We're back. We wound up much more off-line than intended due to a range of fascinating technical difficulties.
While I and the Internet were not working correctly, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance took place. Trans people and those perceived to be gender non-conforming can be at extremely elevated levels of risk for violence. We must remember as a step towards stopping the violence.
Vatican shifts position on condom use in some cases. Too little, too late is one very valid response to this. But what interests me is the implication that preventing something that's been viewed as a punishment for sin is acceptable. Doesn't that imply that even if one is to suffer in hell in the afterlife, that's no reason to encourage suffering in this one? That's interesting to me.
So Warner Bros is having someone write a script for a Whedon-free Buffy reboot. Y'all know how far "someone writing a script" is from "film actually getting made" is, right? Really frigging far. Even with noise about "2012 or even 2011." Believing it when I see it. Feeling really bad for folks for whom this feels personal, though. It's not for me, but I know what these things are like.
Have discovered my access point to old Doctor Who may be novelizations -- that way I don't have to face the crap effects.
Aside from being generally wonderful, our 24 hours at the St Davids was Super Fucking Weird for the first 90 seconds thanks to Bad Fanfiction I Have Read, also some Good Fanfiction I Have Read too. Just saying. It was lolariously awesome.
Possible best thing about Hay-on-Wye? Reciting horrible back cover copy to each other. Especially of porn thinly veiled as sci-fi from the late 60s.
Also, Patty and I have watched some Sherlock. I have (and have had for some time) many things to say, but for now I'll just say, Euros Lyn can direct anything. It's the pacing that makes it so good.
Jason Issacs was my favourite thing in the movie. Seriously.
This has been my face because of the Buffy thing >:-( *sigh*
St. David sounds lovely.
Sherlock is awesome! I too *squeed* at Euros Lynn.
There are issues - race and gender, fail, which I've unfortunately come to expect from Moffat (though in "Jekyll" he was better in that rgard). The fandom is a bit... um... I probably should not be disparaging as it is prolific and a much of the works are good, but the superb things are slightly harder to find.
everyone seems to either attribute to the Catholic church positions stated by other religions, or mis interpret what was said...
so remembering that i am not a theologian, and just to clarify what the church teaches on the subject (although its better stated in the Catechism)
The Catholic church simply holds that any sex outside of marriage (as they define that) is a sin. period. gay sex is no more sinful, and no less, than het sex outside of lawful marriage.
this does not mean you should get a disease, or that this is a punishment. they hold that sexually transmitted diseases ARE a natural consequence of sinful behavior, but are not pointing at YOU and saying YOU got it because YOU sinned....
sexually transmitted diseases affect many people who are NOT engaged in anything "sinful" like that. its because the *world* is fallen and sinful and everyone pays for it even if its unfair. so the chaste wife gets a disease from her cheating husband. the hemophiliac gets a disease from a blood transfusion, and the playboy picks it up from wild parties... can we trace this back to "sin" certainly.. but not that THEY are being punished for THEIR sin necessarily.
as to condom use. the pope, in his PERSONAL capacity, not speaking ex cathedra.. has stated that condom use, while not desirable, can be a first step toward consideration for others and mitigating a problematic lifestyle.
so...... a gay prostitute using a condom is not *compounding* his sin, but may be mitigating it slightly...
Its the born again Christians, the baptists, and the four square churches that held an official position that "AIDS was Gods punishment on sinners"
"Among other provisions, the legislation requires telecom equipment used to make calls over the Internet to be compatible with hearing aids, provides for captioning on new TV programs online, and mandates that remote controls have a button or similar mechanism to easily access the closed captioning on broadcast and pay TV."
I don't know that this law actually effects Netflix content, however, as it is not broadcasting any new programming (though last year they did a one-time deal with Showtime's "Blood and Sand"). They are instead responsible for going into their back catalog and recaptioning old content for streaming, which appears to be harder than one would think, and in fact something they must develop new technology to do. And while yes, they have recently raised their prices (one dollar-- after having lowered them in previous years), this is the first raise I've seen since having been with them almost two years at this point, and don't consider it to be unreasonable. I can see how frustrating it must be for someone who relies on subtitles, but I can't see their actions as screwing their customers.
Possible best thing about Hay-on-Wye? Reciting horrible back cover copy to each other. Especially of porn thinly veiled as sci-fi from the late 60s.
*grins* There are very similar Star Trek novels from the late 70s, The Price of the Phoenix and its sequel The Fate of the Phoenix (1977 & 1979) have to be seen to be believed - extended wrestling scenes, Kirk being ordered to kneel and call the villain "master", while thinking about Spock...
"much of pre-19th-century opera — or for that matter, Shakespearean comedy — is based on the understanding that what drives a woman wild is a boy who may or may not be a girl."
I grew up with the Target novelisations of Dr Who serials. I've read a fair few that I've never seen the TV series of, and overall I'm quite glad of that, because the special effects (and acting) were much better in my head.
Possible best thing about Hay-on-Wye? Reciting horrible back cover copy to each other. Especially of porn thinly veiled as sci-fi from the late 60s.
Okay, that's awesome.
The Netflix thing, however, is not awesome. I didn't realize that their streaming option could caption, mind, but knowing that it's supposed to is more than a little bit angry-making. Cranky customer feedback mode engaged.
I find myself baffled and skeptical of this whole Vatican condom thing. Like I'm so used to bad/ragey news from them that I'm waiting for an extra special shoe of badness to drop. I realize these things are relative, but still.
And man. I knew I liked Old Navy for a reason.
As for the countertenors, I'm amazed and in a little bit of love. Then again, I also listen to Antony and the Johnsons and have a fair bit of Alfred Deller, now that I look at my iTunes library...
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This has been my face because of the Buffy thing >:-( *sigh*
St. David sounds lovely.
Sherlock is awesome! I too *squeed* at Euros Lynn.
There are issues - race and gender, fail, which I've unfortunately come to expect from Moffat (though in "Jekyll" he was better in that rgard). The fandom is a bit... um... I probably should not be disparaging as it is prolific and a much of the works are good, but the superb things are slightly harder to find.
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b) re: the Vatican, noting please that I am a non-Catholic, I nonetheless think you have hit the nail on the head.
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everyone seems to either attribute to the Catholic church positions stated by other religions, or mis interpret what was said...
so remembering that i am not a theologian, and just to clarify what the church teaches on the subject (although its better stated in the Catechism)
The Catholic church simply holds that any sex outside of marriage (as they define that) is a sin. period.
gay sex is no more sinful, and no less, than het sex outside of lawful marriage.
this does not mean you should get a disease, or that this is a punishment. they hold that sexually transmitted diseases ARE a natural consequence of sinful behavior, but are not pointing at YOU and saying YOU got it because YOU sinned....
sexually transmitted diseases affect many people who are NOT engaged in anything "sinful" like that. its because the *world* is fallen and sinful and everyone pays for it even if its unfair.
so the chaste wife gets a disease from her cheating husband. the hemophiliac gets a disease from a blood transfusion, and the playboy picks it up from wild parties... can we trace this back to "sin" certainly.. but not that THEY are being punished for THEIR sin necessarily.
as to condom use.
the pope, in his PERSONAL capacity, not speaking ex cathedra.. has stated that condom use, while not desirable, can be a first step toward consideration for others and mitigating a problematic lifestyle.
so...... a gay prostitute using a condom is not *compounding* his sin, but may be mitigating it slightly...
Its the born again Christians, the baptists, and the four square churches that held an official position that "AIDS was Gods punishment on sinners"
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worry, definately worry.
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Wow.
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I don't know that this law actually effects Netflix content, however, as it is not broadcasting any new programming (though last year they did a one-time deal with Showtime's "Blood and Sand"). They are instead responsible for going into their back catalog and recaptioning old content for streaming, which appears to be harder than one would think, and in fact something they must develop new technology to do. And while yes, they have recently raised their prices (one dollar-- after having lowered them in previous years), this is the first raise I've seen since having been with them almost two years at this point, and don't consider it to be unreasonable. I can see how frustrating it must be for someone who relies on subtitles, but I can't see their actions as screwing their customers.
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*grins* There are very similar Star Trek novels from the late 70s, The Price of the Phoenix and its sequel The Fate of the Phoenix (1977 & 1979) have to be seen to be believed - extended wrestling scenes, Kirk being ordered to kneel and call the villain "master", while thinking about Spock...
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Hee!
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Okay, that's awesome.
The Netflix thing, however, is not awesome. I didn't realize that their streaming option could caption, mind, but knowing that it's supposed to is more than a little bit angry-making. Cranky customer feedback mode engaged.
I find myself baffled and skeptical of this whole Vatican condom thing. Like I'm so used to bad/ragey news from them that I'm waiting for an extra special shoe of badness to drop. I realize these things are relative, but still.
And man. I knew I liked Old Navy for a reason.
As for the countertenors, I'm amazed and in a little bit of love. Then again, I also listen to Antony and the Johnsons and have a fair bit of Alfred Deller, now that I look at my iTunes library...