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Jun. 3rd, 2006
Jun. 3rd, 2006 07:54 am
up too early
I'm up too early for a Saturday morning. Mark is sick and still sleeping, although he would still be sleeping if he was healthy anyway. I wish it were warmer, and I wish I didn't feel so tired.
Things are going okay. I'm heading over to my parents' for dinner today; tomorrow maybe I'll see some other friends.
I haven't read an actual book in a while. The last book I finished was Caroline Cooney's The Face on the Milk Carton, the young adult thriller about a girl who suddenly remembers being kidnapped at age 3 and what she decides to do about it. I remember really liking it as a kid, and after re-reading it, I still like it - it manages to evoke the teenage life without being trite or stupid or over-reliance on adult perceptions of teen slang. And doesn't cover up the conflicting and distracted desires of puberty. The novel ends on a cliffhanger. There's a sequel, which isn't as good as this first book, although maybe I need to check it out again to see.
I also just opened a Douglas Coupland novel, except it instantly got on my nerves. Which is strange, because I really liked Microserfs. Or maybe I just liked it because it was about nerds. Or maybe this one annoys me because the protagonist is a Reagan worshipper.
I have been following the cultural appropriation discussion with a mixture of annoyance and irritation. Since it's a discussion that is very, very specific - around science fiction and fantasy, but still brings up all the tropes that happens in any discussion that brings up race where it's majority-white, and people start talking past each other at a certain point. I can't say I'm at all sympathetic to the white people's reactions of "Well, what the fuck am I supposed to do now?" frustrations, because really, it's not the "chromatic" people's job to tell them. Just because an issue is complicated doesn't absolve you of the responsibility for its consequences. Anyway, if I continue more on this my head will explode, but I wish I could send them all copies of the Race Riot zines I bought years ago.
Among other things that will explode my head - if I think any more about X-3 and how they sucked out everything interesting about the Dark Phoenix arc, about the stupidity of this administration, about the uselessness of the so-called opposition, about the seriously idiotic California campaign ads where one guy shells out money for a negative ad calling the other dude a negative campaigner, about the dishes in my sink, about the time-travel logic employed by Doctor Who and the fact that Christopher Eccleston will no longer be on next season.
Things are going okay. I'm heading over to my parents' for dinner today; tomorrow maybe I'll see some other friends.
I haven't read an actual book in a while. The last book I finished was Caroline Cooney's The Face on the Milk Carton, the young adult thriller about a girl who suddenly remembers being kidnapped at age 3 and what she decides to do about it. I remember really liking it as a kid, and after re-reading it, I still like it - it manages to evoke the teenage life without being trite or stupid or over-reliance on adult perceptions of teen slang. And doesn't cover up the conflicting and distracted desires of puberty. The novel ends on a cliffhanger. There's a sequel, which isn't as good as this first book, although maybe I need to check it out again to see.
I also just opened a Douglas Coupland novel, except it instantly got on my nerves. Which is strange, because I really liked Microserfs. Or maybe I just liked it because it was about nerds. Or maybe this one annoys me because the protagonist is a Reagan worshipper.
I have been following the cultural appropriation discussion with a mixture of annoyance and irritation. Since it's a discussion that is very, very specific - around science fiction and fantasy, but still brings up all the tropes that happens in any discussion that brings up race where it's majority-white, and people start talking past each other at a certain point. I can't say I'm at all sympathetic to the white people's reactions of "Well, what the fuck am I supposed to do now?" frustrations, because really, it's not the "chromatic" people's job to tell them. Just because an issue is complicated doesn't absolve you of the responsibility for its consequences. Anyway, if I continue more on this my head will explode, but I wish I could send them all copies of the Race Riot zines I bought years ago.
Among other things that will explode my head - if I think any more about X-3 and how they sucked out everything interesting about the Dark Phoenix arc, about the stupidity of this administration, about the uselessness of the so-called opposition, about the seriously idiotic California campaign ads where one guy shells out money for a negative ad calling the other dude a negative campaigner, about the dishes in my sink, about the time-travel logic employed by Doctor Who and the fact that Christopher Eccleston will no longer be on next season.
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