Friday – 25 May 2018

I am ready for the long weekend. ‘Nuff said.

Stray Toasters

  • From our Mother’s Day Southern Utah Parks Tour:
  • Ostracised and Fetishised: The Perils of Travelling as a Young Black Woman
  • The NFL continues to be a mess. I’m going to wind up not watching this season, either, at this rate.
    • This saddens me for many reasons, not the least of which is the complete missteps that have been taken with respect to players’ rights to silently protest and the League’s response. But also, Torrey Smith, former Raven has been traded to the Carolina Panthers, meaning that I have a reason to watch him play again.
  • Black sergeant was ‘loyal klansman’
  • I saw Solo: A Star Wars Movie a few nights ago. I liked it. I should get around to reviewing it and Avengers: Infinity War one of these days…
  • The Sky Was No Limit: The WASP Women Pilots of WWII
  • A couple weeks ago, I had a couple of odd things reach a weird personal convergence:
    • I learned that a coworker spent part of his mission in my mother’s hometown. Yeah, a small town in West Virginia that few have heard of and fewer still have been to. He spent six months there.
    • Later that same day, Sara and I watched Logan Lucky. Turns out that part of the movie was also set “somewhere” in West Virginia.
  • This is how the federal government made a Star Wars tweet go viral
    • Hat tip to my friend Denise for this amusing look at life above the 54′-40º.