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On lunch break - or at end of lunch break, rather.

Found a rather cool essay about how the internet has changed our perception of television or the breaking of the fourth wall - where in the past we had no contact with the creators of our favorite shows, now we are almost far too aware of them, and the same is true about each other's opinions of the shows.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/do_we_want_too_much_from_tvs_c_1.html


A question - what does SJA stand for? A couple of people on flist were squeeing over it? I kept thinking Star Gate Atlantis, but that can't be right.

In a bad way this week - landlords are moving out, new tenat moving in - which provides upheaval and issues, plus stuff going on workwise...lots of upheaval and noises of upheaval, but nothing definite or concrete, making it difficult to plan or buy or order stuff. Feel like I'm in a permanent limbo with the world rocking ahead of me. Making me very cranky. So for my own blood pressure and yours, am backing away from reviewing, discussing, and critiquing tv shows, comics, books, etc for a bit. Will most likely read others posts, but not offer my own view. Not sure for how long.

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In hunting quotes for church listserve which I'm editing - found this one by Coretta Scott King (the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.). Not fitting for the listserve, but worth remembering.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." (Quite true. Worst emotions? Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy - not necessarily in that order.)


And these quotes by Isabelle Allende, a South American Writer. I have her book "Zorro" which I keep on meaning to read, but first must finish Storm of Swords and Side Jobs by Butcher, which I'm now reading at the same time. Sort of bogged down in Storm, it's good, just...very, very, very long.
Write what should not be forgotten.

• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

• Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

* Write what should not be forgotten.

[Sigh. I fear sometimes that I write far too often that which not only should be forgotten but must be forgotten, to such an extent I either delete it or throw up my hands in surrender, and wish I'd never put down the words. Being precise and careful in writing and speech remains oddly a constant struggle, I say oddly, because I am cautious with just about everything else.]

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In hunting quotes for church listserve which I'm editing - found this one by Coretta Scott King (the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.). Not fitting for the listserve, but worth remembering.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." (Quite true. Worst emotions? Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy - not necessarily in that order.)


And these quotes by Isabelle Allende, a South American Writer. I have her book "Zorro" which I keep on meaning to read, but first must finish Storm of Swords and Side Jobs by Butcher, which I'm now reading at the same time. Sort of bogged down in Storm, it's good, just...very, very, very long.
Write what should not be forgotten.

• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

• Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

* Write what should not be forgotten.

[Sigh. I fear sometimes that I write far too often that which not only should be forgotten but must be forgotten, to such an extent I either delete it or throw up my hands in surrender, and wish I'd never put down the words. Being precise and careful in writing and speech remains oddly a constant struggle, I say oddly, because I am cautious with just about everything else.]