I'm surprised! I did not expect such a literal turn. It's kind of interesting?
I used to be obsessed with all things 1940s. There's so much great children's literature set during that era (see also: the original All Creatures Great and Small). Hunh.
I was enchanted by books like Starring Sally J. Freedman, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Summer of my German Soldier (😫), Number the Stars, The Devil's Arithmetic
So it's evocative of an industrious, victory-garden growing, Rosie the Riveter type of American attitude, but even if you're too young to have missed that, it's still going to catch the generation that lived through the swing revival of the 90s
Look, you're clearly a fan of the New Deal aesthetics so you might as well bring back the WPA and the Living Newspapers too, @POTUS! theundefeated.com/features/a-cov…
So, Henry Huggins is 1950s but the I'll style is not that far removed
Illo* (sighs)
I was obsessed with her, ok? Obsessed!
Anyway, there's something admirable, I think, in trying to meet people where they are.
And back when the U.S. used to make stuff, some long-lasting design came out of it!
really annoyed that Brian Tyree Henry doesn’t have the career/mag covers/etc commensurate with his stratospheric talent and charisma
He's a leading man.
I've seen a few of these "But the MCU!" tweets and it's so dreary and depressing to think that fronting some massive company's superhero IP is the best use of his time and talents.
I'm still stuck on the fact that someone thought "are you a virgin" was an ok question to ask
I wish I could go back in time and grab that mic from Britney and scream NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS
If you watch the Britney andTiger docs back to back, you see how gross and entitled media felt about the cash cows B and T's parents created.
The "serious" news media benefits from tabloid skeeze too, because they're covering it. There's no way to be a respectable parasite
And of course, there's very little serious interrogation of this. Both in celebrity and sports media, there are folks who operate on the idea that because these people rake in tons of money, they have forfeited some right to need human things like fulfilment and connection
This country does not *have* to be this broken. But it will remain so as long as it continues to self soothe with white supremacist mythology instead of reckoning with truth.
The Capitol Police had more ire and force for Cynthia McKinney, a whole then-SITTING CONGRESSWOMAN that they did for armed terrorists sfgate.com/politics/amp/M…
Leadership basically made Rep. McKinney apologize for that cop's racism!
It was so gross.
All 44 did was (correctly!) say a cop acted stupidly for arresting an old black man who uses a cane entering his own house and he had to have that idiotic beer summit