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*I'm finding Flora Secunda delightful. The narrative voice is fresh and charming.

*I finally am getting to see Kiss of the Spider Woman which I've been wanting to see since it was new. Alas, I've never lived anywhere it was at the library. It's at my local. It's not easy watching, but I expected that. It makes me angry all over again that Raul Julia got so few good scripts and died such a stupid death due to negligence for yet another crap movie. (For younger readers, Raul Julia was a Puerto Rican actor who refused to play gang members. He was a forerunner for Antonio Banderas in American film. Before him, there wasn't much in the way of leading man roles for Latino men. As a result his career was stunted and he had to do a lot of crap to live on in between more dignified gigs in indie movies and such. The two things he's known for are KofS and those Addams Family movies.) the performances are excellent, of course. It is so odd to me that they keep calling the william hurt character variations on gay instead of treating the character as the transwoman she so obviously is. It's a reminder of how far we've come really, even as the plot and circumstances are so very relevant given the mess we continue to fund and instigate in south and Central America, as well as our own recent flirtation with fascism and torture. The ugliness and ambiguity of the choices and circumstance... yeah. Very very relevant.