Dear friends -- sometimes being a quirky failure who survives ought to be enough. Personally, I come from a longish line of failures. My dad was a failure. A terrible one. So was my mom. My mom's mom didn't make it as a ballerina and taught dancing and French instead. My paternal grandfather's parents failed … Continue reading in praise of failure, being weird, and not giving up — Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom –Sunday special June 9th 2013