Michael Holloway's FilterBlogs: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Identity and Sexual Orientation within an Oppressive Construct

Liz Lemon, a character in the NBC sit-com 30 Rock, variously comments on the complexities of sexual identity as a woman in modern New York.

Liz is the main character in the play written by Tina Fye. Fye's allusions to conflicts with-in the Liz Lemon character - between male identity and female identity - are often and portent.

The most obvious so far (I'm at season 6) is the incident where Liz and her lover are role-playing roles in a joking manner, over a discussion about home decorating. At a certain point in play Liz mounts her boyfriend - and he reacts appropriately (with in the present cultural constructs of modern female oppression).

The scene ends awkwardly.

It is a comment I believe, on the narrow confines in which present sexual identity must reside in this society.

Females who want to be dominant in sexual contexts are not allowed: if they try they are dykes, sluts, or whores.

Men who want to be subservient (the 'normal' female position) in sexual contexts are fags, potential sexual predators, weirdos.

In the present day this has resulted in I believe, surgical and chemical re-sexing; and loneliness by a huge number of citizens - both female and male.

The solution: Talk about it Liz Lemon.

The scene referred to above starts off the top.

30 rock season 6 episode 18

(NBC wants you to wide screen and Ctrl + to view this at a certain level of civility.)

mh

Friday, May 29, 2015

"Noddleing" - into Wikipedia?

Noddling - Not yet defined - Music - Latin -

1. act of oscillating between notes on an instrument which causes a psycho-active effect
2. effect of a complex literary device in poetry
3. absentminded repetitive action; a psychosis

Google Search: May 29 2015 - "noddle":

Item #4
noddle - definition of noddle by The Free Dictionary
(not a trusted source by any means)

www.thefreedictionary.com/noddle
[Middle English noddel, back of the head, perhaps from Latin nōdulus, lump, knob; see nodule.]

To this date, a search of all the terms mentioned by the .thefreedictionary.com site could not be corroborated via the http://www.etymonline.com/.

Note at a previous educational post about 30 Rock: http://filter--blog.blogspot.ca/2015/05/ha-best-30-rock-episode-ever.html

mh

HA! - Best 30 Rock Episode EVER!

complex, stupid, noddleing *
- and ... twenty five words in front of the key words that widgets crawl to discover that people are watching, so that content owners can separate their business metric from their content as much as possible -

30 Rock Season 6 Episode 3 "Idiots Are People Three!"

Watch them all: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRl-H9ffyXcRRvHdVyrVyw/feed (it may not appear at first)

Oh - and the music is sonic.

Thanks ~~Liz~~Tina.

(always 10 years behind)

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

DMCA doesn't cover the world

http://ishare.rediff.com/video/star%20trek/0-40

mh

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Occupy Movement

10 February 2014

The general perception is that Occupy is over.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The System is critically broken. You can help replace it with one that represents the People's interests - rather than the interests of the few - represented now by a dieing Republic and her allies in a New World Order - an American Empire.

This end of democracy - and possibly of the enlightenment - ushers in a corporatism - a reflection of the Nazi state - refined now with the social barometers of the surveillance state in an IT revolution. With it's endless global war, and it's rapacious 'always on' dog-eat-dog economy, the corporate state creates nothing but fear and loathing, via the terrorism of the market place: a thin strata of highly-paid professionals serving the 1%; feed by a great under-class of skilled, subsistence workers - it creeps thus into every street, into every mind, in every country of the globe.

The grotesque thing is a relic of the past - a desease that wants to bury us all with it as is contorts like a cancer into death itself.

The People's Movements are digging in to protect our democracy; developing deep roots and strength in every community.

This spring may be an awakening of every mind; of every town square. Of every country.

The plus-side as great as the likely fascist horror we face.

Tour de France Coverage

The past 2 years I covered every stage race of the Tour de France at BikingToronto. "Live Blogging" almost every stage, I also wrote a summary pieces on many stages which included some funny takes on the metrics of team bicycle racing. Also you can re-live the progress of Victoria BC's Ryder Hesjedal who, after rising to, and holding on to 3rd place for several stages, finished the 2010 Tour de France in 7th place over all. Have a look my BikingToronto Blog, "@Blog_FreeWheel" "2010 Tour de France" and the "2011 Tour de France" tags.

Longtail Posthumous Aperitif (added to after, before)

At the top of more and more articles in the FilterBlogs archives who'll see this:

After some articles are 'put to bed' at FilterBlogs they get a Longtail Posthumous Aperitif ; links to related articles published after my original post linked at the top of articles - towards a better user experience for you, the reader:

A breakdown of "Posthumous Longtail Aperitif":

After, after, before.
Finished but not finished and at the beginning.

As I continue to add these relevant 'Tweets' the result will be an ongoing re-crawl by search bots; better connecting my posts in search and adding to the 'intelligence' of the Google Search algorithm. Your welcome :)