reality, and Monday media
Jun. 1st, 2020 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidentonight is our third night of curfew.
i spent the afternoon coding on Saturday and would have had no idea anything had happened if my phone hadn't gone off, because i am very careful about what news i get. i am sick with worry and fear whenever i turn my mind to the state of my country, and as a white person i feel only the tiniest fraction of the weight.
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we're watching Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time and enjoying it a great deal. C and i have managed to be completely unspoiled so it's been a great pleasure both to watch and to speculate together about what will happen. we're just starting season 3.
when i wasn't coding this weekend (or watching AtLA) we took in some classic films on HBOMax. first Million Dollar Mermaid (water sequences super-cool, ended abruptly in a perplexing spot) then a couple Showa-era Godzilla movies. there's a surprising number of Criterion Collection restorations available on the service. i'm excited.
we didn't watch the Rankin-Bass The Hobbit, but we will because we are of a certain age and it is written on our hearts. (they also have Watership Down but we're not watching that. it's like Pan's Labyrinth - great work, want to support it, people should see it, i'm not watching that thing again because i don't like nightmares.)
i spent the afternoon coding on Saturday and would have had no idea anything had happened if my phone hadn't gone off, because i am very careful about what news i get. i am sick with worry and fear whenever i turn my mind to the state of my country, and as a white person i feel only the tiniest fraction of the weight.
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we're watching Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time and enjoying it a great deal. C and i have managed to be completely unspoiled so it's been a great pleasure both to watch and to speculate together about what will happen. we're just starting season 3.
when i wasn't coding this weekend (or watching AtLA) we took in some classic films on HBOMax. first Million Dollar Mermaid (water sequences super-cool, ended abruptly in a perplexing spot) then a couple Showa-era Godzilla movies. there's a surprising number of Criterion Collection restorations available on the service. i'm excited.
we didn't watch the Rankin-Bass The Hobbit, but we will because we are of a certain age and it is written on our hearts. (they also have Watership Down but we're not watching that. it's like Pan's Labyrinth - great work, want to support it, people should see it, i'm not watching that thing again because i don't like nightmares.)
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Date: 2020-06-02 01:39 am (UTC)higher-ups at work did an excellent job of addressing it - there's counseling and small group discussion available, reminders that we have donation matching - and shared some thoughtful content including Killer Mike's speech and a Medium piece about how difficult it is to "be professional" for black folks right now. it was valuable, it was a hard way to start the day.
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Date: 2020-06-02 02:48 am (UTC)