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* Form to tell your representative to vote down HR. 3, the Republican attempt to redefine rape to exclude Incest and drugging, and their attempt to restrict access to life saving medical care for women. Click the take action button: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
* A petition to stop Georgia for requiring a change of language that will likely make it even harder to prosecute rape cases. I'm not happy with the petition language eeither, but it's better than what is being proposed: http://www.change.org/petitions/rape-victims-are-not-accusers
* Petition to save PBS and NPR: http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26105-10705560-sxVC70x&t=1
* There were protests in a lot of Middle Eastern and North African Countries today, including Iran. The police in Yemen are attacking journalists openly and brutally in an attempt to prevent news and images escaping. Iran is preventing professional journalists from covering things, so the news and footage are coming from brave amateurs. Again, it looks like governments are targeting all journalists, not just western ones.
* I'm aware of the Clarance Thomas corruption scandal, but am simply not up to summarizing it.
* I'm still sick, so still reclusive. It's particularly inconvenient in it's symptoms tonight.
* Cat update: I'm not worried about Mache at all. The Butt's still off colour, but not alarmingly so. We are watching him closely just in case. Neither white cat shows any sign of being ill.
* Snerk: http://catalogliving.net/post/3289561222/washed-away
http://www.slowwave.com/Img/s11/sw110211fra.jpg
* Super hero dolls: http://tonnerdoll.com/dcstars.htm
* A fascinating thing on cait sidhe succession in the October Daye books. Mild spoilers for book 3: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/320961.html?style=mine
* I love that Emily Prentiss is getting what looks to be a big arc this season on criminal Minds, but I'm scared that this is how they will write her out and I like her. I like her character design. I like the acting. I like what having her there does for the group dynamic. I do not look forward to what the show will look like without her.
* Apparently, art was the theme of my dreams last night. Making it and looking at it. The most interesting bit was this huge warehouse size building with all these vistas to look through where inside a man who did both performance and fine art had set up a tribute to his work to open upon his death. inside was a complex three dimensional environment based on his paintings, through which a figure designed to look like the artist himself moved and flowed in obviously inhuman ways as choreographed as a dance and utterly beautiful and surreal. I some of the vistas there were other moving figures. One walked around the building in a way timed to show things from the right angle at various times. There were alternate timings to give other angles on repetition. It was so haunting and beautiful that I wish I could see it again.
* Y'all may have noticed the lack of archaeology round up items this week. That's because most of the archaeology press was follow ups or information on Egyptian antiquities in peril, or being rescued and refurbished. Understandably so, but there just wasn't much worth listing here.
* "10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies:" http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/genres-movies/drama/10-most-historically-inaccurate-movies/
I am so glad they included Braveheart. Y'all have likely heard my Braveheart rant that starts with the opening of the film with it's absence of sheep or goats grazing all that grass, the time traveling wooden bucket and kilt, and him leaving his horse out in the rain while he has enough shelter for them both, as well as a bunch of those invisible sheep or goats... This doesn't even get into the big inaccuracies. Seriously, I could write a paper. My Braveheart rant is right up there with my Troy rant, for those who've been subjected to only one of these, trust me, they are equivalent in length and virulence.
I had a Gladiator rant too, but I've mostly forgotten the movie, lucky for us all. Also a Last Samauri Rant, a Patriot rant... you get the idea. Luckily, I missed about half of these.
* Knowing nothing about Eagle not in the promo, I'm already thinking I probably shouldn't see it. Given how much trade and sex there was across the wall between Romans and the northern tribes nearby, I'm having trouble seeing the premise make sense, though I suppose they could frame it in a way that works. I'm just betting they don't. I'm also betting they will get too many things wrong for me not to go all ranty.
* Speaking of promos, my immediate reaction to I Am Four is, "Oh look, too blond super folk. No thanks."
Skye had a space combat game he picked up at discount once. All the characters were blond men in semi-SS costume. I kept waiting for the reveal that the hero was on the wrong side of a xenophobic genocide of aliens, but found the game so annoying I bailed out. He persisted, and it turned out that there was no reveal. It was entirely completely unselfconscious bias towards only having Nordic male heroes. Charming. I bet they thought the SS uniforms looked cool too and didn't think about the message they sent.
I think about this a lot when I see things like the I AM Four promo. Maybe the film isn't like that, but the promo made me wonder if it was.
* The Clutch:
* Way to take a feminist icon that inspired generations of little girls to be grand and yoke her image to enforcing a particular set of beauty norms. Yuck.:
* Rachel Maddow interviews the brave woman who the anti-choice folks want assassinated for trying to take up Dr. Tiller's practice:
* A petition to stop Georgia for requiring a change of language that will likely make it even harder to prosecute rape cases. I'm not happy with the petition language eeither, but it's better than what is being proposed: http://www.change.org/petitions/rape-victims-are-not-accusers
* Petition to save PBS and NPR: http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26105-10705560-sxVC70x&t=1
* There were protests in a lot of Middle Eastern and North African Countries today, including Iran. The police in Yemen are attacking journalists openly and brutally in an attempt to prevent news and images escaping. Iran is preventing professional journalists from covering things, so the news and footage are coming from brave amateurs. Again, it looks like governments are targeting all journalists, not just western ones.
* I'm aware of the Clarance Thomas corruption scandal, but am simply not up to summarizing it.
* I'm still sick, so still reclusive. It's particularly inconvenient in it's symptoms tonight.
* Cat update: I'm not worried about Mache at all. The Butt's still off colour, but not alarmingly so. We are watching him closely just in case. Neither white cat shows any sign of being ill.
* Snerk: http://catalogliving.net/post/3289561222/washed-away
http://www.slowwave.com/Img/s11/sw110211fra.jpg
* Super hero dolls: http://tonnerdoll.com/dcstars.htm
* A fascinating thing on cait sidhe succession in the October Daye books. Mild spoilers for book 3: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/320961.html?style=mine
* I love that Emily Prentiss is getting what looks to be a big arc this season on criminal Minds, but I'm scared that this is how they will write her out and I like her. I like her character design. I like the acting. I like what having her there does for the group dynamic. I do not look forward to what the show will look like without her.
* Apparently, art was the theme of my dreams last night. Making it and looking at it. The most interesting bit was this huge warehouse size building with all these vistas to look through where inside a man who did both performance and fine art had set up a tribute to his work to open upon his death. inside was a complex three dimensional environment based on his paintings, through which a figure designed to look like the artist himself moved and flowed in obviously inhuman ways as choreographed as a dance and utterly beautiful and surreal. I some of the vistas there were other moving figures. One walked around the building in a way timed to show things from the right angle at various times. There were alternate timings to give other angles on repetition. It was so haunting and beautiful that I wish I could see it again.
* Y'all may have noticed the lack of archaeology round up items this week. That's because most of the archaeology press was follow ups or information on Egyptian antiquities in peril, or being rescued and refurbished. Understandably so, but there just wasn't much worth listing here.
* "10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies:" http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/genres-movies/drama/10-most-historically-inaccurate-movies/
I am so glad they included Braveheart. Y'all have likely heard my Braveheart rant that starts with the opening of the film with it's absence of sheep or goats grazing all that grass, the time traveling wooden bucket and kilt, and him leaving his horse out in the rain while he has enough shelter for them both, as well as a bunch of those invisible sheep or goats... This doesn't even get into the big inaccuracies. Seriously, I could write a paper. My Braveheart rant is right up there with my Troy rant, for those who've been subjected to only one of these, trust me, they are equivalent in length and virulence.
I had a Gladiator rant too, but I've mostly forgotten the movie, lucky for us all. Also a Last Samauri Rant, a Patriot rant... you get the idea. Luckily, I missed about half of these.
* Knowing nothing about Eagle not in the promo, I'm already thinking I probably shouldn't see it. Given how much trade and sex there was across the wall between Romans and the northern tribes nearby, I'm having trouble seeing the premise make sense, though I suppose they could frame it in a way that works. I'm just betting they don't. I'm also betting they will get too many things wrong for me not to go all ranty.
* Speaking of promos, my immediate reaction to I Am Four is, "Oh look, too blond super folk. No thanks."
Skye had a space combat game he picked up at discount once. All the characters were blond men in semi-SS costume. I kept waiting for the reveal that the hero was on the wrong side of a xenophobic genocide of aliens, but found the game so annoying I bailed out. He persisted, and it turned out that there was no reveal. It was entirely completely unselfconscious bias towards only having Nordic male heroes. Charming. I bet they thought the SS uniforms looked cool too and didn't think about the message they sent.
I think about this a lot when I see things like the I AM Four promo. Maybe the film isn't like that, but the promo made me wonder if it was.
* The Clutch:
* Way to take a feminist icon that inspired generations of little girls to be grand and yoke her image to enforcing a particular set of beauty norms. Yuck.:
* Rachel Maddow interviews the brave woman who the anti-choice folks want assassinated for trying to take up Dr. Tiller's practice:
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