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The film version of Stephen King’s It makes childhood a lot less weird than the book did.
Short post on Jonathan Chait’s ignorance of the alt right.
Short post on how racism today is predicated on denying racism.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Quartz I wrote about Hugh Hefner and the American dream.
At A Beautiful Perspective I wrote about how sex worker advocacy groups in Alaska are trying to pass a law to prevent police having sex with sex workers before arresting them.
At the Forward I wrote about Star Trek and Jews of the future (or not of the future.)
At Splice Today I wrote about
—the metaphor he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body and radicalizing racism.
—how Charles doesn’t deserve Jean in The Lady Eve.
At the Reader I wrote a little piece on Torres new Three Futures album, with which I am somewhat obsessed.
At Bandcamp I wrote about Maalem Mahmoud Gania’s last album of bluesy Islamic droning awesomeness.
Been a looong time since I saw it, but I remember being disappointed by The Lady Eve. Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek are *so* funny that I’ve disliked everything else by Sturges by comparison. (Sullivan’s Travels is too obviously self-serving, for mine, and just not funny enough)
The Lady Eve is really funny; you might try it again? it has problems, but Barbara Stanwyck is amazing…