A few days ago Friend Anne and I watched Macbeth. We didn’t go to a theater or even a drive-in, we both logged in to Amazon on our PCs and there was an option for Amazon Prime watch party. One person invites the other, and if you are the other, you must use your Amazon Prime login to get the movie to open. (“MacEllen, Thane of Saint Charles” will be rejected.)
Then, after the movie launched, we started typing in the chat window on the side, and it was like Mystery Science Theater 3000, MacBeth Edition.
Macbeth rides a horse without wearing any pants. (That’s going to chafe.)
Macbeth takes a bath in a pond and we simultaneously typed “Well, hello.”
Macduff mourns the death of his wife and all his “sweet chickens.” (MacChickens.)
It was so pleasant we’re doing it again tonight. Not Macbeth this time, but an opera.
7 responses to “Prime Watch Party: The Scottish Play”
That sounds excellent! (except Amazon, ick. I have swapped from “trying vaguely to reduce Amazon usage” to “NOPE unless there is no other option” because of them trying to keep information about COVID positives quiet: this is not the way to treat your workers. I mean, it is consistent with the way they have been treating their workers, but apparently that was one line too far. I had *thought* that requiring onerous airline-scanner-style checks for their employees while not paying their employees for the time spent waiting in line to get through the checkpoint *and* refusing to supply more checkpoints to reduce the wait time was the line too far, but no, actually, apparently this was it.)
So funny! Now I need to go watch MST. Haven’t seen those in years! And great progress on your paintings. I know I said it before, but it’s weirdly relaxing (?) to see them go from start to finish. Sort of like reading a book, you (hopefully) won’t know how it turns out until the end.
KC – Then again, I have a friend who works there and she loves it. No complaints. Well, perhaps she thinks they are listening.Lisa – I never actually watched MST on a regular basis. I recently watched “Space … something” which is the Spanish language version of Marooned, on MST. There an article out there of the funniest episodes, I would watch those.
I had a friend who worked in dev in the mid-00s. It was horrible and misogynist (both her immediate working groups and the corporate culture in general) and she was… not… one to complain about a few sexist comments. and then she left and was much happier, and 2 selfish (I mean, on the “who cares about them [*any* them]? I got mine.”) and also misogynist jerks I knew in college went to work there and I’m like “hm.”
That said, I know zero stock-pickers/packers. I’d sort of assume working conditions would vary by facility. I am also not sure about psychological screwiness, on the order of “only the best survive – therefore, if you’re still working here, you must be the best, congratulations!”
I guess: I’d want more than one data point…
KC – and you are right, I only have my data point. Their covid response does sound pretty fishy.
Their covid response was 100% unacceptable. I mean: concealing cases, not providing PPE, union-busting shenanigans, ALL BAD, especially when, as a company, they’ve got access to resources [including suppliers of PPE!], and they do not have the excuse of financially struggling. (which is, to be honest, *still* a really bad excuse for corporations doing things that will directly result in people dying. But when you’re profiting tidily, even that excuse is out the window.)
I guess: There are likely pockets of humane behavior even at Amazon! and I bet a lot of the non-manager, on-the-ground worker bees are great! But the corporate ethos stinks to high heaven.
KC – well, yes. They lost me at concealing cases.