it's friday. for me, fridays bring a day off, they usually bring two days off. they bring a chance to sleep in, to catch up on 'paperwork' (if you can believe someone like me has paperwork), and a chance to clean, organize, be active, and try to get things together a bit.
and TODAY, friday brings me a friend all the way from asia - a friend moving home, who is making a pit stop in vancouver for almost a week to hang out. so, while i'm working lots while she's here, i'm also giddy with excitement to see her, and hang out with her for the first time in a year.
other things that make me giddy today and this week.... for weekend perusal.
i've already written about it, but THIS essay from rob delaney on why he supports human rights, in a woman's rights to choose. and, in somewhat related related, but heartwrenching news, dr. henry morgentaler died. a man who made safe something that women have never wanted, but have needed to find in safe and hygenic circumstances. read this article - it's perfect.
and, because we're talking about mysogyny - dustin hoffman on playing a woman in Tootsie (1982)
“If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill, physically, the demands that we’re brought up to think that women have to have in order for us to ask them out.’ She says, ‘What are you saying?’ and I said, ‘There’s too many interesting women I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.’ It was not what it felt like to be a woman. It was what it felt like to be someone that people didn’t respect, for the wrong reasons. I know it’s a comedy. But comedy’s a serious business.”
things that are inspiring me lately - earthy rocks and gems, middle fingers, a bit of 35mm greatness, and some planetary sarcasm.
i'm in love with will ferrell. and sandwiches. and this skit with jimmy fallon who i don't actually like, but like this.
and on that note - the sandwiches, middle finger, and dustin hoffman note, happy weekend!