Brady's Blog

I know it isn't Monday but yesterday ended up being busier than I expected so thus, Movie Monday makes its premier on a Tuesday. Saturday evening I was eating dinner with my roommates as they began raving about "Sully". You know, that new movie about the pilot who landed an airplane in the Hudson River. The one with the trailer that doesn't have very much to it....except a plane landing in the Hudson. Let's just say I was skeptical about the movie to the point that my roommates were shocked at my dismissive attitude and dragged me, nearly kicking and screaming, to the movie theater that night just to see the movie. At the completion of the movie, I was asked by these same roommates what I thought. By response was that I had nearly a hundred thoughts going through my head both good and bad but that the movie as a whole was not bad. It was much better than I expected it to be. So what were my notes? To start with what I felt was poor about the movie, I didn...

First let me tell you that I am addicted to fashion. I have been for a few years now and my favorite outlet is the Vogue Runway app. They have every picture from every collection from major fashion week. I literally spend hours each week thumbing through the styles and designers and even reading up and studying the trends, mood boards, and themes of the shows.  With that, I begin my first #FashionFriday post with a topic that I have discussed with a few friends lately and that is the base color of Olive Green . Black and white will always be in. Shades of grey continue to forge forward as a leading base color for fashion. Navy goes in and out (right now it's in). But olive green is a new addition to the catwalks.  By new, I mean that it first started to take its footing in the Fall 2015 and 2016 shows. makes sense, right? In the fall the greens of leaves begin to lose their luster. We tend to focus on the rich reds and oranges of changing leaves, forgetting that some...

"Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society. A manipulator can influence the other patients and disrupt them to such an extent that it may take months to get everything running smooth once more." As very few of you probably know, I am currently reading Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . This novel centers on mental hospitals in a time where there was need for reform. This particular quote from the novel  concerns a new patient that has a very particular personality. This quote is one nurse speaking to another regarding the new patient's first actions upon entering the ward. Yes, there are people like this in the society of a mental hospital but there are also people like this in societies outside the padded walls of those being watched and nursed. Also, I feel that each individual has a manipulator within themselves. The manipulator of frustrati...