Jason Pettus @jasonpettus@mastodon.cloud

Today at my blog: A field report from my first-ever #Chicago #Deaf #social #event, a #GameOfThrones party at #DeafPlanetSoul; and some sobering thoughts about #LateDeafenedAdults like myself. https://write.as/jasonpettus/asl-adventures-game-of-thrones-night-at-deaf-planet-soul

Read my 2-star review of #MartinAmis' 1989 #LondonFields, which doubles as a look at why these kinds of "white male misogynist nerd writes violent fairytale" stories have so profoundly fallen out of favor in our "woke" times. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2781693500

I am completely ashamed of myself for the sheer amount of dirty pleasure I've been getting from the constant new revelations in the #AllisonMack #NXIVM trial. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nxivm-cult-allison-mack-pleads-guilty-racketeering-charges-819278/

Today at my personal journal: A field report from the #Chicago #Inclusive #Dance #Festival, and my first experience with #ASL #signlanguage "signing in the wild." https://write.as/jasonpettus/asl-adventures-the-chicago-inclusive-dance-festival-and-my-first-signing-in

Today at my personal journal: In which I hold my very first conversation in #ASL #signlanguage, and channel the spirit of Harry freaking Potter https://write.as/jasonpettus/he-speaks-he-speaks-er-he-signs-he-signs

Today at my personal journal: In Which Your Humble Narrator Learns #ASL #SignLanguage For The First Time, And Accidentally Discovers The Smart, Subversive Pleasures of #LizzyWeiss's #DeafCulture Teen Soap Opera #SwitchedAtBirth https://write.as/jasonpettus/those-sexy-deaf-teens-sure-are-courageous

Read my extra-long 4-star review of #LeoMJacob's #ADeafAdultSpeaksOut, which doubles as my #primer on the #politics and #issues of the contemporary #Deaf #community. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2759615084

Read my 3 1/2-star #review of #PGWodehouse's early-career 1919 novel, the British upper-class romantic farce #ADamselInDistress. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2758429875

Read my 2-star review of #MarkSampson's political-correctness black comedy, #TheSlip. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2753711544

Read my 5-star review of #ChristopherBuckley's latest historical comedic thriller, the 1600s New World adventure tale #TheJudgeHunter. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2752591602

I know, I know, it's the very definition of 'cliche' for someone learning #ASL #signlanguage to rent #ChildrenOfALesserGod, like I did tonight. But DAAAAMMN what a good movie, seriously. First-ever woman-directed film to get a Best Picture Oscar nomination!

#LaCroixWater #CEO calls the #disabled helpless invalids who would die without the aid of their helper "normals," then compares this to the act of marketing club soda to explain why #LaCroix sales were down last year. https://boingboing.net/2019/03/08/la-croix-ceos-wacky-handic.html

Methinks that #Facebook use being up among #grandparents and down in the millions by their #grandkids is perhaps not ENTIRELY unrelated nuggets of datum. https://boingboing.net/2019/03/08/strong-with-over-55s.html

#TheOnion headline come to life: "Tech Executives Not Too Thrilled About #ElizabethWarren's Plan To Treat Tech Executives As Hostile Monopoly Tycoons" https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/venture-investors-and-startup-execs-say-they-dont-need-elizabeth-warren-to-defend-them-from-big-tech/

New #Chrome #extension will pull out the #recipe from the bottom of a #foodie #blog page and lay it over the author's endless story about autumn mornings and their cast-iron skillet and how their kids love this dish. https://skillet.lifehacker.com/skip-straight-to-the-recipe-with-this-chrome-extension-1833154922

#ElizabethWarren has announced that, if elected #President, she will treat large internet companies as #hostile #monopolies forced to break up, or face a fine of 5% their yearly revenue (so for #Google, for example, 2 billion dollars). https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/presidential-hopeful-elizabeth-warren-is-calling-for-the-breakup-of-big-tech/

#Screenshots from tonight's viewing of the most '80slicious thriller ever made, #MichaelCrichton's 1981 #Looker.

#Screenshots from tonight's viewing of the most '80slicious thriller ever made, #MichaelCrichton's 1981 #Looker.

#Screenshots from tonight's viewing of the most '80slicious thriller ever made, #MichaelCrichton's 1981 #Looker.

#Screenshots from tonight's viewing of the most '80slicious thriller ever made, #MichaelCrichton's 1981 #Looker.