The Old School Lunch

Q: You sound awful.

A: It’s the flu. I’m getting my ass kicked. I had to take a day off work the other day.

Q: You aren’t supposed to do that, aren’t you? You’re still training?

A: Yea, but if you’re sick you’re sick.

Q: When did it start?

A: Wednesday night, after I watched Transformers.

Q: Transformers made you sick, figures.

A: I thought it was good, actually. I mean, there were some eye-rolling moments with the “it’s gotta be Japanese” lines and “I always fall for the bad boys” moments and such but overall, it was fun. I don’t understand the folks who say “it’s too serious” or “it’s not serious enough.” It’s robots turning into cars and ships, after all.

Q: Didn’t mind all the GMC/Chevy ads then?

A: It’s to the point where I think viewers are used to it. I wish they could’ve been a little more subtle but it’s certainly not as bad as…say the Dr. Pepper shot in Spiderman. I think the ad-campaign by the automakers makes it worse than it is in the movie.

Q: So what’s been new otherwise?

A: Work. An under-wraps project that I won’t talk about at length (and jinx) until it’s out. Ummm, friend’s birthday coming up, so I managed to finally use that Amazon gift cert I had originally saved up for a camera I wanted to buy.

Q: What’d you get for the present?

A: Season one of….a certain TV show. DHARMAINITIATIVE*cough

Q: I hope he’s not reading this.

A: I don’t think he is.

Q: Do any of your in-person friends know about this?

A: No, I doubt it. They’d have to dig around a bit to find it. Or get at it through the Flickr.

Q: Why don’t you want them to read it?

A: Eh, it’s the lesson I learned from the first blog.

Q: You learned a lot of lessons from that “trial” I imagine.

A: Oh yea.

Q: You want to buy a camera? What for? You’ve already got one.

A: The most advertised feature of mine is that it also doubles as an MP3 player. And it was a gift. From my uncle who I don’t like. It’s time for an upgrade.

Q: What are you hungry for?

A: Nachos. Not really. I wish I wanted nachos so I could go get them. I have zero appetite right now. I could’ve gone the entire day yesterday on tea but I forced myself to eat a salad and then a mini-pizza.

Q: You’re about to say something?

A: A certain flickr group popped into my head just now. I posted about it a long time ago, but basically it’s a group called “feminism” and a majority of the photos people add there I have no idea how they’re related to feminism. So someone posed the question in the group…and the first response was something like “women are beautiful, mothers and nature” and stuff like then and then later on a guy chimes in with the old “this is a good discussion to have” and then proceeds to talk about how his photos (almost voyueristic photos of mainly young, white, attractive women) are somehow a comment on feminism. I don’t get it.

Q: People want views and subscribers. Hence they add their photos to every single group they belong to.

A: Yea.

Q: Are you going to talk about Chris Benoit?

A: God. I’ll just say that while i’m not a medical professional and I don’t know with intimate knowledge the effects of steroid use…just the way in which people are making this out to be purely roid rage is just ridiculous. It’s like a bad SVU episode. Society will always find ways to minimize, evade, cover up domestic violence, men’s violence against women, etc. If we suddenly found out that Dubya physically assaulted his wife, people would start saying that he’s just crazy, stupid and power-hungry. While the latter certainly is true for DV abusers, people just wouldn’t say “hey, it’s a man hitting a woman.”

Q: In Dubya’s case it seems like they’d concentrate on him though and not “the victim” which is unusual for how society reacts.

A: Right, it’s a different case because obviously the man is who he is. But in either way, it situates the abuse in a certain way to avoid looking at it directly. It’s like taking a side-glance at Dubya and focusing solely on him to avoid even considering that it’s indicative of a larger societal problem.