Poll-type thingie post:

So -- I'm thinking of creating a thing to share about bipedal/mobility privilege -- as a YouTube video and, also, maybe a Flick'r slideshow, and also a series of all-text posts-essays. I figure, done once in one format, should be relatively easy to convert to another (especially since the "video" will be made from still images, anyway, and those images will mostly be panels of people talking with speech and thought balloons)...

So: If I break this up into a series, of maybe three minutes of video / 600 words of text sized chunks (guesstimate):

Question 1:

A] Should I devote the whole first chunk to what I mean by "privilege" and why I think it's a good thing, but people have hang-ups about it, 'cause it's also a complicated thing (and some of what makes it complicated, including the privileges I do have, and those I don't, and how they balance out)?

B] Or should I just touch on my chosen metaphor for privilege (I.E. VIP Pass and the Red Velvet Rope) at the beginning of the first chunk, and leave the nuanced discussion of privilege-in-the-abstract for another time (so the first chunk will have some talk of privilege and one or two examples)?

C] (Facetious) Does anyone else have the urge to spell "privilege" with a 'd', same as "knowledge"? Or is that just me?

Question 2:

A] Should I group privileges together by theme (I.E. "architecture," "transportation," "education and employment," "public assumptions and manners")?

B] Or should I mix-and-match?

Question 3: The list of privileges I came up with on December 10: http://capriuni.dreamwidth.org/608976.html had 21 items, 3 of which I "borrowed" verbatim from "B-tch on Wheels" blog (I did not reword those at the time because I was working quickly; I will reword them if I include them this time around).

A] Is 21 items a good number (leading to a series of maybe five or six videos)?

B] Or is it too much (depending on how you look at them some are redundant)?

C] Or is it too short?

Um, yeah. That's all of what I'm wondering at the moment...

a meme that's going around

(Caught, this time, from spiralsheep)

Open the nearest book at page 45 and read the first sentence, which will predict your sex life for the next year (but I sincerely trust not!).

Okay, there were two books close to hand when I first encountered this. They were stacked. The big one on the bottom was nearest to my fingertips in strict measurement of inches/centimeters, but (being on the bottom) was harder to get to to open, and flip to page 45.

The book on top (No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women [publication date: 1973]) had this on Page 45:

"A Petticoat"
by Gertrude Stein.

A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm.

[1914]

That's possibly a possible description of my continuing spinsterhood (or dodgy laundry habits). But it's not exactly a sentence.

The book on the bottom of the stack (The Frary Family in America: 1637 - 1980 [publication date: 1981]) had this on page 45 (after a list of birth and death statistical fragments):

Charles was a farm laborer in 1860 at Hatfield, where they lived with her parents.

My parents are dead and both are scattered ashes, now. But maybe this means I will marry and move in with the in-laws? (doubtful).