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Last Time on Glee

2/6/2015

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When I look at the date of my last post, I feel ashamed. I have failed as a blogger. But I'm not going to let this discourage me. It just means that I need to do better, so from this point forward there will be some changes to my blog. First off, it won't be a writer's only blog, because lets face it, there is only so much I can say about writing. It'll be about Kayci, the person. The books I read, the shows I watch, the games I play. Which now that I think about it, doesn't make it much different than what it already is.

Secondly, I will adhere to a blogging schedule of one post every Friday no matter what. There may be extra posts, but every Friday there should be a new post of me rambling about one thing or another.  And the first topic I want to discuss is the resurrection of Glee.

As a storyteller, what works and doesn't work in a series is of particular interest to me. Season 4 of Glee showed the writers had little idea of why people liked their show. Season 5 pressed upon that point, but now with Season 6, it looks like someone finally told them, or they finally started listening.

When I first started watching Glee, I loved it. It was the quirky little show unlike anything else on television that wasn't afraid to make fun of itself and had a wonderful message, that you didn't have to be perfect to be a star. Here you have the school's misfits, getting on stage and singing their hearts out, and it was magical.

Then Season 4 came and a lot of the kids aged out of high school, and the casting director seemed to have never watched an episode of Glee or at the very least had no idea why anyone else watched it. So then enters Marley, Ryder and Jake, three characters almost no one is missing. When the female lead's major issues are a fear of someday becoming fat, not being able to afford designer clothes and deciding which hot guy to date, a show about social misfits has jumped the fucking tracks.

I think the writers met these actors and were as uninspired as the audience was to keep watching them. So the downward spiral of Glee began...

But now we get to Season 6 and it's like the show has done a 180 (Well more like a 225, but I'll get to that).  Sure bringing back half the old guard is unrealistic and a bit depressing when you think about it. After all the big dreams they had, they fail miserably and end up teachers at their old high school. And not even real teachers cause none of them have a college degree. But I can't blame them for bringing back the old guard considering how flat and depressing some of the new guard was.

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But the new new guard is awesome. Sure the brother and sister pair are a tad weird even to me, but Jane and Roderick are amazing! I think they are leading us back to the heart and soul of what Glee is about. Take Roderick for example, if I passed him on the street, I probably wouldn't look twice, but when he opens his mouth to sing, I turn into a 15 year old fan girl who just met Edward Cullens. He is phenomenal. And that is what the casting of Season 4 should have been like, then that would have allowed the old guard to leave high school without ruining the show.

With that being said, there is one storyline I don't like. That is the one about Coach Bieste transitioning into a man. I mostly dislike it because it goes against everything the character has done up until this point, and seems tacked on as an attempt to show how super diverse and envelope pushing the show is. While I'm all for diversity and pushing the envelope, I don't think it should be done by retconning your characters.

But overall, this last season of Glee is making such a comeback that I'm sorry that it's ending.  I look forward to every episode and am watching the moment it airs.

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2A.M. Political Rants - My Blog Has Become My Diary

5/30/2014

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So, it's 2 a.m. Am I writing?

Nope.

Am I editing?

Nope.

So what am I doing? Posting political commentary on YouTube?

Yep.


Brought to you by the Department of Grossly Unrealistic Release Schedule


In case anyone is wondering what exactly I'm writing right now, instead of fiction.



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Don't Tolerate Intolerance

5/17/2014

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Today is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/). And I'm participating in a blog hop on that topic. When deciding what to write about in regards to homophobia or transphobia, I decided to think back to the last time I experienced/witnessed one or the other and to write about that occasion.

Seven days.
I've made it a full week since I last witnessed homophobia. Though, if you factor in the research necessary for this post, my brief reprieve from hate speech  is more like seven minutes.

And for anyone else keeping tally on how many days, minutes, hours, they can go without being disappointed in their fellow man, I'm sorry, but this post is about to reset some counters.

When Michael Sam got drafted into the NFL and kissed his boyfriend on ESPN, my social media networks blew up. And I saw basically three kinds of responses. "Good for him." "How do I explain this to my children?" and "Why is this even news?"


My response was "Good for him". But I want to answer those two questions. Starting with the first one because it's the easiest.

How do I explain this to my children?


He's gay.



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I'm Not Half as Badass as I Imagine

5/15/2014

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So when the hospital told me I had pneumonia, I totally didn't take them seriously. I left the hospital like, "Sure, I can bus home for two hours in the rain. They call it "walking" pneumonia for a reason, right? After all, I'm Kayci Fuckin' Morgan. I leap small buildings and return stolen candy to babies and shit, right?"

And then I threw up...

I immediately morphed from a super hero to a lost and frightened nine year old.

"Nana, come get me."

"Sure. Where are you?"

"I dunno. Come get me, Nana."

"Okay, what's the address."

"I dunno. Why aren't you here yet, Nana?"

"What is wrong with you child?"

"Puked my brains out."



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Shakespeare Was a Mutha FUCKIN' P.I.M.P.

5/11/2014

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Recently, I was having a discussion on Twilight and Game of Thrones which led me to buying the collective works of William Shakespeare. If you’re wondering how Meyers and Martin had me buying Shakespeare, I don’t blame you. I’m still wondering and I was there.

 I had quoted “To thine own self be true,” which made me think about all the insights on human nature that can be found in Shakespeare’s works.

Centuries have passed and yet his work is still relatable. His characters are familiar. When I read his comedies, I laugh. His tragedies break my heart. I remember sitting in my inner city high school, reading Taming the Shrew. Someone asked what the title meant and I told them. “Keepin yo bitch in check.” After that I’d sit in class every day doing a ghetto-fab retelling of what I’d read the night before. When I say Shakespeare’s work is universal, I mean it.

So as I was reading Romeo and Juliet, I thought to myself how people regard this relationship as an example of pure love. How some even consider it an epic romance. I don’t see it that way at all.

As I’ve stated before, Shakespeare was a man that knew what he was doing. He understood people down to their core. That’s why his stories have thrived for centuries. Notice then how Romeo and Juliet starts with Romeo in love with some other girl. And not just in love, but Bella-staring-out-the-window-for-six-months-because-Edward-left-her in love. He’s establishing the kind of person that Romeo is, even the friar calls him on it when he says:

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes...And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then: Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
That last part points out that Rosaline probably knew better than to fall for Romeo. “Sure, I’m your sun and stars this week, but next week you’ll be smothering me with a pillow.”

So instead he falls for Juliet, a girl about to be pushed into an arranged marriage. Oh yeah, can’t see a girl wanting to rebel from that one. “Mom, Dad, sorry, I can’t marry your Top Pick, because I’m madly in-love with the first name on your Hellz No list.”

Perfect love? They have all of what? One conversation before they decide to get married? Two nights together before they decide they can’t live without one another? And why do they die? Because of a slow messenger. Their death wasn’t some beautiful act of love. It was preventable and pointless. That’s what makes it such a tragedy, because it was such a waste. Romeo and Juliet were young, passionate and stupid. But fifteen is the time to be passionate and stupid. That’s why kids have parents, so they can be passionate and stupid and not die from it.

But the parents were too busy growling at each other to wonder what their kids were up to. At the beginning of the play the Montagues see their son in distress and what do they do? They send in their nephew to find out what’s wrong with their son. And the Capulets don’t want to hear anything from their daughter but “I do.” If either of those kids had been able to talk to their parents there would have been no play.

So while some people see Romeo and Juliet as one of the greatest romances ever written, I see it as a cautionary tale on parental responsibility.
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