Look. LOOK. Is it much too late for links about Netflix Christmas movies? Yes. Obviously. But in my defense, I was very tired in December and did not post links round-ups then, and I don’t think you should be deprived of good strong links just because they are no longer timely. So, you know, here we are. Here. We. Are. I read bell hooks’s work in a gender studies my senior year of college, and I have desperately admired her ever since. I’m heartbroken about her death this week. Here’s a round-up of social media tributes to her. (link) SHARKS.…
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Well, well, well, another week gone, and another week closer to Thanksgiving, a time at which I hope we can all look forward to having a few days of goddamn peace and quiet. Events keep flying at my head at very high speed, despite the fact that I have clearly stated in writing that I don’t want things to happen very suddenly. I want none things to happen! At slow speeds! My position on this has been clear from the beginning! However, since that seems not to be in the cards for me or for anyone, I am enjoying the…
Leave a CommentHello, hello! Once again, we have reached the weekend. We’ve done it together, hand in unlovable hand. I think the weeks and months are getting longer. Has anyone else noticed? I recommend convening a national committee of scientists to study this phenomenon and issue a comprehensive report about how to make it stop. Whilst time is crawling by, the weather has simply stopped trying. I am writing this post on an October evening and it is eighty-five degrees outside. This is ungodly. I have never heard of this alt-lit writer from a time before I was quite as online as…
Leave a CommentLook I know I KNOW we are all tired of the kidney / group chat / bad art friend discourse, it was fun when it dropped and now it’s the end of the week and we’re tired, I KNOW. It’s just that I need to talk about it with my mother at Sunday coffee, and for that to happen I need her to read the article, and for her to read the article I have to be like MOM READ THIS HERE on my blog or else one of us is going to forget that we ever wanted her to…
Leave a CommentThis year has been shit. This month has been shit. This week has been really shit. But there is a single ray of light, and it is Lil Nas X’s new album, Montero, which is getting me through. Craig Jenkins reviews the album for Vulture. (link) I am excited to see songs from Montero turn up in the repertoire of college marching bands. What does appropriation mean in food culture? (link) NPR crowd-sourced a list of the best SFF from the last ten years, and it’s a good-ass list. (link) The Jeopardy! situation was some real fuckin bullshit and I…
1 CommentMy Friday the 13ths tend to be good, but I’m getting the results of a COVID test today, which feels very very cursed. Pray for me; I really want to do sister night with my sister tonight, and I very much want to spend some bonding time with my nephew this weekend. I miss him! He is such a good boy! Anyway, let’s have a links round-up! I’m going to start with an article that is partly rather grim about the future of the pandemic, but also reassures us that the pandemic will end someday. This is helpful to me.…
Leave a CommentOMG I am highly blessed and favored, y’all. Literally as I was writing this post, I was complaining internally about the fact that it’s the middle of July and still no second-half-of-2021 book preview from The Millions. I was like, “Forget ‘I love television,’ I’m going to use the subject of this post to bitch about the fact that the lengthy and clearly labor-intensive book preview has not dropped,” and as I was thinking about a pithy way to bitch about that, I opened The Millions to double-check and you will never guess what happened! YES THAT IS RIGHT IT…
Leave a CommentI don’t have any links about 2021 being halfway over, but I just felt like this post should acknowledge it. Like: What the fuck? How? It was March yesterday! But also, the coup attempt was eleventyfinity years ago, so I guess we have confirmed via science that time has not yet resumed being normal. The first of the links in this links round-up pleased me mightily, and then there are some that are a bit sad, and then we close out with some articles about cults, and yes, I do include the world of the Bachelor franchise in that. (Just kidding.)…
Leave a CommentHappy Friday! I’ve got some excellent links about the new HBO series The Underground Railroad, plus some thoughts on *jazz hands* trauma. Cause I am who I am, fundamentally! Barry Jenkins worked hard to avoid sensationalizing and exploiting Black trauma in his adaptation of The Underground Railroad, but the material was difficult nonetheless. A therapist was on set at all times to protect and help the cast and crew. (link) Always read an Alex Brown review! They’re at Tor this week reviewing Barry Jenkins’s new TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad, which handles Black trauma with care and thoughtfulness. (link)…
1 CommentHappy Friday, beloved friends! I bring glad tidings of great joy: Leverage Redemption has released a trailer and told us a release date (July of this year). Between this and Ted Lasso, the summer TV of 2021 is shaping up to really, really be what I deserve out of life. Here‘s the trailer for Leverage. Here‘s the trailer for Ted Lasso. Great. Now we are all on the same page. Two articles about burnout: one here, one here. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a tremendous writer on Black politics, and this profile of her is terrific. (link) Nadya Agrawal talks about what…
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