52 By Women 2020 #53: Dance, Girl, Dance There's a tremendous scene when Marueen O'Hara, playing our hero, performs the hula, competently, artistically well, and desperately needs the success. We cut to the promoter watching, a cigar-chomping man, who does little chomping as we clearly see him bore...

Seems no matter what Republicans say about Harris, they're going to be tarred as racist. They can't ask simple questions like: Does her Jamaican and Indian parents disqualify her? Is she really American? Is she really Black? Is she ashamed of being Indian? Are her beliefs based on a Kenyan worldview...

Howard On Disney Plus, a documentary on Howard Ashman, made by the friends who loved him. A clear look at the life of one of the wittiest songwriters ever, a relatively regular by-the-numbers but often moving chronological review of his life. I get it's about his life, but I wish there was more app...

Dear Bad Feminist, I've referred to Kamala Harris by her first name and have seen others in the media (public and social) doing the same. Should I start conditioning myself to call her by her last name? Should I encourage others? Or is a name that has never been a top 1000 baby name in the US, ok to...

New York is back to hospital levels not seen since March 15.

Optimist me: this is great, we did it!
Pessimist me: we're back to the original "this is way too high we need to shut things down" level.

If it's Harris (big "if" but it'd be very significant if it's not), I think the last time a VP pick was this obvious was when it was Kerry/Edwards (and even Fox News was sure it was Gephardt). It's interesting that VP picks are often very dull, and it's often a cautionary tale when they ar...

52 By Women 2020 #52: Eve's Bayou :banana: Great movie! Move over, McConaissance, Samuel L Jackson from 1989 to 1998 was an unstoppable force. I love how his character's mood/demeanor would change whenever he was interrupted by his daughters. You can see it as putting up a facade, but the evidence ...

It is! Thanks Tahlvin! Got a Google Hub I asked for today, not so much for the connectivity/ privacy invasions, but because it acts as a digital slideshow / picture frame, and as much as I've been waiting years for an electronic ink version of a digital picture frame, I gave in because this one dims...

52 By Women 2020 #51: Little Woods Nia DaCosta, whose "Candyman" is highly-anticipated this year (with one of the greatest trailers ever made ), got her gig after the the festival-circuit success of this film. And there's a lot to admire here in its filmmaking. DaCosta's debut feels like ...

52 By Women 2020 #49: Blue Steel I remember the cover of this film from the old video rental days. Given I had seen films similarly (star Jamie Lee Curtis' "True Lies" comes to mind, but other police procedurals) I must assume I never watched this because it was about a female cop. But it...

I Love Lucy thoughts on her 109th birthday
1. my kids (5&8) love it.
2. It's timeless, except for some gender role stuff (ewwwww).
3. Lucy's schemes are almost always bad ideas but Ricky's counter-schemes are almost always overly-cruel.
4. The theme song ups my dopamine.

Yeah, at the same time, I'd rather not a fictional character get raped in a film meant for entertainment -- but ignoring realities -- ugh. Slate did a little thing today on the folk music in Black is King, including a bit about "Mbube" https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/black-is-king-africa...

6.

It's in the title, so this would count


Chicken?

Major League Baseball has 80 cases of covid since early July.
80 cases / (30 teams * 26 players) = 10% of players.
Not a safe working environment.

52 By Women 2020 #48: Pariah Moving portrait of an LGBT teen, Alike, trying to navigate love and friends and family. Nothing is made easy for her. She's viewed as a pariah after all. What really hit me, as a parent of kids who I hope will still like me when they grow up, is all the little aggressio...

Orange? Little known fun fact: It's a color and a fruit!

52 By Women 2020 #45: Black is King A loose retelling of The Lion King through modern songs and styles and life and lens of Beyonce. As hoped, "Mood 4 Eva" is a great sequence, which begins with an extended play of an Oumou Sangare song But right before that we hear a bit of Solomon Linda...