tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71464434356265663192024-02-20T17:12:57.535-06:00Author Gina FairchildFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-14915503308000486902016-07-02T18:49:00.001-05:002016-07-02T18:49:26.175-05:00Loose Threads #6
Looking Up
I look up and see the couple, shivering and sharing. He warms his insides with one last drag, passes it to her, and then warms his hands, rubbing them together.He looks up and sees the trash bin outside the entrance to the general store. Somebody left a cigarette on top. Others shuffle past, he darts in between, picks it up, and wags the clean white stick. "Babe, can you believeFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-60258316739340678512016-05-16T09:00:00.000-05:002016-05-16T12:08:50.054-05:00Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Listen. I was told there would be a fight between Batman and Superman, and, lo! There was a fight! That’s what I came for, that’s what I saw, and that’s why I left fairly satisfied with the viewing.
In this iteration, Bruce Wayne is older, pissed off at the aliens destroying our planet, and out to excise some of that pent up rage on Superman’s head. Superman is being called to carpet and Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-15543169955898007782015-10-18T21:22:00.000-05:002015-10-20T16:12:00.910-05:00Watching TV: The PlayerI grew up on Wesley Snipes action movies and there really has been no one else like him in Hollywood. So, even though the commercials signaled me that this show may be lame, I'd at least show up for the premiere for Snipes.
A funny thing happened, though. I actually really enjoyed it with the exception of the cliché death at the end of the episode, plus the obligatory long-arc mystery about whoFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-72430622170674975742015-08-23T11:48:00.000-05:002015-08-23T11:48:36.832-05:00Loose Threads #5
Three Generations
One is tired but determined.
Another frustrated but obligated.
The third is just a kid, oblivious as her brother who sleeps in the stroller.
She doesn't know they're supposed to have a car, supposed to be going somewhere fast, somewhere safe and sure and secure. Somewhere called home, not Motel 6.
But they have to walk, and it's a scorcher.
One leads with a quick hustle.Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-2660048979768132692015-08-08T22:41:00.000-05:002015-08-09T06:03:34.743-05:00This Is a TestHover* for spoilers:
and you'll see the new spoiler function in action.
*sadly, this doesn't work on mobileFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-81839166732218838782015-08-05T10:00:00.000-05:002015-08-07T20:00:49.143-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 10
See all the previous spoilers:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
What I've read: Ch 10
Years have passed, old animals die, new animals are born. Some animals are purchased and brought onto the farm, and few--Clover, Benjamin, and others--remember what it was all like in the beginning of the rebellion. The pigs now walk on two legs,&Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-46003840502654278382015-08-04T08:30:00.000-05:002015-08-04T08:30:01.651-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 9
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Boxer dies. He collapses while carting boulders, and the pigs claim he'll be sent to the veterinarian. He's instead sent to a slaughter and glue-making place.
It's such a sad scene. The animals are all wishing him farewell, but Benjamin the old donkey reads the sign on the van. WhenFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-61948762566633343642015-08-03T12:00:00.000-05:002015-08-03T18:17:32.385-05:00Links 8/3/2015
I suppose if these links have a theme, it is how words, narratives, and rhetoric can affect how you do and don't define your voice and express yourself.
To Be Black and Woman and Alive
Video of a spoken word poem by Crystal Valentine and Aaliyah Jihad. The language is evocative, painful, and their performance is moving. I mean, whatFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-55912113890258961312015-08-03T09:00:00.000-05:002015-08-03T13:37:43.854-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 8
Chapter 8
No animal shall kill another animal *without cause*, the commandment now reads.
The windmill is completed, but Napoleon's trade deal with a neighboring farm goes bad--they were tricked and Farmer Frederick paid with forged money! No sooner than the animals learn this than they are under attack by Frederick and a group of men. The men blow up the windmill and kill several animals Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-65311481774791889122015-08-02T12:05:00.000-05:002015-08-02T12:05:00.513-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 7
Chapter 7
Food rationing worsens on Animal Farm, but Napoleon stages things so that their human intermediary won't detect how hard up the animals are, and the outside world goes on believing the farm is doing well. The hens protest giving up 400 eggs a week in trade with humans and they are starved in return until they comply. A far worse fate befalls any animal suspected of colluding with theFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-83067138738977242372015-08-01T08:17:00.000-05:002015-08-01T08:17:00.315-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 6
What I read: Ch 6
The animals have need for resources beyond their capabilities, especially in the case of building the windmill. Napoleon arranges for a human intermediary to conduct trade on behalf of Animal Farm. One by one, the Seven Commandments are broken: pigs living in the house, sleeping in beds, etc. And Squealer, the persuasive propagandist pig, explains it all away. Not Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-42702009185962734332015-07-31T11:33:00.000-05:002015-07-31T14:06:48.526-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 5
What I've read: Ch 5
Mollie runs away to another farm. Napoleon and Snowball's disagreements over whether to build a windmill come to a head. Napoleon stages a coup and supplants Snowball as the leader. Snowball just barely escapes the privately trained death hounds Napoleon unleashes on him. A new, crueler order is coming--no more meetings or debates, pigs make decisions and others follow Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-33639137668071885522015-07-30T11:17:00.000-05:002015-08-07T20:05:48.037-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 4
Chapter 4
News of the Animal Farm spreads throughout the animal world in England and among the human farmers, who go from scoffing to nervousness after other animals refuse to work and/or turn on their masters. Farmer Jones (dunno why I call him that, as in the book it's just Mr. Jones--but consistency, comrades!) rounds up some men to take back the farm. They are attacked and run off. Boxer Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-87633424191944214522015-07-29T11:20:00.000-05:002015-07-29T11:20:00.274-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 3
What I've read: Ch 3
The animals work the farm, from the tireless Boxer to the wee ducks and chickens. Except for the pigs, of course. They are "brain workers", you see, and they need all the milk and apples to nourish those big brains, lest Farmer Jones comes back! Comrades, surely you don't want that to happen.
Hilarious.
I'm curious why the pigs took and secluded the newborn puppies, but Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-15846030122963472852015-07-28T09:54:00.000-05:002015-07-28T10:35:22.175-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 2
What I've read: Ch 2
So, Old Major dies. Life for the animals becomes so intolerable under Farmer Jones that the revolution happens at the spur of the moment, and all the humans are run off the farm. The successor pigs, Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball--who can read and write--make quick work of organizing a new order codified in the Seven Commandments.
I'm highly amused and entertained thus Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-73716329561855083632015-07-27T10:43:00.000-05:002015-08-07T19:49:46.347-05:00Spoilers! Animal Farm Ch. 1
Never read it. Vaguely recall watching an adaptation but have forgotten nearly all of it. I know in general what happens and a few quotes. It's just 10 chapters, so let's find out what happens in detail!
Update: see all the spoilers below!
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
What I've read: Ch 1
Old Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-50405177251551658832015-05-26T18:12:00.004-05:002015-07-28T17:30:07.339-05:00Daredevil Series: Final ThoughtsYes, I finished it. Made it to the end, with good things to say about it, even. Here's a list of those things:
• Kingpin.
That's it. I know. I'm as shocked as you are. One blog post ago I couldn't abide him, and now here I am declaring him to be the best character on the show. Granted, the show set a low bar with its flat lead, but Vincent D'Onofrio pulled it off. I believed him as Wilson Fisk Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-48488774431121688412015-04-22T09:00:00.000-05:002015-04-22T10:17:34.707-05:00Daredevil Series: 102 - 104Daps, finally. Mostly for that hallway fight, but we'll get to that.
Four episodes in and a third of the way through the season, my enjoyment of this show has been inconsistent. Most of the players are fair in their roles, some are bland, and Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, I cannot abide. The plot is thickening, but as it seems all roads lead to Kingpin, I'm not getting a sense of mystery or suspenseFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-2012518863847596392015-04-15T09:00:00.000-05:002015-04-23T15:56:59.028-05:00Daredevil Series: S1E01So, first impressions, yeah?
It wasn't bad. It wasn't cheesy. It was a competent entry in the parade of comic book adaptations for the small screen. When the episode ended, I did not feel compelled to see another episode. Because of the format, I will watch at least the first four episodes. Likely the whole thing.
Also because there's nothing wrong with it. They made choices in structure and Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-71247783122139694592015-04-07T12:09:00.000-05:002015-04-07T12:09:07.283-05:00Loose Threads #4
The Spaces Afforded
Her thread crossed mine, pulled it taut for a fleeting moment, and then it slipped away.
Before I saw anything else, I saw the way she folded her arms, hugging herself. Her arms cinched her t-shirt. The red t-shirt was too big for her skinny frame. The older woman moved through the flow of shoppers like a pebble in the spaces afforded her. She knew how not to be seen, how Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-6431002573327703102015-04-03T12:12:00.001-05:002015-04-04T11:50:02.303-05:00Godzilla (2014) - An In-Depth AnalysisThat fireside reveal! The part where he screams! Then when he did that thing with the thing, I was like, "Oh, Get The--!"
Were there humans in this movie? I didn't notice. Their contributions peaked at Bryan Cranston and then flat-lined into irrelevancy thereafter. Cranston plays a nuclear power plant manager in Japan. An 'accident' happens, and his wife who also works there dies. He Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-7143391590611802332015-01-12T09:30:00.000-06:002015-01-12T09:30:01.104-06:002015 Writing Goals
As promised, my tl;dr 2015 writing goals:
10 tokens
2 pro
4 subs
My longer read 2015 goals: Write productively by focusing on length and using past experience to set realistic goals. Write broader by putting more effort into other genres I write. Write smarter by implementing what I learned from that Kameron Hurley article.
Write Productively
The novelette has alwaysFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-31972629388866953422015-01-05T10:00:00.000-06:002015-01-05T10:00:09.239-06:002014 In Review
So, last year I posted my writing goals for 2014. How did I do? What will I do differently this year? Lets get to it!
I had four areas I wanted to push myself on: submissions, revisions, pro-level pieces, and token pieces just to keep in the habit of writing. Here's how close I came to reaching my goals:
Subs - 80%
Revisions - 10%
Pro - 25%
Token - 112%
New Pieces OverallFairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-65687363592455542442015-01-03T19:54:00.000-06:002015-01-03T21:36:44.331-06:00It's Okay to be FormulaicMerry New Year!
I want you to read this article by Kameron Hurley. I want you to read it especially if you are at a point in your journey where your ideas, focus, and creative skills have gained more precision but it feels like you're starting each new piece with a hammer and chisel and you don't know why. If you are more confident about what you can do as a writer, but you are Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146443435626566319.post-65176698120669942762014-09-25T09:00:00.000-05:002014-09-25T12:31:20.511-05:00Spoilers! The Spider Thief Chapters 35 - 44
source: laurencemacnaughton.com
It's the end! But first, what this is all about: here
Ash gets an assist from Prez to evade the feds, cheat death, and then make a clean break from it all. He chooses to stay and fight for his friends and family. Andres tells Mauricio the story of how they found the Spider and became enchanted by her power, until the brothers' dad took it to stop the madness. Fairchildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047483452208772141noreply@blogger.com0