Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The WireMicheal K. Williams, "Omar" from The Wire, and Me (by annecentral)
Omar. Gay (black) criminal with a scar running down his face. Brilliant character, in the sense that while such men exist, gay and men who rob drug-dealers, they probably do not exist in the same body. The writers have made somebody who is an outcast on all possible fronts. He is completely hated among his heterosexual criminal brethren, who themsleves are society's outcasts. You dig? Indeed. I see the show making him cute. Gay people appeal to Liberals, the show's largely-black cast would only appeal to Liberals. Make him cute and people have somebody unique among the characters to think is cool. To most people a gay thug is bizarre.

"Who was that? Does she know that I have his number? Would she like me to call him?" Speculative fiction is about what will happen in the future, and it tells us that everything that can happen in one place, will happen in another. Life repeats itself, turns tables. There are explosions, death, danger at every turn. You drive a mountain road in a poor country and a twist of the steering wheel, six inches in the wrong direction can kill you. A mistake that it would take a second to make, can have you at the bottom of a precipice dead, or begging to die. People who drive mountain roads have to not think about that, they have to pretend that there is no risk, but death is right beside them, a six-inch rotation away. You dig? Indeed.

Benjamin Button

There is a porn-star named Kat Vixen. Makes movies with her husband, a guy named "Torn". There was another pornstar from an earlier age named Glory Foxx. I could be wrong spelling that, it could be 3 x-es. But you get it, right? Foxx=Vixen. Like Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan.

Can anybody be trusted? Maybe this world is just conspiracy after conspiracy and when you find that that's when you get locked in the padded room. Maybe everybody you know means you harm.