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kestrellYou know what a bad blind person I am, so I'm late coming to the news that Stevie Wonder made a blind joke, but I'm thrilled to be reminded what a cool guy Stevie is. I caught him a few years back on the Spike Awards, which is an award show for games, and, before announcing the winner (probably of the best game soundtrack), Stevie said something tot he effect of "In the future, I hope more of these games will be accessible," and the next day game boards freaked out, and all I could do was shake my head and say, "What were you thinking when you invited a blind genius to be on your show talking about games of which not one could he play?"
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
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Date: 2016-02-17 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-17 03:23 pm (UTC)Thanks! That led to this very cool entry on a site for "Rehtorical Figures in Sound" http://literarydevices.net/epizeuxis/
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You know what a bad blind person I am, so I'm late coming to the news that Stevie Wonder made a blind joke, but I'm thrilled to be reminded what a cool guy Stevie is. I caught him a few years back on the Spike Awards, which is an award show for games, and, before announcing the winner (probably of the best game soundtrack), Stevie said something tot he effect of "In the future, I hope more of these games will be accessible," and the next day game boards freaked out, and all I could do was shake my head and say, "What were you thinking when you invited a blind genius to be on your show talking about games of which not one could he play?"
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
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Epizeuxis? (Which I have no idea how to pronounce, by the way.)
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Date: 2016-02-17 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-17 07:08 pm (UTC)I'm fascinated by "you're not blind-blind" from people who presumably knew that your eyes were not the original equipment. I can't imagine the thought process or what they thought they meant.
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Date: 2016-02-17 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-17 09:50 pm (UTC)It's a question I have often asked myself, and the conclusion I have come to is that, in some people's minds, blind=stupid. So, if I can look in the direction of the person speaking, if I can do simple math in my head, if I can speak intelligently on certain subjects, and if I can reasonably coordinate my clothing, I must not be blind-blind.
Of course, this does pose some further questions, such as, why do so many sighties spend so much time in pursuit of being blind drunk? Also, I have given up entirely on wondering why so many sighted people dress as they do.
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xiphias http://xiphias.dreamwidth.org/profile replied to your Dreamwidth entry http://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/254295.html "Stevie Wonder is still the coolest guy in the universe" in which you said:
You know what a bad blind person I am, so I'm late coming to the news that Stevie Wonder made a blind joke, but I'm thrilled to be reminded what a cool guy Stevie is. I caught him a few years back on the Spike Awards, which is an award show for games, and, before announcing the winner (probably of the best game soundtrack), Stevie said something tot he effect of "In the future, I hope more of these games will be accessible," and the next day game boards freaked out, and all I could do was shake my head and say, "What were you thinking when you invited a blind genius to be on your show talking about games of which not one could he play?"
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
The reply was:
How much more blind would you have to be to be blind by their definition?
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Date: 2016-02-17 09:55 pm (UTC)I think their minds sort of skim over my declaration that I have plastic eyeballs, because obviously, if I had glass eyes, they would be able to see them and distinguish between them and the real thing.
Really scary: I have had this conversation with people who professionally work with blind people. And I used to amuse myself by letting new doctors shine those lights into my eyes while I wondered how long it would take them to figure it out, although usually I gave in and told them after a dozen or so seconds. Bad-bad blind person.
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vvalkyri http://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/profile replied to your Dreamwidth entry http://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/254295.html "Stevie Wonder is still the coolest guy in the universe" in which you said:
You know what a bad blind person I am, so I'm late coming to the news that Stevie Wonder made a blind joke, but I'm thrilled to be reminded what a cool guy Stevie is. I caught him a few years back on the Spike Awards, which is an award show for games, and, before announcing the winner (probably of the best game soundtrack), Stevie said something tot he effect of "In the future, I hope more of these games will be accessible," and the next day game boards freaked out, and all I could do was shake my head and say, "What were you thinking when you invited a blind genius to be on your show talking about games of which not one could he play?"
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
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Welcome back, either to kinda lj or to dw bothering to cross post!
I'm fascinated by "you're not blind-blind" from people who presumably knew that your eyes were not the original equipment. I can't imagine the thought process or what they thought they meant.
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Date: 2016-02-17 10:00 pm (UTC)Re Livejournal: I realized that any time I tried to do anything on LJ, I spent waaay too much time trying to do things which shouldn't have taken very long at all, so I had already determined to try posting directly to DW.
I was going to log on to LJ and leave a post to this effect, but LJ wasn't letting me log on, so I decided to skip that step.
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vvalkyri http://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/profile replied to your Dreamwidth entry http://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/254295.html "Stevie Wonder is still the coolest guy in the universe" in which you said:
You know what a bad blind person I am, so I'm late coming to the news that Stevie Wonder made a blind joke, but I'm thrilled to be reminded what a cool guy Stevie is. I caught him a few years back on the Spike Awards, which is an award show for games, and, before announcing the winner (probably of the best game soundtrack), Stevie said something tot he effect of "In the future, I hope more of these games will be accessible," and the next day game boards freaked out, and all I could do was shake my head and say, "What were you thinking when you invited a blind genius to be on your show talking about games of which not one could he play?"
Stevie's braille joke also remeinded me that, back in the day when VHS was a thing, I would label my tapes in braille, which made my sighted friends crazy, especially when I would say, "What? You can't access that? Welcome to my world."
So, while I was searching for a video of Stevie doing the braille thing (in hopes of converting it to mp3), I came across the "Stevie Wonder isn't really blind" conspiracy. WTF? You crazy sighted kids: Stevie isn't too cool to be blind; Stevie is too cool to be sighted. This reminded me of my college days, when people often said to me, "But you're not blind-blind," and I would have to say no, I was as blind as they came, really, I had removable eyeballs, fercrissakes.
Also, question of the day: what is it called when a word is repeated for emphasis? I'm reminded of this trickster god I like, whose name is "Old Old Coyote."
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Welcome back, either to kinda lj or to dw bothering to cross post!
I'm fascinated by "you're not blind-blind" from people who presumably knew that your eyes were not the original equipment. I can't imagine the thought process or what they thought they meant.
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Date: 2016-02-17 11:04 pm (UTC)The doctors shining light in your eyes is such an amazing image. I want to make a Hallmark movie about it.