Shake a million meanings out your side

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy May Day! Don't cross any picket lines!

Yesterday got sufficiently scrambled on different fronts that none of the things I had planned to do actually got done, but we came out of it with a lot of produce and a share in a subscription to Disney+ and I got to see gaudior in person for the first time since the beginning of the month. I watched Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration and loved much of it and every now and then realized what's important to me about a song by watching someone not do it. I watched DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) for maybe the first time since it was in theaters and was amazed by how specifically I had remembered certain lines and scenes and most of all the mile-a-minute genie's serious yearning to be mortal with choices and no longer the slave of the lamp and how completely other elements had dropped out of my brain, like most of the action sequences and the comedy racism of the villain's sidekick. spatch and I watched Rosana Sullivan's Kitbull (2019) and I couldn't stop crying for a long time. I'm not sure what it tapped into. Maybe just tiny, stubborn kindness in the face of cruelty. It was a very believable kitten.

Governor Baker has finally mandated rather than recommended the statewide wearing of masks in public. I wish he'd done it a month ago, but at least he's done it.

I cannot but hope that this cartoon from Life magazine, January 1919 was the origin story of a queer girl gang.

Comments

[kindkit]

Those women (in the cartoon) were absolutely robbing banks six months later. And I would watch that film/read that novel.

[asakiyume]

Love the 1919 girl gang! Keep true to yourselves, friends!

Was it your first time seeing Kitbull? It's a *very* affecting story.

In-person meetings are like nothing else. Glad you got to meet up with gaudior

[moon_custafer]

It is pretty much the story of “X Garage” and a few other chauffeur services/lesbian communes started after WWI by former ambulance and transport drivers.

[a_reasonable_man]

Kitbull is a tearjerker. Owing to your post, I just watched it again, and again teared up.

[choco_frosh]

I cannot but hope that this cartoon from Life magazine, January 1919 was the origin story of a queer girl gang.
YES.
I mean, maybe they don't rob banks. Maybe they just loudly said NOPE and had a communal household and got jobs.

[wpadmirer]

WWI image. Nice.

WWII, trying to get women to go back to petticoats and behaving did not work out so well. The 50s were valium and martinis and then women started burning their bras in the 60s.

[rinue]

I associate you so much with "rabbit rabbit" that I thought of you all day. There was always a second of "why are they writing about Sovay? Is there a new Sovay thing?" before I remembered it's also something people say on May Day.

[coraline]

"every now and then realized what's important to me about a song by watching someone not do it."


Ooh, tell me more?
Also I liked reading this
https://t.co/nfpEbNUgNs

[thanate]

Thank you for the Sondheim link; I saw a lot of people mention it on twitter but hadn't tracked down where/how to watch it.

[selkie]

I have the strongest possible feelings about “Finishing the Hat” and was pained, but we enjoyed the show.

Disney+ recommendations: Encore — even the Pippin episode! — and Shop Class. Nicole liked High School Musical: the Musical: the Series.