I’ve done pretty well avoiding the media. No social media (easy), no newsfeed (HARD)… well mostly no newsfeed. There’s always a front pager that pops up and it gets noticed. Like the bonkers situation with 60,000 immigrants streaming over the Spanish border. I didn’t actually read it so I don’t know the details. Tomorrow. Crazy that I chose to eschew news in order to avoid being spoiled over a movie. Yet that is the reality in which I sit. I’m not sad about it. The world news is heavy and I don’t know that I need to hear it every day. Not so much because of the heavy, but more because of the settling. The rapid-fire pace of our reality is a bit much. We all should slow down and try to digest what is going on around us. We all need to think about the reality we are shaping and allowing to be shaped.
Today my reality was a bit altered. I discovered a very cool beach called Witty’s Lagoon. I’m a 11 AM beach kind of guy, but by then I’ve already begun to lose the best part of the lagoon. So, when we return it will be earlier. Interestingly enough, it also hosts a nude section. We discovered this purely through seeing nudies strolling along parts of the beach. I was just talking to the Lady Talis about how prude and buttoned up we are as a country. Topless bathing is really not much of an issue in Spain and allegedly in other countries. A person nude on the beach is fully clothed a block over in the city and everything is fine. Yet we are really messed up about sex in the USA. It feels like Canada (at least BC) is a lot more chill about it. Or at least about the nudity part. I grew up watching a lot of things I wasn’t supposed to way early, so my exposure to nudity happened much too early. I suppose that plays a role in how I see others as prude.
To be fair, we didn’t go over there. I’m not much for the being nude around other people. My body issues couldn’t stand it. That’s less prude than non-confidant about my body.
Some Thoughts:
- Expectation: This is going to be the best Marvel Movie in YEARS
- Proclamation: This is going to be the last really good Marvel storytelling for a while…