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gwydion* "Girl Scouts Return Transphobe`s Donation, Get Paid:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/07/girl-scouts-return-transphobes-donation.html
* I am having a little trouble connecting to this season of True Dectective, but it is growing on me, mostly because I was right about the CHiP guy and the woman cop is growing on me. I thing the first one was so visually intense for me and both the language and the images were so poetic that it is hard for the more sprawling and less poetic sequel to compete as far as initial impact. That doesn't mean it' not interesting, just that it's not talking to my hindbrain the way something with the right sort of visual textures does. Could someone with better eyes and/or a larger television tell me what that guy's teeth said? I couldn't read them.
* I tried to watch the Canal, but was thwarted by the shit quality of the sound recording and editing. The child was entirely incomprehensible and the adults were so soft and mumbly compared with the background that it took huge concentration to try to work out what they were saying. Given the extremely poor sound quality, the artistic choice to forgo subtitles of the spoken dialog in favor of rapidly scrolling, but admittedly creepy mildly tangential ghost dialog was an unfortunate one. If seen creepy whispered ghostly commentary on the main action work before in film to good effect, but it would have worked better if they had fitted it in the gasps in main dialog instead of running in in competition with it. I could not process both at once. Really they needed 1. Way better sound quality. 2. Proper captioning. 3. Way less ghost dialog, preferably in the main dialog gaps and with clear delineation of speaker also in the subtitles. As it was it was wildly disorienting and exhausting to try to follow and I simply gave up about when they showed the first ghost film fragments. I am not sure if the sound in the screen version was so badly done, but the DvD is outright impossible and I suspect serious flaws in the manufacturing process.
* I finished Point of Dreams today. If Knives was the weakest of the books, this is by far the strongest. I loved Hopes, as you will remember, but Dreams had the advantage of not having to carry the weight of nearly as miuch world building. Hopes had to slide a whole incredibly rich culture and unusual magic design in, along with character development, politics, and a really complex mystery. Hopes managed it deftly, but Dreams was able to elaborate on that firm foundation without having to carry nearly as much weight and as a result could focus more on another complex mystery and solid character development. Dreams also had the advantage of taking placer in a 17th-18th century style theater environment which is inherently fun. I love how the magic system works and we get to learn more about it here, along with more about the way the politics and society work. There was one flaw, which was several passages were repeated in different chapters, which irritated me both times I caught it. Likely it needed another editing pass with fresh eyes. There was also a continuity issue with Mirremay and the Court of Knives, which couldn't really be helped as Point of Knives was written later than Dreams, but took place before it. Otherwise, this was brilliant, and mostly took two days to read because I had things like needed to spend all afternoon and early evening today on foraging and the Doctor.
* I'm pretty sure I have heat exhaustion again. Ugh. And I couldn't sleep at all this morning.
I was on time for the appointment. It took an hour and a half to get me to a purgatorial exam room with a broken exam chair. I ended up spending most of my hour wait on the floor as it hurt to much to sit in the thing even if I could spin in it. they were actually genuinely sorry about the wait, which was a surprise. I'm not used to Doctors caring how late they keep you. Anyway, my hearing's still not quite right in that ear, but the drum healed clean. I have the usual outer ear infection which he actually insisted on treating and even gave me free medicine for. I nearly always have an outer ear infection and generally only bother with meds if I have a middle ear infection or serious sinus infection as I pretty much always have a sinus infection anyway. I consider them minor inconveniences I have to put up with like random fevers, constant pain or limbs randomly not working. Still a hundred dollars of free ear meds is free ear meds so I am taking them. Apparently I need to get my head examined. In this case he is trying to get pre-authorization for a head CT scan as I haven't had one in ages and they might actually be able to do something about the chronic sinusitis. CT is so much nicer than MRI. I get a lot of MRIs, which are loud and terribly boring. CT is nothing.
The hives are so bad and widespread it is hard to find skin in the correct areas for the electrodes. There is no undamaged skin at all in the target area on the upper left, so I have to put the new applications on top of rash, and soon I will be out of areas with plain rash instead of hives. Right side is doing better. the worst hives are lower left, but are more localized. The rash is turning up on random bits of left arm, though I put no adhesive there, which is worrisome.
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* I am having a little trouble connecting to this season of True Dectective, but it is growing on me, mostly because I was right about the CHiP guy and the woman cop is growing on me. I thing the first one was so visually intense for me and both the language and the images were so poetic that it is hard for the more sprawling and less poetic sequel to compete as far as initial impact. That doesn't mean it' not interesting, just that it's not talking to my hindbrain the way something with the right sort of visual textures does. Could someone with better eyes and/or a larger television tell me what that guy's teeth said? I couldn't read them.
* I tried to watch the Canal, but was thwarted by the shit quality of the sound recording and editing. The child was entirely incomprehensible and the adults were so soft and mumbly compared with the background that it took huge concentration to try to work out what they were saying. Given the extremely poor sound quality, the artistic choice to forgo subtitles of the spoken dialog in favor of rapidly scrolling, but admittedly creepy mildly tangential ghost dialog was an unfortunate one. If seen creepy whispered ghostly commentary on the main action work before in film to good effect, but it would have worked better if they had fitted it in the gasps in main dialog instead of running in in competition with it. I could not process both at once. Really they needed 1. Way better sound quality. 2. Proper captioning. 3. Way less ghost dialog, preferably in the main dialog gaps and with clear delineation of speaker also in the subtitles. As it was it was wildly disorienting and exhausting to try to follow and I simply gave up about when they showed the first ghost film fragments. I am not sure if the sound in the screen version was so badly done, but the DvD is outright impossible and I suspect serious flaws in the manufacturing process.
* I finished Point of Dreams today. If Knives was the weakest of the books, this is by far the strongest. I loved Hopes, as you will remember, but Dreams had the advantage of not having to carry the weight of nearly as miuch world building. Hopes had to slide a whole incredibly rich culture and unusual magic design in, along with character development, politics, and a really complex mystery. Hopes managed it deftly, but Dreams was able to elaborate on that firm foundation without having to carry nearly as much weight and as a result could focus more on another complex mystery and solid character development. Dreams also had the advantage of taking placer in a 17th-18th century style theater environment which is inherently fun. I love how the magic system works and we get to learn more about it here, along with more about the way the politics and society work. There was one flaw, which was several passages were repeated in different chapters, which irritated me both times I caught it. Likely it needed another editing pass with fresh eyes. There was also a continuity issue with Mirremay and the Court of Knives, which couldn't really be helped as Point of Knives was written later than Dreams, but took place before it. Otherwise, this was brilliant, and mostly took two days to read because I had things like needed to spend all afternoon and early evening today on foraging and the Doctor.
* I'm pretty sure I have heat exhaustion again. Ugh. And I couldn't sleep at all this morning.
I was on time for the appointment. It took an hour and a half to get me to a purgatorial exam room with a broken exam chair. I ended up spending most of my hour wait on the floor as it hurt to much to sit in the thing even if I could spin in it. they were actually genuinely sorry about the wait, which was a surprise. I'm not used to Doctors caring how late they keep you. Anyway, my hearing's still not quite right in that ear, but the drum healed clean. I have the usual outer ear infection which he actually insisted on treating and even gave me free medicine for. I nearly always have an outer ear infection and generally only bother with meds if I have a middle ear infection or serious sinus infection as I pretty much always have a sinus infection anyway. I consider them minor inconveniences I have to put up with like random fevers, constant pain or limbs randomly not working. Still a hundred dollars of free ear meds is free ear meds so I am taking them. Apparently I need to get my head examined. In this case he is trying to get pre-authorization for a head CT scan as I haven't had one in ages and they might actually be able to do something about the chronic sinusitis. CT is so much nicer than MRI. I get a lot of MRIs, which are loud and terribly boring. CT is nothing.
The hives are so bad and widespread it is hard to find skin in the correct areas for the electrodes. There is no undamaged skin at all in the target area on the upper left, so I have to put the new applications on top of rash, and soon I will be out of areas with plain rash instead of hives. Right side is doing better. the worst hives are lower left, but are more localized. The rash is turning up on random bits of left arm, though I put no adhesive there, which is worrisome.
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com