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Jan. 7th, 2018 05:24 pm1. Suffered a vertigo attack last night. First one since 2016. I think it was a combo of things that brought it on. Any how...this is the best site that I've found regarding vertigo. .
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2. Enjoying Runaways on Hulu. But I'm not sure I can handle The Handmaid's Tale -- too many triggers. Partway through the first episode, and I feel rage engulfing me. I think this would have been easier to watch five or six years ago during Obama, but not now. It may hurt too much to watch. The series much like the book and film before it, is a horror series about a dark dystopian future, ridden with plague and toxins, that chose to enslave women to further the human race and justified it with a misinterpretation of biblical text.
It's not that violent, there's relatively little graphic violence depicted - it's more referred to. I didn't see the girl get her poked out -- it's referred to. (Although I may have been in the bathroom at the time). And they kick a guy to death (but we don't really see it -- it's shown more from a distance in a way. This is the least violent of the dystopian series. No, the violence is in the words, and its depiction of how women are treated -- utilizing the worst parts of the bible to justify their actions. It's violent in its ideas, yet weirdly lyrical in its depictions. There's a visual poetry to the series...that is lacking in others of this sort.
And it is well written, exceedingly so, utilizing Atwood's prose as a sort of voice over -- and say what you will about Atwood, she's a deft hand with poetic prose.
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3. Feeling slightly better. The fluid seems to be draining from my head to my throat. One of my friends suggested on FB that I use a really good antihistimine and ice pack on the back of my neck, it appears to be working.
4. Also saw...because I need lighter fare:
The Good Place -- "Leap of Faith", which was good, not quite as good as some other episodes, but better than most. The series does a rather good job of not only discussing philosophy but making fun of it -- specifically ethical philosophy. If you are at all into philosophy or the study of it, it is required viewing.
This week played with Soren Kierkegaard -- "Leap into Faith" concept. Blindly. Against all evidence to the contrary. Which really is what a leap into faith is -- the ability to trust someone, and not give into violent acts.
Or something along those lines.
It was funny in places, mainly because Chidhi, Janet, Danson, and Kristen Bell are comic gold.
Tahini and Jason on the other hand are slowly beginning to grate on my ever-living-nerve.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- sort of lost me. I had troubles following it at times. And found some of it a bit over-the-top. I get what they are doing, but I wish they scaled back a bit and did more musical numbers.
5. Finished All In by Simona Ahrnstedt
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Apparently, I'm on a gender politics/feminist kick, but then so is my society. And it will be until men stop abusing women and treating them like property and objects, beneath them, and women stop enabling it. I see a shift happening...slowly, and things are far better now than they were twenty years ago.
I believe in 2020, most of the legislature and executive branch will be women. And by 2025, a woman will be President of the US.
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2. Enjoying Runaways on Hulu. But I'm not sure I can handle The Handmaid's Tale -- too many triggers. Partway through the first episode, and I feel rage engulfing me. I think this would have been easier to watch five or six years ago during Obama, but not now. It may hurt too much to watch. The series much like the book and film before it, is a horror series about a dark dystopian future, ridden with plague and toxins, that chose to enslave women to further the human race and justified it with a misinterpretation of biblical text.
It's not that violent, there's relatively little graphic violence depicted - it's more referred to. I didn't see the girl get her poked out -- it's referred to. (Although I may have been in the bathroom at the time). And they kick a guy to death (but we don't really see it -- it's shown more from a distance in a way. This is the least violent of the dystopian series. No, the violence is in the words, and its depiction of how women are treated -- utilizing the worst parts of the bible to justify their actions. It's violent in its ideas, yet weirdly lyrical in its depictions. There's a visual poetry to the series...that is lacking in others of this sort.
And it is well written, exceedingly so, utilizing Atwood's prose as a sort of voice over -- and say what you will about Atwood, she's a deft hand with poetic prose.
( Read more... )
3. Feeling slightly better. The fluid seems to be draining from my head to my throat. One of my friends suggested on FB that I use a really good antihistimine and ice pack on the back of my neck, it appears to be working.
4. Also saw...because I need lighter fare:
The Good Place -- "Leap of Faith", which was good, not quite as good as some other episodes, but better than most. The series does a rather good job of not only discussing philosophy but making fun of it -- specifically ethical philosophy. If you are at all into philosophy or the study of it, it is required viewing.
This week played with Soren Kierkegaard -- "Leap into Faith" concept. Blindly. Against all evidence to the contrary. Which really is what a leap into faith is -- the ability to trust someone, and not give into violent acts.
Or something along those lines.
It was funny in places, mainly because Chidhi, Janet, Danson, and Kristen Bell are comic gold.
Tahini and Jason on the other hand are slowly beginning to grate on my ever-living-nerve.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- sort of lost me. I had troubles following it at times. And found some of it a bit over-the-top. I get what they are doing, but I wish they scaled back a bit and did more musical numbers.
5. Finished All In by Simona Ahrnstedt
( review )
Apparently, I'm on a gender politics/feminist kick, but then so is my society. And it will be until men stop abusing women and treating them like property and objects, beneath them, and women stop enabling it. I see a shift happening...slowly, and things are far better now than they were twenty years ago.
I believe in 2020, most of the legislature and executive branch will be women. And by 2025, a woman will be President of the US.