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Notes Example of when “stats” should not determine representation in mediaor when “stats” do not equal “facts”?
Episode 9 of Top Chef: Masters is a challenge to fix a meal for a member of the armed forces, and the family member is the contact. (I have my own qualms about the obligatory army episode of these things but that aside…))
The four members are four men, two (apparent) Caucasians, one Guatemalan and one from Hawaii.
Where’s the chicks be at?
I’m sure you could say the armed forces have a male majority without impunity. However, especially when, as expected, the sacrifices of these members are being venerated, then it is important to represent, as much as possible, the people in that group. Not represent proportionally but do your best for as many people as possible to see themselves. Make an honest effort is all I ask.
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Notes On re-watching “Shine”1) I love Geoffry Rush.
2) “Religion is nonsense.” “It’s also a goldmine if you know where to dig.”
The movie is not about religion, but damn if that isn’t a great quote.
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Notes"I first noticed the bird motif on the pro-ana sites. Girls described wanting to have bird bones, to be feather thin, ‘become frail’, to be light as air, be delicate, small, like a shimmering, (starving) sparrow.
The bird lust has seeped into other facets of culture, fashion primarily. Bird tats, shirts, golden necklaces on mall teens; over priced frumpy Anthropolgie dresses with hummingbird patterns splayed across the skirt and bodice. The bird, the common bird, not the scavenger vulture or populist pigeon, but the sparrow of all creatures, the frail, dumb, petite beaked thing has been adopted as a hipster talisman, a way to signify delicacy and airiness.
It’s gone from collar bone tattoos and into the mainstream. Jonathan Franzen wrote in the NYT that he is a secret bird watcher, which he described as very uncool, which is not true! It is very cool, right now, probably cooler than collecting vinyls and collecting customized moleskin notebooks.
Here’s what I despise about the mass bird adoption, it glamorizes frailty. It’s Victorian in its idealization of the dainty and ruffled. Further, especially for women, you are the frailer sex, you are not allowed to operate weapons in combat and if a teenage boy wanted to over power you he probably could. You are also at nature’s mercy, far more so than men. Every month you do battle with this fact as your tits and womb engorge, and you have to pop hormone pills to stave off what nature’s brutal plan is for you and as symbol you choose— a bird?
Birds aren’t even mammals. They are cold, indifferent creatures. They are hatched, not born. They are like tiny raptors, eerily reptilian and unfeeling. Look into the eyes of a bird and see if there is anything you remotely recognize in yourself.
You wanna pick a spirit animal? Pick one that bleeds, that has hair, FUR! fur like your crotch and your arm pits, and all over your boyfriend’s chest (god willing), pick one that fucks with hip thrusts, and nurses its young from its swollen tits, but still has the ability to tear other creatures to shreds. One that poses some credible threat on the food chain.
You are existing in the twilight of an empire. The long standing edifices of authority are disintegrating and in the din of this collapse you choose to identify with a lipless worm eater? Grow up, be a mammal.
"Natasha Vargas-Cooper slayed this
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Never. Even. Thought. About. This.
It is interesting though. Though the fact that my favorite birds are Ravens, Owls and Male Peacocks is funny.
Though I’d be perfectly OK with hatching young. I don’t want to birth and nurse anything.
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“Bird” has always been a way of.dog-whistling in dance (ballet) circles. I didn’t realize it was not common knowledge.
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SO GOOD. What about owls? How does this theory fit in with the owl theme from before the sparrow theme?
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Notes the best thing about bad tv?the good actors in it who know they are in bad tv.
hilarious.
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Notes Watching Elizabeth for the first time (I see your judging eyes)Just finished my fast and furious run of the Tudors, so I still had a hankering for some sweet costumes and broad interpretations, if not outright (entertaining) inaccuracies.
The film opens with an ugly, rank and bitter Mary with a dark court and a midget Lady in Waiting then goes to the beautiful Elizabeth with a sweet pastoral life.
James Frain is killing it in “Spanish face” and Joseph Fines is insufferable as always.
Ahhhhhhhh, that’s the stuff.
UPDATE: UGH.
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Notes Scene: James in kitchen making burritos, me in living room on internets*Sounds of falling things in fridge* James: Whoa, guys! Calm down! Me: What? Fridge trouble? James: That cucumber is DRUNK.** **this is said in EXACTLY the tone/phrasing that someone would use about a person at a party who is drunk. You know the one. -
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NotesI’m speechless.
Her music isn’t on rotation with me, and I’m still ambivalent about some of her messages, but damn. DAMN. Girl can rock a performance, and if anyone one gets academic saying that this may create a false sense of empowerment that may gloss over ongoing problems, I’ll pull out by own BA and roll it up and hit you in the face with it. sometimes you have to have the media message first for people to aspire too.
and if anyone whips out there BA to point out that they are wearing (basically) lingerie here’s to you:I liked the message that you can be colourful, feminine, strong and creative - ask any of my BQ crew, those garters do not mean you cannot kick ass.
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We're going to make a lot of parenting mistakes
Let’s not make putting leashes on our children when we go to the mall one of them.
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I've gotten 5 hours of sleep in 54 hours. This conversation took place YESTERDAY. I can't express how I feel now.
“I’m so tired lately that today I...
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Just making this rebloggable.
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Reality television isn’t art. Okay? I know this. But let’s pretend that it is: let’s pretend that reality television isn’t meticulously story-edited...
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Tee of the Day: Tenso Graphics’ Keytar Platypus Math, AKA the single most important Venn Diagram ever illustrated, is finally available in...
