Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled September 16, 2024Amber Thurman was only 28 when she died. A routine procedure - a D&C - would have saved her life, but Georgia has made performing a D&C a felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison. Pro-life kills women. https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
- Untitled September 14, 2024A ridiculous lawsuit - the Death Game plotline is so common it's a genre unto itself. It's as if someone claimed Spider-Man is a Superman swipe because they're both about muclemen in tights who fight crime. Yes, they have a lot in common, but genre tropes shouldn't be copyrightable.
- Untitled September 13, 2024Today in D.C., "A Soldier's Journey" by Sabin Howard - part of the WWI memorial - was unveiled. And the 58 foot wide sculpture is comics! It has a single main character and tells a story sequentially from left to right. (Thread) @scottmccloud.bsky.social
- Untitled September 13, 2024I'm glad Bautista is feeling good, but what I'm mostly impressed by is his lunchbox collection. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled September 13, 2024Good post by Noah, about the odd double-standard between how the media and party treated Biden (driven out after a disastrous debate performance) vs Trump (no one even suggests he should drop out after a disastrous debate). https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/everyone-knows-trump-is-less-fit
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All the movies watched by Presidents Carter and Reagan
Don’t know why I find this so interesting, but I do, so I might as well share it with you folks. Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House And FILMS PRESIDENT AND MRS. REAGAN VIEWED (Chronologically … Continue reading
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A List Of Musicals I’ve Seen Live
Scene from the production of “Sweeney Todd” I saw in 2023 So I was chatting with Myca earlier today, and he mentioned seeing Amelie The Musical and wanted to know if I’d like the Playbill. No, I said, I don’t … Continue reading
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“Minions” may beat “Lava” for most sexist kid’s movie of the year
“Lava,” as I hope you don’t recall, is the animated short that accompanies “Inside Out,” the otherwise wonderful new Pixar movie. As I’ve said before, some cartoonists draw women as “visual aliens”; men are allowed to be earthy and funny-looking … Continue reading
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Enough with the torture scenes, please
A scene from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” in which Captain America and Black Widow are trying to get information from a bad guy: Jasper Sitwell: Is this little display meant to insinuate that you’re gonna throw me off the … Continue reading
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TV and Movies I’ve Watched Lately: The Slap, Dear White People, Time Lapse, Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The NeverBeast, Sarah Conner Chronicles, The Hobbit
The Slap. The first episode of the American TV show made me recall something Gore Vidal once wrote: “Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there … Continue reading
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“Tribes” by Nina Raine
(Spoilers ahoy!) I saw a performance of “Tribes,” the award-winning play by British playwright Nina Raine, today. It was good, but… is there a word in English for “something so good that it becomes actively frustrating that it wasn’t better“? … Continue reading
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Let’s discuss the Into The Woods movie!
(Spoilers ahead! Also, the above image collage was swiped from ArtInsights Magazine.) I saw Into The Woods on Christmas, as part of my annual “Chinese food & a movie” Christmas tradition. Some thoughts: 1) Johnny Depp played the Wolf as … Continue reading
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