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Vacation's So Close I Can Taste It
Jul. 20th, 2006 12:01 pmI don't have anything profound to say about either racism or the Blogging Against Racsim. I think it's a noble idea (and a mildly... privileging one, coming from the perspective of a lot of relatively well off women, from whatever race), if something that kind of feels... pushy isn't the right word. I don't know what the right word is.
And as much of a liberal commie pinko as I am, I don't do much these days to rally for anyone's civil rights. Nor do I talk much about them here, which is space largely reserved for media and rambling. I think it is the title Blog Against Racism that sort of sets my teeth on edge, because as stated before, if you're looking to champion equality, then you're unlikely to write about racsim as a positive. Words have power, and we have enough post-modern sensibilities to be both dreadfully earnest about this, and vaguely embarrassed by our earnest endeavors and proclimations.
( Los Angeles and Race )
My mom will be here at five. The house is moderately clean and the car is a pit held together by packing tape and hope. Pray for the car. Tuesday night, the driver's side mirror (currently taped to it's base), disengaged from the tape and started flapping in the breeze as I was driving home on the freeway at midnight. I had to lean forward, try to hold it in place so that it didn't catch a gust of wind and get ripped from it's moorings. Sigh.
Mom and I are spaing tomorrow. Yeah Glen Ivey and the mud baths. Hopefully, we will also be engaged in some household projects and the gluing of my mirror to the car and hopefully a mirror to the casing of the passenger side mirror.
THe novel class continues to exhilerate and terrify. I got notes back that were what I expected - too much exposition, make your character POV more clear. Swell characters, edit more carefully:) I also continue to be intrigued by these snippets of other universes we keep getting from the other NIPs:) My teacher has visions of how... not-human my characters are. This cracks me up. They're so very human, but it's helping me to see subtle ways to make them less so.
And as much of a liberal commie pinko as I am, I don't do much these days to rally for anyone's civil rights. Nor do I talk much about them here, which is space largely reserved for media and rambling. I think it is the title Blog Against Racism that sort of sets my teeth on edge, because as stated before, if you're looking to champion equality, then you're unlikely to write about racsim as a positive. Words have power, and we have enough post-modern sensibilities to be both dreadfully earnest about this, and vaguely embarrassed by our earnest endeavors and proclimations.
( Los Angeles and Race )
My mom will be here at five. The house is moderately clean and the car is a pit held together by packing tape and hope. Pray for the car. Tuesday night, the driver's side mirror (currently taped to it's base), disengaged from the tape and started flapping in the breeze as I was driving home on the freeway at midnight. I had to lean forward, try to hold it in place so that it didn't catch a gust of wind and get ripped from it's moorings. Sigh.
Mom and I are spaing tomorrow. Yeah Glen Ivey and the mud baths. Hopefully, we will also be engaged in some household projects and the gluing of my mirror to the car and hopefully a mirror to the casing of the passenger side mirror.
THe novel class continues to exhilerate and terrify. I got notes back that were what I expected - too much exposition, make your character POV more clear. Swell characters, edit more carefully:) I also continue to be intrigued by these snippets of other universes we keep getting from the other NIPs:) My teacher has visions of how... not-human my characters are. This cracks me up. They're so very human, but it's helping me to see subtle ways to make them less so.
