Women

In a paper counterpart to this blogging I was going on about people I like, as opposed to my usual people I have contempt for. After a short amount of writing and a short list of people it became apparent that I did not have any women on that list. The list was made up of not people I know but mainly artists as well as singers, authors and other such pop culture nonsense.

Why no ladies? Is it me or are they as unrepresented or limitedly represented as hard line feminism says they are? Surely there must be some name I can pull out of my head that would fulfill this missing piece(s).

Maybe it is enough to say i do not identify with women often as I am not a woman. That seems simplistic. I like say...Frida Kahlo well enough but have no real sense of who she was. I certainly am sure that Diego Rivera was a pompous ass but I still like him in a way that I don't like F.K. I can't come up with any actresses that I like if you discount have some kind of crush on them, not that I don't think there aren't any talented actresses out there. Again this is a list of people I like not a list of people I don't dislike.

Actually I don't think there were any singers on that list at all. Surely I could come up with some. For example, I like the music of Paul Simon and Billy Bragg but I think I would only like only B.B. in person (though P.S. seems subdued enough that he could be all right). There are certainly plenty of women and men whose music, playing or voices I enjoy but that has nothing to do with who they are and me thinking that I might like them as people.
That does bring up the point that all of this is moot if I never met nor will I meet them.

Let me back track, at the time I was mainly, for no good reason, focusing on painters and other artists. I started, I think, with Robert Crumb not because I like his art work but because I felt I could see a loving hand in his work. This mean a lot to me, I am willing to trade off talent and skill for NOT being an asshole. There are enough assholes in the world AND enough smart people. i think we need more loving hands.
With that said I was hard pressed to come up with many women names for my "loving hand" list. I am certain this is a lack on my part but it also emphasizes, I think, how women can only seem to make a place for themselves if they play it a certain way. They need to be about gender or sex or some other thing that usually deflects their passion. The list of males who lack the love in question includes majority of people I will ever hear of but that is just life. There must be some out there who, because of or despite how life is, still sneak through.

At this point I lost the thread of what I am saying. I do know that I wanted to end on how I intend to follow up on this to see if by paying better attention I can circumvent this issue and add to my list some name that deserve to be there but I have otherwise over looked. If not, c'est la vie.

Micro era

I am watching a lot of TV on the Internet. Catching up on stuff I didn't watch when it was on broadcast. Right now I am watching a show called Deadline with Oliver Platt. According to what I am seeing on the "air date" column the episodes ran from 10/00 to 4/01. What I am thinking is what can be gleaned from this small period? This is a time not just the calendar 21st century but that time after Clinton (or after the 2000 election) but before 9/11. The flavor of this time was clearly not that of the 90's but not really, to keep the metaphor, stewing long enough to define the over all nature of the dish.

I feel like this is a unique slice of time. The small period that was G.W. Bush's Time in office but before his Teflon 9/11 ascension. This was a cultural anomaly. We knew things had changed but we didn't know what the zeitgeist would be, what it would have been otherwise. Maybe in its own right but in context it might be a very illuminating as to who we are who we where. i guess what i am trying to say is that it wanted to be something and that something could be teased out of those few months. those few months before it was defined entirely in one day.

Just thinking.
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Sate of disbelief

I need to develop my public persona so here I go.

I am currently in Asheville NC awaiting my flight to Seattle WA. I tried to get settled down here and it wasn't happening. I got another rejection letter in the mail today for a job I applied for. The second from The HR department of the University of North Carolina. The first one I got a week ago. It read the same way as the one I got today not counting the position I was applying for. I mention this because I had one of those moments of suspending disbelief when I got the first letter.

Though I knew it was a form letter and not written just for me it was worded in an encouraging way. "However, the committee did ask that I communicate to you how impressed they were with your experience and skills," is the line I am referring to.
Again, I knew this was not a unique letter written for me but until I received the second one there was a small part of me that felt pleased with the tone of the letter. It is far better than the usual silence or negative feed back one usually gets looking for work. In truth there is still a small part of me pleased with the tone of the letter.

I am tempted to create a false persona to see if there are other form letters they send out for separate occasions. I like to believe the next step up would be to be asked in for an interview so i guess I am talking about the next step down. What would some one grossly unqualified get for there troubles. Is there a letter less friendly and less gentle? I'd like to find out but I think my time would be better spent figuring out how to get the interview. Maybe in Seattle.
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