Sportsball - Artsball - Maybe At Some Point Hardball – Saturday Night OT

 

African Fashion - Working Class Artists - Public TV Stephen - Saturday Night OT

 

Celebrating the Real First Amendment This Saturday Night OT

 

One "Movie" Tanked on Premiere, One Got 16 Oscar Nominations But Mightn't Get Any Awards - Comparative Analysis on Parlez Vous Monday

 

Commemoration and The Two Americas on Parlez Vous Monday

 

A Message from the We Rate Dogs CEO and the Critics Choice Award Winners from Sinners This Parlez Vous Monday

 

This Rest in Power Weekend – Malcolm Jamal Warner, Chuck Mangione, & Ozzy - Saturday Night OT

 

Choose Your Fandom: It’s Mr. Bob’s and Miss Patti’s Birthday – Saturday Night OT

 

Treasure Hunt (Scavenger Hunt?) for the Nice Things - Saturday Nght OT

 

"Why Not the Right Thing the First Time" - Remembering Nikki Giovanni During Saturday Night OT

 

Can’t Find My Words – RIP Civil Rights Icon & Monster Talent EGOT Harry Belafonte

 

It Was Nina Simone’s Birthday Long Before It Was Some Fascist Wet Dream Called National Hate Day – Saturday Night OT

 

"See It Be It" Is the Social Experiment for Good or for Ill – Saturday Night Jam & OT

 

So That Everybody Can Dance - Saturday Night OT

 

Trying to create those new ideas

Yas, Quest

Tonight's music is inspired by recs from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

(flores @rooopixx)

The Book Banners We Have To Deal With Right Now Don't Act Like They Read Fahrenheit 451 Before They Burned It

(Don't Know What You) Got Till It's Gone: Snowy Saturday Night OT

 

A Nice Message, and This Country’s Music’s Afro-Indigenous Foundation – Saturday Night OT

 

There’s a documentary. Trailer in comments.

 Also?  The wealthiest countries are essentially hoarding the vaccine. That’s a big reason why we keep having these new variants and can’t get out of the vortex of this virus, according to the Doctors Blackstock.

That and Republicans who refuse to mask up.

 

What We Might Have Here Is A Failure to Communicate: IATSE Trying to Warn About Conditions Leading Film Site Shooting Was An Object Lesson - Saturday Night OT

 

I think – if we’re not already there – that we have no choice to assume that the MSM isn’t telling us the truth at all, ever, about anything … especially when it comes to what Big Business / Big Pharma / Big Medicine are concealing about things like working conditions, Americans’ health generally, voting rights, voting access, reproductive healthcare access … basically anything that the current U.S. Democrats are trying to fix, and that the “Dickens class”, if you will, not only wants to drag us all back there but wants some of us not just to have less than nothing but not to be unhappy about it.

Back & Forth and Try Again – Succession Return and Dune Anticipation Weekend – Saturday Night OT

 

Cover of the NYT Mag - and the artist IINM is Basi Butler

One thing we're doing tonight is mini-focusing on Aaliyah in part because someone in the TL pointed out how he'd forgotten how good she was.

Waiting for Season 3 - Saturday Night OT and RIP Baba Zumbi: In Memoriam

 

 

So much bad news today I was grateful for a good metaphor