Nina Simone – The Legend from Nina Simone on Vimeo.
Thanks to Jared Ball for telling me about this!
For The Last Two Days, I’ve Been Absorbed By…………..
……this author and the subject of her masterwork, one Ida Bell Wells-Barnett.
We In The Muggle World Can Handle The Truth….
……because, hey, we have to admit it is true. “Wish fufillment,” indeed. (I accepted it, eagerly, for my own obvious reasons. 😉 In my mind, Hermione was trying to make up for Harry not having a mum.) Fantasy has to be based in some sort of emotional reality. *SIGH* 😦
“Captain America 2” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Pre-Super Bowl Teasers
Too geeked out for words! 🙂
Listening, NFL? “But There’s One Thing We Would Never Call Ourselves….”
Reading Around The World, Part II
Encouraged by this!
Move Over, “Doctor Who!” My New British TV Obsession is PBS’ “Masterpiece Mystery: Sherlock!”
Where has this show been all my life?!? 🙂 I finally gave it a try a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m hooked FOR GOOD!
The Season 3 finale airs tomorrow night! I’ll probably only see part of it then, but will find the repeats during the week before finding all the back episodes online.
Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!
“X-Men: Days Of Future Past” Instagram Trailers
Okay, I’m my old ass is gonna look up what the HELL is an “Instragram trailer”! 🙂
Word! :)
Today’s WORD on Journalism Afflicting the comfortable since 1995” Friday, Jan. 31, 2013 • See TedsWORD: http://tedsword.blogspot.com/Advice for Writers
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy are probably not that great. Ruin, hysteria, bad skin, unsightly tics, ugly financial problems, maybe; but probably not peace of mind. I tell them that I think they ought to write anyway.”
—Anne Lamott, writer, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994.
• Editorial Comment: Well, who needs peace of mind when you have hysteria?
Drums in the Global Village 