superheroes & media & hopeful moping
From a transcript of the joint press event with Congresswomen Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, and Tlaib, July 15, 2019: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): Good afternoon. I will try to keep this as brief as I can. But who knows, when I get on a roll, right? When I was a little girl, my father took me…
Maddow’s mad. I watch her show enough to notice when she’s feeling extra-deeply about a thing. She has the skilled thespian’s ability to control her emotions while seeming like she’s not able to control them (or the reverse). It’s part of why she’s really good at television. Today she was mad-not-mad about a court ruling…
The DARK PHOENIX film premieres this week, representing the second cinematic version of, arguably, the most important story arc in the history of the X-Comics. But in the real world, Donny Trump, astonishingly, is still our President. (Fair warning, this post is purposefully premised on a non sequitur, but there’ll also be pretty art from…
Is Michael Cohen still just lying? QUITE POSSIBLY. Is he a man who’s done dirty deeds all his life, now feels genuinely bad about it, and wants in some way to make amends? Also possible. Is the 2007 film MICHAEL CLAYTON (starring George Clooney, written and directed by Tony Gilroy) a romanticized movie version of…
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, Senators Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Kamala Harris of California (the two women of color on the Judiciary Committee, both Democrats) offered memorable moments in the astonishing spectacle concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who asserts that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted…
