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Nov. 15th, 2013 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* "It was hard to stomach David Cameron preaching austerity from a golden throne:" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/david-cameron-austerity-public-sector-cuts
* "Meteorite impacts capture time capsules of the ecosystems they destroy:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/meteorite-impacts-capture-time-capsules-of-the-ecosystems-they-destroy/
* "Poor countries want space programs more than rich ones do:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/poor-countries-want-space-programs-more-than-rich-ones-do/
* "We Trans Peeps Make The Call Concerning Who We Are, Not You Cisgender Haters:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-trans-peeps-make-call-concerning-who.html
* "Are Virgina's Transpeople About To Be Thrown Under The Civil Rights Bus?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/are-virginas-transpeople-about-to-be.html
* "Andrey Bridges Sentenced In Cemia Dove Acoff Murder:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/andrey-bridges-sentenced-in-cemia-dove.html
* Re: J P Morgan, Bank of America, et al: Will no one rid me of these criminous banks?
* The contractor comes way too early Monday to see how bad the water damage is. It sounds like the HOA is paying for remediation as it's clearly structural rather than our fault or the fault of the previous owners. This is a huge weight off as money for things needing doing is melting away. Of course, the bid needs to go to the board and the time table for fixing things is now set by committee. I can not start setting up the kitchen until the floor is in place as my kitchen is stacked with pallets of laminate. I'm going to focus on moving things into the storage closet as previously planned. I am sooo lucky I haven't given notice yet to Housing authority and management here, though I gave both a courtesy heads up.
The crud is debilitating as far as energy and nausea and not being safe to bend over, but my lungs are not as bad as they were last night. *fingers crossed* I wish I had another week to get myself together physically for meeting up with J, but he's up here for work three days only, so needs must when the devil drives.
* Except for that Glee episode, I don't think I've heard Stevie Nicks in years until Coven. I never owned one of the albums, but that music is woven all through a whole bunch of intense stuff when I was young. That song they were playing during the Kyle bath scene still makes my interior wobble, with all these conflicting emotions.
I have so much trouble with the racial narrative of this show. A whole bunch of structural stuff annoys the hell out of me. I wish it was less predictable. I still can't look away.
* "American Horror Story: Wounds as weapons:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2013/11/07/american-horror-story-wounds-as-weapons/
* Glee 5.5: The end of Twerk:
I'm glad they finally addressed the bathroom issue. It's a huge fucking deal out here in the real world. I was pleased that the districts I taught gave trans students the choice of the bathroom matching their gender expression or the faculty single seaters, whichever felt safest to the student. As it should be. It's been infuriating that the Glee Club took as long as they did to start protecting Unique, and it's nice to see them sticking with that in this case. As much as I hate Shue, the bathroom key offer here was maybe the first thing he's done I've approved of in years. It doesn't make me not want him to go away just generally, and so much about how he handled things was not right (see tantrum) but it was beautiful in it's way.
I don't approve of white people twerking because of the appropriation issue. This episode could have been so much worse, but it wasn't good.
OMG, Shuester singing a song glorifying date rape surrounded by underaged twerking teens. At least they called him on it, but I really didn't need to see any of it. Yetone more example of a long line of evidence Shue's boundaries suck.
I am glad they've started to address the Rachel mourning Finn thing, and having conversations about it.
I guessed what Rachel had done, as I very nearly did something similar (Initials and dates one on each shoulder blade), but I literally didn't have the money at the time. I kept waiting for the reveal. I was not disappointed.
It is a terrible thing that caused them to do this mourning arc, but I appreciate that they are treating it as a process, that they are tying it in thematically, that they continue to show shades of it like they did in 5.3. People process differently, and so often there are only the same two models in movies/TV/Books and those models don't come close to representing everyone. Those models are dramatic, but not everyone's external process is dramatic. I like that Glee is showing variety and grief over time because so often, people think other people are doing it wrong, when they are just doing what they need to for themselves. I hate grief policing, and I've seen a lot of it recently between the way people treated the cast of Glee last Summer and the nasty way people tried to police the young women who survived various kidnappings in the last half year. It's nice to have multiple models on a show like this. I like that it's also working artistically for me.
This episode had it's rough patches, but it was speaking to my interests in a way that 5.4 did not. I may not be the intended audience, by I appreciate when I'm given things that speak to me anyway.
* "14 Ways to Tick off a Writer:" http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/14-ways-to-tick-off-a-writer/
* This gives me chills. Damn! I am still literally shaking. "Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981:" http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/listen_to_freddie_mercury_and_david_bowie_on_the_isolated_vocal_track_for_the_queen_hit_under_pressure_1981.html
* "Meteorite impacts capture time capsules of the ecosystems they destroy:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/meteorite-impacts-capture-time-capsules-of-the-ecosystems-they-destroy/
* "Poor countries want space programs more than rich ones do:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/poor-countries-want-space-programs-more-than-rich-ones-do/
* "We Trans Peeps Make The Call Concerning Who We Are, Not You Cisgender Haters:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-trans-peeps-make-call-concerning-who.html
* "Are Virgina's Transpeople About To Be Thrown Under The Civil Rights Bus?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/are-virginas-transpeople-about-to-be.html
* "Andrey Bridges Sentenced In Cemia Dove Acoff Murder:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/andrey-bridges-sentenced-in-cemia-dove.html
* Re: J P Morgan, Bank of America, et al: Will no one rid me of these criminous banks?
* The contractor comes way too early Monday to see how bad the water damage is. It sounds like the HOA is paying for remediation as it's clearly structural rather than our fault or the fault of the previous owners. This is a huge weight off as money for things needing doing is melting away. Of course, the bid needs to go to the board and the time table for fixing things is now set by committee. I can not start setting up the kitchen until the floor is in place as my kitchen is stacked with pallets of laminate. I'm going to focus on moving things into the storage closet as previously planned. I am sooo lucky I haven't given notice yet to Housing authority and management here, though I gave both a courtesy heads up.
The crud is debilitating as far as energy and nausea and not being safe to bend over, but my lungs are not as bad as they were last night. *fingers crossed* I wish I had another week to get myself together physically for meeting up with J, but he's up here for work three days only, so needs must when the devil drives.
* Except for that Glee episode, I don't think I've heard Stevie Nicks in years until Coven. I never owned one of the albums, but that music is woven all through a whole bunch of intense stuff when I was young. That song they were playing during the Kyle bath scene still makes my interior wobble, with all these conflicting emotions.
I have so much trouble with the racial narrative of this show. A whole bunch of structural stuff annoys the hell out of me. I wish it was less predictable. I still can't look away.
* "American Horror Story: Wounds as weapons:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2013/11/07/american-horror-story-wounds-as-weapons/
* Glee 5.5: The end of Twerk:
I'm glad they finally addressed the bathroom issue. It's a huge fucking deal out here in the real world. I was pleased that the districts I taught gave trans students the choice of the bathroom matching their gender expression or the faculty single seaters, whichever felt safest to the student. As it should be. It's been infuriating that the Glee Club took as long as they did to start protecting Unique, and it's nice to see them sticking with that in this case. As much as I hate Shue, the bathroom key offer here was maybe the first thing he's done I've approved of in years. It doesn't make me not want him to go away just generally, and so much about how he handled things was not right (see tantrum) but it was beautiful in it's way.
I don't approve of white people twerking because of the appropriation issue. This episode could have been so much worse, but it wasn't good.
OMG, Shuester singing a song glorifying date rape surrounded by underaged twerking teens. At least they called him on it, but I really didn't need to see any of it. Yetone more example of a long line of evidence Shue's boundaries suck.
I am glad they've started to address the Rachel mourning Finn thing, and having conversations about it.
I guessed what Rachel had done, as I very nearly did something similar (Initials and dates one on each shoulder blade), but I literally didn't have the money at the time. I kept waiting for the reveal. I was not disappointed.
It is a terrible thing that caused them to do this mourning arc, but I appreciate that they are treating it as a process, that they are tying it in thematically, that they continue to show shades of it like they did in 5.3. People process differently, and so often there are only the same two models in movies/TV/Books and those models don't come close to representing everyone. Those models are dramatic, but not everyone's external process is dramatic. I like that Glee is showing variety and grief over time because so often, people think other people are doing it wrong, when they are just doing what they need to for themselves. I hate grief policing, and I've seen a lot of it recently between the way people treated the cast of Glee last Summer and the nasty way people tried to police the young women who survived various kidnappings in the last half year. It's nice to have multiple models on a show like this. I like that it's also working artistically for me.
This episode had it's rough patches, but it was speaking to my interests in a way that 5.4 did not. I may not be the intended audience, by I appreciate when I'm given things that speak to me anyway.
* "14 Ways to Tick off a Writer:" http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/14-ways-to-tick-off-a-writer/
* This gives me chills. Damn! I am still literally shaking. "Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981:" http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/listen_to_freddie_mercury_and_david_bowie_on_the_isolated_vocal_track_for_the_queen_hit_under_pressure_1981.html