My daughter received the Firefly DVD for Christmas, and we’ve been watching one or two episodes per day. What a great show! Interesting characters, really witty dialog, comic plotting … I wish there was more! I’m not interested so much in a Firefly movie; I like the idea of the slow unfolding of events and [...]
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Dec 302003
I am not a good disability activist. I don’t have enough staying power. Might have something to do with how I’m so tired all the time. I went to the board of my choir last year and got permission to look for a new, more wheelchair-accessible rehearsal facility. Spent weeks on the phone during November [...]
Dec 282003
This time off work thing is very fine. I finished The Life of Pi, which my son gave me for my birthday, and The Dress Lodger, a Christmas gift from my sister-in-law. Both were very thought-provoking, not light bedtime reading. Today my husband and I drove up into Rocky Mountain National Park and he was [...]
Dec 252003
It’s been an interesting holiday. We have no guests, and we didn’t go anywhere. I tend to get a little morose about the tension between celebrating German-style, the way I was raised, and celebrating American-style, like my husband’s family, and this year managed to get more morose than usual. (German-style: on the afternoon of Christmas [...]
Dec 202003
I learned an excellent new word today: glurge. From The Word Spy: (GLURJ) n. A sentimental or uplifting story, particularly one delivered via e-mail, that uses inaccurate or fabricated facts; a story that is mawkish or maudlin; the genre consisting of such stories. There must be a special subset of these stories dealing with disabilities [...]
Dec 202003
Today is my birthday. Today is the first day of two weeks off work, which I am so ready for. Today I managed to find Christmas tree candles, thank goodness (because it’s a little too late to get relatives to mail them from Germany, my usual source). Yes, that’s candles that go on the tree [...]
Dec 162003
The British Film Institute has an incredible website on the representation of disability in film (or “moving image media”, as they call it). It’s chock-a-block full of stuff.
Dec 152003
Another followup, this time to my question about a Bertolt Brecht quote: This quote is (in its entirety) a poem by Brecht called Motto, which can be found in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956. The German original: In den finsteren Zeiten / Wird da auch gesungen werden? Da wird auch gesungen werden / Von finsteren Zeiten.
Dec 152003
Following up on Most Accessible Town?: The National Organization on Disability today announced 11 finalists in its third annual Accessible America Contest. And they are: Alexandria, Virginia Austin, Texas Bloomington, Indiana Cambridge, Massachusetts (announcement on home page, very nice) Chicago, Illinois Columbia, Missouri Fountain Valley, California Jacksonville, Florida Los Angeles, California Miami Beach, Florida (all [...]
Dec 152003
A while back there was a discussion on braintalk’s Multiple Sclerosis Forum about the pros and cons of the two styles of forearm crutches, full cuff and half cuff. I prefer full cuff, because they stay on even if you’re not holding them. One poster said he was afraid of getting full cuff crutches, because [...]
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