and her little dog too

2019-02-14T22:51:01Z

notasupervillain was asking about technologies that led to social justice and cmcmck offered the bicycle as an example which I +1’ed. That would have been the end of it except I was thinking about the Wizard of Oz for some reason and I couldn’t connect the thoughts but knew they were related.

Thanks adhd.

Thankfully, I put together this morning, and think it’s interesting enough to share. I think the Miss Gulch was put on a bicycle deliberately in the Kansas sequence as a visual shorthand for the sort of woman who rides a bicycle- nasty threatening spinsters. We see her on the bike before she ever opens her mouth and wonder if that was signaling to the (1930s) audience what sort of person she was supposed to be.

During the twister we see Miss Gulch transform into the witch of the west and the bike transform into a broom, which visually links the two. It makes some sense, both are means of transportation for independent women but guess I’m wondering if that coding was deliberate? Any thoughts?

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hello from airport hell

2018-12-15T05:52:59Z

Normally i'd say airports are purgatories, static spaces designed to be neither one thing nor another. But it's one in the morning, they're blasting christmas music, a timer is going off and i'm never to get my hyperfocus back.

Goddamnit.

(I want you suffer the knowledge that the word meatspace is in the dictionary as i now must.)

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Rambling Down the Boulevard,

and her little dog too

hello from airport hell