superheroes & media & hopeful moping
I got to chat with Lex The Lexicon Artist about her new album Alter Ego, branching into influential anime, the state of being a Chinese-American artist during the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, and also deez nuts. Dom: Hi there. Please introduce yourself, for those who may be unfamiliar or would confuse you with the Superman antagonist! Lex:…
In honor of the first trailer for WW84, an excerpt from a parodic version of Samuel Beckett’s classic tragicomedy Waiting For Godot, adapted by me: Scene: A country road, on the planet Apokolips. A tree. Evening. Helena, a Huntress, sits with Kara, a Kryptonian. HELENA: Do you remember the story of the two thieves? KARA: No. HELENA: Shall…
I – That STAR WARS IX trailer indeed comes out today during the Pats v.’ Jets game. UPDATED: The last final new trailer exists now. (October 21, as it happens, is also Carrie Fisher’s birthday.) Advance tickets for the December 20 opening ought to go on sale simultaneously. So the all-new thing today will be,…
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…
The “Disney Princess” mythos is a genre as restrictive as it is globally-superpowered, but in terms of the Official Princess Movie with the most patriarchy-subverting politics, I think it’s no contest: MULAN is by far the most progressive-minded cel-animated Disney Princess film, while also performing its essential sedative-hypnotic function on your child’s developing emotional vocabulary….
