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The Nature Theater of Oklahoma
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| GAY |
[09 Jul 2009|02:09pm] |
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So there's this really, really long thread about why crazy ladies hate Sarah Palin, and why other not crazy ladies don't hate her, and I think the missing piece is the GAY PIECE HELLO DUH.
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| Mommy Complaining |
[09 Jul 2009|01:17pm] |
This is a post about how mothers complain too much and should shut up that everyone else is posting so baaaaaa I'll post it too.
On the one hand, yeah, people need some perspective. It really hits me sometimes that I have like maybe half the hours in a day that other people have, and chronic pain and dizziness, and unreliable transportation, and "blended family issues," and yet my house looks the same OR BETTER and I get as much OR MORE done as other people who have perfect health, like to drive, and can be naked in front of every minor in their household without potential law enforcement involvement, AND I ACTUALLY HARD AS THIS MAY BE TO BELIEVE COMPLAIN LESS THAN THEY DO.
But on the other other hand, there is a real difference between now and the past that makes things harder on mothers now,yes, even harder than my widowed greatgrandmother who had to do laundry for five children with a mangle while also scrubbing floors to support them had it. But it's hard to explain. It has to do with standards. It's not hard now because standards are higher - duh, they aren't. Only black mothers even feel like they have to keep their children's hair from looking like a rat's nest. Nobody cares if your children have holes in their clothes or dirt on their faces or.... well hang on a minute, how much dirt are we talking about? How many days has my child worn that shirt to school? Is anyone going to notice? This is a waste of attention and energy that does not happen when the rules are clear - your child is clean and tidy in clean and tidy clothes or you are a bad mother.
I've had older women tell me how lucky we are that we can spend our pregnancies in sweats. Oddly it doesn't feel lucky. It feels like a punishment, like an exile.
We are free from community standards but that means there isn't any help to maintain anything but the lowest standards, and nobody should ever get to that point in the first place. Also, it's depressing to look at.
It's not a lifethreatening problem - in the comments there's a lot of comparison to mothers in Rwanda hunting for sticks, I am not sure what the sticks are for - but it's real and if you can't identify it it will make you crazy.
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| It's a day for reaching |
[09 Jul 2009|11:56am] |
Caveat: this is another observation which might be come off as another simplistic, overstated stretch without seeing the entire film involved.
I see a small connection between a private pool club blithely admitting to kicking out a majority black group for racist reasons and Transformers 3 2.
I mean, it's the twenty fucking first century and a major blockbuster got through an entire production without anyone - at least anyone with power - objecting to minstrel characters (voiced by a white guy) so overt even typically anti-PC bloggers say WTF (this blogger bothered to include images of the characters). Meanwhile a liberal white blogger acknowledges the racism (without showing the characters) then still writes: "I am with the people, not the critics. "Transformers 2" is a fun summer blockbuster." instead of suggesting there's other fun which doesn't involve giving money to a hack who dismisses his racist material by saying "I purely did it for the kids".
While there is no direct connection, I will say as a white guy these both reflect how white guys will continue not to give a shit about what comes out their mouths until held accountable about a billion more times. When some self proclaimed asshole is more willing to say don't support this shit than a major lefty blogger, well...it continues to be stuff white people do.
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| probably an unhappy tonsil |
[09 Jul 2009|09:24am] |
My throat hurts so bad I can barely swallow.
It doesn't feel like I have a sickness. It feels like someone kicked me in the throat.
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| Potentially Bogus Thought |
[09 Jul 2009|08:47am] |
Warning: This notion is an impression based on the most cursory look at the topic. It may be dramatically off base or misinformed.
My first reaction to the 2012 prophecy is that it's a crazy appropriation by privileged white "spiritualists" and: a) has an underlying attitude which can't accept an ancient culture's math and science skills without framing it in "magical primitive" crap; and b) despite living evidence, imposes simplistic and selective reading on a religion which, like most, ritually combines the symbolic, philosophical and literal in ways where intent and interpretation has shifted and evolved over centuries.
My first metaphorical impression is the 2012 prophecy is like saying Gregor Mendel had some correct theories, so it only makes sense to read Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God as a warning of our coming transformation into spider creatures by enraged superbeings for the purpose of dropping us into a galactic bonfire.
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| Days of Yep: Disaster Porn |
[09 Jul 2009|06:58am] |
The blog io9 has served up a huge pile of awesome by recutting the trailer for 2012 to be more honest - and true to its roots.
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| It's the International Babe's birthday! |
[09 Jul 2009|02:14am] |
Since Tammy never wants to travel overseas, I often leave it to my LJ friends to report on their journeys and I live vicatiously through them. Of all of you, the one who I've found most intriguing over the years is the awesome ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) styletax and today is her birthday! I know you will find a great way to spend your day of days dear :-)
Isn't it funny how we started out on Live Journal as friends, and now every social networking service there is finds us as friends? It must be the 21st century way of friendship!
Have a great day sweetie!
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| Nasty Experience |
[08 Jul 2009|10:29pm] |
I passed somebody nodding out on the street today and after I poked him I went inside and told the people at the counter "there's someone outside you need to check on" and then I kept walking on home and I realized I just did not give a shit if they actually followed through or if the guy woke himself up puking later and went home or if he died and got picked up by the soylent green machine. I just did not care. Ten years ago I would have made sure he was ok.
I am less fatigued by tripping over junkies than I am by being the only person who bothers to poke them. Constantly tripping over junkies isn't what did it.
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[08 Jul 2009|10:22pm] |
Yes, please!
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| Anita Brookner |
[08 Jul 2009|09:39pm] |
is misunderstood. She is not primarily writing about the high costs of women's liberation, but about women's liberation as the completion of a process generally referred to as "the death of the West." Her books depict the end of a civilization - perhaps the end of civilization, although as she limits herself to what she knows she has nothing to say about that. We know Western civilization has ended because it no longer provides any effective prophylactics against the sheer terror that accompanies any person of normal intelligence's contemplation of the facts of existence.
I'm not sure if she knows that's what she is writing about. I know for dead certain that Iris Murdoch didn't know what she was writing about, which was the immediate precursor to the end of civilization, which is people choosing the trappings of civilization over its heart.
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| Poketo Karaoke Dance Party This Friday |
[08 Jul 2009|09:39pm] |
If you're free this Friday night, come on out to Royal/T for the Poketo Karaoke Dance Party: July 10th, Friday 8 PM - 1 AM. I was invited to be a judge, so though you won't be hearing me sing, I'll be there doing my best Paula Abdul impersonation judging the crooning.
At Royal/T: 8910 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Free, RSVP at rsvp(at)poketo(dot)com
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