My sister sent me this link to an interesting panel including bell hooks called "Are You Still A Slave?" that's very interesting about black femininity in which she called Beyonce an anti-feminist terrorist for this Time cover. I think that's putting a lot of the onus on her for a styled cover (she's got a lot of power to veto, I'm sure, but I don't know if it's her fault exactly). I don't get the hype about her as a person, although her songs can be fun. I don't get the serious estimation of her--anyone have an explanation?
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - May 09, 2014 5:51:52 pm PDT #27386 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - May 09, 2014 6:06:40 pm PDT #27387 of 30000
21 spindles tonight. I have 19 to go, just the run on the second floor. And I need to buy brown paint for where, despite being really fucking careful, it seeped into seams that I can't scrape out (one nice thing about using the floor finish varathane? Latex won't stay stuck to it! I scrape it right off with my fingernail and the finish is fine!) No one might notice but me, but you damn betcha I'll notice. Every.single.time.
So.
Progress.
Steph L. - May 09, 2014 6:12:59 pm PDT #27388 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And then I'll be off to visit Teppy and flea, which will be lots o' fun!
You only say "fun" because you haven't yet played Apples to Apples with me.
DavidS - May 09, 2014 6:20:27 pm PDT #27389 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't get the serious estimation of her--anyone have an explanation?
As I see it, she's sort of the focal pop icon of her generation and carries a penumbra of Powerful Female to lots of women. It doesn't depend as much on her songs as her media presence.
Tom Scola - May 09, 2014 6:22:04 pm PDT #27390 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
anyone have an explanation?
If not her, then who else?
shrift - May 09, 2014 6:50:22 pm PDT #27391 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
GOD DAMN IT, WILD.
meara - May 09, 2014 6:53:51 pm PDT #27392 of 30000
Had a lovely evening out with vortex and some of her local friends. Good times.
Until we got back and I looked at my email and had an email from my parents....apparently my mother HAD A STROKE. ON THURSDAY. AND EMAILED ME FRIDAY NIGHT TO TELL ME. I mean, I guess it wasn't too terrible since she can still email, but apparently she woke up and her arm was numb and she went to the hospital and there were MRIs and stuff. And they EMAILED. Wtf.
§ ita § - May 09, 2014 6:54:30 pm PDT #27393 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If not her, then who else?
Janelle Monae.
§ ita § - May 09, 2014 6:56:00 pm PDT #27394 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
apparently my mother HAD A STROKE. ON THURSDAY. AND EMAILED ME FRIDAY NIGHT TO TELL ME
I need to know what the subject line was for that. Because that's some "Oh, and in other news" shit. Glad she's okay enough to do this, though.
sarameg - May 09, 2014 6:58:56 pm PDT #27395 of 30000
Like the time my dad serial-emailed my mom with symptom descriptions that maybe he was having a stroke in a hotel room 4 hrs away when she wouldn't be anywhere near email and then drove back home and had his phone off when she was frantically trying to reach him when she did get home and check her email.
PARENTS.