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Enjoy the world as it is, not how you would have it be I
remember being excited for historical figure and Ethan many reasons when I found out loves movies more than I was going to be a father, and I love sports, at least two near the top of the list was the members of the household idea that I’d have someone with are planning to see it. whom to share my love of sports. I like the emperor I’ve mellowed a bit on that because he was smart, front as I’ve gotten older — but in ambitious, creative and Randy Capps the spring of 2001, when I wasn’t — like all geniuses — a randy@johnstonnow.com working at a sporting event, I was bit mad. Most people are watching one on TV. aware that he was a pretty Of course, I had a son that doesn’t good general, but most don’t know that really care for sports beyond how it might he wasn’t that short (around 5’6”) and intersect with pop culture. Life really is that his set of laws (the Code Civil) is the what happens when you’re making other basis for more than 25 percent of today’s plans. modern governments. Sometimes, though, our interests align Of course, Napoleon would eventually perfectly. be undone by his hubris, invading Russia The movie “Napoleon” will be out later in the summer of 1812 only to watch from this month, and since he’s my favorite the gates of Moscow while the retreating
Russian Army set it ablaze. That led to a march home without enough food or winter supplies, and an army that left with 400,000 men came home with about 10 percent of that number. One wonders what might have happened if Napoleon could have been satisfied with controlling most of Western Europe? Or, instead of trying to remake the world as he would have it, he could have simply stopped and enjoyed the one he had already created? I didn’t get the son I thought I wanted. I got a talented karaoke singer and movie buff, instead. So, instead of sitting down in front of a football game later this month, we’ll go see if Joaquin Phoenix can pull off playing one of history’s most complex figures. Now that sounds like fun.
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