Saturday's all right for fightin'. Saturday night's all right.

[erastes]

So "Lost" series 3 is going to Satellite.  Yay!  I can't say I'm sad about that, AT ALL.  Best place for it, I say. Can we launch it any further into space? Puleeze?

How do spammers KNOW?  I've got about 20 emails in my spam filter saying "Hi erastes" as my subject line - but the thing is, it's being sent to boudicca @ icenii .... I don't understand how they know... *paranoid*

I have to strongly disagree with Miss Snark's comment :. Writing about "hot button" issues like being gay, and dating outside your race, in the hedonisit 60's and 70's is the absolute antithesis of 'fresh and new'. This is particularly true if you lived through it and are writing your own thinly veiled story. The world has moved on. Time to catch up.

OK - so I agree that it's not "fresh and new" but... hedonistic 60's and 70's?  *chokes*  Yeah. Right. If you lived (perhaps) in San Francisco or New York.  For the rest of us things were anything but hedonistic.  Being gay meant you HID, hid yourself, your nature, your tastes, your music, your true self.  I don't think Miss Snark is in her 40's or 50's - so I rather think her perception of those decades are rather coloured by Hollywood and the media in which she lives.  Reading about people's experiences in those decades would be interesting, I think, particularly in comparison with our anything goes "naughties."

I also have to disagree with people glorifying war at this - or any - time.  Sorry.

Comments

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm getting those spam mails too! I've been wondering if it's something to do with my email client, as I've been getting them addresses to various names I use .... but to accounts that have *nothing* to do with that name. The only thing my accounts have in common is that they're set-up in Thunderbird. Very very strange ....

Miss Snark

[dubaiyan.livejournal.com]

completely disagree with the "world has moved on."

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm in my 40's and from what I remember of the 70's at least in regard to being gay, is that you're right, it was hidden, totally. There may have been sections of the community that were hedonistic enough to accept being gay, but it wasn't spoken about in polite company. Not where I lived anyway. I still credit experiencing my teenage years in that era as the time when my true self was stifled. I specifically remember having a crush on a girl that I talked myself out of because it was 'wrong' according to my peers. I agree, reading about people's experiences in those decades would be really interesting.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

From where I sat, the 70's were fairly hedonistic if you were young and straight, but that wasn't the case for gays and lesbians. And anyway, what is 'fresh and new'?? Even Shakespeare stole his plots. What makes an idea 'fresh and new' is the way each writer approaches it. The right hands can breathe life into the oldest, stalest plot.

War may sometimes be necessary, but it should never be glorified. Though I've never met anyone who actually has been in a war who glorifies it - that's the province of the armchair general, I think. It's a difficult balance between respecting and honoring those who serve while not romanticizing war.