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Naturally the rainwater has yet to seep into the ground, but I need to reboot the kitty litter box anyway - even though it means giving my feet an unwanted bath, a bath in muddy water. At least I remembered to take off my socks first! I am rushing the job because the sky is darkly clouded and rain is in the forecast, if you can believe it. I am sure it won't surprise anyone that the litter box is overdue. Isn't it funny how time slips away?
May. 12th, 2016
Pop is having one of his weak-ish, dizzy spells that we attribute to low blood-sugar. Kay is here to help. He has not eaten all day, and that seems to happen more often lately, despite the fact that he knows what it does to him. I imagine that this might be part of his old age: maybe he generally feels no appetite, but his body still needs the nourishment. You would think that these spells are hard enough on him to drive him to prevent this problem, by forcing himself to eat something, finding something that he can eat that is not disagreeable to him, something that will keep him free from these debilitating spells. It isn't working that way, though.
"Castle"? I see on my Friends Page at ONTD that a series that ran for eight seasons is canceled, a show called "Castle". Why did I never hear of it?, me - being on the lookout for series TV. It was on a major network, too: ABC. Well, the people on ONTD, the ones from whom I get almost all of my TV and movie news from, certainly were not very big on it. This is the only post that I have seen on the show. When it comes to other shows they post something every week after every episode. Nevertheless, the show is not available on Amazon's Prime service, nor on Netflix. So, I guess it doesn't matter anyway.
The reason why this seems so noteworthy now is because I just finished watching HBO's "Newsroom", and I am reminded how my best TV time seems to be with such series shows, whenever I can find one, anyway, that can hook and catch my interest. It's so nice knowing that I have weeks of shows on tap to watch with my meals, instead of struggling with what to watch before every lunch or dinner. Chess videos aren't really doing it for me. I actually still find them interesting, but not that interesting. A movie that captures my imagination is always great, too, but a movie only serves me for two or three meals, and it is that much harder to find a new movie all the time.
I just need something to keep me entertained over my meals, but ... that is surprisingly hard to come by.
The reason why this seems so noteworthy now is because I just finished watching HBO's "Newsroom", and I am reminded how my best TV time seems to be with such series shows, whenever I can find one, anyway, that can hook and catch my interest. It's so nice knowing that I have weeks of shows on tap to watch with my meals, instead of struggling with what to watch before every lunch or dinner. Chess videos aren't really doing it for me. I actually still find them interesting, but not that interesting. A movie that captures my imagination is always great, too, but a movie only serves me for two or three meals, and it is that much harder to find a new movie all the time.
I just need something to keep me entertained over my meals, but ... that is surprisingly hard to come by.
There a big film festival or something going on, maybe Cannes, and Woody Allen has a film in it, and some folks have felt like trying to shame him because he fucked his stepdaughter when she was still a kid. Sugar got in on that. Here are some lines from her column. I still cannot access her columns, but this one went a little viral in her circle.
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The world is a tattered tapestry of men I no longer choose to see ... With every year that passes there are more blank spots in my vision, places once occupied by famous men who hurt women ... I choose not to see, knowing only that, for some people, not being seen is the strongest rebuke. What they desire from us is our attention, and that is one thing in my power to refuse.
-- Sugar
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Pretty good writing, and this is her forte. I can vouch that being denied her attention hurts, but you first have to care. So long as people are still buying tickets to Woody's films and giving him awards, he can probably afford the shunning of our Social Justice Warriors. By giving her something to write passionately about, he can even say that he is paying her bills, though she did not have to give up any ass for it. If she is trying to ignore him, she is doing it wrong.
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The world is a tattered tapestry of men I no longer choose to see ... With every year that passes there are more blank spots in my vision, places once occupied by famous men who hurt women ... I choose not to see, knowing only that, for some people, not being seen is the strongest rebuke. What they desire from us is our attention, and that is one thing in my power to refuse.
-- Sugar
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Pretty good writing, and this is her forte. I can vouch that being denied her attention hurts, but you first have to care. So long as people are still buying tickets to Woody's films and giving him awards, he can probably afford the shunning of our Social Justice Warriors. By giving her something to write passionately about, he can even say that he is paying her bills, though she did not have to give up any ass for it. If she is trying to ignore him, she is doing it wrong.
Jodie Foster
May. 12th, 2016 10:58 pmA celebrity tweet: "Jodie Foster slams male filmmakers for relying on rape as a motivational device for females". She is quoted as saying, "It was ridiculous, it was every single movie I saw. If you really got to what was the overriding motivation that that woman that you found out at the end, it was always rape because for some reason men saw that as this incredibly dramatic thing. 'Well that’s easy! I can just pluck that one out of the sky and apply it to her.'”
That is a little funny since she won an Oscar performing perhaps the most famous rape scene in cinematic history for "The Accused". But she is old now, and a woman. She is perhaps no longer sympathetic to the primal passions of youth. The real problem is that the rapes are seldom depicted on screen at all, and when they are, they are much more restrained and tame than was the case in her big movie.
That is a little funny since she won an Oscar performing perhaps the most famous rape scene in cinematic history for "The Accused". But she is old now, and a woman. She is perhaps no longer sympathetic to the primal passions of youth. The real problem is that the rapes are seldom depicted on screen at all, and when they are, they are much more restrained and tame than was the case in her big movie.