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Amazon stories, ART
Mar. 25th, 2021 10:51 amAmazon had some free stories for Prime subscribers, which we still are despite misgivings. I read Rainbow Rowell's "The Prince and the Troll" and Ken Liu's "The Cleaners" and particularly liked the latter, which is doing neat stuff about memory and the construction of narratives.
We attended some zoom theater, an evening of close-up magic put on by the A.R.T.. Q had really enjoyed a zoom magic show his school had arranged, and the adults of us were pretty happy to buy an overpriced zoom ticket for something we felt we might plausibly enjoy, since we like the A.R.T..(Although we've passed up other zoom theater from them, but, I don't know, it has often felt logistically daunting to imagine planning to watch something without the kids. Totally different when the whole house can come.) Anyways, I thought it was neat that the three magicians were a woman, Jeanette Andrews, a Black man, Ran'D Shine, and a guy with limb difference on both sides, Madhi Gilbert (I don't mean to be gross in a disability-inspo-porn way but there is something cool about slight-of-hand done by a guy with no hands - I mean, a lot of what he was doing was the math end of card manipulation, but he had definite dexterity skills too - which I guess is not gross to say, that, like, a professional trying to put on a good show in fact put on a good show? ok.). Anyways, from what I've heard from a friend about the magic scene, it's pretty seriously default-sexist-and-racist (and probably ableist, I can only assume) in a "generation+ behind the times" kind of way, so, I appreciate A.R.T. doing their part for a more inclusive stage. And it was a fun show, and Q's little mind was blown, so that was cool.
We attended some zoom theater, an evening of close-up magic put on by the A.R.T.. Q had really enjoyed a zoom magic show his school had arranged, and the adults of us were pretty happy to buy an overpriced zoom ticket for something we felt we might plausibly enjoy, since we like the A.R.T..(Although we've passed up other zoom theater from them, but, I don't know, it has often felt logistically daunting to imagine planning to watch something without the kids. Totally different when the whole house can come.) Anyways, I thought it was neat that the three magicians were a woman, Jeanette Andrews, a Black man, Ran'D Shine, and a guy with limb difference on both sides, Madhi Gilbert (I don't mean to be gross in a disability-inspo-porn way but there is something cool about slight-of-hand done by a guy with no hands - I mean, a lot of what he was doing was the math end of card manipulation, but he had definite dexterity skills too - which I guess is not gross to say, that, like, a professional trying to put on a good show in fact put on a good show? ok.). Anyways, from what I've heard from a friend about the magic scene, it's pretty seriously default-sexist-and-racist (and probably ableist, I can only assume) in a "generation+ behind the times" kind of way, so, I appreciate A.R.T. doing their part for a more inclusive stage. And it was a fun show, and Q's little mind was blown, so that was cool.
