Day #9 of 2nd Year of Pandemic

Well my brother and his wife got their first dose of the vaccine. Bro got the moderna, side effects were sore arm and fatigue. Mother told him that we think it had jump started my period - so he warned his wife.




Spring sunset outside my window - at 7:17 pm tonight.

I admit, I like having longer days. I tend to like sunlight. I could never live in the far north.

Watched the first two episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Solider. The best thing about it is the banter between Bucky and Sam. Marvel's plots and world-building isn't as interesting as its banter. It's also very militaristic at times - too much Shield, and too much Supersolider Corps. Most of the superheroes in the MCU tend to be of enhanced humans. (I miss the X-men. I'm not, generally speaking an Avengers fan, except for the movies. In the comics - The Avengers are well...let's just say, I prefer Justice League, and leave it at that? No? Probably should be clearer - in the comics, they are kind of the "conservative" version of the Justice League. Although Ta-Nehsi Coates recently rebooted Captain America, so that could have changed.) I should review this elsewhere, shouldn't I?

I'm not longer obsessing about Justice League. I figured out what I needed to figure out and am done with it now. If you want to know what that was? Read the posts.

More and more posts on FB about folks being able to spend quality time with family members.( Read more... )

Headache was back again today - due to barometric pressure shift - the temperatures changed, again. But hey pretty sunset. And it did go away finally.

Pop culture stuff...to stave off bordom..

Didn't do much today but veg in front of the television and surf the net. Did straighten a few papers though. Partly due to a headache - which began at 1 and didn't leave until 5pm.

1. Falcon and the Winter Solider

I have a vague knowledge of the comics upon which all of this is based, so wasn't as surprised by a few things in the first two episodes as others were.

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Outside of the spoiler, which worked better than expected - in that it becomes something the Falcon and Winter Solider bond over. Bucky is basically annoyed with Sam for not following through on Cap's request, mainly because Bucky has made it all about him. A fact that Sam calls him on - and rightfully so. Also, the unspoken word in the room is systematic racism.

Bucky isn't racist, but the system is. And Sam knows that.

The story kind of circles around and plays with the theme of racism, and disadvantaged on multiple levels. Also how difficult the world has become post blip (or post one billion folks coming back after being gone for five years).

I found WandaVision more compelling, but that's mainly because I don't find military ops all that entertaining.

2. Nancy Drew - for a change we didn't have the gang investigating a supernatural mystery - instead we were delving into Bess's checkered past, and the vengeance her former husband (an abusive user and crook) enacted.

Of the CW shows, so far Nancy Drew and Superman are holding my interest.

I am considering trying Kung Fu which airs April 7, I think - which has a female Kung Fu artist as the hero.

3. Whedon Studies posted various things - on FB, one on the Nevers, one a lovely fan picture of Buffy by a non-scholar, and yet another post with Charisma Carpenter detailing her abuse at Whedon's hands. I decided to tell them there was more to that story - which, ahem makes it worse, and depicts a systematic sexism in the industry at large that they may not want to examine. Whedon's behavior much like others is just a symptom of a far more widespread problem. WB and Fox, and those in charge of those studios are at the root of it - the hired and enabled and in some cases pressured Whedon and others like him to behave in this fashion. It's getting better, but as long as people enable selfish asshole syndrome it will continue.

What is, however, most troubling about the Cordelia story on Angel, now that I've examined the Justice League films...is this:
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