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shadowkat1. Well, I figured out where The Legend of Korra is available for streaming - the first two seasons are on CBS All Access, and all four are available on Amazon Prime's Nickhits (an additional $7.49 a month) or you can buy each season digitally fo $26 per season. Nickhits does have a free 7 day trial.
2. Making my way through the audio book version of Peace Talks by Jim Butcher - the lastest Dresden novel after about seven years. That's a long time between books. James Marsters is reading it - and Marsters can brilliantly handle more than one voice and accent, slipping effortless into British, Russian, Southern, and others. The only voices that aren't quite as distinguishable are the American ones.
I like his reading voice. And have come to the conclusion that this makes or breaks an audio reading experience. I'm just listening to the book - not reading it.
And getting further than I have in a while. Which is interesting.
I do have my quibbles with the books, politically correct - they ain't, but they are also supernatural urban fantasy "noir" and "noir" by its very nature is not considered politically correct.
Marsters hopes the author is happy with his reading of the books. (Honestly, I don't think Jim Butcher's books would have taken off without Marsters - that's how he snagged the Buffy Fandom. I'd never heard of the books until the fandom did via Marsters announcing he was doing the audio books and they passed them around. It was a clever marketing ploy. Marsters has to be aware of that.)
But it is making me consider getting other audio books, assuming I can afford them. Kindle books are dirt cheap.
I gave up on The Widow of Rose Hill -- it was slow, and made me angry in places. I may go back to it at some point, but doubtful.
3. Aunt K posted the following article on FB regarding the Portland, Oregon protests. Her son lives in Portland (he was also the first family member to contract COVID and recover from it way back in February).
The Story Behind the Naked Portland Protestor "Athena" Dancer who Stood up to the Federal Police That Had Invaded Portland
Aunt K: My son lives in Portland. The Homeland Security sent militarized police to end the protests. Then this incredible lady stood up and took peaceful protest to a higher level. Her beauty , dance, and vulnerability ended the stand off. Let’s take a lesson from this and use our music and dance, and no, we don’t have to be naked, to take the protests to a higher level like she does. Peaceful protests are protected under the constitution. I support the constitution, do you?
According to the article - they tried to fire pepper balls at her feet, another protestor stepped in front of her with a shield. She side-stepped him and continued to dance. Within ten minutes, the Federal Troops turned and left.
This is after a night in which Portland Moms Formed a Shield.
4. My family lives across the United States by the way. I have Aunts and Uncles and Cousins in Florida, Parents in South Carolina, Aunts and Uncles and Cousins in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, California, Washington, Portland...and Texas.
I have friends and people I care about across the US and the world.
I was thinking about this while watching Last Airbender tonight, where the guru tells the Avatar Ange that we are one world, one civilization, even though we think we are separate we aren't.
And I thought about the Governor's words in his latest briefing : "one outbreak is an outbreak every where - it affects us all". We are not separate.
A pandemic should make this clear - that divided we fall prey to a virus.
A virus doesn't care about nationalities, species, race, sex, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, political parties - it attacks everyone equally and randomly. It passes from animals to humans and back again - it's not even discriminatory in regards to species.
And it can't be killed. It's not alive. It doesn't think. It can't be talked to. Or persuaded. Or spun.
The only way out is together. To choose to let go of the false divisions and false boundaries, of identities, of lables...and see ourselves as merely living creatures on this planet.
Can we do that? I don't know. But I'm optimistic and have faith. I think we can and we will. The Naked Dancer in Portland and the row of Moms, and the countless scientists battling for a vaccine, and sharing information to make one, give me hope.
2. Making my way through the audio book version of Peace Talks by Jim Butcher - the lastest Dresden novel after about seven years. That's a long time between books. James Marsters is reading it - and Marsters can brilliantly handle more than one voice and accent, slipping effortless into British, Russian, Southern, and others. The only voices that aren't quite as distinguishable are the American ones.
I like his reading voice. And have come to the conclusion that this makes or breaks an audio reading experience. I'm just listening to the book - not reading it.
And getting further than I have in a while. Which is interesting.
I do have my quibbles with the books, politically correct - they ain't, but they are also supernatural urban fantasy "noir" and "noir" by its very nature is not considered politically correct.
Marsters hopes the author is happy with his reading of the books. (Honestly, I don't think Jim Butcher's books would have taken off without Marsters - that's how he snagged the Buffy Fandom. I'd never heard of the books until the fandom did via Marsters announcing he was doing the audio books and they passed them around. It was a clever marketing ploy. Marsters has to be aware of that.)
But it is making me consider getting other audio books, assuming I can afford them. Kindle books are dirt cheap.
I gave up on The Widow of Rose Hill -- it was slow, and made me angry in places. I may go back to it at some point, but doubtful.
3. Aunt K posted the following article on FB regarding the Portland, Oregon protests. Her son lives in Portland (he was also the first family member to contract COVID and recover from it way back in February).
The Story Behind the Naked Portland Protestor "Athena" Dancer who Stood up to the Federal Police That Had Invaded Portland
Aunt K: My son lives in Portland. The Homeland Security sent militarized police to end the protests. Then this incredible lady stood up and took peaceful protest to a higher level. Her beauty , dance, and vulnerability ended the stand off. Let’s take a lesson from this and use our music and dance, and no, we don’t have to be naked, to take the protests to a higher level like she does. Peaceful protests are protected under the constitution. I support the constitution, do you?
According to the article - they tried to fire pepper balls at her feet, another protestor stepped in front of her with a shield. She side-stepped him and continued to dance. Within ten minutes, the Federal Troops turned and left.
This is after a night in which Portland Moms Formed a Shield.
4. My family lives across the United States by the way. I have Aunts and Uncles and Cousins in Florida, Parents in South Carolina, Aunts and Uncles and Cousins in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, California, Washington, Portland...and Texas.
I have friends and people I care about across the US and the world.
I was thinking about this while watching Last Airbender tonight, where the guru tells the Avatar Ange that we are one world, one civilization, even though we think we are separate we aren't.
And I thought about the Governor's words in his latest briefing : "one outbreak is an outbreak every where - it affects us all". We are not separate.
A pandemic should make this clear - that divided we fall prey to a virus.
A virus doesn't care about nationalities, species, race, sex, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, political parties - it attacks everyone equally and randomly. It passes from animals to humans and back again - it's not even discriminatory in regards to species.
And it can't be killed. It's not alive. It doesn't think. It can't be talked to. Or persuaded. Or spun.
The only way out is together. To choose to let go of the false divisions and false boundaries, of identities, of lables...and see ourselves as merely living creatures on this planet.
Can we do that? I don't know. But I'm optimistic and have faith. I think we can and we will. The Naked Dancer in Portland and the row of Moms, and the countless scientists battling for a vaccine, and sharing information to make one, give me hope.
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Date: 2020-07-23 08:47 am (UTC)