May. 8th, 2016

monk222: (Mori: by tiger_ace)
I have come across a few references to today being Mother's Day, and this year the point is sticking with me. A particular memory comes to mind. It was that evening when Dr. G. called me about my Old Journal, which I had turned in to him - after that horrible fight with a drunken Jack. He said he would read it and talk to me about it.

True, it is difficult, probably impossible, to conceive of a reasonable course by which the professor might have helped me. With the best of will, bounding with generosity, the best he might have done was offer me a clerical position in an office, which might have barely topped twenty-thousand dollars a year. That is something that I could not accept, even if, realistically speaking, I should have been grateful for any such opportunity - at least I wouldn't be flipping burgers or stocking shelves for minimum wage, so the argument runs.

Notwithstanding all of that, what really sticks with me is the memory of that moment. I am standing there in my room, after that phone call, half-watching TV, a news show, perhaps CNN's "Crossfire", thinking that this is it: my moment has come, to rise in the world and become my own man, a real man, making white-man money. And mother, making small talk with me, looking up at me in some wonderment, obviously thought so too, playing up to me, kissing up to a rising power. But the only thing that followed was silence. Nothing happened.
monk222: (Girls)
I think I am done with "Game of Thrones". It looks like they are really heeding their critics. The show is now very feminist-friendly: no hot nudity. Women are not sex objects, you know. ... Like I was really interested in the sword fights and the fucking dragons.

"Isn't there enough porn on the fucking Internet, if all you want to see are women as sex fantasies?"

Sure. That's why it is not a big lost. It is nice, though, to see sex, real men-on-women sex, mixed in with some decent productions and more involved storylines - at least sometimes, every once in a while, a couple of times a year maybe. I don't think I am asking for too much. Ah, that walk of shame that ended the last season was truly a thing of beauty! It really perks up a story.

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