Hello gentle readers reader empty space, how are you? Being void-y, eh? Me too.
I was going to write a post, but my brain is still slightly fried from the essay I wrote*, so here’s a Lily List.
1. Started watching the Olympics**. My dad and I taped them, and today we finally got to sit down and watch some of it. I love watching the countries and flags enter in. I love watching (some) of the competitions. I love listening to the national anthems play. Basically, good times. (Now if we can just shut up NBC it would be excellent times.)
2. I think a lot about violence, what’s acceptable and not, what society let’s be acceptable and not, who we think does violence, who we excuse for violence, what it means that we watch and read it, that we live with it in so many different forms. I write violence. I’ll be writing a lot of posts about violence. So, stating all of that, while I have many issues with it, I also freaking adore the song The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. (Lyrics here.)
3. Check out the Coats for Cubs program. “All of the furs received by The HSUS are sent to wildlife rehabilitators, who use the furs to warm and comfort orphaned and injured wildlife.”
4. We have many fruit trees in our backyard; right now the blood oranges are blooming. Absolutely delicious. I love fruit. I enjoy veggies, but fruit wins.
5. This is a short list. I need to get to bed. Many things I must do tomorrow. Being fuzzy [in mind] will not be helpful.
* The essay was for a contest by Smart Pop Books on Dollhouse; I wrote how I didn’t think the show did a very good job on their depictions of rape. I find out if I got into the book April; if no, I’ll post for you all to read.
** I realize there are huge issues with the Olympics, from the lack of coverage of the Special Olympics to the favoring of abled bodies to the favoring of pretty bodies to sexism to sport choices (such as there being no female ski jumpers) to the lie about the impartiality of the judges to the homophobia of commentators to racism to…anyway, there are problems. I am not unaware.
