full frontal redux
I wound up watching this week's episode of We Are Who We Are a second time last night, all just because Shobhit read on my blog that he had missed out on more frontal male nudity than the show had even already shown, and true to form, that made him want to watch it. I was fine with watching it again, even though it meant it was the only episode of the entire show that I have re-watched. Then, the episode ended, and Shobhit's hot take was, "That wasn't enough nudity. It wasn't really worth it."
Jesus Christ.
What the fuck does he want, anyway? If he just wants constant cock all the time, he might as well just watch porn.
All that aside, rewatching the episode, for me personally, actually gave me a greater depth of appreciation for its themes, especially this "last hurrah" aspect of the overnight party that all these kids have in an abandoned (but still fully furnished and at least partly stocked) Russian villa, before Craig is set to be deployed the next day. And Shobhit has actually been paying surprisingly closer attention to some of the details than just exposed cocks: it was he who commented on how Commander Sarah Wilson (played by Chloë Sevigny, who only appears briefly in the final shot of this episode) had stated in an earlier episode that she was going to deploy these troops anyway, right after being told they weren't ready. She rationalized that troops have to be sent out when they aren't ready all the time, but Shobhit may very well be right that this being her decision will likely become relevant in upcoming episodes.
I doubt Shobhit will be right in the specificity of his predictions, however, as he has consistently been wrong about specifics on this show, which made itself clear from its very first scene that it was not like other shows, and therefore not in any way predictable like other shows. And that's a big part of what I love about it. And honestly, I think this show might actually work better binged from beginning to end, once every episode is released and they can all be watched in succession. I feel like a show as immersive as this one might be more effective that way.
So, then we finally realized there had been an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last Sunday, and we only got to watching it last night. I do love that show, but the news has been at such a rapid clip lately that in this one case it largely felt a few steps behind to be watching it this many days later—well, with the exception of its main story about the integrity of the November election, which is no less relevant now than it was then. But, the stuff about President Fuckwit getting COVID was already pretty dated (and may be far more so by the time anyone is reading what I am writing right here, sometime even in the near future).
After that we watched an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which Shobhit only wanted to watch one episode of, and so once that was done that was it for me for TV watching for the evening. I went to the bedroom and finished listening to an R.E.M. album (2001's Reveal; I've been burning through all of their albums that I have—all 10 that they released since Document; I never did bother to get any of their four albums prior to that—in succession.
Something interesting did happen to me while I was working this morning. I glanced up at the apartment building across the street, and right there in a fifth-story window was a woman playing with her cat that was perched atop a scratching post. The woman was stark naked, facing the window, and although she clearly would not have been visible had she stepped even one or two steps back, I could see every part of her. Now that was something I never experienced while working at the office.
Oh, and speaking of work from home: statewide COVID-19 cases, as with a large majority if the rest of the states and many other countries around the world, are suddenly in a pretty sharp uptick again, and I find it worrying. I don't understand why others aren't as vocal about it being worrying, and our governor is loosening some of the statewide restrictions in spite of them. I was talking to Karen about this yesterday and she wondered it they were correlated with all the time people were spending indoors during the wildfire smoke. I don't know, maybe? I mean, fundamentally it's because too many people have been around infected people. I can't find any hard data on how mask usage fits into this, and I feel it will too easily be seized upon by mask skeptics as proof that masks don't make any difference. Never mind that we never got to statewide 95% compliance that was always recommended to begin with.
[posted 12:22 pm]