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1.Indiana Jones reviews by a millenial, actually more like a Gen Z, the horror, the horror
Commercial Sci-Fi Novelist John Scalzi's daughter is busy reviewing all the old Indiana Jones on his blog. Nothing like an outraged politically correct review of Raiders of the Lost Ark by someone who wasn't born when it hit theaters, and never saw it until now. (I now understand how my parents felt when I was critiquing Westerns in college. Although I was taught how and being graded, so the outrage was kind of squelched. Also 1980s.)
They are amateurish reviews - like most reviews on the internet. ( Read more... )
2. Got up early to do laundry, and keep nodding off as a result. I had turned off the alarm, but woke up anyhow...did not sleep well the night before. I woke up at 2:20 am, hot and sweaty.
Wales asked if I was feeling better today. Yes, and no, unfortunately. ( Read more... )
3. Taking a break from Burn it Down - I was getting annoyed. She goes into depth on what happened behind the scenes on the Muppets after Disney took over, and the folks behind the Goldbergs. Neither is pretty. Muppets is mainly white men, and Goldbergs? Had sexual harassment claims. It was a hostile work environment. Muppets? Misogynistic post the Disney buyout.
Apparently the head show-runner of the Goldbergs is in charge of the new Muppets movie - it's his dream job. But there are a lot of allegations against him for harassment at The Goldbergs, so many that he responded to all of the authors queries through his legal team.
Damn.
4. Marvelous Mrs Maisel is in some respects a satire, and it does go after the male run industry - of standup comedy, and television showrunning, specifically late night. Gordon Ford feels like he could have been a stand-in for Johnny Carson. And Midge Wiseman Maisel is based loosely on Joan Rivers. Rivers struggled to get the late-night show host gigs or hosting gigs. Women do.
In episode 8 of S5,Midge's father, Abe tells his working buddies after having a couple of glasses of wine, as they complain that everything is changing so fast, that there's things he didn't notice. That maybe nothing has changed at all? He focused on the wrong things and wrong people. His daughter bought their apartment, not him. And his daughter got dumped by her husband - but she redefined herself, she didn't crumble and is successful. He was too busy focusing on his son - to truly see her and her abilities, which he also sees now in his granddaughter. He was so busy in hunting it in a male heir, it never occurred to him to see it in a female one. That men run everything and maybe they shouldn't? How could he be so blind.
I hear the writer's voice here - but Tony Shalob who plays Abe Wiseman convinces me these are his words, and thoughts, in a perfect example of how an actor sells the story and the lines within it. It's often why television or film work better than novels, in that if one falls short, the other collaborators pick up the slack.
5. Sad news. Learned from Twitter that horror/dark fantasy novelist Ursula Vernon, aka T Kingfisher, has cancer. I think it's breast cancer.
Damn. ( Read more... )
I'm probably poisoning myself with plastic. I don't know. I may read more TKingfisher. "The Twisted Ones" is the only book I've read in the last year that actually held my attention and I sped through. I hope she fights and survives cancer - I'm rooting for her. She's one of the more interesting writers that I've found on Twitter.
She has ignored me - but I mainly post on Soap Twitter and Spuffy Twitter, which occasional forays into Book Twitter, Romance Twitter, Television Writer Twitter, Comic Book Twitter and Music Twitter.
Commercial Sci-Fi Novelist John Scalzi's daughter is busy reviewing all the old Indiana Jones on his blog. Nothing like an outraged politically correct review of Raiders of the Lost Ark by someone who wasn't born when it hit theaters, and never saw it until now. (I now understand how my parents felt when I was critiquing Westerns in college. Although I was taught how and being graded, so the outrage was kind of squelched. Also 1980s.)
They are amateurish reviews - like most reviews on the internet. ( Read more... )
2. Got up early to do laundry, and keep nodding off as a result. I had turned off the alarm, but woke up anyhow...did not sleep well the night before. I woke up at 2:20 am, hot and sweaty.
Wales asked if I was feeling better today. Yes, and no, unfortunately. ( Read more... )
3. Taking a break from Burn it Down - I was getting annoyed. She goes into depth on what happened behind the scenes on the Muppets after Disney took over, and the folks behind the Goldbergs. Neither is pretty. Muppets is mainly white men, and Goldbergs? Had sexual harassment claims. It was a hostile work environment. Muppets? Misogynistic post the Disney buyout.
Apparently the head show-runner of the Goldbergs is in charge of the new Muppets movie - it's his dream job. But there are a lot of allegations against him for harassment at The Goldbergs, so many that he responded to all of the authors queries through his legal team.
Damn.
4. Marvelous Mrs Maisel is in some respects a satire, and it does go after the male run industry - of standup comedy, and television showrunning, specifically late night. Gordon Ford feels like he could have been a stand-in for Johnny Carson. And Midge Wiseman Maisel is based loosely on Joan Rivers. Rivers struggled to get the late-night show host gigs or hosting gigs. Women do.
In episode 8 of S5,Midge's father, Abe tells his working buddies after having a couple of glasses of wine, as they complain that everything is changing so fast, that there's things he didn't notice. That maybe nothing has changed at all? He focused on the wrong things and wrong people. His daughter bought their apartment, not him. And his daughter got dumped by her husband - but she redefined herself, she didn't crumble and is successful. He was too busy focusing on his son - to truly see her and her abilities, which he also sees now in his granddaughter. He was so busy in hunting it in a male heir, it never occurred to him to see it in a female one. That men run everything and maybe they shouldn't? How could he be so blind.
I hear the writer's voice here - but Tony Shalob who plays Abe Wiseman convinces me these are his words, and thoughts, in a perfect example of how an actor sells the story and the lines within it. It's often why television or film work better than novels, in that if one falls short, the other collaborators pick up the slack.
5. Sad news. Learned from Twitter that horror/dark fantasy novelist Ursula Vernon, aka T Kingfisher, has cancer. I think it's breast cancer.
Damn. ( Read more... )
I'm probably poisoning myself with plastic. I don't know. I may read more TKingfisher. "The Twisted Ones" is the only book I've read in the last year that actually held my attention and I sped through. I hope she fights and survives cancer - I'm rooting for her. She's one of the more interesting writers that I've found on Twitter.
She has ignored me - but I mainly post on Soap Twitter and Spuffy Twitter, which occasional forays into Book Twitter, Romance Twitter, Television Writer Twitter, Comic Book Twitter and Music Twitter.