – Rex is a kindhearted Tyrannosaurus who, along with some of his prehistoric peers, is brought to the present of 1993 by the inventor Captain Neweyes. On the way, the dinosaurs are given cereal that grants them human intelligence, thus allowing Rex to perform a musical number in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Things get weirder from there, as the dinosaurs then have their intelligence drained by the inventor’s evil twin to be used in his circus of fear. Neweyes manages to rescue the dinosaurs and take them to the museum, where they can spend their lives teaching kids about dinosaurs and, in the case of Rex, telling a runaway bird his life story during a game of golf.
TRM Round 1: When Dinosaurs Roamed America (Narrated by John Goodman) vs. We’re Back! (Rex, voiced by John Goodman)
Soo Sunny Park (b. Seoul, Korea) - Unwoven Light at Rice University’s Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. Composed of 37 individual sculptural units, the installation uses iridescent plexi-glass embedded in pieces of a chain link fence to cast shimmering, colorful reflections across the spacious gallery.
hometowns have a thousand little ghosts pushing through the pavement that trip you up wherever you go how are we meant to live like that
on my way out of my hometown i’m torn between: “i have too many ghosts here” and “i don’t have enough ghosts anywhere else”.. a haunting doesn’t always have to be bad. it can be a light in my childhood best friend’s window after she moved away seven years ago.. it can be the smell of lilacs in spring that just don’t smell the same in another state.. it can be seeing an old classmate’s parent in line at the grocery store and being given a hug. there are small joys in tripping over my ghosts. sometimes the ghosts love me as much as they hate me.. but either way they’re proof i’ve lived. i left a fingerprint on the world here. small as it might be..
