It would be Aaron Bushnell’s 26th Birthday today. Happy birthday Aaron, you had more humanity than 99% of all of us my dear brother. You showed the world what it truly means to regret being a part of a genocide. You showed us what it means to be a human being.
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Salamat Pagi dearest Global Jigsaw friends and family,
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
Today’s post takes us to Spain, a country that is often associated with a culture of machismo, but one where people are unequivocally stating that putting up with sexist behaviour “is over.” It’s an Iberian “MeToo” moment that had found its upswell not on the casting couches of movie sets, nor in corporate offices, but on the football field.
Jackson Browne has always called the first song on his 1972 self-titled debut album a kind of modern fable.
His inspiration for “Jamaica Say You Will" was a girl who worked in an organic food orchard on California’s Zuma Beach, across the street from the Pacific Ocean, "like the Garden of Eden,” Browne once told an interviewer, “and she was a kind of Eden-like girl, too.”
In the lyric, the girl leaves with her father to sail out into the world, “but my ship had not found the sea, as it were,"
Warning: Spoilers everywhere / Grade: C-
The final episode of a season’s long meandering story that lacked purpose, grit and a plausible anything culminated in a jumpy timeline of bloodshed, stupid people doing stupid stuff, and this season’s villains getting their comeuppance.
You’ll recall from the outset of Primeval that I had high hopes for crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s adaptation having been a big Justified fan back in its heyday in the 2010s.
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The #1 movie on Netflix right now is about the end of the world. This is not surprising.
Nearly 40% of Americans say they believe that “we are living in the end times,” 63% expect the impacts of climate change to worsen over their lifetimes, and all of us are living in an age of polycrisis, with seemingly constant upheavals (hey, remember Covid?), war, societal deterioration, global authoritarianism, environmental spirals, techno-dystopias, and a national mental health crisis.
I loved this song so much as a child that it didn’t matter where I would be. If this song came on I’d bust out sick breakdance moves to it. There was something about the 1984 classic by Deniece Williams that would touch me even back then.
In this song, Deniece would sing about this boy she knew. He didn’t talk sweet, he watched all of his dimes, but he loved her so much she just had to make a song congratulating him.
On this week’s pod, we recap episodes 7-9 of “Love Is Blind” season 6, which has begun to take some unexpected twists after a strong opening. Though the first drop of “Love Is Blind” episodes ended in a grim place, with at least two of the five engaged pairs collapsing into conflict within hours of attending their first social function together, their honeymoon in Punta Cana ends with all five couples officially intact.
Much has been made of writer-director-actor Bradley Cooper’s visual take on the famous 20th-century composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Specifically, his prosthetic nose.
That nose, whatever anybody thinks, is the least of our concerns with “Maestro.” A title like that implies brilliance. Cooper, as an actor and director, tries hard and occasionally succeeds artistically. Yet the claim of this title is too much for the film.
Quickly I lost track of what this movie was trying to be about, and once that happened, there was no turning back.
“Condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man’s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels.