On Fortuna's wheel, I'm running

[sovay]

As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one. The CDC called for my opinions on vaccination which it turned out I was not permitted to state for the record without a minor child in the house. Because the call was recorded for quality assurance, I said just in case that I had children in my life if not my legal residence and I supported their vaccination so as to protect them from otherwise life-threatening communicable diseases and did not express my opinion of the incumbent secretary of health and human services and his purity of essence. I got hung up on before I could tell my family stories from before the polio vaccine and the MMR.

Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.

It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.

Comments

[sholio]

My current favorite tag: #nothing can really fix londo

I think the fact that Londo and G'Kar are so deranged about each other can camouflage the fact that they are mostly not like that about other people, which is fine, the universe wouldn't stand up to it, but especially in G'Kar's case, it really skews the data set.

Skews the data set - yes! They really AREN'T that way about other people, and for Londo at least it's a little less out of character because he does have this tendency towards being very intense in some of his relationships, and getting attached very suddenly and profoundly (see: Adira) but for G'Kar, it really is wildly outside the way he normally relates to people, even those he loves a lot.

[sovay]

My current favorite tag: #nothing can really fix londo

Which remains no reason for him not to have the chance to get railed!

and for Londo at least it's a little less out of character because he does have this tendency towards being very intense in some of his relationships, and getting attached very suddenly and profoundly (see: Adira)

Agreed! But it works from the other end of the spectrum, too: through his relationship with Refa, we get a fairly good idea of the norms of Centauri rivalry. Even at their most openly antagonistic, Londo is still not normal about G'Kar.

(Talking about science fiction by way of other science fiction, I associate them strongly with Le Guin's concept of ontá, the emotion which is love when polarized in one direction and hatred when polarized in the other, but is otherwise all the same state.)

but for G'Kar, it really is wildly outside the way he normally relates to people, even those he loves a lot.

Yes. You really can't imagine him letting Londo go. He'd check up whenever he got back from the galactic tour.