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Jun. 24th, 2010 09:38 pmMothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993
We have to find and put an endquote at the end of the church newsletter - that I've volunteered to edit. And after much hunting for an appropriate quote on the topic of Gay Pride Sunday, and a sermon entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - I chose the above. Mostly because it made me cry. I heart Melissa Etheridge, she's my hero.
Also heart Farscape - partly because I don't remember most of it. Oh I remember the main plot thread and structure, but not the smaller details, or when certain things happened. It's blurred together. That said, there are weak episodes. Sigh. Are there any tv shows, or anything out there without weak episodes? Nope. We fallible beings. Imperfect. Which is actually sort of cool. Did you know that certain Native American or American Indian tribes will deliberately insert a mistake in their artwork? Their belief is that it keeps the artwork from becoming cursed or prevents bad luck. It also to them makes it valuable. Also in the artworld - the mistake is often considered beautiful.
Scanned flist at lunch, lots of speculation on the latest reveal of the upcoming Buffy comics due to debut in September or October, they are always pushed back a month. I swear the distributor has the comics about two full months before they release them and just tease people with small spoilers up until that date - not unlike television network distributors or movie theaters in that regard. What amuses me is the discussion about Angel. First of all, I always saw Angel as an anti-hero. The interesting thing about the character was his desire to be worthy. Worthy of whom...I was never quite sure. Depended on the day of the week -- in most cases? I'd say a higher power. Angel was old school religion and a man of his times, 1700s.
Back in those days, women were property or something to be protected and owned literally,
and God, the Father, ruled. Not a nice period of history for the ladies. The only difference between Angelus and Angel was which God the Father they wanted approval from and well, the guilt thing. In other words, could Angel be manipulated by a higher power? Well, when wasn't he? Plus a huge theme of Angel the Series (especially S4 and S5 when Greenwalt got booted and Whedon/Minear took over)- was being a puppet of a quasi-religious higher power or the belief/need to believe in one. So Angel going batshit after a higher power gives him the coveted shanshu (or what he thinks it is) and turning him into the vamp equivalent of superman, is not a stretch. Actually, when one thinks about it - it was sort of foreshadowed in S3-S4 with Cordelia. Finding Aeryn and Crichton's counter character trajectories far more interesting at the moment. But did find the random posts and discussion of Angel sort of interesting.
In other news? Wimbeldon had the longest tennis match in history - one for the record books. An 11 hour match. Whoa. The guy who won? 6'9. American. From Georgia. Also, whoa, and cool!
US made it to the second round of the World Cup, no clue how England did, no one on the news has said anything. But the US got it's win. YAY.
McChrystal is out and Petrakis is in. I'm ambivalent to be honest. Just as long as they end the dang thing...and soon. This has been going on for nearly 9 years and counting. Soon we'll pass Vietnam, assuming we haven't already? (I don't know, how long was the Vietnam War? )
We have to find and put an endquote at the end of the church newsletter - that I've volunteered to edit. And after much hunting for an appropriate quote on the topic of Gay Pride Sunday, and a sermon entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - I chose the above. Mostly because it made me cry. I heart Melissa Etheridge, she's my hero.
Also heart Farscape - partly because I don't remember most of it. Oh I remember the main plot thread and structure, but not the smaller details, or when certain things happened. It's blurred together. That said, there are weak episodes. Sigh. Are there any tv shows, or anything out there without weak episodes? Nope. We fallible beings. Imperfect. Which is actually sort of cool. Did you know that certain Native American or American Indian tribes will deliberately insert a mistake in their artwork? Their belief is that it keeps the artwork from becoming cursed or prevents bad luck. It also to them makes it valuable. Also in the artworld - the mistake is often considered beautiful.
Scanned flist at lunch, lots of speculation on the latest reveal of the upcoming Buffy comics due to debut in September or October, they are always pushed back a month. I swear the distributor has the comics about two full months before they release them and just tease people with small spoilers up until that date - not unlike television network distributors or movie theaters in that regard. What amuses me is the discussion about Angel. First of all, I always saw Angel as an anti-hero. The interesting thing about the character was his desire to be worthy. Worthy of whom...I was never quite sure. Depended on the day of the week -- in most cases? I'd say a higher power. Angel was old school religion and a man of his times, 1700s.
Back in those days, women were property or something to be protected and owned literally,
and God, the Father, ruled. Not a nice period of history for the ladies. The only difference between Angelus and Angel was which God the Father they wanted approval from and well, the guilt thing. In other words, could Angel be manipulated by a higher power? Well, when wasn't he? Plus a huge theme of Angel the Series (especially S4 and S5 when Greenwalt got booted and Whedon/Minear took over)- was being a puppet of a quasi-religious higher power or the belief/need to believe in one. So Angel going batshit after a higher power gives him the coveted shanshu (or what he thinks it is) and turning him into the vamp equivalent of superman, is not a stretch. Actually, when one thinks about it - it was sort of foreshadowed in S3-S4 with Cordelia. Finding Aeryn and Crichton's counter character trajectories far more interesting at the moment. But did find the random posts and discussion of Angel sort of interesting.
In other news? Wimbeldon had the longest tennis match in history - one for the record books. An 11 hour match. Whoa. The guy who won? 6'9. American. From Georgia. Also, whoa, and cool!
US made it to the second round of the World Cup, no clue how England did, no one on the news has said anything. But the US got it's win. YAY.
McChrystal is out and Petrakis is in. I'm ambivalent to be honest. Just as long as they end the dang thing...and soon. This has been going on for nearly 9 years and counting. Soon we'll pass Vietnam, assuming we haven't already? (I don't know, how long was the Vietnam War? )