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1. Doing laundry -- Thursday evenings after work, and Saturdays at 12 noon are good times to laundry in my building. It's not bad -- the basement is well lit, there are book shelves, seating, and a kids play area. Also a nice Bengali family living in the basement apartment.

From my perspective, possibly the best laundra-mat that I've ever used. Not to mention cheapest.

I just lug into the ancient elevator, lug it out and do it.

Finding books to read in NYC is not a problem, any more than figuring out the time is a problem. There's these little free libraries everywhere, a library in the basement, and clocks everywhere. But alas, I'm picky about what I read and have ownership issues and like to read everything electronically -- so I keep buying books for about $.99 cents to $12.99. Mostly between $.99 cents and $4.00 though.

There are many reasons why I love NYC. It being a bookish city is just one of them.

2. People are aggravating me this week. Just putting that out there.

3. Apparently The Simpsons dissed upstate NY, not that upstate NY didn't deserve it. It has an inferiority complex because of NYC getting all the attention. You'd think it would be happy to finally get a bit of the love. But nooo.

People got upset, apparently. I don't know why -- the Simpsons mocks everything. I stopped watching it about ten to fifteen years ago. It was fun for about five years then got old.

Then when Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed he'd never seen or heard of the series, the executive producer sent him a DVD of it, along with a video clip on social media, informing him he'd sent it.

4. Angel 0 -- was boring. It's basically just Angel deciding to leave LA, after someone else gets killed on his watch -- because he sucks at this protection gig. So he takes off for Sunnydale -- vowing to only work alone from here on out. His last partner, a tough gal, got killed on his watch.

I don't know, I think I may be done with the Buffyverse? No one can come up with anything new. Was disappointed. I thought from the teaser -- it would do something different.

Of course it is worth noting that I found Angelus more interesting, also Angel/Darla and Angel/Spike interesting. Angel on Buffy...was sort of boring. (shrugs)

The Pitfalls of Social Media...and socio-political analysis

1. Found this on FB, during an interesting discussion about how rewarding social media can be. It can be, depending on how you handle it.

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2. Picked up the latest Un-canny X-men #18 (2018) - by Mathew Rosenberg and Salvador Larroca -- his story arc is rather controversial -- or so it appears by some of the reviews.

For one thing -- it's not action packed, but dialogue heavy and character focused. (One of the reasons I love the X-men and Marvel comics -- is the emphasis on character and social justice themes. The writers really do tackle political issues in an interesting way.) This issue is basically a funeral. One of the characters has died and in a ...less than stellar way. She wasn't killed in battle or fighting super villains. And for many fans of the comics this was hard for them to digest or take.

I don't tend to analyze things from an emotional perspective so much as a logical one, I think logically. I was trained to logically break down story and theme and analyze it in a logical manner. Emotion comes in -- but usually later. Which is why it is often hard for me to understand people who do it the opposite? I ran into problems on various fan boards -- because I saw how the story was going to play out logically. They were going to kill this character because it was the only way to propel the story, theme, and various other arcs forward. Did I care that the character was being killed off -- eh, not really, I'd already figured out that the character had to be killed off for the rest of the story to work about a year ago, so stopped investing in their arc. I'm not that masochistic. I wasn't upset Spike was going to die in Chosen, because I'd already figured out that they had to bring him back in Angel due to how they were killing him -- nothing else made logical sense. This doesn't mean I don't feel the emotion -- I do. I'm an empath. It's just that I see how the story is going to play out.

It also means that I don't tend to think or analyze in socio-political terms. ( Read more... )

So, in Uncanny X-men #18 -- we learn that long-time character ( spoilers )

has died horribly. ( Read more... )