"Tipping the Velvet" is the saga of a lesbian around the turn of the century. It's sort of a lesbian Moll Flanders or Vanity Fair. And the wild thing is that it is not too far-fetched. It is a frank and romantic rags-to-riches girl meets girl after girl tale.
I am amused the actress Jodhi May is in it. She has done lesbian roles before. She isn't gorgeous, but you can get used to her. She is the soft, sensitive type with the brass hidden below the surface. She isn't the star but a supporting actress.
It's a good show. Check it out. I got this one... from the library.
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Speaking of the library's copy of "Tipping the Velvet", we had a patron at Blake who had a total shitfit about it (and not how you'd think).
This roughly middle-aged female patron apparently put in a request for purchase of said DVD. It was put on order w/ accompanying hold (as normal) and a couple weeks later they came by Blake to inquire about the status of their purchase request. They were informed that upon up the item in Sirsi, they were indeed on the hold list for it...with one person ahead of them. It was explained to the patron that it was possible that the person in question could have also requested the movie at roughly the same time, or slightly sooner, and thus ended up on the hold list ahead of them.
Needless to say, the patron had a shitfit because their weren't first, most noteably including yelling about how nobody could know about the movie unless they were gay. Granted, it apparently never occured to them A) how stupid that logic is B) that perhaps there could be at least one other gay person using the MCLS.
The funny thing is that I didn't know about the movie. I just place holds on things that are new and wait and wait like everyone else. My sexual orientation has nothing to do with it. I wonder why she was so upset. She must have been the one who requested that we purchase it. If she needed it that badly, you have to wonder... why didn't she just buy it herself?
I may have read the "full details," but then again, I might have just been in one of those "put-me-on-the-list-for-another-obscure-flick" moods. I don't know what to expect and I keep my expectations of the flicks low so that I am rarely disappointed and sometimes just about delighted.
It's amusing to observe what people think of themselves and others. But I don't have to tell you that.
I wonder if that was the event that served as catalyst for us being told that we cannot tell people that they will be the first to get something they put on order. I don't know if I was the first person on the holds list or not. I hope not because I would hate to think that I caused human suffering. I swear. Americans really do want life to go as though they were floating on clouds and everything was simply handed to them (including their thoughts.)
Oh... wait a minute....
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