Get excited, guys! My second article at A Bright Wall in a Dark Room went up today, so please enjoy my loving review of Dirty Dancing, for our summer movies theme week. You may remember that I have waxedpoetic about the 1987 classic before. Enjoy!
What does "Kat Ex Machina" mean? The blog's title, and my online moniker, is taken from the popular plot device in storytelling, Deus ex machina, which means "God from a machine." It comes from the ancient Greek theatre, in which actors representing God would swoop in to the action and save the characters from a seemingly unsolvable situation. It is still used frequently as a contrivance in film and television. Kat Ex Machina means Kat (me) from a machine, and as my blog entries on a computer are about the best way for me to broadcast my trivial thoughts, it seemed appropriate.