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Weekend Update Does Stuff and Things
Aug. 21st, 2016 04:42 pmLast night I pretty much ran my cellphone battery down nearly to the single digits, refreshing my Twitter feed as one track was livetweeting the Hugo Awards, and another track was livetweeting The Tragically Hip's final concert of their current tour (and possibly ever) in their hometown. IRL, the TV was playing the Niners game and we were doing pretty good for the most part. All in all, a fun evening!
Backing up a little bit, we went to see Kubo and the Two Strings at the Balboa Theatre at their midmorning show (free coffee and popcorn, woo!). An amazing piece of animation, definitely worth going to see. [Plus Regina Spektor does a fabulous cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in the end credits, which you should sit through, if only because the artwork used then is equally as fantastic.] Walked down to Ocean Beach from there and hung out for a little bit before hopping on the 5 bus back to our neighborhood.
But yeah, back to last night...I was rather fascinated that the voices of the Rabid/Sad Puppies were kind of thin and reedy during the Hugos. There are a few self-proclaimed Subject Matter Experts (as I called them in my other blog) whose cognitive dissonance was quite straining. Apparently this time out their response to certain winners was "Oho! We've got them where we want them now!" which is all fine and dandy, except that the Puppies nominated books, movies and TV shows people actually LIKE. To put it bluntly and to quote Barenaked Ladies, their plan was "I just made you say 'underwear'," apparently. Amusingly enough, pretty much every sane person responded to that with 'yeah whatever' and went on with the night's festivities in a happy mood.
Tangentially, I'm still trying to figure out why some of these apparent fans are so, I don't know....petulant? Angry at the world? A misanthrope? I've never quite understood the mindset of being so spiteful about everyone and everything as a regular frame of mind. It just seems such a waste of time, really. Sure, I get irritable and annoyed with people, but there are some out there whose normal mindset is "everyone's an idiot." Sometimes I wonder if these puppies were nerds in school who never got over Chet the Quarterback pantsing them in front of everyone in gym class. It's really kind of sad.
But anyway! Let's end this post on a happy note: it's Sunday afternoon and all the errands are done, I'm relaxing with some tea and tunes, with a bit of blog writing and editing to do later.
Hope everyone's having a nice weekend!
Backing up a little bit, we went to see Kubo and the Two Strings at the Balboa Theatre at their midmorning show (free coffee and popcorn, woo!). An amazing piece of animation, definitely worth going to see. [Plus Regina Spektor does a fabulous cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in the end credits, which you should sit through, if only because the artwork used then is equally as fantastic.] Walked down to Ocean Beach from there and hung out for a little bit before hopping on the 5 bus back to our neighborhood.
But yeah, back to last night...I was rather fascinated that the voices of the Rabid/Sad Puppies were kind of thin and reedy during the Hugos. There are a few self-proclaimed Subject Matter Experts (as I called them in my other blog) whose cognitive dissonance was quite straining. Apparently this time out their response to certain winners was "Oho! We've got them where we want them now!" which is all fine and dandy, except that the Puppies nominated books, movies and TV shows people actually LIKE. To put it bluntly and to quote Barenaked Ladies, their plan was "I just made you say 'underwear'," apparently. Amusingly enough, pretty much every sane person responded to that with 'yeah whatever' and went on with the night's festivities in a happy mood.
Tangentially, I'm still trying to figure out why some of these apparent fans are so, I don't know....petulant? Angry at the world? A misanthrope? I've never quite understood the mindset of being so spiteful about everyone and everything as a regular frame of mind. It just seems such a waste of time, really. Sure, I get irritable and annoyed with people, but there are some out there whose normal mindset is "everyone's an idiot." Sometimes I wonder if these puppies were nerds in school who never got over Chet the Quarterback pantsing them in front of everyone in gym class. It's really kind of sad.
But anyway! Let's end this post on a happy note: it's Sunday afternoon and all the errands are done, I'm relaxing with some tea and tunes, with a bit of blog writing and editing to do later.
Hope everyone's having a nice weekend!
