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Remembering
The Guardian: Ask Carrie Fisher: I'm bipolar – how do you feel at peace with mental illness?
Living with mental illness is tough, Fisher says, and that’s why it’s important to find a community to share experiences and find comfort in the similarities
Vox: In remembering George Michael, don't forget the decades we spent shaming him
Genre snobbery and homophobia made his eulogy a careless whisper instead of a cultural reckoning.
And then youtube suggested this to me... It's a very old episode of 'V Graham Norton', back when it was on Channel 4 (so yes, parts are NSFW!!). It didn't have a date on it, but from the conversation it becomes evident that it's very early in the 2000s - after September 11th, but before they actually went to war. (It's funny how jokes and such date things - the beginning made me cringe. Although I wish he still had the half naked hunks...
If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, go to 19 minutes in and listen to him talk about the song he is performing, and then listen to the song itself.
I think we forgot how difficult it was then. Dubya seems forever ago, but really wasn't. Guess Obama was just a reprieve.
Anyway, it's an excellent interview.
Living with mental illness is tough, Fisher says, and that’s why it’s important to find a community to share experiences and find comfort in the similarities
Vox: In remembering George Michael, don't forget the decades we spent shaming him
Genre snobbery and homophobia made his eulogy a careless whisper instead of a cultural reckoning.
And then youtube suggested this to me... It's a very old episode of 'V Graham Norton', back when it was on Channel 4 (so yes, parts are NSFW!!). It didn't have a date on it, but from the conversation it becomes evident that it's very early in the 2000s - after September 11th, but before they actually went to war. (It's funny how jokes and such date things - the beginning made me cringe. Although I wish he still had the half naked hunks...
If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, go to 19 minutes in and listen to him talk about the song he is performing, and then listen to the song itself.
I think we forgot how difficult it was then. Dubya seems forever ago, but really wasn't. Guess Obama was just a reprieve.
Anyway, it's an excellent interview.
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I remember the flack he got. Heck, I remember when we found out about CF's bipolar - people were not kind to either of them. But they soldiered on despite the meanness of others.
*HUGS*
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And yeah, they've soldiered on, not caring one bit what people think. Here's to more of that!
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And yes, George Michael gave me chills.
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