#rumimations

Anyhow, I just love how much the blog’s premise is true just from my immediate dismissal of it.

I barely register Silver except as a weird blip that Sonic Team rarely tries to make a thing again and never works.

He’s not even interesting enough to be hated; he’s just written off as another hedgehog too many and ignored. So he’ll yeah he needs friends.

How you can tell that they’re siblings

Trish: I’m not you!

Jessica: Yeah, well, count your blessings.

Trish: That’s for sure.

Jessica: What is this, "Crap on Jessica Day?”

It's a pretty good movie all things considered. It didn't feel egregiously bad in any particular sense except maybe it's a little too long and could've readjusted it's focus a little.

I most certainly like all the parts of it. The 2.5 independent segments are all great stories, though I feel maybe some bits are fit together in ways that feel too much like miraculous coincidence rather than casual coincdence. Like, sometimes there are coincidences you can accept in a movie and there are ones that make you think "too much" or "you only have so many 'because plot convenience' coupons and you've used them up".

I think I opened it twice ever since. I have no idea what it’s going to do for me or what to get out of it.

Also,140 characters? Or 280 or whatever it is now? Have you met me?

I'm not planning on trying to get anyway but I was listening to a pod, like ya do, and I there was an ad for an subscription to a network so that you could access to the full back archive of a podcast

And it just sorta hit me.

I mean, I never considered it before. I mean sure one might pirate an audiobook or a music album, but no one ever thinks podcasts, right? I mean it's just like radio. I don't go out of my way to torrent something on NPR when I can just turn on my radio.

It’s been a tumultuous week with the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. While I am not political in nature and part of me doesn’t want to return to this blog because of all the craziness that’s happening, I do want to document (in the here and now) on thoughts about the election so that I am also held accountable. I’m not promising that the world will be a better place nor am I’m not absolving anyone of their sins or wrongdoings but here are some percolating thoughts:

1. I live in a (big insulated) bubble - the evening of the election (for which I can only stay up till 11 pm EST due to an elderly sleeping pattern ^^;), as a rare Facebook user I cannot help but scroll incessantly like an addict needing the next hit to see what is the world thinking. Lo and behold the (social media) world is thinking the same one I am so it should all be good. Also the people I was election watching with was affirming my views, so doubly good. I went to sleep and the next day woke up to a brave new world. Yet my Facebook feed is still pretty reflective of what I am thinking of “What he won?!?!” “How can that be?!?!” “I know what to go: go back to sleep!” yet if about 50% of the popular vote went to Trump how come my real and social media universe is doesn’t have any of that diversity? It’s because I live in a bubble. Me: masters educated Asian American women in her 30s still single who grew up in an impoverished immigrant family but now makes more money than my two blue collar parents combined. I grew up in Brooklyn and have lived in Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. The closest I ever got to rural or suburbia was college in Virginia. I don’t know any white uneducated people living in the mid west or south. My views and perspectives are shaped to a degree by urban poverty at a young age but I am living a very independent and financially fine life that is pretty removed of the struggles that are being articulated by the disenfranchised. Is that ok?

2. Labels hurt - calling someone by a name or giving them a label makes things simple: it creates and “us” vs. “them” and contributes to the dissonance and distance to further a cause or belief. There has been many labels/name calling/insults hurled from both sides. While although people may argue that one side has hurled more crap than the other, when broad labels are applied indiscriminately it backs people up into corners. Especially those who may have voted for one candidate but not necessarily embody all the easy to apply sticky note labels to human beings. Also the human psyche is a wily thing. “Oh you think I’m XYZ? Well since you are judging me for it anyway I am going to show you XYZ!” (a very excellent Invisibilia podcast!)

3. If you want to lead, you don’t get to choose who you lead - especially in a vast and diverse country like the United States of America. If you are calling the other side “deplorable” or being intolerant of people due to their race, gender, sexual orientation, and so on then here’s a wake up call: when you win an election you don’t only get to lead your supporters, you also get to lead your not -so supporters. By calling them horrible names is not going to endear you to them and widens the rift between “us” and “them.” Unless you can only lead your supporters, why are you vilifying people who are passionate about this year’s election, looking for their leader, and following your every move, especially in this day and age where the media can sensationalize the slightest movements? If you want to be a one of the most powerful leaders of the world, you do not get to pick and choose who you lead: you lead the whole!