Random bits...that I thought during the day.

[shadowkat]

1. The national park system really is an unique idea that America came up with - apparently in response to the tacky monstrosity that was Niagra, which Europe made fun of America for back in the 1800s or thereabouts. The comment is made that Europe does not have the natural wonders that America does (note I did not say the world) - I'm not sure that was true. It did, but over 1000 years of civilization and war had sort of eradicated the beautiful Primeval Forests that rivaled the Sierras and Muir Wood. If you read your history books and literature and legends, the wonders are there...they've just not been preserved. (This to a degree is via Ken Burns epic documentary "The National Parks - America's Best Idea". As an aside, my father in his twenties was a gear jammer in Glacier, Rocky Mountain, and Yosemite National Park - he drove wobbly buses around twisty roads with tourists and has stories of running away from bears and cougars. He's going to the 50th anniversary of the gear jammers next year in Glacier. He did this back in the 1950s and 1960s. So when we moved to KC in '78, off we went to see Rocky Mountain, and later Grand Teton and Yellowstone and Grand Canyon.
Have yet to see Yosemite or Glacier. Which are on my list.)

2. Some days I feel as if I'm just bluffing my way through...today I had to evaluate and score quality management proposals, plus facilitate a discussion on them, and I know next to nothing about quality management. Guess it's good I have a course on it on Thursday. Shame didn't have it last week. Good news though is that my scores were the same as one of the technical evaluators with over thirty years in the biz, and my comments the same.

3. On Buffy fandom...read two posts, which I agreed with but declined to comment, since they had over 50 comments already and I figured...it only be repetitive. Do 50 or more comments scare anyone else off? At any rate - the two posts were:" Why I love the S8 comics" and "why the Buffy/Riley relationships...did not work."

On the first post - yes, I enjoy the S8 Buffy comics for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I enjoy the writers and the characters they've created and like comics as a medium in general. I have low expectations when it comes to comics..I don't expect much, and that may to a degree be why I'm enjoying them more than most?

On the second post - "about Buffy/Riley" - the poster, gabrielle, nails why I did not like the relationship or grew, for that matter, tired of the Buffy/Angel one. She also nails my difficulties with a lot of the men I've known and dated over the years. And why I love Buffy as a character. And still do, in some regards, more than most of the ones on tv.
I am not emotionally needy. Emotionally needy women make me crazy. I have little tolerance for women who can not take care of themselves, who are not self-reliant. And less tolerance for men who have to continuously fly to their rescue, and how it makes them feel all powerful doing so. It's a personal thing. Unfortunately for me, about 85% of the fairy tales and tv shows are about needy manipulative women (Desperate Housewives and Cinderella). When I was a kid, I told myself stories about how I was rescuing the guy or the guy and I were rescuing the damsel together, then riding off together afterwards. This may explain why I adored Buffy as a character so much. She wasn't emotionally needy - it was Angel and Riley's problem with her to a degree. She did not need them. She could do fine on her own. They needed her.
When she's emotionally needy, she hates herself a bit, and resists it. I can completely identify.

4. Watched two sitcoms: "Accidentally on Purpose" (adorable) and "Cougartown"(unwatchable and offensive). Which is odd, because the tv critics hated Accidentally and loved Cougartown, which may explain a few things. Cougartown was about objectification. You want to see a tv series that is all about looking at people as sex objects - watch Cougartown. Accidentally, actually has three-dimensional characters, who are not gorgeous, and there are consequences - I actually know people in those situations and can see myself getting into them (I laughed).
Granted CougarTown may be a satire, but it is a bad one. Poorly written and acted. Unwatchable. I cringed during most of it.

5. While I'm generally speaking a Mets fan, yay, Yankees!!!

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No worries. ;-)

I wasn't very clear in my initial comment.