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Had the extremem pleasure of using the Big Lug's laptop Christmas present before he did. I was so frustrated on Monday night as I tried to burn cds on the parents' old dinosaur of a computer that the Da let me take the pristine laptop home with me. I am furtively pleased.
Discovered a new tv show last night. I caught an episode of Carnivale ( Read more... )
Had the extremem pleasure of using the Big Lug's laptop Christmas present before he did. I was so frustrated on Monday night as I tried to burn cds on the parents' old dinosaur of a computer that the Da let me take the pristine laptop home with me. I am furtively pleased.
Discovered a new tv show last night. I caught an episode of Carnivale ( Read more... )
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That's good to hear about the PTO project. Shoot, it's not like I needed another reason to be awaiting that particular series with baited breath. My head reels when I think about all of the stories out there that are waiting to be told. It's a good feeling.
And, just so you know, you are my all things BoB related goddess. This is in no way a bad thing and may even include offerings of boys of Easy Company shaped offerings at some future point.
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and may even include offerings of boys of Easy Company shaped offerings at some future point.
Oohh! Exciting! I'm so glad to be your BoB goddess :-) And fyi, even before you dropped your hint, some minor BoB shaped offerings had been collected. They will appear in your near future.
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I will soon be building a shrine and offering various alcoholic libations.
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Re: Women on journeys:
It would help if we had more female writers who wrote this type of story. And it would help if more of those female writers had a woman as their main character. Too bad we all like men so much.
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote a book about the fall of Troy from the perspective of Cassandra that you would like. My sister has it; you should beat it out of her ask to borrow it the next time you see her.
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More female authors is a necessity. It is interesting that many of the female authors do write from the male perspective rather then the female. It's an interesting conundrum.
Next time I see your sister I will certainly work to ... encourage the loan of that book. Cassandra, now there's a character who needs to have a good movie made about her post haste.
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I really agree with you about the women on the homefront thing. I've always been interested in the roles women had during the war. It'd be cool to see a series about the WASPs in the US and the ATA in the UK, where the women actually got to fly the planes, though obviously not in combat. I've always wondered how the men reacted to this shift in roles. Somehow I don't think many would have accepted that women could fix and fly planes as well, sometimes better, than men.
It also must have been really crushing to have experienced this taste of a different life, where you could work and actually contribute to the war effort, and then get pushed back into the kitchens when the men came home.
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Rick Warden in in the Rome series, seriously? Shoot, just when I thought I couldn't love HBO any more then I already do I hear stuff like this. Oooooo, my toes are tingling.
Exactly! Can you just imagine being a part of the WAC, feeling like you were doing important things during the war and then have all of that taken away from you? I remember catching old episodes of I Dream of Jeannie when I was a kid and seeing the female officers being treated with less respect then the girl stuck in the bottle ( ... )
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Really?? Cor! That makes me sound like I'm some really interesting person! Thanks! *g*
Can I maybe kind of sort of friend you by the way? Is that okay?
It's amazing the roles some women had in the war. They contributed so much and hardly got any recognition or respect. Have you ever heard of Nancy Wake? She was an Australian who joined the SOE, parachuted into France and ended up leading a huge guerilla resistance force. She did some incredible stuff. I mean, she wasn't just passing on information and such like - she was right there, literally in the thick of battle, firing bazookas and blowing up trains and getting shot at. She was phenomenal. But hardly anyone has even heard her name. I mean, she was on the Gestapo's most wanted list! It must have been awful to feel like you've taken some steps towards a more equal future, and then find you haven't really gotten anywhere ( ... )
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Why had I never heard of Nancy Wake before? She's just the sort of historical figure I should know about! Her story needs to be told. All of the stories need to be told.
HBO needs to tell these stories. We do need to pester them. I also feel the need to go to some big university library and try to pull together some books/articles that focus on the subject. BoB would never have been half as good without Stephen Ambrose and all of the hard work he put into compiling the stories of the 101st.
*pokes HBO with a big stick*
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