Vacation Thoughts
Weather Harlot returns (northern Harlot, Momcat equals southern Harlot)
I am back from my vacation and am still in that awkward transfer from vacation zone-out back into the real world. As I get older it is harder making the adjustment. It’s a mild version of post-traumatic-stress-spring-feverish out-time that has to be transitioned across. It’s ( Read more... )
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Yeah, re-entry sucks moat-water...!! I'm nearly caught up now, but I came back to a new supervisor, a new work-mode and an unconscionably early starting time... 08:30 meetings... what kind of sadist as meetings at 08:30??!!
Why can’t young men get over their fascination with dark and edgy fiction about loners, psychopaths, and dark characters as the pinnacle of literary (or screenplay) sophistication.? Umm... I guess the short answer is "more testosterone than sense"... the good news is that they DO eventually grow out of it! The bad news is by the time they do, they're no longer young. Remember what I once told you re how fragile they actually are, for all their bluster and bravado? As annoying as male ego can be, it actually serves as protection for something that makes Waterford crystal seem as impermeable as a Sherman tank by comparison. And yes, if they're writing, they don't have a clue re how to write a fully mature intelligent woman because they don't know any -- and that for the ( ... )
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They're not interested in things that don't matter to the target population ... and let's face it, fully mature, self-aware women, by and large, don't care about the things that are important to 20-something males... I guess the question is, how many other segments of their viewing public will be similarly offended/ annoyed and will the number be sufficient to get 'em to change their ways?
BTW-- thanks for the 'handbasket' link... I've always wondered vaguely what a handbasket was...!
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