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Weekend Report
Jan. 30th, 2023 04:19 pmThis weekend it snowed, and because I'm generally a fan of winter behaving like winter, I was pleased--doubly so when I didn't have to go out into the cold myself. J ferried Ash back and forth from friends' homes and, though he wanted us to get food delivered, he ended up doing carry out because it was so much faster.
I binge watched American Horror Story on Hulu. I finished watching season 11, NYC, which is set (mostly) in 1981 and deals with HIV/AIDS. Then I realized I never watched season 10, so I ploughed through that, which is a double feature, the first half a modern tale revolving around drug-induced vampirism and the latter half being (mostly) Eisenhower-era alien hijinks. Both season 11 and the alien half of season 10 included a lot of chronology hopping that I found unnecessary, but I think it's passé to tell a story in linear order these days. I think the only season of AHS I haven't watched is the fifth season, Hotel. That's mostly because of the extended rape scene in the first episode. After AHS, I gave Scream Queens a try, but after three or four episodes, I'm very meh about it. The comedy feels forced and I'm not sure it's really comedy when the protagonists say awful racist, homophobic, fatphobic things. I imagine it's all supposed to be "ironic" but I'm not in the mood (ever).
I also read a poetry collection over the weekend, and now I'm re-reading it: Tethered to Stars by Fady Joudah. I'm going over it again because I felt like I hadn't understood the poems enough to connect to them. Upon a second read (which is really third or fourth, because I read a poem more than once as I work through a collection), I'm understanding more but still not connecting that often. It's a bit disappointing, but I read A LOT of poetry these days and not everything can click for me.
What did you do this weekend?
I binge watched American Horror Story on Hulu. I finished watching season 11, NYC, which is set (mostly) in 1981 and deals with HIV/AIDS. Then I realized I never watched season 10, so I ploughed through that, which is a double feature, the first half a modern tale revolving around drug-induced vampirism and the latter half being (mostly) Eisenhower-era alien hijinks. Both season 11 and the alien half of season 10 included a lot of chronology hopping that I found unnecessary, but I think it's passé to tell a story in linear order these days. I think the only season of AHS I haven't watched is the fifth season, Hotel. That's mostly because of the extended rape scene in the first episode. After AHS, I gave Scream Queens a try, but after three or four episodes, I'm very meh about it. The comedy feels forced and I'm not sure it's really comedy when the protagonists say awful racist, homophobic, fatphobic things. I imagine it's all supposed to be "ironic" but I'm not in the mood (ever).
I also read a poetry collection over the weekend, and now I'm re-reading it: Tethered to Stars by Fady Joudah. I'm going over it again because I felt like I hadn't understood the poems enough to connect to them. Upon a second read (which is really third or fourth, because I read a poem more than once as I work through a collection), I'm understanding more but still not connecting that often. It's a bit disappointing, but I read A LOT of poetry these days and not everything can click for me.
What did you do this weekend?
