beginning the new year with a big dumb superhero movie, and one of my personal favorite big dumb superhero movies, AQUAMAN
tomorrow we’ll hunker down with something serious but for now i just want to see crab people and an octopus drummer
i’ll say though for as dumb as this movie is, the submarine sequence is legitimately great action filmmaking, and yahya abdul-mateen is just utterly captivating
i just have the biggest weakness for movies where great actors deliver absolute nonsense lines
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got my hands on four pounds of great looking collards and i am very excited to cook them on saturday
longtime followers will know that i’m a guy who loves collard greens
a recipe i really like is from asha gomez’s “my two souths.” i use all collards & swap the ham for smoked turkey. i also do it in the pressure cooker (40 minutes), which means less water/stock (just a cup). the nutmeg is very non-traditional but trust me it works.
My newsletter will still come out tomorrow but this is my last column of the year, on the late Tyler Stovall’s last book “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea” nytimes.com/2021/12/17/opi… l
This year, I have been really interested in questions of labor, political equality, the intersection of race and capitalism, and constitutional reform, and my favorite columns have touched on at least one of those areas. I thought I’d share some of them.
In January, I wrote about the history of the filibuster. “The framers wanted stability in government, not stagnation. What we have now, with the filibuster intact, is a Senate that can barely move.” nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opi…
just put on batman: forever to have something playing while i do a little work and the thing i remember most about this movie — besides “kiss from a rose” — is those dope glass mugs that you could get from mcdonald’s
five minutes in and one thing i can say for sure is that tommy lee jones is *going for it*
having watched a bit of schumacher recently one thing i wish this movie had was more of his signature sweatiness. everyone should be glistening, imo
weirdest thing in that “only the coastal elites care about covid” piece is the casual dismissal of infant formula as a “silly novelty”theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
yeah, you know, that silly novelty that is essential for working mothers who cannot get and do not have the time to pump and breastfeed
or you know, mothers and parents who cannot provide milk for any other reason