WTF, this is so racist
Dec. 24th, 2022 06:58 pmI've seen an article making the rounds,asking why there isn't any black players in Argentina's soccer team. It came as a surprise to us, as a country, to learn we are by any stretch of the imagination 'white'. The vast majority of the country is what you would call 'mixed race', and 'negro' (blackie) is a common term we use to call each other. We are, in truth, mostly an 'ambiguously brown' nation. But since we don't neatly fit in the narrow black or white category of most racist people (of any skin colour), there must be something wrong with us. What this is, as always, is a failure to consider your part of the world and its circumstances are not universal. But I don't think that smug navel-gazing will end anytime soon. Or ever.
Our Mr Rogers has died
Sep. 23rd, 2022 07:21 pmCarlitos Bala, an icon of Argentina's culture, entertainer of several generaciones of children, so famous his signature bowlcut is named after him on barber shops. We will miss him.
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Apr. 9th, 2022 12:09 pmI'm totally watching Morbius and the new Fantastic Beasts. They'll probably be Very Bad, but Madds Mikkelsen as Grindelward is my dream casting, so I cannot not watch. And as for Matt Smith (my reason for watching Morbius, besides a fondness for comics-Morbius back when he was part of the Midnight Sons, which doesn't really matters since I'm sure movie Morbius doesn't resemble him in the slightest), I don't like him enough to watch whatever many seasons he appeared in The Crown, but an hour and a half cheesy horror movie? I'm in.
Candyman (2021) _(very vague spoilers)
Aug. 28th, 2021 01:47 amIt wanted so bad to be Lovecraft Country and pissed out of the pot so thoroughly. It not only did unintentionally poorly in the racial commentary (as did Us, with its coded Mighty Whitey narrative), but effed up the 1992 film. It was better than the original's sequels, of course, but that's not saying much.