That’s the thing- Context is everything, and in the US, it is almost impossible to separate anything that has to do with race from actual racism. There’s just too much history there.

It’s a guy from Senegal named Baaba Maal. If you like that, I also recommend checking out Orchestra Baobab, Kasai Allstars, and Ba Cissoko.

Yeah, honestly, some of my favorite music is fusion stuff, like Dropkick Murphys and Rumjacks mixing Celtic trads with punk, or some of the bands blending metal with traditional ethnic folk like Finntroll or Tengger Cavalry.

Well, that’s the thing that Marvel got right from the start- that “superhero” is a plot device, not a genre. So we get Iron Man that’s “realistic” sci fi, Cap as a war movie and then a political thriller, GotG as space opera, Thor as high fantasy.... Not every movie in the franchise has to look and feel exactly the…

I have to say that the music that’s been in the trailers has been my only major complaint so far- Not that it’s bad, just that it’s very western. I’m a musician myself, and listen to a decent amount of world music (one of my best friends actually teaches a couple particular African drum traditions)- So I’m maybe just…

Yeah, I’d have much preferred something like this:

The difference was that Star Wars had a unified, consistent plot, and the million little bits of tangential world building were given the proper *weight* relative to the main story.

Bright basically suffered from two major problems, which is a damn shame because it had so much potential:

Look, man- If I have the choice between cancer killing me in a year, radiation buying me a few more months, or an experimental cure with a .0001% chance of working, I’m grabbing that long shot and running with it.

As I’ve explained- I saw three possibilities:

Because as I said, I saw the third party candidate-however unlikely- as the one last ditch effort which could avoid either disaster.

Ah yeah, I’m sure Martin O’Malley would would totally have inspired voters to zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

This is my issue with that- It’s not that I deny your basic premise, it’s that I think the context is really important.

ran the last 6-7 months of her campaign as “have you seen that other guy”, when it was obvious to anyone with half a working brain cell that people vote for policies false hope and promises

Unless you’re carrying your dogs onto airplanes in a little doggie valise and talking to them in your doggie-voice at all hours and hand-feeding them foie gras-flavored jellybeans, you’re not one of THOSE dog people.

I’m reasonably certain that the move to box frames has been solely because of the number of dildos we used to find under beds.

15 years working in the hotel industry, and another 15 travelling with bands and comedy shows.

You know, I REALLY miss movies having an intermission.

I just keep thinking that with all the metal bands in Botswana, there’s gotta be at least a couple tunes appropriate for an action sequence.

Not that there’s anything wrong with what they’ve used so far, but I’m still really hoping they use some actual African music. There’s a ton of amazing stuff out there.