Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! A couple of scary ones, a couple of funny ones, and a martial arts flick this week. Us (2019) Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex Director: Jordan Peele Genres: horror, mystery Synopsis: The story begins when Adelaide (Nyong’o) is a child on vacation…
Author: Lisa or Li
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Women Music March 2022 – Day 22 – Wendy O. Williams
Wendy O. Williams Thank you to whomever suggested Wendy O. Williams to me last year to feature this year’s in Women Music March! Wendy Orlean Williams (b. 5/28/49 – d. 4/6/98) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Webster, New York, she came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk rock…
dVerse — Quadrille 148 — The Struck Match
She wasn’t sure whether it was the exhibition or watching the application of brush strokes of each work that obsessed her so. Was it knowing the painter’s paper trail body? Or the way his body moved… Origamic muse prismatic omnipotence imbued by each eye. top image link I decided to write a second quadrille…
dVerse — Quadrille 148 — It figures
Paper, hard forum once mandated, regardless of journey. Describing a kiss or account ledger balance the same. Complain? before it was charcoal etched in dark caves. Today’s paper’s virtual. We tap tap between the lines. Figuring saved or erased by pushing enter or backspace. Top image: Painted Cave Art of the Chumash Indians Indigenous peoples…
D.C. Federal Court Awards $15M+ to Navajo Nation for Judicial Costs under PL638 — Turtle Talk
I’d like to see what would happen if the U.S. courtrooms across the nation were denied their funding. What a victory for Navajo Nation to have their courts funded and able to effect due process as part of self-determination. Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. United States (D.D.C.): 17 Navajo MSJ 19-1 US…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 21 – Billy Nomates
Billy Nomates. Click on the link to take you to Stereogum’s review of her song, “Heels.” the sky is so open i could just fall all the way apart no one will notice all that hurt wrapped around your heart they tell me its spring now i am so nervous for the things that grow…
collage — modern bison
A few weeks ago, while learning more about First Peoples and the American Bison that I had an idea. In my collage cutout box with people are a million images of models with picture perfect hair, all made up, invariably gorgeous, all selling something. I started to think this is what the Indigenous tribes were…
Tao-Talk 