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1. Birthday Card from Grocery Store, Handwritten no less.
Signed by all of the staff, and made out by hand. Meanwhile, I've still not gotten the card from mother, we're worried - she sent me a check. She's trying to decide if she should cancel the check and try again. Of course she's out the card - which she probably worked a bit to find.
I get everything else. Bills galore, and junk mail, and a birthday card from my grocery store (actually it's one of five grocery stores that I frequent semi-regularly, although I tend to go to it the most.)
ME: I got a birthday card from my grocery store.
Mother: But not from me?
Me: Not so far - no.
Mother: This makes no sense, I sent it two weeks ago, and put two stamps on it. How long does it take? When was the grocery store card sent?
ME: The grocery store is a fifteen to twenty minute walk from my apartment, I doubt seriously it took that long. (However, it may have been sent two weeks ago too?) Also, you didn't appear to appreciate what I stated - I got a birthday card from my grocery store. And no, it wasn't a sales pitch card - it was a hand written, hand addressed, and hand stamped card - with everyone's signature. As if I worked there. That's a first.
Mother: Oh. Hand done? Who signed it?
Me> (I read off the names, many are Bengali or Pakistani - so I gave up on those).
Mother: Okay, that's admittedly odd.
Me: I thought so. It is a family owned store, but...it's definitely a first.
I want my Mother's card - outside of the fact that is from my Mother, it also has a check for money inside. Stupid post office.
But I am amused about a getting a Birthday Card from Foodtown. (I'm semi-regular - I go to about five different stores on a semi-regular basis. I live in NYC, everyone does that.)
***
2. Twitter, Fandom, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
So, I've been kind of discussing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once on the internet. Not that much, fans of this film are weirdly protective of it. I think it's because it's a "nerd" win - and well. To such a degree - that AO Scott, NYTimes Film Critic, got fed up and decided to jump down from his post as film critic at the NY Times.
( excerpt as to why he left his job as film critic )
He equates fandom with social media as if they go hand in hand, and I disagree. Social media tends to enable toxicity in a way that isn't necessarily true of fandom in of itself. Particularly Twitter - where folks are encouraged to fling opinions at each other with little to no regard for the consequences. Also, the thing about criticism is - if you put the negative energy out there - you will get it in kind. I know, I've experimented with it. And I have a dry snarky wit - so there's that.
Twitter and Everything Everywhere All at Once discussion
Art Block (an alt-folk musician based in London, who I've friended on Music Twitter, because I needed an antidote to Soap Twitter and Political Twitter, Music Twitter is kind of calm and tranquil and relatively sane in comparison) - was watching Everything Everywhere All At Once, and his comment was WTAF.
LOL
Then they began to try and describe it.
( Read more... )
Anyhow I do agree with Art Block - Everything Everywhere All at Once - reminded me of reading Magna quite a bit. It's very similar in style.
I'm glad it won the Oscar - and somewhat surprised it did. It's a nerdy film. And very progressive. Also, well outside the box.
Also, I like the idea of talking rocks. The talking rocks were seriously the best part of that movie - they made the movie for me.
Everyone else: I loved Short Round.
Me and Art Block: I loved the talking rocks.
***
3. Crazy Workplace
New Gal and Babs were exposed to COVID. Apparently there's an upside for rubbing Disney Theater Guy (DTG) the wrong way? You don't get exposed to COVID.
I barely interacted with him. My back was to him. And we were six feet away from each other. So, I didn't get the notification or exposed. I'm not surprised he got COVID - the guy has gone to multiple plays and musicals, seen his daughter's musical performance, and never wears a mask.
He kind of was asking for it. NG was annoyed - she had visited her Aunt last night, also saw various family members and friends, two cousins prior to their departure on an airling to Dominican Republic. She'd even kissed one of her family members. And she didn't find out until today, and was exposed yesterday. So she took the test - and was negative. Babs was equally annoyed - verging on pissed off. DTG had rudely thrown a bunch of boxes in her office. When she'd asked for them, he created them and stacked them on her chair in a tower. I thought, okay, I think he's being nice - but his energy radiated annoyance. My back was to him - so I wasn't exposed.
As FM pointed out - it's a virus, and we're out in the world. But I do work hard to avoid it.
Work is still stalled. So my little group, such as it is, is bored and frustrated. But hey, I've discovered I can do Chipolte as an alternative.
I'd meant to go to The Center of Fiction after work for my artist date - and to see if I could find an interesting book. But I was exhausted and just wanted to go home.
**
4. This is interesting...
So, I friended comic book writer, Gail Simon, on Twitter. She usually just trolls it, but today found out a few interesting things.
* The Orgins of Fridging
"The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined by writer Gail Simone as a name for the website in early 1999 during online discussions about comic books with friends. It refers to an incident in Green Lantern vol. 3 #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner, the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, had been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed into a refrigerator.[2][3] Simone and her colleagues then developed a list of fictional female characters who had been "killed, maimed or depowered", in particular in ways that treated the female characters as mere devices to move forward a male character's story arc, rather than as fully developed characters in their own right.[3][4] The list was then circulated via the Internet over Usenet, bulletin board systems, email and electronic mailing lists. Simone also e-mailed many comic book creators directly for their responses to the list. "
Here's the UK article: From Bond to ITVS Strangers - Why is Everyone Fridging?
( Excerpt )
From the excerpt? This statement interests me..."Nobody is saying that stories about vengeful, grief-powered men are absolutely verboten. Gail Simone herself – who, sadly and somewhat inevitably, now rarely discusses fridging, because she has become exhausted by endless criticism from male comic-book fans who haven’t fully understood the idea – put it succinctly in 2010: “WiR was never meant to be an indictment, it was meant to ask a question to provoke thought.”"
And... Gail Simon's Story of Becoming a Comic Book Writer and her relationship with her adoptive Mother, who recently died.
This had me crying by the end.
( The story in case you can't get it via Twitter )
Love makes you do the wacky.
Signed by all of the staff, and made out by hand. Meanwhile, I've still not gotten the card from mother, we're worried - she sent me a check. She's trying to decide if she should cancel the check and try again. Of course she's out the card - which she probably worked a bit to find.
I get everything else. Bills galore, and junk mail, and a birthday card from my grocery store (actually it's one of five grocery stores that I frequent semi-regularly, although I tend to go to it the most.)
ME: I got a birthday card from my grocery store.
Mother: But not from me?
Me: Not so far - no.
Mother: This makes no sense, I sent it two weeks ago, and put two stamps on it. How long does it take? When was the grocery store card sent?
ME: The grocery store is a fifteen to twenty minute walk from my apartment, I doubt seriously it took that long. (However, it may have been sent two weeks ago too?) Also, you didn't appear to appreciate what I stated - I got a birthday card from my grocery store. And no, it wasn't a sales pitch card - it was a hand written, hand addressed, and hand stamped card - with everyone's signature. As if I worked there. That's a first.
Mother: Oh. Hand done? Who signed it?
Me> (I read off the names, many are Bengali or Pakistani - so I gave up on those).
Mother: Okay, that's admittedly odd.
Me: I thought so. It is a family owned store, but...it's definitely a first.
I want my Mother's card - outside of the fact that is from my Mother, it also has a check for money inside. Stupid post office.
But I am amused about a getting a Birthday Card from Foodtown. (I'm semi-regular - I go to about five different stores on a semi-regular basis. I live in NYC, everyone does that.)
***
2. Twitter, Fandom, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
So, I've been kind of discussing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once on the internet. Not that much, fans of this film are weirdly protective of it. I think it's because it's a "nerd" win - and well. To such a degree - that AO Scott, NYTimes Film Critic, got fed up and decided to jump down from his post as film critic at the NY Times.
( excerpt as to why he left his job as film critic )
He equates fandom with social media as if they go hand in hand, and I disagree. Social media tends to enable toxicity in a way that isn't necessarily true of fandom in of itself. Particularly Twitter - where folks are encouraged to fling opinions at each other with little to no regard for the consequences. Also, the thing about criticism is - if you put the negative energy out there - you will get it in kind. I know, I've experimented with it. And I have a dry snarky wit - so there's that.
Twitter and Everything Everywhere All at Once discussion
Art Block (an alt-folk musician based in London, who I've friended on Music Twitter, because I needed an antidote to Soap Twitter and Political Twitter, Music Twitter is kind of calm and tranquil and relatively sane in comparison) - was watching Everything Everywhere All At Once, and his comment was WTAF.
LOL
Then they began to try and describe it.
( Read more... )
Anyhow I do agree with Art Block - Everything Everywhere All at Once - reminded me of reading Magna quite a bit. It's very similar in style.
I'm glad it won the Oscar - and somewhat surprised it did. It's a nerdy film. And very progressive. Also, well outside the box.
Also, I like the idea of talking rocks. The talking rocks were seriously the best part of that movie - they made the movie for me.
Everyone else: I loved Short Round.
Me and Art Block: I loved the talking rocks.
***
3. Crazy Workplace
New Gal and Babs were exposed to COVID. Apparently there's an upside for rubbing Disney Theater Guy (DTG) the wrong way? You don't get exposed to COVID.
I barely interacted with him. My back was to him. And we were six feet away from each other. So, I didn't get the notification or exposed. I'm not surprised he got COVID - the guy has gone to multiple plays and musicals, seen his daughter's musical performance, and never wears a mask.
He kind of was asking for it. NG was annoyed - she had visited her Aunt last night, also saw various family members and friends, two cousins prior to their departure on an airling to Dominican Republic. She'd even kissed one of her family members. And she didn't find out until today, and was exposed yesterday. So she took the test - and was negative. Babs was equally annoyed - verging on pissed off. DTG had rudely thrown a bunch of boxes in her office. When she'd asked for them, he created them and stacked them on her chair in a tower. I thought, okay, I think he's being nice - but his energy radiated annoyance. My back was to him - so I wasn't exposed.
As FM pointed out - it's a virus, and we're out in the world. But I do work hard to avoid it.
Work is still stalled. So my little group, such as it is, is bored and frustrated. But hey, I've discovered I can do Chipolte as an alternative.
I'd meant to go to The Center of Fiction after work for my artist date - and to see if I could find an interesting book. But I was exhausted and just wanted to go home.
**
4. This is interesting...
So, I friended comic book writer, Gail Simon, on Twitter. She usually just trolls it, but today found out a few interesting things.
* The Orgins of Fridging
"The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined by writer Gail Simone as a name for the website in early 1999 during online discussions about comic books with friends. It refers to an incident in Green Lantern vol. 3 #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner, the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, had been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed into a refrigerator.[2][3] Simone and her colleagues then developed a list of fictional female characters who had been "killed, maimed or depowered", in particular in ways that treated the female characters as mere devices to move forward a male character's story arc, rather than as fully developed characters in their own right.[3][4] The list was then circulated via the Internet over Usenet, bulletin board systems, email and electronic mailing lists. Simone also e-mailed many comic book creators directly for their responses to the list. "
Here's the UK article: From Bond to ITVS Strangers - Why is Everyone Fridging?
( Excerpt )
From the excerpt? This statement interests me..."Nobody is saying that stories about vengeful, grief-powered men are absolutely verboten. Gail Simone herself – who, sadly and somewhat inevitably, now rarely discusses fridging, because she has become exhausted by endless criticism from male comic-book fans who haven’t fully understood the idea – put it succinctly in 2010: “WiR was never meant to be an indictment, it was meant to ask a question to provoke thought.”"
And... Gail Simon's Story of Becoming a Comic Book Writer and her relationship with her adoptive Mother, who recently died.
This had me crying by the end.
( The story in case you can't get it via Twitter )
Love makes you do the wacky.