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went to see the penguin movie with my friend L last night. it was funny and interesting, and fortunately the audience's many children were very well-behaved. i had to roll my eyes whenever the narrator (morgan freeman) talked about penguin love and penguin family values--it always annoys me when people anthropomorphize animals; i mean, why not just enjoy them for what they are? why turn them into little humans?--but that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film too much. so i guess i'll give it a mildly cautious thumbs up.
it's nice to be looking at a weekend free of commitments, nothing on the agenda but spending time with people i know and like. i successfully avoided being recruited to go to a thing in spokane...i correctly assumed that i would be asked twice, and i'm happy that i was able to say "no" twice. my new mantra is "protect your time, protect your time, protect your time." if you don't really want to do something, what's the crime in saying "no" even if you don't have or can't articulate a good reason? isn't not wanting to, reason enough?
now i have to go find a good recipe for potato salad, one that i can whip up during the day tomorrow. a friend is having a BBQ saturday night, and she's soliciting potato salad.
every time i hear miles davis i am reminded anew what a musical genius he was. too bad he was also an abusive asshole. or so they say. people are complicated...weird mixes of amazing and problematic traits, quirks, tics, talents, warmth, short tempers, and weird hangups and fears. the list of historical examples is huge. does the bad outweigh the good? in some cases, maybe...but you'll also meet people who consider it a heresy to admit the failings of a historical icon. thomas jefferson is a famous example (pay no attention to the thousands of descendants of him and his slave, sally hemings). then there's charlotte perkins gilman, a first wave feminist writer lauded almost universally by second wave feminists. the 2nd wavers don't like to talk about her deep commitment to eugenics (both selective breeding and sterilization of "undesirables") and white nationalism. should we toss her off the reading list because of those commitments? should i stop listening to and admiring miles because he beat his wife?
i dunno... maybe...
it's nice to be looking at a weekend free of commitments, nothing on the agenda but spending time with people i know and like. i successfully avoided being recruited to go to a thing in spokane...i correctly assumed that i would be asked twice, and i'm happy that i was able to say "no" twice. my new mantra is "protect your time, protect your time, protect your time." if you don't really want to do something, what's the crime in saying "no" even if you don't have or can't articulate a good reason? isn't not wanting to, reason enough?
now i have to go find a good recipe for potato salad, one that i can whip up during the day tomorrow. a friend is having a BBQ saturday night, and she's soliciting potato salad.
every time i hear miles davis i am reminded anew what a musical genius he was. too bad he was also an abusive asshole. or so they say. people are complicated...weird mixes of amazing and problematic traits, quirks, tics, talents, warmth, short tempers, and weird hangups and fears. the list of historical examples is huge. does the bad outweigh the good? in some cases, maybe...but you'll also meet people who consider it a heresy to admit the failings of a historical icon. thomas jefferson is a famous example (pay no attention to the thousands of descendants of him and his slave, sally hemings). then there's charlotte perkins gilman, a first wave feminist writer lauded almost universally by second wave feminists. the 2nd wavers don't like to talk about her deep commitment to eugenics (both selective breeding and sterilization of "undesirables") and white nationalism. should we toss her off the reading list because of those commitments? should i stop listening to and admiring miles because he beat his wife?
i dunno... maybe...
