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gwydion* "Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century:" https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073
* "Bad Representation vs Tokenism vs Diversity just existing without justification like in the real world:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/111030900560/bad-representation-vs-tokenism-vs-diversity-just
* Walking Dead: Glenn is doing all the good leader things, why is he not the Leader?
* I give up, can someone explain the SNL Californians sketch to me? I find it baffling and I can not figure out the point. Is it meant to be mocking LA or new yorkers for thinking that's what people in California are like or some third unguessable thing? Why are there no jokes in it?
* “Times have changed since I first sat behind this desk. For example, I used to be the only pretty blonde woman reading the fake news. now there’s a whole network devoted to that.” — Jane Curtain on the SNL 40th Anniversary Show referring to FOX News.
* I have no idea how to feel about Emma Stone's unnerving Gilda Radner doing Rosanna Rosanna Danna impression. She got the delivery, the mannerisms, everything right and I'm still sad Gilda Radner died so young and didn't give us another couple of decades of brilliance. After all, I am someone who still says, "Today was a Rosanna Rosanna Danna kind of day." Of course the show is haunted by it's dead, and it was better they acknowledge them than not, but I still gasped in startlement at the audacity of invoking her this way.
Gilda was always my favorite and I have strong often complicated feelings about the original cast (and early replacements. I count everything before the dreaded clean sweep as original/originalish). Certainly she connected most with me. They’ve made it so hard to see the old shows or even clips of them, pushing the 20+ year stretch of unwatchable stuff instead as if I would want to watch things I didn’t bother with when they were new and fresh.
I still remember Steve Martin’s first hosting after she died though and him being close to speechless with the pain of it. He had them roll the clip of their dance sketch instead in lieu of a eulogy and it caught her exactly. Some of her characters spoke to me more than others, but always the indescribable something that made me like her was underneath. I have tried, often, to explain what it was that made her so important to me is a kid, and why particularly the Rosanna Rosanna Danna character, but I can’t.
TW: Domestic Abuse, Bullying, Eating Disorder.
The ones I had trouble watching then and that are torturous to me now are the nerd couple she used to do with Bill Murray. The one they ran on the lead up clip shows feels like domestic abuse, and they always felt that way to me, though I couldn’t put it into words as a kid. The supposed joke is he is bullying her because he likes her, but that’s a crappy thing to reinforce and there is no counter narrative in the text, just his endless semi-consensual cruelty…. *shudder* It’s worse as an adult knowing that he was abusive to her and his teasing made her eating disorder worse makes an already ugly thing uglier. It’s why I still have trouble liking Bill Murray, though everyone else on the planet seems to. Adult me can’t forget how he was in those sketches and endlessly wonders if that’s under his affable surface.
* I knew it wouldn't be a land shark when Jane said it was _always_ a land shark, but oh, did I want it to be. Desperately.
* OMG! Surprise Gareth Morris! Look, I used to root for him as a little kid, because he was underutilized and often given thankless tasks and even at the age of seven I had a pretty good idea that racism was why and it made me sad he never had much of a career after, so I'm always happy to see him working.
* Ebay time:
BPAL: 27 Imps (LE and GC) and a Squirt: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-27-Imps-LE-and-GC-and-a-Squirt-/301532603772?
BPAL: THERE’s WATER HERE, THIRTEEN, and CREEPY 2009 Partials: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-THERE-s-WATER-HERE-THIRTEEN-and-CREEPY-2009-Partials-/301532631953?
SHARK TOOTH 2014 (LE, Event Exclusive Oils, Dragon Con, Peach Pit): (Company says: Pale, stony ambergris with oudh, patchouli, white cedar, and ambrette seed. Tested Once. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SHARK-TOOTH-2014-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532651073?
WHITE PEACOCK 2011 (LE, Metamorphosis): (Company says: Teak, ebony wood, osmanthus, patchouli, red sandalwood, vanilla orchid, tonka bean, tobacco, wild musk, spikenard, and sugandh kokila.) ¾ full.: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-WHITE-PEACOCK-2011-LE-Metamorphosis-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532671133?
BROOD XIX ((LE, Metamorphosis): (Company says: Tree sap, hay, almond blossoms, moss, hemp, corn stalks, acorn, sweet amber, and rice milk.) Aprox 2/3 full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-BROOD-XIX-LE-Metamorphosis-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532684450?
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* "Bad Representation vs Tokenism vs Diversity just existing without justification like in the real world:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/111030900560/bad-representation-vs-tokenism-vs-diversity-just
* Walking Dead: Glenn is doing all the good leader things, why is he not the Leader?
* I give up, can someone explain the SNL Californians sketch to me? I find it baffling and I can not figure out the point. Is it meant to be mocking LA or new yorkers for thinking that's what people in California are like or some third unguessable thing? Why are there no jokes in it?
* “Times have changed since I first sat behind this desk. For example, I used to be the only pretty blonde woman reading the fake news. now there’s a whole network devoted to that.” — Jane Curtain on the SNL 40th Anniversary Show referring to FOX News.
* I have no idea how to feel about Emma Stone's unnerving Gilda Radner doing Rosanna Rosanna Danna impression. She got the delivery, the mannerisms, everything right and I'm still sad Gilda Radner died so young and didn't give us another couple of decades of brilliance. After all, I am someone who still says, "Today was a Rosanna Rosanna Danna kind of day." Of course the show is haunted by it's dead, and it was better they acknowledge them than not, but I still gasped in startlement at the audacity of invoking her this way.
Gilda was always my favorite and I have strong often complicated feelings about the original cast (and early replacements. I count everything before the dreaded clean sweep as original/originalish). Certainly she connected most with me. They’ve made it so hard to see the old shows or even clips of them, pushing the 20+ year stretch of unwatchable stuff instead as if I would want to watch things I didn’t bother with when they were new and fresh.
I still remember Steve Martin’s first hosting after she died though and him being close to speechless with the pain of it. He had them roll the clip of their dance sketch instead in lieu of a eulogy and it caught her exactly. Some of her characters spoke to me more than others, but always the indescribable something that made me like her was underneath. I have tried, often, to explain what it was that made her so important to me is a kid, and why particularly the Rosanna Rosanna Danna character, but I can’t.
TW: Domestic Abuse, Bullying, Eating Disorder.
The ones I had trouble watching then and that are torturous to me now are the nerd couple she used to do with Bill Murray. The one they ran on the lead up clip shows feels like domestic abuse, and they always felt that way to me, though I couldn’t put it into words as a kid. The supposed joke is he is bullying her because he likes her, but that’s a crappy thing to reinforce and there is no counter narrative in the text, just his endless semi-consensual cruelty…. *shudder* It’s worse as an adult knowing that he was abusive to her and his teasing made her eating disorder worse makes an already ugly thing uglier. It’s why I still have trouble liking Bill Murray, though everyone else on the planet seems to. Adult me can’t forget how he was in those sketches and endlessly wonders if that’s under his affable surface.
* I knew it wouldn't be a land shark when Jane said it was _always_ a land shark, but oh, did I want it to be. Desperately.
* OMG! Surprise Gareth Morris! Look, I used to root for him as a little kid, because he was underutilized and often given thankless tasks and even at the age of seven I had a pretty good idea that racism was why and it made me sad he never had much of a career after, so I'm always happy to see him working.
* Ebay time:
BPAL: 27 Imps (LE and GC) and a Squirt: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-27-Imps-LE-and-GC-and-a-Squirt-/301532603772?
BPAL: THERE’s WATER HERE, THIRTEEN, and CREEPY 2009 Partials: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-THERE-s-WATER-HERE-THIRTEEN-and-CREEPY-2009-Partials-/301532631953?
SHARK TOOTH 2014 (LE, Event Exclusive Oils, Dragon Con, Peach Pit): (Company says: Pale, stony ambergris with oudh, patchouli, white cedar, and ambrette seed. Tested Once. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SHARK-TOOTH-2014-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532651073?
WHITE PEACOCK 2011 (LE, Metamorphosis): (Company says: Teak, ebony wood, osmanthus, patchouli, red sandalwood, vanilla orchid, tonka bean, tobacco, wild musk, spikenard, and sugandh kokila.) ¾ full.: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-WHITE-PEACOCK-2011-LE-Metamorphosis-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532671133?
BROOD XIX ((LE, Metamorphosis): (Company says: Tree sap, hay, almond blossoms, moss, hemp, corn stalks, acorn, sweet amber, and rice milk.) Aprox 2/3 full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-BROOD-XIX-LE-Metamorphosis-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301532684450?
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com