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First A Female Thor, And Now A Black Captain America?

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The cool-ass Falcon is now Cap?

No, no, NO!

Marvel should use the REAL Black Captain America, from “TRUTH!”

 

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See that “Double V” on that shield?!? TOO BLACK, TOO STRONG! LOL! 🙂

Marvel could also use the one from THE CREW–Josiah X, a.k.a. Justice!

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Talking about the new, female Thor, I was telling a friend just this morning about the top five things mainstream superhero comic creators do to spur media coverage and sales:

1) kill them
2) change their powers/costume
3) Change their identity (new, younger male)
4) ” ” (make them female)
5) ” ” (make them Black or Latino)

Ten years from now, it’ll be like it never happened. 🙂

James Baldwin On Being An American Writer

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I’m in McKeldin Library right now, thumbing through its bound set of Freedomways magazine. I find where Augusta Strong wrote the article, “Notes on James Baldwin,” for the Spring 1962 issue. (Augusta Strong was listed in the contributor’s page as “a former English teacher and newspaper reporter who is a frequent contributor to Freedomways.”) She cites a Baldwin New York Times essay or interview:

“……to be an American writer today means mounting an underdog attack on all that Americans believe themselves to hold sacred…..it means fighting an astute and agile guerilla warfare with that American complacency which so inadequately masks American panic.” Furthermore, he says, the writer must “dismiss any hopes of winning a popularity contest,” and he adds, “….one must take it upon one’s self the right to be entirely wrong ….and accept penalties, for penalties there will certainly be.”

Poor Rene Russo……!

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Why do filmmakers keep cutting out her best scenes in these “Thor” movies?!? (Damn, didn’t she used to be a major movie star?) She basically cameoed in the first, and [SPOILER ALERT!] died in the second!

Above is her cut scene from “Thor: The Dark World,” and below is her cut scene from “Thor.”

And, being the Cap fanatic I am, of course I loved the final version of the below scene. In the one that made the movies, Chris Evans cameos as Cap!

 

Can “Arsenio” Come Back? SHOULD “Arsenio” Come Back?

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Decided not to jump on the second time around, but I did like it when Earth, Wind and Fire made him an honorary member and gave him a Kalimba. 🙂

Hmmmm…….. And this explained what happened well. And I’ve attempted to truth-squad what happened the first time he got canned.

Are you satisfied in your life and time?
Does it clear you mind
With all the hurt you find?

Built on Mother Earth
They were meant to stay
Nations bloom today on gifts of yesterday

Born of the Earth, are nature’s children
Fed by the Wind, the breath of life
Judged by the fiery hands of God

World goes by the hand of the master plan
Can’t you understand
You’re but a grain of sand

Do you need a guide
Who you know will make you feel satisfied?
Head to the sky will tell you why

Born of the Earth, are nature’s children
Fed by the Wind, the breath of life
Judged by the fiery hands of God

Do you need a guide, make you feel satisfied?
Can’t you understand
You’re but a grain of sand

When you search the sky, alright
Does it make you cry, though you understand?
Ain’t nothing but a big old man, alright