Another Sunday another Game of Thrones. Turns out Jon Snow knows something. Great place for a smarmy George Takei, “Oh My!”
GOT- “Kissed by Fire”
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Speculative Art- S. Ross Browne: Self Evident Truths
“Our personal history is often rooted in the identity of our families and what the writers of history, often the usurpers, choose to depict as historical fact. I try to reveal the distinct possibilities of these often conflicting allegories with imagery depicting the contradictions in historical fact, the omissions in historical academia, and the narrative of the imagination of the hope of ones place in history.”–artist S. Ross Browne
Painting- “The Huntress” 2010, by S. Ross Browne
GOT- “And Now His Watch Is Ended”
Another Sunday another Game of Thrones. In which Daeneyrs the Abolitionist becomes “Daeneyrs Unchained.” Cue the James Brown track.
Wonder Women: A Feminist Perspective on Superheroines
“AT LAST, in a world torn apart by the hatreds and wars of men, appears a woman to whom the problems and fears of men are mere child’s play….As wise as Athena–with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules–she is known only as WONDER WOMAN….” A recent documentary traces the history, influences and inspirations of the popular super heroine.
Radical Dirigibles- Black Socialists, Anarchists, Reformers and Airships
“Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices.”–H.G. Wells
Phenderson Djèlí Clark 