A Three Chocolate Bar Day
Jan. 25th, 2012 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1) Been having a difficult and somewhat depressing week.
Work and personal issues that I can't quite go into. Anyhow...anyone have any good jokes?
I went to the newstand guy in our lobby and bought three candy bars. Decided it was a three candy bar day. Butterfinger, 3 Musketeers, and Hershey with Almonds - not the greatest, but gluten-free and did the job.
2) After much thought on the topic, probably more than it deserves, I've decided that Mark Watches/Reads is a great way for people new to a tv or book fandom to get their feet wet without getting spoiled. Sure, the man doesn't have an analytical bone in his body and his reviews are hardly "academic" but seriously, does it matter? He's writing about himself, his life, and how he views the show or book, how he is relating to it, and allowing others to respond and say some of the same things. And making some money off of it in the process. Not really all that different than
someone blogging about cooking or buttons or cats and doing the same thing. Although a lot more interesting to me, I personally find cooking and button and craft blogs (which my sisinlaw has been known to do) deathly boring. Nor is it all that different than an academic blog or academic journal or teaching a course on Buffy for that matter. I guess you could say more value is provided via the academic journal or course - but is it really? Buffy was mostly about emotions. And all of this is subjective in any event. At any rate - confession? Yes, I read Mark Watches Buffy, and probably will continue - mainly out of an odd sense of curiousity...will he or his commentators react to the show in the same manner I did or differently? I find how people react to media and books interesting - obviously, or I wouldn't be here discussing these things.
3) Reading Master and The Margritta, but very slowly...it's not a really a page-turner, it's sort of philosophical satire. Has an interesting take on Jesus and Pontias Pilot - sort of reminds me of The Story of Jeusus according to his best friend Biff. (I can't remember the title - but it was by Christopher Moore). Except this is a whole a lot darker, and a lot more complicated. Bulgrave is a better writer than Moore - but he also has a lot more to say...and didn't have as easy a life.
Probably unfair to compare the two. It just reminded me of it, is all.
4) Five Positive Things?
*A bus didn't hit me on the way to or from work, although they certainly tried
* It was sunny and not too cold, so lovely walk around the park - plus a big lovely park to walk around in that is within easy walking distance to the office (which is not as easy to find in a big dirty city as one would think)
* Chocolate and the ability to afford it
* My ipod music playlist and the ability to distract myself by telling stories with the playlist. (Yes, I create stories to music. And have been known to create playlists for stories.)
* A new Justified episode recorded and waiting for my watching pleasure.
Work and personal issues that I can't quite go into. Anyhow...anyone have any good jokes?
I went to the newstand guy in our lobby and bought three candy bars. Decided it was a three candy bar day. Butterfinger, 3 Musketeers, and Hershey with Almonds - not the greatest, but gluten-free and did the job.
2) After much thought on the topic, probably more than it deserves, I've decided that Mark Watches/Reads is a great way for people new to a tv or book fandom to get their feet wet without getting spoiled. Sure, the man doesn't have an analytical bone in his body and his reviews are hardly "academic" but seriously, does it matter? He's writing about himself, his life, and how he views the show or book, how he is relating to it, and allowing others to respond and say some of the same things. And making some money off of it in the process. Not really all that different than
someone blogging about cooking or buttons or cats and doing the same thing. Although a lot more interesting to me, I personally find cooking and button and craft blogs (which my sisinlaw has been known to do) deathly boring. Nor is it all that different than an academic blog or academic journal or teaching a course on Buffy for that matter. I guess you could say more value is provided via the academic journal or course - but is it really? Buffy was mostly about emotions. And all of this is subjective in any event. At any rate - confession? Yes, I read Mark Watches Buffy, and probably will continue - mainly out of an odd sense of curiousity...will he or his commentators react to the show in the same manner I did or differently? I find how people react to media and books interesting - obviously, or I wouldn't be here discussing these things.
3) Reading Master and The Margritta, but very slowly...it's not a really a page-turner, it's sort of philosophical satire. Has an interesting take on Jesus and Pontias Pilot - sort of reminds me of The Story of Jeusus according to his best friend Biff. (I can't remember the title - but it was by Christopher Moore). Except this is a whole a lot darker, and a lot more complicated. Bulgrave is a better writer than Moore - but he also has a lot more to say...and didn't have as easy a life.
Probably unfair to compare the two. It just reminded me of it, is all.
4) Five Positive Things?
*A bus didn't hit me on the way to or from work, although they certainly tried
* It was sunny and not too cold, so lovely walk around the park - plus a big lovely park to walk around in that is within easy walking distance to the office (which is not as easy to find in a big dirty city as one would think)
* Chocolate and the ability to afford it
* My ipod music playlist and the ability to distract myself by telling stories with the playlist. (Yes, I create stories to music. And have been known to create playlists for stories.)
* A new Justified episode recorded and waiting for my watching pleasure.
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Date: 2012-01-26 03:29 am (UTC)I first discovered Mark when he was reading Hunger Games and I loved reading his reactions to that book (and his totally misguided predictions of what each of the books would be about). Then I followed him when watching Firefly, which I thought actually showed that he picked up on subtleties about that show really quickly....
Anyway I enjoy just reading his reactions to each Buffy episode... I remember my reactions when I first saw the show, and I'm enjoying him even when we disagree (that is, even when we liked or disliked different things).
I can't wait to see how he reactions to Spuffy! Will he be Bangle only?
LOL
And I expect OMWF to blow his mind!
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Date: 2012-01-26 05:19 pm (UTC)I got bored fairly quickly after the first five chapters of Hunger Games...and now LOTR? Whoa.
(I think he gave up trying to do chapter by chapter with GRRM (Song of Ice and Fire series) and chose to just go with whole book summary reviews. That was too much - small wonder considering each book in the series clocks in at somewhere between 900-1500 pages, with Feast being the shortest at 696. And about 100 chapters or more.)
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Date: 2012-01-26 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-26 08:31 pm (UTC)but I would need to have a lot more time on my hands than I do right now.
Yeah, I can see how GRRM would be hard to do, and frustrating since the books aren't even finished.
I'm surprised he is thinking of doing LotR, I would have thought he had already read that long ago.... or at least would have seen the movie by now.
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Date: 2012-01-26 11:14 pm (UTC)Not thinking. Doing. Actually doing. He's halfway through The TWO Towers as we speak - according to people on my flist who are reading along.
I can't remember the books well enough..to bother.
And no, hasn't see the movies. He's watched mainly male "mainstream" critical fare and read mainstream books. (The X-Files, Breaking Bad, and post 1990.) He's family was very mainstream fundamentalist apparently.
So no soaps, no teen dramas (a la My So Called Life or Party of Five),
no Angel, Buffy, no LoTR or CS Lewis. You can tell reading his reviews that he did not have a liberal arts background.