it's like this and like that and uuh
i haven't written here in a while. i feel more like talking than writing, and more like sleeping than staying awake, so this will be brief. it's hot here and my cold shower didn't help much. now i'm listening to some kiki and herb and contemplating watching 'willow' from my bed...bryce brought it to me to watch as i fell asleep tonight, but i'm not sure if i'm really feeling it.
bryce and i are going to a czech marionette show tomorrow morning put on by a 67-year-old bend guy. in the article i read about it he basically said that he wants to bring marionettes back to the adult mainstream and that marionettes are not puppets. puppets go on your hands. marionettes have strings. as far as i'm concerned, all the more power to him. i wonder who our fellow audience members will be. for some reason i feel like i'll feel like i'm sitting in a pew at a UU church.
i switched some of my classes around for next semester, which means a shorter weekend for traveling but more academic stuff that i'm interested in. i'm especially looking forward to getting to know one of the professors...she specializes in some of the things i'm concentrating in, like cultural resistance and gender studies. i also want to get hooked up with an internship. so we'll see.
i caught a few minutes of the news tonight (well, "news" isn't quite right...it was nancy grace, afterall) and saw a story about a guy who was aquitted for a murder he admits to commiting in which he chopped of his neighbor's head and cut his body up into little pieces. apparently the decapitation occured after the guy accidently killed him. but this is all sort of beside my point. the big headline about the man on trial that was projected on the screen was something starting with, "cross-dressing millionaire..." and nancy grace repeatedly returned to his cross-dressing (which had nothing to do with the case). i was glad to see that all of the people she interviewed dismissed her focus on that area and moved to more pertinent things, but the fact that the host was setting this sort of standard was really agravating. The acceptability of using cross-dressing as a freakshow-style term to convey how this guy is an odd-ball sicko is ridiculous, and should not be accepted as responsible journalism. i doubt that these days a tv headline would state, "gay millionaire..." in that fashion. i'm well-aware that trans activism and visibility have a long way to go, but it turns my stomach when society so blatently nods its head at circus act stunts like those of nancy grace.
bryce and i are going to a czech marionette show tomorrow morning put on by a 67-year-old bend guy. in the article i read about it he basically said that he wants to bring marionettes back to the adult mainstream and that marionettes are not puppets. puppets go on your hands. marionettes have strings. as far as i'm concerned, all the more power to him. i wonder who our fellow audience members will be. for some reason i feel like i'll feel like i'm sitting in a pew at a UU church.
i switched some of my classes around for next semester, which means a shorter weekend for traveling but more academic stuff that i'm interested in. i'm especially looking forward to getting to know one of the professors...she specializes in some of the things i'm concentrating in, like cultural resistance and gender studies. i also want to get hooked up with an internship. so we'll see.
i caught a few minutes of the news tonight (well, "news" isn't quite right...it was nancy grace, afterall) and saw a story about a guy who was aquitted for a murder he admits to commiting in which he chopped of his neighbor's head and cut his body up into little pieces. apparently the decapitation occured after the guy accidently killed him. but this is all sort of beside my point. the big headline about the man on trial that was projected on the screen was something starting with, "cross-dressing millionaire..." and nancy grace repeatedly returned to his cross-dressing (which had nothing to do with the case). i was glad to see that all of the people she interviewed dismissed her focus on that area and moved to more pertinent things, but the fact that the host was setting this sort of standard was really agravating. The acceptability of using cross-dressing as a freakshow-style term to convey how this guy is an odd-ball sicko is ridiculous, and should not be accepted as responsible journalism. i doubt that these days a tv headline would state, "gay millionaire..." in that fashion. i'm well-aware that trans activism and visibility have a long way to go, but it turns my stomach when society so blatently nods its head at circus act stunts like those of nancy grace.