Say hi to Welcome Weekend everyone. I am going to attempt, every Friday, list five things that I found interesting during the week. They will be anything from articles on writing to news stories to funny Youtube videos to pictures of my dog. Okay, maybe not the last one, but she is an adorable Cavachon.
Alright, here we go.
1. The 9 Best Tips on Writing from Ernest Hemingway from Inc.com. He did live what he preached. If you need more evidence, you should find and read "Hills Like White Elephants". If you're me, you'll then go and devour For Whom the Bell Tolls and then the Sun Also Rises.
2. If you remember from Wednesday, I wrote a post on fictional women presidents in television series. I submit, for your reading pleasure, this article from Bustle about seven books with / about a woman president. There is a good amount of non fiction on the list, but a bit of non fiction never hurt anyone. Unless said book was used as a weapon because someone broke into your house.
3. If you haven't already, please go read Vice President Joe Biden's open letter to the Sanford Survivor. It will make you tear up, it will make you think, and we should rethink the culture of how we treat rape victims. It is not right to accuse a victim for bringing on their attackers - full stop.
4. One of my favorite blogs, I Love Coffee, celebrated their four year anniversary this week along with the author's birthday. One of my favorite posts explains the third wave of coffee and how we've gone from consume to enjoy to appreciate. She's got fantastic other posts, including one about the correlation of drinking coffee to going poop, and explains a lot about coffee that I didn't understand before.
5. What I'm Reading This Weekend: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly. It is the fourth book in the Harry Bosch series. I cannot recommend this series or his writing enough. I love how his writing feels so casual but you're drawn in because of the strength of the characters. There is a show tie in, called Bosch, on Amazon. Titus Welliver (Agents of SHIELD, Lost) plays Detective Bosch and his take on the detective makes you want to read the source material. There's only two seasons of it and it is easy to binge watch.
I hope you all have a great weekend! Do you have a book or project you'll be trying to get done this weekend? Leave a comment below and we'll cheer you on!
Until next time, keep writing.
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, June 10, 2016
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Art Influencing Life
Unless you went to bed super early and didn't listen or read to any news at all today, you probably didn't miss the fact that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the majority of pledged delegates (Huffington Post) in the Democratic primary. This is historic and I watched her victory speech with tears in my eyes. I didn't think this would happen in my lifetime, even after the 2008 primaries and a lot of talk in this primary cycle on how she was going to win. It didn't seem possible as the country has to have fatigue from being historic eight years ago. I like being proven wrong.
I would like to make a side note - I think Senator Sanders should be the one to decide when he leaves the race. I also think he has one week before it starts to look like he's a sore loser for not getting out. Those two statements contradict each other, I know, but it's how I feel. It's how I felt eight years ago when I was a supporter of then Senator Obama. I thought that then Senator Clinton should get out, even though she won a lot on that last night, but that's how I felt. I'm also not about to say which way someone should vote or feel or anything else that is outside the sphere of myself. Just go vote. Vote down ticket. Vote for the top of the ticket. But just go vote for the love of <insert your deity here>.
Now, to get back to the title of this post, life is imitating art again. It did it eight years ago - I think that President Obama doesn't get elected if not for 24 with David Palmer played by Dennis Haysbert and Jimmy Smitts playing an Obama inspired character on The West Wing - and I think it's doing it again. The Nerve has a brilliant article about the history of fictional women presidents. I can't point towards one actor or one portrayal but I do agree with the article on who they pick for the one big shining example of who did it best.
Spoiler: It was 24 again. For a show where the focus is on one guy saving the world in 24 hours with no bathroom breaks, it was a progressive show. Quietly progressive too. I would add on Geena Davis for Commander in Chief but that's because I was a fan of the show. I also thought they did an interesting twist with the character making her an independent but needed to leave off a lot of the family plots sometimes. Readers, if you've got a favorite female president (or even a vice president), feel free to leave your choice in the comments below.
The point being, if we can so easily turn to the idea of a woman president in fiction, why not in real life? Let's let art influence life for a while, even though we might not agree with the person up for the real life world. Let's catch up to other countries who had a woman at the helm. Let's step forward, not just in art, where more and more women are shown in leadership roles, but in life as well. I hope Secretary Clinton goes all the way and, like a great things in life, fiction will become reality.
Until next time, keep writing.
I would like to make a side note - I think Senator Sanders should be the one to decide when he leaves the race. I also think he has one week before it starts to look like he's a sore loser for not getting out. Those two statements contradict each other, I know, but it's how I feel. It's how I felt eight years ago when I was a supporter of then Senator Obama. I thought that then Senator Clinton should get out, even though she won a lot on that last night, but that's how I felt. I'm also not about to say which way someone should vote or feel or anything else that is outside the sphere of myself. Just go vote. Vote down ticket. Vote for the top of the ticket. But just go vote for the love of <insert your deity here>.
Now, to get back to the title of this post, life is imitating art again. It did it eight years ago - I think that President Obama doesn't get elected if not for 24 with David Palmer played by Dennis Haysbert and Jimmy Smitts playing an Obama inspired character on The West Wing - and I think it's doing it again. The Nerve has a brilliant article about the history of fictional women presidents. I can't point towards one actor or one portrayal but I do agree with the article on who they pick for the one big shining example of who did it best.
Spoiler: It was 24 again. For a show where the focus is on one guy saving the world in 24 hours with no bathroom breaks, it was a progressive show. Quietly progressive too. I would add on Geena Davis for Commander in Chief but that's because I was a fan of the show. I also thought they did an interesting twist with the character making her an independent but needed to leave off a lot of the family plots sometimes. Readers, if you've got a favorite female president (or even a vice president), feel free to leave your choice in the comments below.
The point being, if we can so easily turn to the idea of a woman president in fiction, why not in real life? Let's let art influence life for a while, even though we might not agree with the person up for the real life world. Let's catch up to other countries who had a woman at the helm. Let's step forward, not just in art, where more and more women are shown in leadership roles, but in life as well. I hope Secretary Clinton goes all the way and, like a great things in life, fiction will become reality.
Until next time, keep writing.
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