Mr. T on his hairstyle, gold chains and why he called himself “Mr. T”— He’s reclaiming his African heritage and defying racism. This brief interview is strikingly articulate and intelligent in the context of his being typecast as a brute during his acting career.
Tig Notaro steals every scene she appears in.
I’m glad we stuck with “Starfleet Academy,” because the most recent two episodes, which we watched Saturday, were brilliant. The most recent episode may have been the only time I’ve been deeply emotionally moved watching “Star Trek.”
And now I want to see “Our Town” again. I love that play and haven’t seen it since 2003, when the Paul Newman production aired.
Jay-den has seemed to be a delicate, hesitant character, but when his shipmate is threatened, Jay-den goes full Klingon. No hesitation there!
Caleb can be a dick a lot of the time, but he understands consent in his bones. And he and Nahla have great bantering repartee.
Cory Doctorow: Democrats should create a “Nuremberg Caucus” to investigate MAGA crimes and restore the damage Trump and his enablers have done to America.
On the Democratic Party Style:
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered, outside academia, people with such a bottomless appetite for mountainous piles of meaningless, unnecessary, empty words and phrases, each genetically engineered, in whole or in part, to make any sentient being stop paying attention. Reading this speech, that is the only conclusion I can come to: that the sole purpose of this speech is to make people stop paying attention.
Overheard: Operation Epstein Fury.
Posted privately by a friend, shared with his permission:
Lost in the Trump regime’s ongoing disinformation campaign is the fact that not one member of the Trump family has served in the military.
Ever.
And I suspect no one in his administration has a child who is in harm’s way. This is also true of all the chicken hawks cheering them on. It’s always someone else’s family who will pay the Butcher’s Bill.
Elsewhere, a friend praised the TV series “Monsieur Spade.” I replied:
I loved “Monsieur Spade.” It has flaws that would have made another series unwatchable, but in this case the show’s many strong virtues made the flaws inconsequential. It hits the notes of noir hard, but it has characteristics that make it definitely not noir.
The showrunner for “Monsieur Spade” is Scott Frank, who was also behind “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Department Q” and “Godless.”
Because he’s a behind-the-scenes guy, I did not become aware of him until last year, when he did one or two interviews. But his IMDB page shows he was behind some of my all-time favorite movies and TV shows.