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Aw..nobody responded to my movie trailer post. (pouts) Not that I really expected anyone too. But...one squee over the Spiderman Trailer would have been fun. Apparently I'm the only one who thinks the Avengers trailer is lame?

Work has put me in a pissy mood. For lack of a better term. I am tempted to hibernate tomorrow and not deal with people. I had a headache by the end of the day...from email. Sigh. Project Managers and Engineers. Sigh. Actually - the men at work drove me nuts. Patronizing bastards. Who were completely clueless. One guy insisted on talking to another guy, and refused to listen to me, because I was female. I told him I was managing the project and had only pulled the other guy in for a bit of help. He was "assisting" me NOT the other way around. I know, shocking, but there it is.

After much thought and analysis, I've decided that Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Television series, in spite of Whedon or because of him (on the fence) was feminist. ( Read more... )

Sorry I keep editing this. I think one of the things I love most about lj and the internet social mediums...particularly the fanboards, is you can't always tell who is male or female, black or white, rich or poor, old or young, queer or straight...these things fall away. What we see is the essence of the individual, not the constructs or short-hand categories that we use to define one another. Race, gender, class, all of these things...fall away. You can fall in love with a person, not what they look like, not their physical essence. We live in such a material world, so physical, the internet..often strips that physical materiality away...and we are left with each others words and our perceptions of them. I love that. I can be male on the internet (people on a fanboard actually thought I was for a bit) and I can be black, I can be
short, I can be young, I can be ancient. I can be whatever I want. Rich, poor. It's freeing. Until people find out...and then that's lost.

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This was the post I meant to make before I got slightly tipsy on vodka tonic with pomagrant cranberry juice and decided to rant about feminism in culture for five minutes much to your considerable annoyance I suspect.

Was talking to the Momster about books.

Momster: all the fictional literary books are about dysfunctional familys. In various countries. I'm bored of them.
Me: Not necessarily. The book I'm reading now isn't. It's called the Master and The Margarita, it's a Russian Literary Classic.
Momster: How'd you discover this book?
Me: Wandering about a book store. I like to read the backs of books in bookstores, and the fronts and the middles...it entertains me.
Momster: Never heard of it.
ME: Yet oddly enough it is the favorite book of quite a few people on my correspondence list.
Momster: Are these people US or Europeans?
Me (ponders): well one guy is in Arizona, and he wasn't thrilled, the rest - Sweden, Austria, Russia...so yes, Europeans. I just picked this one up and read the back cover. The description intrigued me. Here's the description: One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka -
Momster (laughing): That's right up your alley with the supernatural bit, can totally see why you got it. The Black cat would sell it alone. (She knows I have a weakness for supernatural tales about cats). Did you get this on the Kindle?
Me: No, I bought it long before the Kindle.
Momster: So this is one of the many books on your shelves that you haven't read?
ME: Yes, I seem to acquire books in much the same way a cat acquires fleas.

Should mention the book is a new translation (okay it was new five years ago) by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor and is the first complete, annotated English translation of the novel. Also contains an afterward from the writer's biographer.

Apparently it was censored in the 1960s and banned in Russia. Too controversial. People, sigh. Can't handle anything they don't agree with being read. Folks, we all should have the right to state our opinion. You don't have to agree.