Pay It Forward 2014

Borrowed from elanya because it sounds so fun:

Pay-It-Forward 2014: The first 5 friends to comment on this post that they want to play will receive from me, sometime in this calendar year, a random gift

It will be a total surprise! Maybe it will be a candle, jewelry, gift card, movie, collectible figurine, food, kitchen stuff, home décor, who knows?? (But let's be honest, it's me so it's either gonna be baked goods or something bookish...)

There will be NO warning and it will be sent to you whenever the mood strikes!

So, what's the catch? If you decide to participate you MUST make this same offer on YOUR page and get 5 people to randomly gift too.

If you're one of my 5, I will confirm by answering your comment and asking for your mailing address in a PM.

This is supposed to be fun and give us a treat in the mailbox vs bills, bills, bills and junk mail!!

Observation: Sex and Text

You know, when you consider the treatment of women's writing both historically and in the current moment, it is at once shocking and makes total sense (for a specific degree of sense, ie. as to how women/women's writing is viewed and treated) to find that the term hack (cheap/bad writer for profit) was originally a term for a prostitute and that the term streetwalker (currently a term for a prostitute) referred to women who sold (and in some cases also wrote and printed) newsbooks/pamphlets/newspapers.

More Thoughts on Almost Human

Copied and pasted from my post at almosthumantv because I want to remember this stuff for later.

So I was watching this with mr. caitri last night and we were bewildered by Kennex suddenly being in an anger management class--though I guess if this was supposed to be the second ep, that makes more sense? But with that scene followed by the one where he shoots the MX, we've decided that the show actually HAS to be a dark comedy/parody, thus explaining a lot of the ridiculousness/character stupidity.

(Also, it really grates on me how the voiceover intro just states that police "weren't prepared" for new technology--like they were all just hanging out, minding their own business at Dunkin Donuts and then suddenly were transposed to this crazy random future of phones in hands and such.)

Anyways, I keep watching the show for the race/posthumanism which I think is fascinating. I mean, *why* was that one MX model utterly ragging on Dorian? Can androids be...racist? androidist? IDK? But at the end there's the joke about Kennex not destroying any MXes that day and he says "the night is young"--and then the camera pans to a black MX looking unnerved. Which, this changes the game a bit? Or not? Because there were 2 models of white MXes to Dorian's singular black DRN, but now there's *also* a black MX model, so how does this change how we read Dorian's status as a synthetic?

Also, the scene where there was the specialized advertising aimed at Dorian. Are androids considered consumers as well? --not just of energy, I mean, but of other stuff? Can MXes choose what clothing to wear? (They all seem to wear the same black suits vs. Dorian's street attire.) Does Dorian get a paycheck? What does he do with it? In the glimpse we saw of the androids' barracks (what else to call them?) it basically seemed like all they had were charging stations and showers. Presumably they have lockers for clothing but what else? Do they have leisure time?

I WANNA KNOW THINGS!!!!!!!!1