Media report! October
Oct. 8th, 2023 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherMigraining this week, but I started to feel better at about 5 pm today. Sometimes I really just have to lean into being a night person.
Watched a few documentaries, they were all somewhat enjoyable, concussion/migraine viewing.
The Alpinist. About a free-solo rock and mountain climber (meaning no ropes, no climbing partner). This guy was in it for the adventure and the extreme experiences. He died in 2018 from an avalanche. Lots of great photography in this, but obviously not recommended if you have a fear of heights.
Race to the Summit. Also about 2 free-solo rock climbers, in Switzerland. The Swiss German is sort of narrated over in English. These 2 climbers focus on speed, so they are essentially "running up a mountain". One of these climbers died from a fall and the other is still living. This is on Netflix. Seems like there is a cottage industry of documentaries around this rarefied pursuit and I've now watched a bunch of them. The people who do this, who seek out these experiences and enjoy them, seem to have unusual personalities, and it seems like that type of person would also be the space adventurer in SF and/or the scout in fantasy lands.
Eat the Rich: the Gamestop Saga. About an investment scheme adventure that happened in 2020 involving redditors. They did a nice job explaining it and finding colorful characters to make this short series interesting. There were a couple random fat-phobic shots of a stereotypical fat person sitting in front of his computer eating cheetos, which was a fly in the ointment of this otherwise decent production. This was certainly more entertaining than the film "the big short." That's a low bar though.
I read one comics memoir!
Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong. This book is about post-partum depression and some intense shit going on.
I mean I'm glad I read this and I think it's an important book, but what a downer. Wong is very open and honest about her difficulties with pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum depression. No one died but it was a near thing.
Not addressed in this volume: why she decided to have kids despite her misgivings about it; and then why she had 2 more children after this horrible experience. She says she didn't feel the rush of love for her first two babies, and only felt that the 3rd time around.
It is great that she is shining a light on these negative experiences but wow and yikes. The hardest parts for me was when she really needed help and did not get it. When she was hospitalized, having lost half her blood, they made her husband leave at 9 pm?? Then she was alone and extremely ill and had a newborn, and no one responded when she pushed the call button.
Our society is seriously fucked up; there should be a large group supporting people in these situations, both professionals and also loved ones. Seriously ill people should not be left alone like that, it's traumatizing and it's dangerous for the infant too.
Well despite all that, it was a pretty quick read. Wong uses this simplistic art style. There is something about this technique that makes hard shit easier to read about.
Watched a few documentaries, they were all somewhat enjoyable, concussion/migraine viewing.
The Alpinist. About a free-solo rock and mountain climber (meaning no ropes, no climbing partner). This guy was in it for the adventure and the extreme experiences. He died in 2018 from an avalanche. Lots of great photography in this, but obviously not recommended if you have a fear of heights.
Race to the Summit. Also about 2 free-solo rock climbers, in Switzerland. The Swiss German is sort of narrated over in English. These 2 climbers focus on speed, so they are essentially "running up a mountain". One of these climbers died from a fall and the other is still living. This is on Netflix. Seems like there is a cottage industry of documentaries around this rarefied pursuit and I've now watched a bunch of them. The people who do this, who seek out these experiences and enjoy them, seem to have unusual personalities, and it seems like that type of person would also be the space adventurer in SF and/or the scout in fantasy lands.
Eat the Rich: the Gamestop Saga. About an investment scheme adventure that happened in 2020 involving redditors. They did a nice job explaining it and finding colorful characters to make this short series interesting. There were a couple random fat-phobic shots of a stereotypical fat person sitting in front of his computer eating cheetos, which was a fly in the ointment of this otherwise decent production. This was certainly more entertaining than the film "the big short." That's a low bar though.
I read one comics memoir!
Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong. This book is about post-partum depression and some intense shit going on.
I mean I'm glad I read this and I think it's an important book, but what a downer. Wong is very open and honest about her difficulties with pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum depression. No one died but it was a near thing.
Not addressed in this volume: why she decided to have kids despite her misgivings about it; and then why she had 2 more children after this horrible experience. She says she didn't feel the rush of love for her first two babies, and only felt that the 3rd time around.
It is great that she is shining a light on these negative experiences but wow and yikes. The hardest parts for me was when she really needed help and did not get it. When she was hospitalized, having lost half her blood, they made her husband leave at 9 pm?? Then she was alone and extremely ill and had a newborn, and no one responded when she pushed the call button.
Our society is seriously fucked up; there should be a large group supporting people in these situations, both professionals and also loved ones. Seriously ill people should not be left alone like that, it's traumatizing and it's dangerous for the infant too.
Well despite all that, it was a pretty quick read. Wong uses this simplistic art style. There is something about this technique that makes hard shit easier to read about.
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Date: 2023-10-09 03:47 pm (UTC)Congrats on graphic novel completion and I wish it had been less yikes.
(Pressure to breed is so strange.)
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Date: 2023-10-19 03:08 am (UTC)