We lucked out and got walk-in tickets to the new African American History Museum on the Mall. (They just opened in September, and its a timed ticket thing, and they are booked up for months and months, BUT if you go to the side-entrance starting at 1pm you can get walk-in tix on a first-come first-serve basis.) When we went in and got maps, they ( Read more... )

Last night we went to see Belle, a film I was very much looking forward to and was delighted to see playing in town.


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I wanted to write a long post talking about all of these things in a thoughtful manner, then my brain popped. So here. HAVE ALL THE THINGS.

On Race and History:

It's Time to Talk About Black Tudors

One of the examples of Africans found in important jobs at the time is a man named Fortunatus, who was in the employ of Robert Cecil, a member of ( Read more... )

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So this is a really interesting speech and I love that it's about *words.* And Joss supplies "genderist" as an analog to "racist" to contextualize, to acknowledge this whole history up until "we realized it was wrong"--and, here's the thing, HISTORY ISN'T LIKE THAT ( Read more... )

I don't like being glad someone is dead, but--I really really am.

Soooo, now what?

I am astonished.

1) McCain acting like a decent human being. I almost like him again.

2) Hi, human race. You're surprising me. I kinda love you now.

First, how awesome is the October issue of Harper's Magazine? 'Cause Naomi Klein has a great essay on disaster capitalism in it.

Next, Viacom is putting ALL episodes of The Daily Show online at http://www.thedailyshow.com/. Including the Craig Kilborn ones. They're not all up yet, but a lot are. God, Jon Stewart in 1999 looks so young and innocent ( Read more... )