March 3rd, 2009 by Brianna
At some point, I’m going to have to write a full comparison of Sugar Rush and South of Nowhere.
On further watching – Sugar Rush really is SoN on acid. I still don’t feel like rooting for any particular couple, but Kim is much more identifiable than I thought, and I do want her to find love. But the really interesting bit comes at the end of season 1, when they decide to run away from home. SoN did the same thing, only… not.
In SoN they ran away, the car ran out of gas, they hid in a restaurant, called the dad, and were threatened by a conveniently placed pervert (or was it an imaginary pervert?). It was all very after-school-specially.
Moral: Don’t run away from home.
In Sugar Rush, they run away, drive like idiots with no apparent repercussions, rent an obscenely expensive hotel room with the mom’s credit card, and have sex all night before the police manage to track them down.
Moral: Uhh…. Credit card theft rocks?
Yeah.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want my kids (should I ever have them) to watch Sugar Rush before they turn at least 17 or so. SoN is obviously more teen-appropriate. Still – there’s no denying that Sugar Rush is more realisticish (relatively speaking), and much more exciting.
Moral: British People are Crazy (and mildly cool).
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September 26th, 2008 by Brianna
Some people really like labels. In fact, they like them way too much. They like to categorize people, to put them in neat boxes, so that they can tell what a person is like, by their label.
Some of these kind people, we call racist, sexist, homophobic, or just plain stupid.
Other people don’t like labels, but still use them when pressed.
Some people don’t like labels at all, and will get angry if you try to label them.
I don’t know what to do about the first kind of person – they have problems. The third kind are usually okay, if a bit strange, but the second kind is rather interesting. The linked author said, that she didn’t like labels, but if she had to decide, she would say that she was a woman first, and then Latina.
This seems reasonable.
Now, let’s think about some other kinds of labels. Some people label by religion, some by politics, some by occupation, some by sexual orientation, etc., etc. Again, this seems quite familiar.
But there is a difference between some kinds of labels, and other kinds of labels.
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June 16th, 2008 by Brianna
So – here I go, one more blog among millions of others. Why am I doing this? What do I really have to contribute? Does anybody care?
That remains to be seen.
But this is just a first post. Nobody but me will read it when it first goes up – nobody will likely read it for weeks, at least. If you are reading this, I will assume that you cared enough to find my first post, that you wanted to know how my blog began.
Thank you.
And for your entertainment, a discussion on first posts!
I have noticed two types of first blog posts. A few just start on-topic, as if they were pulled out of the air. I suspect that these blogs were moved from some other site. Some times this is unavoidable (a large site with multiple bloggers that has been moved/redesigned many times, for example). But most blogs are not like this. A see a personal blog as a picture of the author – without a record of it’s creation, it seems… incomplete.
The other sort of first post is rather like this one – a note telling the reader that yes, this is the first post; whether the author has done this before or not, but with no real substance. I get a feeling of real satisfaction reading these posts. It’s almost as if I suddenly became old friends with the author – like I was there from the beginning.
Anyhow, I’d like to try something new with my first post. If you managed to read this far, leave a comment! Who cares about the whole ‘don’t comment on old posts’ rule? Let me know what you think about first posts – maybe link to you own first post.
Let’s be nostalgic about blogs!
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