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Jan. 4th, 2008
Song for Trevor: The 12 Days of Treatment
Jan. 4th, 2008 06:14 pmBB starts radiotherapy and chemo on Monday Tuesday (changed *again*), and so I dedicate the following song to Trevor the Tumour, who will be leaving us shortly.
( Screw you, Trevor )
( Screw you, Trevor )
Blink. What just happened?
Jan. 4th, 2008 08:30 pmBeware ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mynxiis bearing flattery, for I have just been expertly recruited to the Swancon 2009 committee (or some affiliate thereof) to ruin run the art show.
But Steph, I hear you say, you never join committees. Ever. You toss around a lot of smart-arsed advice but you've never before got off that aforementioned smart arse to actually help constructively*. Not for the last 20 years or so. You'll have to attend meetings.
( That's true )
( ...plus house, tinsel, Dell and goth news )
(*) That's why I'm a "consultant"
mynxiis bearing flattery, for I have just been expertly recruited to the Swancon 2009 committee (or some affiliate thereof) to But Steph, I hear you say, you never join committees. Ever. You toss around a lot of smart-arsed advice but you've never before got off that aforementioned smart arse to actually help constructively*. Not for the last 20 years or so. You'll have to attend meetings.
( That's true )
( ...plus house, tinsel, Dell and goth news )
(*) That's why I'm a "consultant"
John Scalzi on The Privilge Meme
Jan. 4th, 2008 09:18 pmSays it nicely
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=270
The vector of privilege these days is not physical items, but how well one is cared for, or can care for one’s self and family: Whether one has adequate health care, whether one has access to healthy food, whether one’s housing and transportation costs are a not-onerous percentage of the household income, whether one has day care for children, whether one is free of high-interest consumer debt, and whether one can afford to save any money for the future. The privileged are those who have all of those things, or live in households that do. To suggest that having a TV in one’s room as a teen is an indicator of privilege when the real indicator of privilege is whether that teen can get a cracked tooth easily fixed doesn’t merely border on obtuseness, it’s rather emphatically stomping over to the other side of the line and jumping up and down.
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=270
The vector of privilege these days is not physical items, but how well one is cared for, or can care for one’s self and family: Whether one has adequate health care, whether one has access to healthy food, whether one’s housing and transportation costs are a not-onerous percentage of the household income, whether one has day care for children, whether one is free of high-interest consumer debt, and whether one can afford to save any money for the future. The privileged are those who have all of those things, or live in households that do. To suggest that having a TV in one’s room as a teen is an indicator of privilege when the real indicator of privilege is whether that teen can get a cracked tooth easily fixed doesn’t merely border on obtuseness, it’s rather emphatically stomping over to the other side of the line and jumping up and down.
