at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek’s strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:
like listen… 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go “ok how would someone who’s used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?”
and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as “oh, sulu’s texting!” now THAT is a called shot. hell, that’s putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn’t been built yet. i LOVE it. it’s so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.
Bruce Davidson - Untitled, East 100th Street (Couple Dancing Near Jukebox), 1966-68
Stephen Somerstein - Young civil rights marchers with American flags march in Montgomery, 1965
Robert D'Alessandro - New Orleans, Louisiana, 1971, from Glory
Dorothea Lange - Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration, Manzanar, CA July 3, 1942
Martin Parr - American Dream Park, Shanghai, China, 1997
Eli Reed - Newark, New Jersey, 1992
Paolo Pellegrin - A homeless man in Fresno, USA, 2011
Diane Arbus - Baseball in Central Park, NYC, 1962
Declan Haun - Black child at Civil Rights protest march, North Carolina, 1961
to my fellow usamericans….in light of the supreme court overturning roe v wade, well known organizations like planned parenthood dont need your money right now - they have plenty - if you’re going to donate, donate to your local or state abortion funds
the national network of abortion funds allows you to split your donation between 91 abortion funds in the united states - it lists every fund your donation goes to and allows you to customize the amount you give to each fund
i wonder if it’s time for a cultural reappraisal of rob liefeld’s art. maybe we were all just too quick to judge a guy for daring to have a unique stylized take that focused on exaggeration and action. *actually looks at some of his art again* jesus CHRIST never mind
Liefeld had a kineticism that would have really blossomed into something special had he worked on his craft after leaving Marvel instead of making a series of increasingly bizarre business decisions ending with him resigning from Image literally minutes before the other partners were about to “fire” him.
He had a style as distinct as King Kirby or Neal Adams. He just found financial success before he matured as an artist. Kind of sucks to think about all the great comics we missed!
This fucking knee-jerk opposition to compromise and incrementalism is the reason the left will never be successful. We may be on the cusp of a bill that, while perhaps not encompassing of every gun reform we need, at least provides at starting point, and the leftists are angry that it doesn’t outright outlaw the second amendment. They have no concept of compromise as a lever for further discussions and I just don’t understand how they’ve gone through their lives so sheltered (I do, actually).
I am not as plugged into beltway or twitter politics as I was four or five years ago but, um, leftists like guns? A lot. Sometimes a scary amount of a lot. (And I get why!)
