Protests are forming in cities across the nation Friday in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died while in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers. Earlier in the day, 44-year-old Derek Chauvin, the former officer seen in disturbing video kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he cried out in […]
via Live updates: George Floyd protests grow in cities across the U.S. — WFLA
“Shot Through the Heart” is a segment in which I rant about a story that means the world to me. Each week we’ll go over a film, book, short story, or game that touched me in ways that are hard to put into words without them just turning into word vomit. This week we discuss […]
via Shot Through the Heart – Interstellar — WRITE DRUNK; EDIT DRUNK
A former Minneapolis police officer was arrested and charged with murder after an unarmed black man died in custody. Derek Chauvin, who is white, was featured on Monday kneeling on the neck of 46-year-old George Floyd. He and three other officers were released. Looting and arson days in the city of Minnesota have turned into […]
I read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” (which I will from now on acronym as “ARoOO”…you know like a wo(o)lf-ish howl) one Christmas break while home from college. I was lying in the reading nest that my sister and I had made, and was feeling toasty through and through with Earl Grey tea. […]
via Why Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” Is Still Relevant — Reflecting You, Reflecting Me
I have spent the last couple of days working on the graduation video– or, at least, the “celebration” video, since technically we’re not supposed to call it a graduation (or use Pomp and Circumstance) if it’s not high school. One way or another, though, I’ve been working on it. The final project is going to […]
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Angelina Jolie has been a force on the big screen and on the red carpet since the ’80s! From her edgy black hair in 1996’s ‘Foxfire,’ to her bright yellow ball gown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, Angelina’s beauty and fashion evolution is unmatched!
via Angelina Jolie Then & Now: From ‘Tomb Raider’ To ‘Maleficent’ & Beyond — Hollywood Life
Robert Pattinson is hyping “Tenet” as a film “so insane it becomes almost frightening.”
Before the rose was there, the garden was full of moss. I started as a seed under it, waiting for the right time to sprout. Clover waited, and waited, and tended the garden, and didn’t listen to anyone who said she should give up. Moss, my other mother, she waited too. But Clover was the […]
via The Power of Whimsy and Magic in Queer Stories — The Afictionado
No, I did not at any time in my journalism career interview Tom Cruise. Never had the opportunity to chat with or even glance in person at the powerful and popular mega-star/Scientology advocate/Oprah couch-jumper. I did on multiple occasions, however, review Cruise films in print. In Yuma, it was “Top Gun,” “The Color of Money” […]
Brute Force (1947) Before he became the Birdman of Alcatraz, Burt Lancaster played a convict who’s fresh out of a long stretch in the hole. He only has three things on his mind: his wife’s operation (she refuses medical help unless he’s by her side); revenge on the guy who sent him into solitary confinement;…
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