Posting for its own sake
Yesterday chassit19 and I were lucky enough to have a day off together. We try to make these special as they are intermittent at best. This one really rocked. We made a full day of the Nelson, the Liberty Memorial, and the mysterious mural near our home that we've always meant to go look at close-up but never have. She was able to take a panoramic series of photos of the mural that came out looking awesome. Some background: on the main road through our neighborhood stands an empty lot with a concrete retaining wall. Someone at some point decorated the wall with colorful, joyous scenes of Greek mythology. It's just very pretty and since the lot is for sale, is unlikely to be there forever. But we have evidence of its existence now for which I am grateful.
Somehow I have lived in Kansas City for nearly ten years and never visited the Liberty Memorial. I did not know what I was missing. We didn't go inside the museum but the grounds themselves are amazing, the monuments and buildings crafted almost in an art deco style that just really brings a lot of dignity to WWI soldiers it commemorates. At the back of the complex is a marvelous view of downtown Kansas City that took our breath away. Definitely planning to go back soon and do a proper visit of the museum itself. I'm very glad to live in a city where there are things to go and do on any given day. I grew up in a small town where for fun people went to Wichita, the closest thing to a big city Kansas has. And once you were in Wichita the only things to do were the kind of things I now take for granted being able to do in my neighborhood, like go to a sit-down restaurant or a mall. KC ain't much by some standards, but I'm very happy with what I've got.
Apropos of nothing, I am finally re-reading Kushiel's Dart and am finding it nowhere near as hardcore as I remember it being. Clearly I'm far more jaded than I was when I first read it eight years ago. But I still find the black-and-gray morality of Carey's world to be groan-inducing. Clearly the point of the novel and Phaedre's character is to make you sympathize with the idea of S&M, but in the world being into S&M makes you chaotic evil and vice versa. But not being into S&M makes you a dull prude who needs to loosen up. I can't shake the idea that Carey didn't understand nearly as much about sexuality and fetishes as she thought she did when she wrote it. But it's still a really good story and the intrigue and plot more than make up for its shortcomings.
It is time to put my laundry in the dryer so enough of this.
Somehow I have lived in Kansas City for nearly ten years and never visited the Liberty Memorial. I did not know what I was missing. We didn't go inside the museum but the grounds themselves are amazing, the monuments and buildings crafted almost in an art deco style that just really brings a lot of dignity to WWI soldiers it commemorates. At the back of the complex is a marvelous view of downtown Kansas City that took our breath away. Definitely planning to go back soon and do a proper visit of the museum itself. I'm very glad to live in a city where there are things to go and do on any given day. I grew up in a small town where for fun people went to Wichita, the closest thing to a big city Kansas has. And once you were in Wichita the only things to do were the kind of things I now take for granted being able to do in my neighborhood, like go to a sit-down restaurant or a mall. KC ain't much by some standards, but I'm very happy with what I've got.
Apropos of nothing, I am finally re-reading Kushiel's Dart and am finding it nowhere near as hardcore as I remember it being. Clearly I'm far more jaded than I was when I first read it eight years ago. But I still find the black-and-gray morality of Carey's world to be groan-inducing. Clearly the point of the novel and Phaedre's character is to make you sympathize with the idea of S&M, but in the world being into S&M makes you chaotic evil and vice versa. But not being into S&M makes you a dull prude who needs to loosen up. I can't shake the idea that Carey didn't understand nearly as much about sexuality and fetishes as she thought she did when she wrote it. But it's still a really good story and the intrigue and plot more than make up for its shortcomings.
It is time to put my laundry in the dryer so enough of this.