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domarzioneI don't get sick often -- major stuff, yes, but I don't really catch cold at a rate commensurate with my cramped exposure to other humans on the NYC subways. I'm sick now, however, and I (for values of the person behind DMZ) have had an utterly devastating week otherwise, so... frivolity it is.
* Infinity War was trending on twitter the other day and apparently it was because it went up on Netflix. I'm all set to watch Steve's five minutes of screen time once I finish the current season of GBBO.
* I have been getting a ton (for me) comments on Maqqaba over the last fortnight and I know it wasn't because I put it on tumblr. So, whoever it was that recced it and sent people who comment my way, you have my earnest gratitude. Especially because it's Yuletide season and most folks are off reading that.
*Speaking of reading:
(L) I have a graduate degree in history of science and technology and a love of food, so this book was pretty much written for me. So far, it's a lot of fun. It's broad rather than deep -- considering much more than the fork rather than just the fork -- but I don't think that's a problem here. It's a social history more than a history of product design (although that gets covered, too) and rightly addresses class and gender issues as part of the tale. For example, smooth and finely textured food has gone from aristocratic fare (they were the ones with the laborers to pound something for hours) to proletarian (enter the food processor!) while 'rustic' and textured food has become fancy because now it's what proves the human labor that is the actual valued bit. Also the fun stuff, like how eating eating meals with a fork was at best odd and at worst a sign of moral deviancy until fairly recently.
(R) The actual mystery's a bit of a let-down for the way it resolves because it's pretty good until that point, but it's really a terrific depiction and exploration of a particular time and place and the way it addresses race and racism from all perspectives and how very clearly cut it was not. Who associates with whom and why and how and a pointed exploration of 'passing' and what comes with it, both the privileges and the price. But it's not a lecture or a harangue, it's a story and one worth reading.
* What're you all up to?
* Infinity War was trending on twitter the other day and apparently it was because it went up on Netflix. I'm all set to watch Steve's five minutes of screen time once I finish the current season of GBBO.
* I have been getting a ton (for me) comments on Maqqaba over the last fortnight and I know it wasn't because I put it on tumblr. So, whoever it was that recced it and sent people who comment my way, you have my earnest gratitude. Especially because it's Yuletide season and most folks are off reading that.
*Speaking of reading:
(L) I have a graduate degree in history of science and technology and a love of food, so this book was pretty much written for me. So far, it's a lot of fun. It's broad rather than deep -- considering much more than the fork rather than just the fork -- but I don't think that's a problem here. It's a social history more than a history of product design (although that gets covered, too) and rightly addresses class and gender issues as part of the tale. For example, smooth and finely textured food has gone from aristocratic fare (they were the ones with the laborers to pound something for hours) to proletarian (enter the food processor!) while 'rustic' and textured food has become fancy because now it's what proves the human labor that is the actual valued bit. Also the fun stuff, like how eating eating meals with a fork was at best odd and at worst a sign of moral deviancy until fairly recently.
(R) The actual mystery's a bit of a let-down for the way it resolves because it's pretty good until that point, but it's really a terrific depiction and exploration of a particular time and place and the way it addresses race and racism from all perspectives and how very clearly cut it was not. Who associates with whom and why and how and a pointed exploration of 'passing' and what comes with it, both the privileges and the price. But it's not a lecture or a harangue, it's a story and one worth reading.
* What're you all up to?
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Date: 2018-12-28 22:35 (UTC)And I've been sewing today, which is nice whole it's snowing outside. :D
Feel better soon!
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Date: 2018-12-29 22:14 (UTC)And thank you. I am still going through tissues at a rate that Greenpeace is going to cite me as a leading cause of deforestation.