I asked where my endless fascination with reality restaurant shows came. I guess I can add Dr. Phil to the list. I am currently watching the turmoil that is known as "The Dr. Phil family." I remembered them from when they debuted in 2003. Sadly, before Dr. Phil shined the light on this family, I grew up with kids whose families were like this and was not surprised by any of the revelations (though it seemed that the audience was). We as an audience seem to revel and be intensely involved in the problems of the middle class suburbanites that populate reality shows like Dr. Phil.
I'm always endlessly fascinated by the fact that when drug addiction affects families of color, it's the families' fault and they are a blight on society and we are paying for your crimes...whereas with this population, there are 'teachable moments' and if only they weren't exposed to tv and other bad influences and they can be saved and go to college and have a future...
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
It begins
Well, It's November, which is National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoM0) and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
The keys to succeeding at both are finding time and being disciplined. Not easy to do in our ADD-instant result expectant-crisis management kind of world.
This year's NaBloPoMo will also serve to help jumpstart my blogging, which I have left so by the wayside. I will also be blogging not only at this site, but also at my livejournal, which will also serve to chronicle my NaNoWriMo progress. I will also blog at my social action blog, which documents causes and nonprofits issues that interest me. For kicks, I'll have my opinions at my soap fan blog also.
This year's NaBloPoMo roster is:
More Explore
http://www.moreexplore.blogspot.com/
My Writing Exploration
http://ladydayelle.livejournal.com/
My Social Awareness and Action Blog
http://kitlat.wordpress.com/
The keys to succeeding at both are finding time and being disciplined. Not easy to do in our ADD-instant result expectant-crisis management kind of world.
This year's NaBloPoMo will also serve to help jumpstart my blogging, which I have left so by the wayside. I will also be blogging not only at this site, but also at my livejournal, which will also serve to chronicle my NaNoWriMo progress. I will also blog at my social action blog, which documents causes and nonprofits issues that interest me. For kicks, I'll have my opinions at my soap fan blog also.
This year's NaBloPoMo roster is:
More Explore
http://www.moreexplore.blogspot.com/
My Writing Exploration
http://ladydayelle.livejournal.com/
My Social Awareness and Action Blog
http://kitlat.wordpress.com/
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Where are your women?
Check that. Where are your women who look closer to the undesirable version of the racial spectrum, but who are just as competent, just as capable and just as curious as the souped up versions that are presented?
We've been treated to lots of stories heroes and heroines saving the world, making a difference and having fun on the internet, the big screen and the small screen. I rarely see people who look like the kind of woman I physically became in those stories. I usually see them as victims, as dimwitted, unimaginative, non progressive people, as an archetype who is a 'magical negro' or who has 'the ancient Chinese secret,' but not leading a full live that has ups and downs and highs and lows except as some sort of 'afterschool special'.
I reflect on the current crop of medical dramas and again notice that women of color as doctors, as supervisors, as specialists are missing in large numbers. I was thinking about 'Grey's Anatomy,' which does have women of color as a part of the writing staff, but none as attendings in the show's hospital staff. Make no mistake-Miranda Bailey may huff and puff, but she and Callie are HNIC and HMIC respectively.
Sci-fi, action and fantasy makes you want to cry because of the dearth. Even if a woman of dark color is presented, she rarely is in on the action and she lives in a vacuum. She's married and/or is a mother and is remote.
Of course, I can write my own stories...but will they ever be read?
We've been treated to lots of stories heroes and heroines saving the world, making a difference and having fun on the internet, the big screen and the small screen. I rarely see people who look like the kind of woman I physically became in those stories. I usually see them as victims, as dimwitted, unimaginative, non progressive people, as an archetype who is a 'magical negro' or who has 'the ancient Chinese secret,' but not leading a full live that has ups and downs and highs and lows except as some sort of 'afterschool special'.
I reflect on the current crop of medical dramas and again notice that women of color as doctors, as supervisors, as specialists are missing in large numbers. I was thinking about 'Grey's Anatomy,' which does have women of color as a part of the writing staff, but none as attendings in the show's hospital staff. Make no mistake-Miranda Bailey may huff and puff, but she and Callie are HNIC and HMIC respectively.
Sci-fi, action and fantasy makes you want to cry because of the dearth. Even if a woman of dark color is presented, she rarely is in on the action and she lives in a vacuum. She's married and/or is a mother and is remote.
Of course, I can write my own stories...but will they ever be read?
Sunday, July 26, 2009
When did I become such a Top Chef/Hell's Kitchen/Chopping Block/Kitchen Nightmares junkie?
When did I become such a Top Chef/Hell's Kitchen/Chopping Block/Kitchen Nightmares junkie?
I find it funny, since I am not a foodie by any stretch. I can understand that I like the competitive element of the first three. Winners and Losers, achievement and failure. That's some of the best drama out there. It's why this country watches the Superbowl, the Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals and the World Series every year. It is why the world stops every four years to watch the Olympics.
I did notice that I enjoyed watching the food being plated on Top Chef, and I wanted to eat them.
Kitchen Nightmares is like a warped Extreme Makeover with restaurants. Oddly enough I don't like watching Extreme Makeover, but I like Kitchen Nightmares. Much like the movie American Gangster, there are lessons hidden here and there amidst the bleeps and beeps. I will write a series of blog posts about them later.
The Chopping Block is a little bit like Hell's Kitchen meets Kitchen Nightmares, but with a French man instead of a raving Scot. I found it was interesting that Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay were once friends.
I find it funny, since I am not a foodie by any stretch. I can understand that I like the competitive element of the first three. Winners and Losers, achievement and failure. That's some of the best drama out there. It's why this country watches the Superbowl, the Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals and the World Series every year. It is why the world stops every four years to watch the Olympics.
I did notice that I enjoyed watching the food being plated on Top Chef, and I wanted to eat them.
Kitchen Nightmares is like a warped Extreme Makeover with restaurants. Oddly enough I don't like watching Extreme Makeover, but I like Kitchen Nightmares. Much like the movie American Gangster, there are lessons hidden here and there amidst the bleeps and beeps. I will write a series of blog posts about them later.
The Chopping Block is a little bit like Hell's Kitchen meets Kitchen Nightmares, but with a French man instead of a raving Scot. I found it was interesting that Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay were once friends.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
March Madness 2009
It's March and I'm watching the tourneys.
This has been a tough year for me since I have no real clear favorite. I have my stable of favs that I like to go as far as they can. This year they are: Arizona, Duke, Memphis, Syracuse, Kansas (defending champs), Michigan State, UCLA, Gonzaga, UConn and North Carolina.
There are two "villains" or teams I will not want to make it: Villanova and Louisville. I still am not ever forgiving Villanova for their 1985 win over Georgetown, which cost hometown favorite Patrick Ewing his second NCAA ring. As for Louisville, though I was never a huge Boston Celtics fan until the arrival of Doc Rivers (who incidentally as a coach did right by the aging Patrick Ewing), Rick Pitino's tenure was not one that left warm and fuzzy memories in the hearts and minds of Boston fans-even casual ones, like myself.
If Georgetown had made it, they would have been my overall team to get behind. As it was, I pulled for UCLA so that the Wizard might live to see one more Championship, but somehow knew they were weaker this year and was not surprised to see them go.
I confess that I am for either Arizona, Duke or Michigan State because these are programs that are winning programs, but have faced trouble. Arizona of course lost Lute Olson, but the team that is in the tournament have members that were molded under his tenure and the new coach is doing okay. Both Coach K and Coach Izzo have some dust on their last NCAA wins. Something tells me that if they don't go all the way, they may face some of what Tubby Smith faced with the University of Kentucky.
This year is also different because I have cable, so I can watch the women more closely and because I am a more active Twitter user.
Currently I am tweeting at March Tweetness: http://marchtweetness.com/ as @ladyday93. It's been a little weird because it's a bit like live blogging, a skill that I wish to develop more.
I am also hoping for a school sweep, which is what happened in 2004 when UConn prevailed during both the men and women's tourneys.
This has been a tough year for me since I have no real clear favorite. I have my stable of favs that I like to go as far as they can. This year they are: Arizona, Duke, Memphis, Syracuse, Kansas (defending champs), Michigan State, UCLA, Gonzaga, UConn and North Carolina.
There are two "villains" or teams I will not want to make it: Villanova and Louisville. I still am not ever forgiving Villanova for their 1985 win over Georgetown, which cost hometown favorite Patrick Ewing his second NCAA ring. As for Louisville, though I was never a huge Boston Celtics fan until the arrival of Doc Rivers (who incidentally as a coach did right by the aging Patrick Ewing), Rick Pitino's tenure was not one that left warm and fuzzy memories in the hearts and minds of Boston fans-even casual ones, like myself.
If Georgetown had made it, they would have been my overall team to get behind. As it was, I pulled for UCLA so that the Wizard might live to see one more Championship, but somehow knew they were weaker this year and was not surprised to see them go.
I confess that I am for either Arizona, Duke or Michigan State because these are programs that are winning programs, but have faced trouble. Arizona of course lost Lute Olson, but the team that is in the tournament have members that were molded under his tenure and the new coach is doing okay. Both Coach K and Coach Izzo have some dust on their last NCAA wins. Something tells me that if they don't go all the way, they may face some of what Tubby Smith faced with the University of Kentucky.
This year is also different because I have cable, so I can watch the women more closely and because I am a more active Twitter user.
Currently I am tweeting at March Tweetness: http://marchtweetness.com/ as @ladyday93. It's been a little weird because it's a bit like live blogging, a skill that I wish to develop more.
I am also hoping for a school sweep, which is what happened in 2004 when UConn prevailed during both the men and women's tourneys.
Monday, February 16, 2009
It's so cute...
It's so cute when comment spam thinks its going to get through but it ultimately fails.
Paranormal, Feb 27-Mar 7 at the Factory Theater
Paranormal
a Sci-fi Comedy
February 27-March 7
The Factory Theater
791 Tremont Street
Boston MA
8pm
"I am K'Tharr, a Grulark Warrior-Bunny from the planet Trepmalthok, and I would give my life to defend you!"
With those words from a six-feet tall bunny-shaped alien, Krista Maclay, burgeoning psychic, is thrown on a journey beyond the human world in which she meets Elvis-impersonating aliens, invisible annoying bodyswappers, a moody yet endearing psychic boy, and a long-dead former best friend who forces her into an epic psychic battle for free will.
"Paranormal" is a sci-fi comic fantasy juggernaut for everyone who doesn't see why someone couldn't be a zombie, a pirate, and a telepath at the same time.Featuring Laura DeCesare, Timothy Hoover, Neal Leaheey, Crystal Lisbon, and Nick Zendzian. Sound design by Neil Marsh. Written and Directed by Carl Danielson.
For tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or go to "Paranormal" at TheaterMania:
http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/paranormal_151611/
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