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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
That Vega$ 1978 TV pilot. But with credits, other hits of men who made it

Richard Lang: Kung Fu, Texas

Aaron Spelling: 90210, Melrose Place, Charlie’s Angels

Douglas Cramer: Wonder Woman, Batman, Incredible Hulk

E Duke Vincent: Dynasty, Charmed

Michael Mann: Miami Vice, Heat
You'll never be prepared for anything you see in this video. You just won't. Subtitles and numbers were automatic cc, so there are blanks and errors, BUT it's necessary to see in writing what they're saying in this video. You'll need it trying to understand anything you witness.
I was watching like, wow, interesting how progressive the 70s were with so openly and naturally depicting plural relationships. And, also, like how they get a car inside the house? Then, the shit took the sharpest left turn.
I included the show creators and credits to deepen the talk beyond bewilderment at the video onto how a lot of mass popular culture is created and curated by Hollywood, where the most plentiful, powerful, influential, and widely told stories are the fantasies of rich white men.

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6 Apr
My child got sent to Zoom detention for not paying attention in Zoom 4th grade. Email said here’s the link to access the room to serve detention.

I swear I’m trying so hard to take this life seriously.
So, more details. This is an office referral, where the teacher gives repeated verbal warnings over time, then escalates to sending the child to the principal's office and notifying parents. At "detention" she's supposed to discuss and reflect with the behavior interventionist.
The repeated behavior the teacher warned my 9yo and emailed me previously about is my child's inability to focus consistently in online class and complete the assignments. She frequently gets distracted, plays computer games, ignores the teacher, or just signs off Zoom.
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Every mom I know (including me) has tried to hide from her kids to eat some little thing by herself. I'll never forget one time my friend called me from her car parked down the block from her house, cuz she had one taco and just wanted to eat it in peace without children begging.
If you don't live with children, I can't explain how difficult it is to eat your food without them asking for it. I can never sit down with my plate (even after giving them theirs!!) and my kids will leave me alone. Leftovers they ignored for days, the minute I eat, I must share.
ANYTHING I put near my mouth, my children will beg for. When I serve myself anything, I put extra knowing kids will magically appear from hidden corners all over the house to demand I give them a piece, a bite, a slice. And if I refuse, they stand and stare at me until I give in.
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2 Apr
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but, if you’re paying for plane tickets, hotels, meals, dates, and other gifts for someone who travels to have sex with you, you ARE paying for sex. Ass ain’t free—certainly not the kind you like—and you’re well aware of this fact.
Conversely, if you’re getting “flewed out” to provide sex, and an adult doing this of your free will and under no coercion to feed a habit, good for you, enjoy yourself. However, know you’re being paid for sex, so understand these transactions, implied contracts, and your rights.
People out here declaring “I have never paid for sex. I’m a generous lover who pays for tickets, dinners, and gifts.” Nah, trick, you pay for sex. Just like the person you paying for sex is doing sex work. If both are consenting adults, understand the business being conducted.
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Parents struggle to do what we think best for kids. We also negotiate how others react to results of our parenting. My kid lost a friend whose mom thinks she's a bad influence on her child. I fully understand her decision with no ill will. I also value my child and my approach. ImageImage
My kid was giggling in class over some problem with number 69. She asked her friend if he knew "the 69 joke" or why 69 was funny. The teacher rightfully called my kid's joke inappropriate and shut it down. Her friend asked his mom why. She said he can't talk to my child any more.
My daughter never heard about "69" from me. But, I give her books, and she regularly hears frank discussion about what sex and sexual activities are, sexual feelings, her body, how to recognize and report when somebody is doing sexual things to her. She can openly talk about sex.
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22 Mar
I take such pleasure in recognizing old hip hop in new Afrobeat. You can imagine my delight hearing that famous flute from Beatnuts “Watch out now” on the opening to Olamide’s “Greenlight.”
In case you don’t know the Beatnuts reference that I swear on my dying breath Olamide’s producer sampled, here it is. And to keep it fully real, Beatnuts got that flute from a 70s funk/disco hit “Hijack.”
And if I’m talking about old hip hop samples in contemporary Afrobeat, I will never neglect to mention Wizkid’s “Ojuelegba” which sampled Snoop and Dre’s “Nuthin but a G thang”
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You know there’s a mental illness “drapetomania” that causes enslaved Black people to run, makes them hostile, angry against oppression?

And a psychiatric disorder “dysaethesia aethiopica” that makes them lazy, slow moving, unwilling to work for free, always breaking equipment?
I ask if you know about drapetomania and dysaesthesia aethiopica to ask if you know how the two most common stereotypes of African Americans being violent and lazy are directly situated in dominant ideologies and history of racism and exploitation of Black people.
And just as you should be very skeptical of the notion African Americans are somehow more actively violent and at the same time more inactive and lazier than everyone, you should be wary of the ridiculous, racist idea that they value education and schooling less than anybody.
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