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Jan. 27th, 2020 06:59 pm1. I was behind and scrolled through correspondence list. Apparently I should catch up on Doctor Who? I'm five episodes behind. Because apparently a lot happens, some of which is shocking?
To be fair, after falling through the Ao3 rabbit hole for the March Meta Challenge, I'm behind on all my television series. Or most of them. Trying to catch up. Bit by bit.
2. I went on Twitter and FB briefly at work, then jumped off.
The GH fanboard is bored -- they are discussing old soap episodes, discussing storylines, speculating, and posting weird memes. They aren't used to having their show on hiatus for more than two or three days. It's a soap, usually soaps are on five days a week. The impeachment hearings have alas preempted them. Why? Because the broadcast news channels want to make certain every human being in the US has access to them, whether they want it or not. I'm blatantly ignoring the hearings.
FB main board and on Twitter, they fighting over:
*. Kobe Bryant (who died tragically, but alas, apparently was also a rapist - which explains why he sounded familiar -- I honestly had no clue who he was when they were going on and on about him at the Grammy's last night (I know now).).
Poster#1: He was a rapist. You shouldn't post about him, be sensitive to his victims.
Poster #2: He didn't deserve to die. Nor did his daughter and the nine other people on the plane, come on!
Poster #1: I agree on the daughter - talk about her instead.
*. Bernie Saunders (you either love him or hate him -- there really is no in between. Kind of like the Doofus. I keep wishing he'll just go away. But I felt the same about the Doofus and look what happened. People? The President of the US is not going to make your financial issues go away. That's not how it works. Find another way.)
Poster #1: See this well-written and thorough critique of Saunders.
Poster #2: Those are lies! Lies! An attempt to discredit him by his enemies.
Poster #1: I thought it was well-phrased and objective. But mileage varies. What is important is we all remain on the same side come election time.
*. Georgette Heyer (who was apparently antisemitic? Honestly I found her writing style so annoying, unmemorable and impossible to digest, that I didn't pick up on it -- also a lot of white upwardly mobile WASPY writers in the early half of the 20th Century were antisemitic, sexist, and racist (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot...Ezra Pound..) Are we going to censor everyone who offends us? I'd be careful about that. Then you have no way of knowing how they think. I'm also of the view that stories should be allowed to be told no matter how offensive they are. If you want to fight racism? Find a way to get idiotic publishers to publish more points of view, don't do it by censoring people.
I rather enjoyed one poster's response to the Heyer thing. "I'm Jewish, my parents are Holocaust survivors, and Heyer is long dead. This means I can enjoy what she wrote, without worrying about her getting any money off of it. If she were alive it would be a different issue."
* American Dirt -- this is the critically acclaimed Oprah's Book Club pick, which is also apparently highly controversial. I'm guessing a white woman researched the Mexican-American immigrant experience and decided to play Steinbeck, and it kind of backfired? I don't know, I read a synopsis of the book and it didn't appeal to me at all. So promptly forgot about it -- until they began fighting over it.
Gotta love, social media. Where were we without it?
3. Project Manager informs me that the Contractor thinks it is unfair that they have to provide time and material tickets supporting their cost, when they provided a cost proposal (which was far from complete) and should be permitted to negotiate that. My initial response was, "life is unfair. If it were fair, I'd be sitting on a beach in Hawaii sipping a Pina Colda and writing my novel, not dealing with your ugly mug." But I restrained myself and gave them the contract language instead.
To be fair, after falling through the Ao3 rabbit hole for the March Meta Challenge, I'm behind on all my television series. Or most of them. Trying to catch up. Bit by bit.
2. I went on Twitter and FB briefly at work, then jumped off.
The GH fanboard is bored -- they are discussing old soap episodes, discussing storylines, speculating, and posting weird memes. They aren't used to having their show on hiatus for more than two or three days. It's a soap, usually soaps are on five days a week. The impeachment hearings have alas preempted them. Why? Because the broadcast news channels want to make certain every human being in the US has access to them, whether they want it or not. I'm blatantly ignoring the hearings.
FB main board and on Twitter, they fighting over:
*. Kobe Bryant (who died tragically, but alas, apparently was also a rapist - which explains why he sounded familiar -- I honestly had no clue who he was when they were going on and on about him at the Grammy's last night (I know now).).
Poster#1: He was a rapist. You shouldn't post about him, be sensitive to his victims.
Poster #2: He didn't deserve to die. Nor did his daughter and the nine other people on the plane, come on!
Poster #1: I agree on the daughter - talk about her instead.
*. Bernie Saunders (you either love him or hate him -- there really is no in between. Kind of like the Doofus. I keep wishing he'll just go away. But I felt the same about the Doofus and look what happened. People? The President of the US is not going to make your financial issues go away. That's not how it works. Find another way.)
Poster #1: See this well-written and thorough critique of Saunders.
Poster #2: Those are lies! Lies! An attempt to discredit him by his enemies.
Poster #1: I thought it was well-phrased and objective. But mileage varies. What is important is we all remain on the same side come election time.
*. Georgette Heyer (who was apparently antisemitic? Honestly I found her writing style so annoying, unmemorable and impossible to digest, that I didn't pick up on it -- also a lot of white upwardly mobile WASPY writers in the early half of the 20th Century were antisemitic, sexist, and racist (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot...Ezra Pound..) Are we going to censor everyone who offends us? I'd be careful about that. Then you have no way of knowing how they think. I'm also of the view that stories should be allowed to be told no matter how offensive they are. If you want to fight racism? Find a way to get idiotic publishers to publish more points of view, don't do it by censoring people.
I rather enjoyed one poster's response to the Heyer thing. "I'm Jewish, my parents are Holocaust survivors, and Heyer is long dead. This means I can enjoy what she wrote, without worrying about her getting any money off of it. If she were alive it would be a different issue."
* American Dirt -- this is the critically acclaimed Oprah's Book Club pick, which is also apparently highly controversial. I'm guessing a white woman researched the Mexican-American immigrant experience and decided to play Steinbeck, and it kind of backfired? I don't know, I read a synopsis of the book and it didn't appeal to me at all. So promptly forgot about it -- until they began fighting over it.
Gotta love, social media. Where were we without it?
3. Project Manager informs me that the Contractor thinks it is unfair that they have to provide time and material tickets supporting their cost, when they provided a cost proposal (which was far from complete) and should be permitted to negotiate that. My initial response was, "life is unfair. If it were fair, I'd be sitting on a beach in Hawaii sipping a Pina Colda and writing my novel, not dealing with your ugly mug." But I restrained myself and gave them the contract language instead.