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Sandman, movie meme, and way to go..Kansas
Aug. 3rd, 2022 09:29 pm1. Mother: Have you heard about Kansas?
[We used to live in Kansas for a very long time.]
ME: Uhm no, what about Kansas? [I'm thinking oh, shit, now what? And do I want to know?]
Mother: We'll Kansas has the Woman's right to choose to have an abortion written into it's constitution. So they put it to a referendum to overturn that clause.
Me: And (oh frigging hell, don't tell me they overturned it.)
Mother: They voted no.
ME: Wait, what? (Go Kansas?)
Mother: They voted NO on the referendum, they shot it down. On Instagram your brother's high school friend and her daughter have shirts on saying we voted No and we won - so if you're wondering what that's about...that's it.
I saw it and it took me forever to figure it out.
Me: Well, that actually makes sense. Kansas is an odd state. It's Libertarian.
Mother: True.
Me: Say what you will about it - but at least it's not hypocritical. It was abolitionist state. Also it did get rid of the Death Penalty a while back because it was bankrupting it. Now, Missouri on the other hand is backwards as they come...
While Kansas has a woman's right to choose written into its constitution, idiotic Missouri still has laws on its books that women are property of their husbands. Or it did in the 1990s. I know this because I was volunteering with Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the 1990s getting orders of protection - we had to call them orders of protection or restraining orders, because of that annoyingly ugly law.
Note to self - stay out of Missouri. Actually, I try to stay out of much of the Southern US - it's nutty. I think its the heat - that much heat can't be good for anyone.
2. Movie Meme..
( Movie Meme ganked from rogueslayer )
3. A daytime soap opera has fled broadcast networks for streaming.
Me: Days of Our Lives is leaving NBC for the streaming Peacock Network
Mother: You've got to be kidding me.
Me: Nope.
Mother: But what about the viewers who don't have streaming?
ME: Eh..it's kind of the wave of the future. Let's face it Broadcast is dying.
Mother: It certainly is. The Primetime is dead. There's nothing but wall to wall game shows and procedurals.
I'm going to cut the cable cord soon and switch to full on streaming I think. Mother's already half-way there. My brother already did it years ago, as did most of my co-workers. And Wales recently did it.
I'm hanging in there for a soap opera (that I can kind of watch at 8pm on Hulu) and Spectrum News.
4. So, I finished Act I of The Sandman on audiobooks. And I highly recommend it. I listened for free or with a credit, so there is that caveat. But I'd have paid for it. It's the best audiobook that I've listened to - hands down. The voices were astonishingly good. It held my interest throughout. Gaiman makes an excellent narrator - so good in fact, I might hunt down more books read by Neil Gaiman. The man is charm personified.
If you like dark fantasy (not everyone does - I don't know anyone off line who does...sigh), and if you like Judeo-Christian mythos with a twist, and with a kind of whimsical horror twist to it - then you'll like this.
Gaiman is kind of whimsical. He doesn't take himself all that seriously.
(It's British whimsy...so there's that.) He is into world-building, and likes to saunter off into sub-tangents. Gaiman is into meandering. But his characters, for the most part, are rich and tasty, and unlike his other books - Morpheus has depth and is chewy - less of a cipher, mainly because he has more time to play around with him - since it's a lengthy comic serial.
The voice talents are stellar. James McAvoy's Morpheus is delicious. As are all the other voices. It's well-cast, well-directed, and well-performed.
I highly recommend.
I'm also re-reading the comics via comixcology digital (which is a godsend for graphic novel/comic book readers - I have the Fire HD for comics alone). I borrowed them.
I've pretty much figured out what will and what won't be in the series by looking at the cast. ( Read more... )
Starting Act II The Sandman - on audio, which is the volumes after Dollhouse. This section most likely won't make it in the television series (unfortunately). Although Desire and Despair appear to be in the Sandman television show cast - so who knows what they are doing.
[We used to live in Kansas for a very long time.]
ME: Uhm no, what about Kansas? [I'm thinking oh, shit, now what? And do I want to know?]
Mother: We'll Kansas has the Woman's right to choose to have an abortion written into it's constitution. So they put it to a referendum to overturn that clause.
Me: And (oh frigging hell, don't tell me they overturned it.)
Mother: They voted no.
ME: Wait, what? (Go Kansas?)
Mother: They voted NO on the referendum, they shot it down. On Instagram your brother's high school friend and her daughter have shirts on saying we voted No and we won - so if you're wondering what that's about...that's it.
I saw it and it took me forever to figure it out.
Me: Well, that actually makes sense. Kansas is an odd state. It's Libertarian.
Mother: True.
Me: Say what you will about it - but at least it's not hypocritical. It was abolitionist state. Also it did get rid of the Death Penalty a while back because it was bankrupting it. Now, Missouri on the other hand is backwards as they come...
While Kansas has a woman's right to choose written into its constitution, idiotic Missouri still has laws on its books that women are property of their husbands. Or it did in the 1990s. I know this because I was volunteering with Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the 1990s getting orders of protection - we had to call them orders of protection or restraining orders, because of that annoyingly ugly law.
Note to self - stay out of Missouri. Actually, I try to stay out of much of the Southern US - it's nutty. I think its the heat - that much heat can't be good for anyone.
2. Movie Meme..
( Movie Meme ganked from rogueslayer )
3. A daytime soap opera has fled broadcast networks for streaming.
Me: Days of Our Lives is leaving NBC for the streaming Peacock Network
Mother: You've got to be kidding me.
Me: Nope.
Mother: But what about the viewers who don't have streaming?
ME: Eh..it's kind of the wave of the future. Let's face it Broadcast is dying.
Mother: It certainly is. The Primetime is dead. There's nothing but wall to wall game shows and procedurals.
I'm going to cut the cable cord soon and switch to full on streaming I think. Mother's already half-way there. My brother already did it years ago, as did most of my co-workers. And Wales recently did it.
I'm hanging in there for a soap opera (that I can kind of watch at 8pm on Hulu) and Spectrum News.
4. So, I finished Act I of The Sandman on audiobooks. And I highly recommend it. I listened for free or with a credit, so there is that caveat. But I'd have paid for it. It's the best audiobook that I've listened to - hands down. The voices were astonishingly good. It held my interest throughout. Gaiman makes an excellent narrator - so good in fact, I might hunt down more books read by Neil Gaiman. The man is charm personified.
If you like dark fantasy (not everyone does - I don't know anyone off line who does...sigh), and if you like Judeo-Christian mythos with a twist, and with a kind of whimsical horror twist to it - then you'll like this.
Gaiman is kind of whimsical. He doesn't take himself all that seriously.
(It's British whimsy...so there's that.) He is into world-building, and likes to saunter off into sub-tangents. Gaiman is into meandering. But his characters, for the most part, are rich and tasty, and unlike his other books - Morpheus has depth and is chewy - less of a cipher, mainly because he has more time to play around with him - since it's a lengthy comic serial.
The voice talents are stellar. James McAvoy's Morpheus is delicious. As are all the other voices. It's well-cast, well-directed, and well-performed.
I highly recommend.
I'm also re-reading the comics via comixcology digital (which is a godsend for graphic novel/comic book readers - I have the Fire HD for comics alone). I borrowed them.
I've pretty much figured out what will and what won't be in the series by looking at the cast. ( Read more... )
Starting Act II The Sandman - on audio, which is the volumes after Dollhouse. This section most likely won't make it in the television series (unfortunately). Although Desire and Despair appear to be in the Sandman television show cast - so who knows what they are doing.