Fun Home panel addendum

I found a very good write-up of the panel by morchades, who pointed to it on the wiscon community. She got, I think, most if not all of the essentials, and pointed out something I didn't really have time to go into on the panel, namely the way that the Watergate hearings, specifically Sirica's rulings about the tapes and then Nixon's resignation, are part of the context and background of the story. I'm wondering if one of the reasons the book caught the mainstream, and specifically Time magazine attention, is that the editors find that Watergate resonates with current government secrecy, lies, and crimes.

Morchades and rachel_edidin confirm that the panelist who surprised me so much by saying she hadn't previously read much about lesbians, and the only one who hadn't already been a Bechdel fan via Dykes to Watch Out For, was Jenni Moody.

Fun Home panel addendum

I found a very good write-up of the panel by morchades, who pointed to it on the wiscon community. She got, I think, most if not all of the essentials, and pointed out something I didn't really have time to go into on the panel, namely the way that the Watergate hearings, specifically Sirica's rulings about the tapes and then Nixon's resignation, are part of the context and background of the story. I'm wondering if one of the reasons the book caught the mainstream, and specifically Time magazine attention, is that the editors find that Watergate resonates with current government secrecy, lies, and crimes.

Morchades and rachel_edidin confirm that the panelist who surprised me so much by saying she hadn't previously read much about lesbians, and the only one who hadn't already been a Bechdel fan via Dykes to Watch Out For, was Jenni Moody.

Dentistry

I have been to the dentist, and my teeth are now clean. While I was paying for the visit, the dentist said he'd like to do X-rays next time, and I said okay and that he should make a note of that (we didn't do any last time either, so it'll be a year and a half, at least, between sets). Also after the cleaning, he said something about laminates to "make [my] front teeth beautiful" and I said I wasn't buying anything cosmetic.

Less cheerfully, both he and the hygienist commented, approvingly, that I had lost weight. I explained that they didn't want to do it the way I had (the prednisone special), but didn't actually say "hey, I don't want to discuss this topic."

He also asked me who coyotegoth is, meaning "how do you know him?" and because of the way he phrased it, I wound up saying something like "no, he doesn't work with me, but he connected me with the agency that got me this job" rather than "my best friend introduced us."

Dentistry

I have been to the dentist, and my teeth are now clean. While I was paying for the visit, the dentist said he'd like to do X-rays next time, and I said okay and that he should make a note of that (we didn't do any last time either, so it'll be a year and a half, at least, between sets). Also after the cleaning, he said something about laminates to "make [my] front teeth beautiful" and I said I wasn't buying anything cosmetic.

Less cheerfully, both he and the hygienist commented, approvingly, that I had lost weight. I explained that they didn't want to do it the way I had (the prednisone special), but didn't actually say "hey, I don't want to discuss this topic."

He also asked me who coyotegoth is, meaning "how do you know him?" and because of the way he phrased it, I wound up saying something like "no, he doesn't work with me, but he connected me with the agency that got me this job" rather than "my best friend introduced us."