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Aug. 22nd, 2019 06:57 pm1. Twitter : "Yes, I know everyone is upset about Spiderman no longer being part of the MCU, but the Amazon Rain Forest is burning! Get your priorities straight, people!"
or...
Facebook: "If you can't get upset about an Amazon rain forest burning, just imagine it's an ancient Cathedral that you last visited in your twenties."
Me: More trees, less buildings and people.
2. The Real Reason the Sound of Your Own Voice Makes You Cringe.
Well, it makes me cringe. It may not make you cringe.
( excerpt )
As an aside -- I keep wanting to read this article that Firefox teases to me in it's Rec's but before I can click on it, I'm kicked out for some reason and can't find it again. (I was kicked out this round, because ever since Optimum upgraded my modium, the default setting is Optimum Wifi and not my home WIFI and it askes for Optimum Password -- but I want my home one. Highly annoying. So I lose the internet until I click over.)
3. This keeps popping up in my news feed... 400 Hundred Years After Africans Were First Brought to Virginia, Most Americans Don't Know The Full Story of Slavery
This is part of the NY Times Pultizer Prize Winning 1619 Project -- 1619 is when the first slave ship hit American shores...and a horrific history began. It's interactive and it is a series. And possibly one of the most ambitious pieces of journalism on race relations in print.
( Read more... )
4. Memage
Just had a major downpour, with lightening, then it stopped. All summer long, we've had these tropical storms that last about twenty to thirty minutes then end. I'm beginning to think I'm living in a tropical depression --except with moderate temperatures.
( memage )
That was sort of boring. Hmm. Was discussing the rom-com "When Harry Met Sally" today, and as a rom-com? I didn't like it. As a character study? I like it a lot. Although at various points, I wanted to strangle Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and I identified with Carrie Fisher, whose sense of humor I share. I think my problem with Harry and Sally is I've met them both in life, and yes, I've wanted to strangle them at various points and hug them at others.
My biggest difficulty with the rom-com though was that view that men and women (who are heterosexual) cannot have a platonic friendship. This is not true. Yes, they can. I have a lot of platonic male friends and have had platonic male friends throughout my life. They are easier at times than women -- who are insanely competitive and judgemental. Male friends don't compete with you or not in the same way or judge in the same way. It's a different dynamic.
So, I'm the rare person on the planet who was not crazy about the film. I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it either. I like odd rom-com's, I admit this.
My fav's are?
( Read more... )
or...
Facebook: "If you can't get upset about an Amazon rain forest burning, just imagine it's an ancient Cathedral that you last visited in your twenties."
Me: More trees, less buildings and people.
2. The Real Reason the Sound of Your Own Voice Makes You Cringe.
Well, it makes me cringe. It may not make you cringe.
( excerpt )
As an aside -- I keep wanting to read this article that Firefox teases to me in it's Rec's but before I can click on it, I'm kicked out for some reason and can't find it again. (I was kicked out this round, because ever since Optimum upgraded my modium, the default setting is Optimum Wifi and not my home WIFI and it askes for Optimum Password -- but I want my home one. Highly annoying. So I lose the internet until I click over.)
3. This keeps popping up in my news feed... 400 Hundred Years After Africans Were First Brought to Virginia, Most Americans Don't Know The Full Story of Slavery
This is part of the NY Times Pultizer Prize Winning 1619 Project -- 1619 is when the first slave ship hit American shores...and a horrific history began. It's interactive and it is a series. And possibly one of the most ambitious pieces of journalism on race relations in print.
( Read more... )
4. Memage
Just had a major downpour, with lightening, then it stopped. All summer long, we've had these tropical storms that last about twenty to thirty minutes then end. I'm beginning to think I'm living in a tropical depression --except with moderate temperatures.
( memage )
That was sort of boring. Hmm. Was discussing the rom-com "When Harry Met Sally" today, and as a rom-com? I didn't like it. As a character study? I like it a lot. Although at various points, I wanted to strangle Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and I identified with Carrie Fisher, whose sense of humor I share. I think my problem with Harry and Sally is I've met them both in life, and yes, I've wanted to strangle them at various points and hug them at others.
My biggest difficulty with the rom-com though was that view that men and women (who are heterosexual) cannot have a platonic friendship. This is not true. Yes, they can. I have a lot of platonic male friends and have had platonic male friends throughout my life. They are easier at times than women -- who are insanely competitive and judgemental. Male friends don't compete with you or not in the same way or judge in the same way. It's a different dynamic.
So, I'm the rare person on the planet who was not crazy about the film. I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it either. I like odd rom-com's, I admit this.
My fav's are?
( Read more... )