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12 Nov 2019 14:50Disney+ is apparently launching with a splat. Technical difficulties with the app, formatting of The Simpsons episodes accidentally ruining visual jokes because they're getting cut off, and they decided to edit the Han-Greedo scene again for god knows what reason. And you can't search "MCU" and get any MCU. Meanwhile, if you want the first episode of The Mandalorian, it's out there in the ether to DL.
Brought the plant in from the fire escape because it's going to go below freezing today. One cat now thinks I've gotten him a snack tree. (It's a cat-safe plant, ftr. And he already chews on my actual salad.) Other cat is holding out for people food because he loves lettuce.
For cats and food, if you are interested, I have an IG where both are posted. I look a lot more vegan than I am there, but it's mostly by circumstance. Also, if you've ever wondered why there's so much food in my fic...
This week so far has brought about The Fall of Don Cherry, which means nothing to anyone who (a) isn't Canadian or (b) doesn't follow hockey closely. But it's a big thing in those circles. Grapes has been a fixture of the game for almost fifty years and a national icon in Canada for almost all of it. He's 85 and carries the values and prejudices of someone of that age and it's the combination of the two that has brought his downfall -- he criticized immigrants for not being sufficiently demonstrative in their gratitude for Canadian veterans because he didn't see enough poppies in his now-heavily-minority hometowns. The thing of it is that Grapes has been a walking microaggression for decades, has been calling non-Anglo-Canadian hockey players names on national television for decades, and nobody's really given a crap for decades because That's Just Grapes. He's the benignly xenophobic uncle at every family gathering, except the state television channel gives him the highest pulpit in the land to spew his nonsense. Which is why I am just so sick of the righteous tut-tutting from hockey media that he's gone too far because he has been exactly this far for 37 years and state television was fine with it until a twitter mob formed. Own your faults and stop pretending Grapes is "un-Canadian" when he's been held up as ur-Canadian all this time. You could have pulled him aside or pulled him off the air with the first "Chicken Swede" or the first time he dissed a Quebecois. Instead, he became an icon.
(Uh, apparently the antidepressant withdrawal symptoms include crankiness as well as extraordinary fatigue. Side note: antidepressants continue to be like the mafia: the omerta of mental illness with the inability to get free of them. Side side note: take your meds.)
The CVS on Amsterdam and 86th put its Christmas windows in and I protest. Veterans Day is too early. Thanksgiving is too early, but we've lost that fight. I think we need to update that Community gif to "It's not Christmas, it's November Tenth!"
Brought the plant in from the fire escape because it's going to go below freezing today. One cat now thinks I've gotten him a snack tree. (It's a cat-safe plant, ftr. And he already chews on my actual salad.) Other cat is holding out for people food because he loves lettuce.
For cats and food, if you are interested, I have an IG where both are posted. I look a lot more vegan than I am there, but it's mostly by circumstance. Also, if you've ever wondered why there's so much food in my fic...
This week so far has brought about The Fall of Don Cherry, which means nothing to anyone who (a) isn't Canadian or (b) doesn't follow hockey closely. But it's a big thing in those circles. Grapes has been a fixture of the game for almost fifty years and a national icon in Canada for almost all of it. He's 85 and carries the values and prejudices of someone of that age and it's the combination of the two that has brought his downfall -- he criticized immigrants for not being sufficiently demonstrative in their gratitude for Canadian veterans because he didn't see enough poppies in his now-heavily-minority hometowns. The thing of it is that Grapes has been a walking microaggression for decades, has been calling non-Anglo-Canadian hockey players names on national television for decades, and nobody's really given a crap for decades because That's Just Grapes. He's the benignly xenophobic uncle at every family gathering, except the state television channel gives him the highest pulpit in the land to spew his nonsense. Which is why I am just so sick of the righteous tut-tutting from hockey media that he's gone too far because he has been exactly this far for 37 years and state television was fine with it until a twitter mob formed. Own your faults and stop pretending Grapes is "un-Canadian" when he's been held up as ur-Canadian all this time. You could have pulled him aside or pulled him off the air with the first "Chicken Swede" or the first time he dissed a Quebecois. Instead, he became an icon.
(Uh, apparently the antidepressant withdrawal symptoms include crankiness as well as extraordinary fatigue. Side note: antidepressants continue to be like the mafia: the omerta of mental illness with the inability to get free of them. Side side note: take your meds.)
The CVS on Amsterdam and 86th put its Christmas windows in and I protest. Veterans Day is too early. Thanksgiving is too early, but we've lost that fight. I think we need to update that Community gif to "It's not Christmas, it's November Tenth!"
