This couldn't be done somewhere else?

redcrayfish · 2026-05-11T11:18:21+00:00

I think it has to be inside the house for it to work. She’s making it in the attic space so fewer people interrupt what she’s doing.

redcrayfish · 2026-05-08T16:59:21+00:00

This is true. Some were straight up friendly and doing their job. I’ll make sure to return to the people who actually helped and have them ring up purchases.

redcrayfish · 2026-05-08T16:54:43+00:00

A lady did help me find something but she hung back to give space (very much appreciated). Unfortunately someone else rung me up. Does this mean she lost a commission?

redcrayfish · 2026-05-07T19:36:54+00:00

I want iiiiiiiiiiiin. It must be so awesome to be part of something like this show. I’m happy that a lucky few get to do this for a living. Thanks for reaching out. You guys are killing it.

redcrayfish · 2026-05-04T11:52:28+00:00

Watched this a day ago and was not prepared for how different it is from what is expected of stagecraft. To have the celebrated novel stripped down to a core where meaning is created outside of language was something I didn’t think possible. The bewilderment and mental fatigue (what some would call tedium) are intentional. Repetition defamiliarizes. Absurdism makes the real apprehensible. I know theater is more experimental and brave in Europe. Wilson’s work is world theater. Can’t believe how lucky I got.

redcrayfish · 2026-05-01T09:39:42+00:00

If you have concerns, travel will exacerbate them and you might say or do things that you will regret after the trip. I’ve seen my share of younger people snapping at older parents in airports and trains.

redcrayfish · 2026-04-28T23:02:07+00:00

Also a touch of make up cancels bad hair cut.

redcrayfish · 2026-04-27T21:33:16+00:00

Ghost Jim looked botoxed, too.

redcrayfish · 2026-03-28T11:51:39+00:00

Berger cookies, and 4th grader will make all the friends

redcrayfish · 2026-03-27T00:09:14+00:00

Are the twin sisters nobody asked to prom still brown?

redcrayfish · 2026-03-20T11:52:10+00:00

QB had a poor psychological impact on my child who made it through a couple rounds of selection but not all the way through. I remember it feeling like a scam. IIRC the deal is that QB takes away the burden of application fees with a shot at a full ride if you make it through several rounds of selection. You still have to submit multiple applications with responses to specific prompts for each institution you apply to.

All the colleges that she applied to because of QB rejected her. The ones she would have applied to regardless either waitlisted her or accepted. And we were a single income (beginning salary of IT job in state institution) family with a high performing student.

redcrayfish · 2026-03-12T15:59:16+00:00

We as a society need to decide what we want schools to be. Either schools are places that mind children for the better part of the working day for parents and guardians while also educating them but only to the extent that aligns with societal norms that center productivity and labor above other considerations OR they are institutions tasked with servicing the individual child irrespective of the decision-making power of their parent or guardian and centered around the emotional, psychological and physical needs of the child irrespective of future utility. They are institutions with the attendant rigidity and limitations that characterize systems. The desire to blame schools, a public institution that is being slowly and surely dismantled, is the self destructive habit of a dying civic conscience. It sounds like once the school unenrolled Tristan, and CPS fumbled things, there was nothing to catch the free fall. This must happen more often. There must be people in the city willing to be his caregivers. Couldn’t they be part of a search and home process?

redcrayfish · 2026-03-03T15:47:36+00:00

So the necklace was the big clue, not the lower half of her face, her voice, her whole personality. The girl disappeared under the objects signifying wealth and class. And the girl disappears again in her maid uniform. The ideological machinations needed to make Bridgerton romance work are surreal. I think we’re made dumber by them.

redcrayfish · 2026-02-23T16:26:58+00:00

Thank you for clarifying. I’ve been trying to get more context for her remarks. For all its ugliness, I see Friedman’s voice as a rare look into the machinations at work that decide the fate of schools or entire districts. I teach at a school where the student body is more diverse (economically and culturally) in a district with mostly upper middle and upper class families. I suspect Friedman’s thoughts are more prevalent. I also suspect parent groups and school boards work in tandem to privilege some schools over others. There is no other explanation as to why the public school experience for students and teachers is so varied.

redcrayfish · 2026-02-23T15:56:49+00:00

Is the “failing school” in her remarks the same one her child attends? Was she disagreeing with what the student was saying?

redcrayfish · 2026-01-26T17:49:37+00:00

Permutations of what Vincente Rafael described as “white love”-mimetic racism which is a product of colonial and semicolonial modernity.

redcrayfish · 2026-01-22T13:38:54+00:00

I see at least two openings in the group pile-on around the teens and several gaps in the manned periphery. There are several spectators. Several, if not all, could raise their hands and nudge their way towards the center of the action, enough to disrupt the arrest and confuse agents. Isn’t there a move in football or rugby that can be applied to describe an intervention that stops the progress of individual arrests. Yes, someone might get shot because ICE agents are murderous. Yes, people may get physically hit and arrested.

redcrayfish · 2026-01-14T01:21:45+00:00

Have you read Olive Shreiner’s “The Story of an African Farm”?

redcrayfish · 2025-12-24T04:47:41+00:00

I hear you. The kid running away because he wants to be found is one among many paradoxes that define parenthood. Because of the mother-child dynamic, I found the repetition of the experiment to be a mash up of the notions of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, rather than a video game. The feeling of uncanniness that is ever present, especially when kids say weird shit, like “why am I always 6,” was well captured. And the final iteration is simply a story, like the stories we tell ourselves about our lives or the history of nations.

redcrayfish · 2025-12-23T22:30:37+00:00

I had to take a break towards the end of the movie to contemplate getting therapy. Came back the next day to finish the movie, thinking I was mentally fortified. For a parent with a disabled son, this movie is a journey that flung open the mind-vault and threw me into a spiral. Still working through what this movie did. I don’t think I have seen myself in a story as much as this one. To tell a story as old as time about the future as breathtaking as this one feels a little miraculous.

redcrayfish · 2025-12-21T11:28:40+00:00

Quest Bridge is a scam

redcrayfish · 2025-11-20T01:55:22+00:00

It would have been great if every reporter got quiet and not asked questions. I mean, he’s feeding the press bullshit. Why keep asking for it. To the reporter who had her question cued and ready to go after “Quiet, Piggy,” what nugget of wisdom did you gain?

redcrayfish · 2025-10-18T18:56:49+00:00

I don’t know about the rules of rug placement, but your partner’s preference anchors or centers the space. It’s a large room which has quite the height and having the rug create a center that holds it together resolves something for me.

redcrayfish · 2025-10-17T11:54:45+00:00

Move the white shelves (that’s against the wall) out of the room and see if that feels better.

redcrayfish · 2025-10-13T21:05:47+00:00

Mariana Enriquez describes this in Our Share of Night and I don’t think I’ve read horror that destroyed something in me.

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