I am excited for any Mosley project since the Devil in the Blue Dress adaptation continues not to get its due. (Also, hate to do this, but you’ve flipped the “e” and “l” in Mosley’s name, btw.)

Glad to see that final bit of context from Touré—as more than one person said when he died, if we really get to the root of it, the real cause of death here is chronic pain.

Okay, so full agreement that this is ridiculous, that she should be allowed to run, and all of it, but:

So catchy, so utterly tone-deaf. This is going to be the summer soundtrack for the smuggest people you know.

Cultural Marxism has run amok once again.

“Political correctness” has a similar history of moving from ironic use by leftists into a quasi-analytical cudgel used by the right. The appropriation of “woke” admittedly bums me out more, given that it had more of a meaning and affirmative function before it was taken (as Ashley notes), but same shit, different day.

I hope this post gets more engagement, but I’m glad to see it nonetheless. Boggs embodied the kind of nuanced militancy we could use more of.

There’s an additional layer of irony there, because I believe that when Brad Pitt says that it is, in fact, a picture of...Brad Pitt that he is looking at.

I’ve been thinking a lot about fascism, reactionary thought, and essentialism in all its forms (can’t imagine why), so my best of includes:

Just noting—above the Black Panther announcement we see that Jonathan Majors, Tic of Lovecraft Country, is Kang in Ant-Man 3. I remain a mix of amazed and horrified at how the MCU sucks everyone into its vortex, but Majors is cool, so I’m glad to see this.

You know what I’d love? For someone with power who does something hypocritical or just poorly thought out to say “you know what? I’m going back on that because I was full of shit.” Really owning when you fuck up and then actually changing your approach is a good look for a politician.

On the one hand, it’s cool that Netflix did this. On the other, we have to recognize that this was a business decision on their part that just happened to align with the right ethical choice. Netflix is bursting at the seams with money, and Chappelle inevitably makes a lot of money for them with his specials, so to…

I like this game, but I’m going to do whatever I can to ensure the motherfucker doesn’t get any of my money sent in his general direction. I’m frustrated enough that my tax dollars funded his work.

I would very much like a complete itemized list of what she had.

So, binding white people from using magic raises an interesting question: who counts as white people? (See the history of Irish and Italian folks in the US, shifting notions of race as you move throughout the Americas, etc.) I’m really hoping the show isn’t relying on a quasi-biological/quasi-mystical notion of what…

Just want to take a moment to extra-shoutout Fred Moten for the notion of the undercommons, the literal and figurative space where people gather outside traditional educational structures to do deep collective study and learning.

There’ve been some threads on Twitter describing the way that she would question the blackness of some of her colleagues and generally try to play the authenticity game by saying she was realer/harder/more-Bronx. If you search Twitter you’ll find a number of bizarre/illuminating anecdotes.

From what I’ve seen, it sounds like she was a nightmare underminer of her academic colleagues, but: I saw at least one professor who’d made Fugitive Modernities a central text in a course they’re teaching in this brand-new semester and is now saying “what the hell do I do”—which is to say, she clearly had the academic…

I think someone might need to tell him as a public service so that she can kick her husband to the curb asap for sociopathic behavior. I still look forward to the shape his response will take, however.

Please update if and when Mantzoukas comments on this, because I am sure it will be pure gold