Review, part two

Review, part two

This review is from: The Night, They Say, Was Made for Love: Plus My Sexual Scrapbook (Paperback) “Great and humerous read!!! John Callahan is a very talented man who has never let his disability get in his way.”   What exactly does his disability have to do with this?  What would it get in the way of?  Being talented?  Drawing cartoons?  Writing a book?  I think his disability is irrelevant in this context, am I wrong about that? This review just sounds patronizing to me. Being patronized for writing a book by someone who can’t spell, I hope Callahan got a laugh from...

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Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Disability Rights | 0 comments

In Praise of Wheelchairs

In Praise of Wheelchairs

“…at 23yrs old I thought falling over daily was ‘normal’. Now I have my wheels I can go shopping, socialise, dance, sail, even do some basic chores on a good day. All things that without my wheels would be simply: Impossible. I walk where I can and I wheel where I can’t. My wheels quite literally gave me back my life. My independance. My sparkle.” http://stickmancommunications.blogspot.com/2011/03/international-wheelchair-day.html   Love this article!  Check it out.  I can’t believe I missed “International Wheelchair...

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Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in Disability Rights | 0 comments

Rear Window, remake

Rear Window, remake

A shame, but this straight-to-tv movie staring Christopher Reeve (after his accident) is nothing but a vehicle for him to talk about disability issues.  The whole story gets completely bogged down in this educating. I’m all for teaching people about disability issues, that’s a real passion of mine.  If you’re going to use a fictional story to do that, though, it has to be gentle, in the background, and not overwhelming the plot.  This feels more like a documentary on quadriplegia than a fiction movie. The original Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window has the main character in a wheelchair with a broken leg, and his immobility is used to up the ante on the fear.  Similar to my comments on Bone Collector and MonkeyShines, it isn’t surprising that...

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Posted by on Mar 23, 2011 in Movies, Quadriplegic Hero | 0 comments