things that are interesting (to me)
~ I love mlawski over on Overthinking It more than words could possibly convey. Her analysis of Doctor Who S5, for instance, sent me into full on, air punching, something is RIGHT on the internet joy. And this female character flowchart (click to embiggen) is a thing of beauty. Don't just look at it, run any of your favorite (or un-favorite) female characters through it. You will be amazed at how perfectly it works.
~ Did you guys hear about Back to the Future footage with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly? Speaking as someone who had a bona fide crush on Michael J. Fox (Yeah, okay, you want to make something of it???) I find this footage deeply disturbing. It's just totally, wrong man.
~ It was when I went to Rome for my study abroad, back in college, that I first encountered straight up, no holds barred racism -- not the insidious kind that leaves you wondering if you've just been oversensitive -- but the other kind, the kind that lets you know that violence is not far away, and that you inspire such just by existing. It was the not getting served in restaurants kind, and people spitting at you kind. And in Rome, there wasn't even the refuge of assuming that people had somehow got me wrong (not that this makes it okay) as they so often do in this climate when they assume I'm arabic or muslim -- no, there it was about quotas and south asians, and I am, of course, recognizably and indubitably that. Those are the memories I had when I watched Paul Henry, a "journalist" from New Zealand, apparently audition for a job with Rupert Murdoch, as he seems to in this clip.
Henry was forced to resign shortly thereafter... but I love how no one -- horrified though they may be -- calls him out as the trainwreck transpires.
~ I haven't yet seen The Social Network but I am looking forward to it. There's been a lot of outcry though about the misogyny of both the film and the culture it portrays... but I find it hilarious that Aaron Sorkin (whose writing I deeply admire) has STILL not learned how to deal with the internet. Remember the days when he he used to go on Television Without Pity and get into wankwars with posters, and then how he'd uncomfortably allegorize the incidents on his show with episodes like the U.S. Poet Laureate and Arctic Radar? (With truly terrible rants about art and fandom that were so un-self aware and egregious and just plain wrong that you just wanted to bang your head into the wall until you were, quite simply, dead? (Thanks for that phrase, Sorkin, though, no one can ever claim that you don't know how to write dialogue.) Well, he's at it again. He didn't make the misogyny, folks, he's just reporting it! Oh, Sorkin. Have the great examples of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton taught you nothing? Once you have to start defensively explaining, you've done something wrong.
In conclusion, hi, internets! How are you?
~ Did you guys hear about Back to the Future footage with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly? Speaking as someone who had a bona fide crush on Michael J. Fox (Yeah, okay, you want to make something of it???) I find this footage deeply disturbing. It's just totally, wrong man.
~ It was when I went to Rome for my study abroad, back in college, that I first encountered straight up, no holds barred racism -- not the insidious kind that leaves you wondering if you've just been oversensitive -- but the other kind, the kind that lets you know that violence is not far away, and that you inspire such just by existing. It was the not getting served in restaurants kind, and people spitting at you kind. And in Rome, there wasn't even the refuge of assuming that people had somehow got me wrong (not that this makes it okay) as they so often do in this climate when they assume I'm arabic or muslim -- no, there it was about quotas and south asians, and I am, of course, recognizably and indubitably that. Those are the memories I had when I watched Paul Henry, a "journalist" from New Zealand, apparently audition for a job with Rupert Murdoch, as he seems to in this clip.
Click to viewHenry was forced to resign shortly thereafter... but I love how no one -- horrified though they may be -- calls him out as the trainwreck transpires.
~ I haven't yet seen The Social Network but I am looking forward to it. There's been a lot of outcry though about the misogyny of both the film and the culture it portrays... but I find it hilarious that Aaron Sorkin (whose writing I deeply admire) has STILL not learned how to deal with the internet. Remember the days when he he used to go on Television Without Pity and get into wankwars with posters, and then how he'd uncomfortably allegorize the incidents on his show with episodes like the U.S. Poet Laureate and Arctic Radar? (With truly terrible rants about art and fandom that were so un-self aware and egregious and just plain wrong that you just wanted to bang your head into the wall until you were, quite simply, dead? (Thanks for that phrase, Sorkin, though, no one can ever claim that you don't know how to write dialogue.) Well, he's at it again. He didn't make the misogyny, folks, he's just reporting it! Oh, Sorkin. Have the great examples of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton taught you nothing? Once you have to start defensively explaining, you've done something wrong.
In conclusion, hi, internets! How are you?