Samantha Bee, with an assist from Javier Muñoz (and Donald Trump) presents a quick overview of the hundred-year history of Puerto Rico getting screwed with its pantalones on by the United States. After watching this video you will know more about the Jones Act than the Full Frontal Graphics department. [Read more…]
Our Eclipse Adventure, Part II: The Path of Totality
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
We spent the second night at a place called Point of Rocks. It’s really just a truck stop, right off the interstate, but it has a neat name. It turned out that Arline wasn’t as comfortable as I’d been the night before. She wanted to be among other vehicles and people. Any noises during the night, from the nearby freeway or from trucks moving around the area, were no intrusion to a peaceful night for us both.
The little café attached to the truck stop office/store didn’t look appetizing as we drove by, so I elected to “drive down the road a bit” to another eatery. Little did I realize that next stop would be Rawlins, 80 miles “down the road”!
The eatery, once we got there, turned out to be totally worth it. Right off the freeway exit, Cappy’s was once a BJs Brewhouse. I guess it wasn’t urban enough for BJs, but it seemed just fine on this day-before-eclipse Sunday. [Read more…]
A Modern Day ‘My Country, ’Tis of Thee’
My country, ’tis of Thee,
Troubled land of shooting sprees,
Of Thee I sing;
Land where 20 Sandy Hook children died,
Land where they tried to kill gay pride,
From ev’ry mountain side, high caliber bullets fly,
When will it end? [Read more…]
If This Isn’t Terrorism, What Is? Reflections on the Mass Shooting in Las Vegas | Video Worth Watching
MSNBC hosts Chris Hayes of All In and Rachel Maddow of The Rachel Maddow Show reflect on how frustrating it is to not be able to have a rational discussion about regulating the machinery that permits the kind of carnage that occured in Las Vegas, where nearly 600 people were killed or injured in a mass shooting on October 1st. For other kinds of machinery, be it airplanes or automobiles, we have been able to address the issues that cause fatalities and have devised regulations and operational policies to minimize or prevent them. For the machinery of weapons, not so much. [Read more…]
Our Eclipse Adventure, Part I: On the Road to Casper
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
About the beginning of July, my honey and I were talking and the bucket list concept came up. Of course we’ve seen the movie and discussed it before, and she had said in the past that while there are places she’d still like to go, she didn’t really have a “bucket list,” per se.
But that day, out of the blue, she says that the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) is her bucket list.
Now, I’m a photographer; I’ve seen two TSEs and photographed one of those, and I’ve been aware of this one coming for 5 years — ever since I missed the TSE on my birthday in 2012. (It was in Australia and we simply couldn’t spare the time away.)
I know I mentioned it at least once or twice in the last year because her birthday is August 8, and it’s like a celestial birthday gift (even if it is 2 weeks late) but she never said a thing about wanting to see it. Until now. Arline is just about to turn – are you ready …? – 86 years old. So, when she said ‘eclipse’ and ‘bucket list’ together, I really sat up and took notice. This wasn’t just a passing thought. [Read more…]
Tackling Racism
Beyoncé Sings for Disaster Relief – ‘Mi Gente’ | Video Worth Watching
Beyoncé joins Willy William and J. Balvin to sing Mi Gente for disaster relief. And what’s not to love about having the lyrics be followed along with a bouncing head instead of a bouncing ball!
Oh, & BTW if anyone can explain what the heck is going on tonsorially with the guy at 2:27 (and 3:24) please leave a comment below. I’m baffled.
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Geo-Poetic Spaces : Paper Cranes
Fists unfold wings spread paper cranes offer themselves to fire’s fury
before the flame can cast light
into nuclear shadows [Read more…]
Violent Buddhists? Sad, But True. And the Rohingya are the Victims | Video Worth Watching
With nearly all of the media oxygen being sucked up by the POTUS lately, it’s important that we not forget that there is a world out there beyond the United States. And part of that world is experiencing an event that the the United Nations characterizes as what seems to be “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. It seems almost oxymoronic—violent Buddhists—but that indeed is the situation in the Western Rakhine state of the predominantly Buddhist country of Myanmar. The ethnic Muslim Rohingya are being targeted by the Myanmar military. The roots of this conflict go back to World War Two where each group supported opposing sides—the Rohingya supported the colonial British while the Buddhists supported the invading Japanese. [Read more…]
Review: Martyna Majok’s ‘Ironbound’ Encapsulates Struggle of a Polish Immigrant Woman
Moxie Theatre is staging its first production the 2017-2018 season, Martyna Majok’s “Ironbound.” Directed by Jennifer Eve Thorn, “Ironbound” is a story about a Polish immigrant woman “for whom love is a luxury and a liability as she fights to survive in America,” as described in the program.
Set at a bus stop at night in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Jacque Wilke portrays the life of Darja from 1992 — shortly after she emigrated to the United States with her first husband Maks (Arusi Santi) — until 2014, when she deals with her unfaithful boyfriend Tommy (Eric Casalini), a letter carrier.
Using 2014 as a jumping-off point, the play’s narrative goes switches between defining moments in Darja’s relationships with her two husbands (only her first husband appears on stage), her son (who never appears on stage) and Tommy, her current boyfriend. Vic (Carter Piggee), a high school kid, who finds Darja at the bus stop after she has been beaten by her second husband, acts as a Good Samaritan. [Read more…]
The Addams Family Dancing Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones | Video Worth Watching
I think I sorta remember seeing this episode during the original series broadcast, … but then again, maybe not …
(h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
An Homage to Puerto Rico’s ‘La Perla’ After Hurricane Maria | Video Worth Watching
Before there was “Despacito” there was a heartfelt homage to “La Perla” by Puerto Rican musician and poet ‘Residente Calle 13’. The lyrics are in Puerto Rican Spanish but you don’t need to understand the words to appreciate the lay of the land, the atmosphere of the landscape and the vibrant sense of community. In this performance, Residente is accompanied by Panamanian musician Rubén Blades and his samba band Chilinga. Residente’s lyrics can be a bit crude, but they’re pure poetry. One of my favorite images is from the refrain “La noche me sirve de sabana” – The night is my blanket.
And from El Nuevo Día, one of Puerto Rico’s daily newspapers, there’s this coverage of La Perla in the aftermath of Maria. The dialog is in Spanish, but the video can be appreciated by any viewer. It’s painfully obvious that much work will be needed to restore the physical structures, but also obvious that La Perla’s spirit is indomitable. [Read more…]
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