I was originally gonna write this, but then I got caught up talkin' 'bout
Earl, and I didn't wanna take nothin' away from him, so I just made it a big Earl post. And, seriously, Seattle folks, you should go. I don't think there's a cover. But maybe there is, I don't know.
AND BUT SO ANYWAY yes! Grandma found some new and exciting way to hurt herself, so my parents took her to the doctor this morning, but it turns out that it's one of those that looks way worse than it is, so the doctor just said that it'll go away on its own, so hooray! He said she probably tore a tendon in her arm -- she's got a blood pocket in her arm -- but it's going down, and so it looks like it'll just re-absorb and whatnot. And that suchlike is easy to do at her age, so, yeah. It appears nothing really bad, and grandma doesn't even remember how she did it, and it doesn't sound like it was really hurting too awfully much anyway? So, yeah.
While they were gone, I watched stuff on the Netflix Box. I like the Netflix box. Mostly going through
Bullshit season 4, which it turns out I DID already see most of -- I thought Season 3 was the last one I really watched, but I was WRONG. But there are some episodes I don't remember at all except in retrospect ("Death Penalty" is one -- as I was watching it, it didn't ring any bells, but looking back, I kinda DO remember some of the stuff from it...), and others were pretty much "Oh yeah I totally saw this one", like "Cryptozoology" and "Prostitution". "Ground Zero" is next, which is one I know I watched, but I might see it again, I don't know. The others are:
Pet Love - Don't think I watched but maybe?
Reparations - I don't think I saw this one either?
Manners - I'm pretty sure I did see this one.
Numbers - Don't think so?
Abstinence - Pretty sure no?
And, I'm almost certain I did not watch ANY of Season 5 and up, so hooray!
I also enjoy watching these hour long Logo TV documentaries -- I put a bunch on the Netflix Box, and mom goes "Why did you put on all this gay shit?!" which was kinda funny. I just find culture, and in particular, sub-cultures, interesting. This one, "Gay Siblings", though was just OK. Mainly because, of the three stories (one of a Ultra Religious Mom with 5 kids, alla whom are gay; one of gay twins who are trying to figure out why their non-twin brother killed himself in Spain in 1991; one of a lesbian producer/songwriter who was adopted and found out her biological brother was also gay), only the Spain Suicide was WICKED interesting -- like, enough to spend the full 48 minutes on. The 5-gay-family was kinda interesting, and it was nice that the mother was beginning to come around that maybe it wasn't something she did, but whatever; still gets a little frustrating hearing folks be all "YOU DONE CHOSE TO SIN!!". The one about the producer/songwriter and her brother doing a duet was wicked lame, though -- mostly because the song they were working on was ass-awful, and most of it was ABOUT them working on said ass-awful song, and how the brother was kind of a flake and wasn't singing it correctly, and the sister being all "YOU AREN'T SINGING THIS CORRECTLY!" and etc. I came real close to fast-forwarding their bits. And I was sad, because there was a really interesting lead on the Suicide story that was never followed up on -- and I don't know if that's because of time, or because the twins themselves didn't follow up on it? But either way, you'd think that the directors of the show would have either made time or been all "No, you should follow up on this lead because it's wicked interesting."
Other ones were pretty good. I think my favorite so far was the one about Trans/Genderqueer folks coming out and one FTM going through top surgery/T/etc. -- even though his girlfriend was kind of annoying (she identified as a lesbian "who has no use for men" and was seemingly superficially supportive but spent a lot of time freaking out w/r/t it. Seems to me if you fall in love with someone, you fall in love with THEM and not the body so much, but that's just me, I guess. And, seriously "no use for men"? Way to write off half the population. It's dumb when macho-retard types do that with women, and it's dumb when you do it, too. I'm not sayin' you gotta go out with men, a'cause that's just crazy talk -- but she was all talkin' about how if men just disappeared she'd be just fine with that and etc. etc. etc. and... yeah. Not a good way to win points with me -- seems like just another strain of the "Men leave the toilet seat up and flip through the channels/Women want to talk about their FEEEEELIIIINGS and ask if this dress makes them look fat but don't want to hear the TRUTH man no matter how many times they ask" bullshit that keeps shitty hack comedians in business).
Um, that was a tangent.
Anyway -- you should check those Logo docs out on Netflix; they're all (most?) available for streaming/netflixboxing, so, yeah. "Out At The Job" was pretty good too. I still have "Beautiful Daughters" to watch, which I THINK is about Drag Queens (rather than Trans folks; like gay men who dress up for shows and such, not who live as women, I mean), but maybe it IS about Trans people, I don't know[1]. Either way, it'll hopefully be interesting! And if not, it's not even an hour long, so whatever.
[1] I am hoping that isn't offensive; if it is it's accidental. Being a boring-ass straight dude, I don't quite know all the ins-and-outs (SEE WHAT I DID THERE HUR HUR) of terminology and whatnot. DON' HIT ME
One thing I've been thinkin' about for Kittysneezes (other than if I do get the LLC to namin' the LLC "Kittysneezes Amalgamated MediaWerks, LLC" or maybe if I can figure out something ELSE to jam in there because I like long, ridiculous, vaguely germanic and old-school industrial sounding names) is to take up the mantle that
WebSnark kinda vacated, of doin' lots of stuff about webcomics and treatin' them as a serious thing. The thing is, though, I -- as in me -- don't wanna do it. I want someone ELSE to do it for KS. So, if anyone's been wanting to do that, and for some reason isn't satisfied with just doin' it on their LJ, TOTALLY hit me up.
(Perhaps after a while, you can go AWOL for quite some time and then talk about nothin' but City of Heroes, too. Hey -- dude DID get a wife out of it, so maybe you can too!)
Likewise, if you gots stuff that's rejected everywhere else, you can post it at KS! I'm like how McSweeney's started that way. Only I don't got friends like DFW who're all wicked crazy famous and whatnot.
But seriously -- I DO like how there've been more writing peoples at Kittysneezes of late. That is awesome -- I really, really like having different voices/POVs there. And the idea of people writing things that are good that I don't necessarily agree with. Like, um, I actually LIKE
Lady Gaga. But I also like that article. So THERE!
ALSO ALSO ALSO: I'm cool with
anonymous posts, too -- and I figured out how to properly do them! Lee/
boringpostcards let me know that it turns out in the RSS feeds for KS, it'll post the email address of the poster -- which kinda ends up shootin' the Anonymity thing in the foot, but I was able to fix this -- hopefully before too many people saw -- by changing the author completely to ANGRY JOE!!! (which gives him a use after all, after deciding his posts didn't really fit the KS aesthetic), and then changing (as was before) the author alias thingy to "Anonymous". So, yeah. If'n you think you're even POTENTIALLY interested in doing Anonymous posts like that one, just let me know, and I'll give you the ANGRY JOE!!! login/password. Or post it as yourself, and before I approve it, I'll change it to ANGRY JOE!!!/Anonymous and we'll all be OK and no one will know it was YOU who shanked that hobo. Hooray!
I gots a pile more comics to review, too. Luckily I have enough OTHER stuff in the can that it won't just be Kittysneezes As Out-Of-Date-Comics-Review-Site. Hooray! Quick spoilers:
Flight 2,
Be A Nose,
After The Snooter are good.
Dad got a two-tiered Keyboard Stand yesterday at Guitar Center! He can now be in a New Wave band. Or, at least, once he gets another one or two and 4-6 more keyboards to go with it. (Though he does have the two electric organs as well... or, I guess I do. But they're in his studio, because I just got an apartment.)
I should check on my laundry. Then micturate. Maybe not in that order, but definitely not in the same room.