August 2011
3 posts
New Year's Resolution
Peridot
Today I become 26 years of age. Like a butterfly, that is turning 26 years old. Or a beautiful swan about to say, “Hey, it’s my birthday.”
Looking Back
Part of my birthday celebration involves looking back to ten years ago.
Ten years ago, I did not have a laptop. Ten years ago, I didn’t yet blog, probably perhaps because I didn’t want to have the...
Totally Morgan: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhh. →
Many of the show’s plot foils are stressful because of Ricky’s chauvinism—I remember screaming at the television when I was twelve, whenever he would squash her or trick her — and the societal context in which the show came to be developed means many people at the time probably never saw his dominance for what it was. But, thankfully, Lucille Ball managed to bring humor to...
The Wolf and The Butterfly: I Love Lucy...kinda →
I watched so much I Love Lucy that when I see Lucy’s living room, my brain automatically, fleetingly, reads it as a cue that I’m home; displaced stage blocking, like it was my oven in which I purposefully burnt the toast to teach Ricky a lesson. If I’m at home already, my brain is like, now you’re more at home.
I also recall that during summer vacation, my sister and I...