Such a good season! I have been watching a few Queens on zoom events and loving it. Bob the drag queen and peppermint did a great discussion a few weeks ago. Sometimes you need an escape from the rough situation in the world. Talking about and celebrating a drag competition doesn’t mean anyone is ignoring police…

Team Jaida! She's so funny and smart and gorgeous!

Orville Peck is a gay icon who sings absolutely haunting, old-school country music. His music videos are very visual striking and usually feature much less traditional country/western content than the one featured here (not that I disliked this one- it still had some of his signatures like the dancing, the atmosphere,…

This country literally only exists because of violent protest, and every single advance in its history — extension of the franchise, the end of chattel slavery, the civil rights movement, LGBTQ equality, labor power — has been the result of violent and nonviolent actions operating in conjunction. In fact, it’s only…

I think you’ll find technically your whole damn country is founded on a violent protest, and without it you’d be singing “god save the queen” before big sporting events.

THANK YOU! I take everything with a grain of salt, but that Auto Zone guy was clearly sowing chaos. And way he tried to sneak away when being filmed and confronted? EFF. We got got. 

This. All of this. And every disgusting reminder that flows from it. Thank you for so aptly pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of the nation’s response. All it takes is for major media outlets to lead with the question of why people are doing this. Not the simple narrative of just one more tragedy at the hands of…

Martin Luther King, Jr., spent years calling for equality, advocating for change through non-violence. Those non-violent protests frequently resulted in white reactions of violence against the protestors, and King found himself widely disliked by whites, including liberal whites, and targeted by the FBI, until finally…

Interesting that “Chauvin” is 70% of the way to “chauvinist.”

We’ve tried being peaceful and what has it gotten us? When polite and persistent requests go ignored this is what happens. This ain’t a riot, it’s a revolution. 

A few things to add color to the discussion:

Agree with you; I think this is why I disliked this movie. It felt like a shameless rip-off, in order to prove the point about brotherhood.

Absolutely.

My son just went through a huge Toy Story phase and after all these years, they’re still wonderous pieces of filmmaking. Even after seeing each movie over about 100 times in the past six months or so, I can still watch one of them again. The jokes are still funny, the stories still well thought out out and the…

This is a slightly different take, but I do like how Jessies character is a giant homage to the influential Country singer Ruby Rose Belvin, better known as Patsy Montana. The lady was famous for yodeling and her song I Wanna Be a Cowboys Sweetheart was the first ever major female single in the genre. I believe she…

While I can think of many Pixar moments that bring a lump to my throat or make my eyes water up, the sequence that always, always murders me outright is the opening to Up. I don’t know how any husband can possibly watch that without dissolving into an absolute blubbering mess. The moment where Carl is sitting alone in…

Exactly. It’s the double-whammy of those two scenes that’s so devastating for parents. I think it’s the closest I’ve come in the movie theater to actual keening.

Let’s go through the most devastating Pixar moments like this, on whatever criteria we want:
* this scene
* last ten minutes of Wall-E
* first ten minutes of Up (still probably the overall champion here)

In anyone else’s hands, this would be such a nakedly obvious ploy to extract tears from the audience I might laugh--but it’s just so good and so well done. On a related note, I love Joan Cusack (the better Cusack, if I’m being honest), and she should get all the awards.

If this film taught me anything, it’s that you can’t rush art.