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Happy Labor Day to those who celebrate - ie, live in the US and work in jobs that would take the day off.

It's a beautiful day in my neighborhood. I need to motivate myself to take a walk and clean out the closet between the kitchen and living room or foyer closet. Which is supposed to be a pantry - but it has everything but pantry items...well with the exception of maybe the occasional paper towels. I don't want to clean it out. It's a pain. And takes forever. Also, I don't know what to do with most of the stuff. So procrastinating. Also don't want to take a walk to either the park or Greenwood at the moment.
Greenwood should be open? I can check of course. It's the better bet - no people.

Tomorrow - doctor's appointment/physical - at 11, so that day is basically traveling to doctor, seeing doctor, getting food, going home.

Watched a distressing mental health video about a television actress who recalled her experience being drugged and violently raped. ( ugh bad story - read at own risk )

I live in Brooklyn. And this happened to her in 04, I was living here in 04, although I've never been to Williamsburg - and it was not a great place back then, in the midst of being gentrified, under construction, and up and coming, in other words, be very careful. ( Read more... )

The difficulty our society has is male privilege. ( rant about male privilege - evil men should be castrated )

The interviewer, who is male, tells the actress that we really need to stop the whole he said/she said dynamic. And I'm thinking except that's not what happened here. She had actual proof. ( Read more... )

Ugh, this makes life harder. Another "there but for the grace of god, go I" stories. Also, validates the things I do to keep myself safe. I don't drink, I don't frequent bars, and I stay away from various places or don't venture there alone.

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1. Status of Dead Boy Detectives, Good Omens, and Sandman S2.

For those struggling to understand why Netflix cancels things, and why they cancelled Dead Boy Detectives - go HERE
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I recently watched a podcast on Youtube (it's annoying, I barely got through it - so won't repost here, but..it made some salient points). Netflix has a streaming model - that bases popularity or ratings on how many people binge the show in the first few months of release. Or the first weekend. So, if you wait say - six or seven months to watch the show? You probably won't be counted. If you don't watch it when it first hits Netflix and is at the top of your queue - then Netflix doesn't really count your viewage in its determination.

The rest of the podcast rants about streaming and Netflix being set up to destroy television and not being sustainable. (Well, no, a streaming channel allowing you to watch limitless television for basically $9 a month will bankrupt the producers of the content rather quickly. It's why we have commercials sneaking back into the mix. Commercials and ads paid for content.)

In short, this had zip to do with the allegations against Gaiman. For one thing he didn't create the show or series, it's by someone else, who isn't directly connected to him. You can kind of tell by the fact that is among the few Gaiman verse works that is tightly plotted. And has definitive and strong characterization of lead and supporting players.

I wouldn't worry too much about loving Good Omens either - that's based on work co-written by Terry Prachett (you can tell by the puns and the whimsy), and is largely collaborative in nature. To put this another way? It's kind of like deciding not to watch Buffy and Angel because of Whedon.
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Sandman on the other hand - you might want to avoid? That's pretty much all Gaiman. ( Read more... )

Let's face it - there's a lot of extremely violent television shows on at the moment? I tried Into the Badlands - and gave up. Too violent and I didn't care about anyone, also the dialogue was alarmingly bad. Very disappointed.

2. I feel like I wasted my time off. Although to give myself some credit - I'm trying to get my health back in wack, and struggling with work and various other changes. Plus, trying to save money.

Read something recently on FB...I'll see if I can find it? Found it.




I found it encouraging.

I am grateful for my job, healthcare benefits (such as they are), vacation time, general health, apartment, area that I live in, free transportation benefits, and my family and the scant friends that I have.

I keep thinking daily, there but for the grace of god go I. Been thinking this a lot lately. I've managed to live my life without endangering, harming, screwing, or damaging another person or sentient creature for my own personal gain. Not everyone can say that. Or after fifty-seven years.

Heck surviving to fifty-seven is a minor accomplishment.

Saw on the news today that six people had been shot at the West Indian Day Parade. They located the shooter fairly quickly though - it was yet another young nitwit with a gun. And NYC has strict gun laws.

Also, there's something to be said for relaxing and chilling. Which I apparently needed to do? Or I'd have done something else?