Wow, Hec, do you like, hope for me to happen by to spring these cool-but-exotic links on me?
Actually, I was just thinking you'd be uniquely qualified to write an article about the genre.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Feb 05, 2005 3:54:23 pm PST #7009 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Feb 05, 2005 4:02:24 pm PST #7010 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow. I suppose so. I was just wondering if *I* should make a note in *your* file. It'd be interesting at that, because I would say there's been some evolution in the concept of disability since those books have come out...more of a perception of us as a minority community, as opposed to being a few unlucky souls who are "fate's bitches" It's still small right now...I wouldn't say we're at "Crip is Beautiful" yet, but... Oh, this is probably incredibly boring. I'm sorry. ETA: One day, I will accept such information without first thinking "Oh, great. He thinks I'm an idiot." But apparently, not today. Inferiority complex, much? Dag.I'm sorry, Hec, and I guess me, too, but apologizing to oneself feels like one step from rice pudding on the Haldol Express.
Connie Neil - Feb 05, 2005 5:19:13 pm PST #7011 of 10002
brillig
"overcoming" being sort of out of fashion for hip crips nowadays.
Less overcoming, more being? Kind of like the "When I am X, I shall do Y," when you can be doing Y all along?
Nutty - Feb 05, 2005 5:37:42 pm PST #7012 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I wouldn't be surprised if Hec' examples of "crip noir" comes from the confluence of pulp detective novels and the vaudeville/circus sideshow fascination with all things funnylooking(*). You've got your various forms of "low" entertainment, mashing themselves together.
Like modern romance novels having military action plots -- instant crossover!
(*) I found out in the notes of a Dickens novel the other day that the sideshow "pig-faced lady", in the 1840s at least, was in fact not a lady at all, but a bear, shaved, dressed in women's clothes, and strapped down into a chair. And while I might enjoy a novel about a circus bear detective, I can't imagine the bear would enjoy being shaved hairless.
erikaj - Feb 05, 2005 5:39:28 pm PST #7013 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Not exactly. More like because "overcoming" is more of a thing for a special person. Kind of a "credit to your people" thing. Very individual and about the effort of will. Movement people don't like it because if everyone thinks a crip can make it if she's strong enough, then it takes away from the civil-rights aspect. Also, what if you can't mentally transcend your limitations?ETA: Overcoming, like presidenting, is hard Dang, poor bear...that's so weird.
Steph L. - Feb 05, 2005 6:27:50 pm PST #7014 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And while I might enjoy a novel about a circus bear detective, I can't imagine the bear would enjoy being shaved hairless.
Not to mention that it would SUCK to have the job of shaving the bear.
billytea - Feb 05, 2005 8:47:37 pm PST #7015 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Not to mention that it would SUCK to have the job of shaving the bear.
Note to self: update resume.
erikaj - Feb 06, 2005 6:52:51 am PST #7016 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
My mother has not had every bad job.Will have to mention this one, as it embarrassed her when I told her what a "fluffer" was.(I thought she knew already.)
Jesse - Feb 06, 2005 7:40:56 am PST #7017 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
DXMachina - Feb 06, 2005 8:02:10 am PST #7018 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
There's the movie Blind Fury, where Rutger Hauer played a blind Vietnam vet who trained as a swordfighter. Terry O'Quinn (Locke from Lost) co-starred.