To Do…
Here’s the “to do list” for the week. Not much on it but that is deceiving. There is a bigger list in my head. But, if the “to do list” is too long, it is overwhelming – unless I have 1001 days to work on it.
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February 2007
Night Vision
Yes, another Jane Lawless mystery. I know, I haven’t left really stellar reviews of her books but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them in a mindless, fluff sort of way. What better type of book to read after Garbage Land than silly dyke drama with dumb gay boys tossed in for good measure?
Night Vision was surprisingly good. I had high hopes that Jane was going to grow just a wee bit more backbone in this one, and I suppose she has, but she’s still just a bit too wishy washy for a detective – particularly a dyke detective. Ellen Hart needs to toughen her up a little, make her just a bit more Cordelia like. You’d think after more than a dozen of these, she’d have improved the character a bit.
Speaking of Cordelia. Poor thing. I hated that ending, obviously. Do you think the next one will be set in the UK as they work on fixing Cordelia’s problem?
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February New Discoveries
Angry Fat Girlz: They’re angry about their weight but they’re even more angry about the media and culture surrounding weight and body image.
I did not know that yesterday: All sorts of interesting things I didn’t know with some stuff that I did know tossed in to make me feel all culturally literate and stuff.
Mama and Mommy, adventures in gay parenting: It’s always nice to find a gay parenting blog.
Painting Each Day: Fabulous paintings. You can buy them for $100 a piece.
Reject the Koolaid: If there was ever a reason to reject the koolaid… sheesh.
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Garbage Land
Garbage Land was the most depressing and frustrating book EVER. I keep looking at my trash and feeling so overwhelmed that I can barely look away. Today, I pulled a grocery list out of my pocket and was I was about to drop it in the trash, I froze.
What led me to write a list in the first place, for 15 things that I should be able to remember? And then to do it on a full, clean piece of paper. And, I used the WHOLE front side rather than making a tiny neat list that would enable me to use the paper again. Bah. I’m a horrible person! Or maybe not.
Maybe this whole municpal waste guilt is a tool of the patriarchy, or at least big business. Because municipal waste is about 2% of the trash problem. The biggest problem is with manufacturing. So like big pharma who has convinced us we need to buy rubber wristbands and walk in walkathons to CURE this or that (probably breast cancer though) we’ve all been convinced that we can SAVE THE PLANET through recycling. We can’t. It simply isn’t possible.
Anyway, Garbage Land was very good. But very depressing. Very sad. Very frustrating.
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