just finishing up Tayari Jones’ “Kin” and I think this will be the first of her novels to be adapted for TV or film. not just optioned but actually released.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

i don't think i've ever worked anywhere where i didn't experience racism, even as a freelancer.

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a willingness to take accountability for your own errors in a workplace makes you a target for corporate pile-on, and i don't like that.

karl urban aged how we thought jason momoa was gon age.

there hasn’t been a single day since February 8 when this hasn’t run through my head at least once. he really was not there to play with us.

i really love that Julie Andrews is a) still with us and b) still doing this show. i hope they back a brinks truck up to her villa every single season for these voiceovers.

i can't believe this season of bridgerton is tryna convince us that benedict and sophie's story is "romantic." like... what in the world?

that being said, here's my latest. stacialbrown.substack.com/p/chromebooks

i'm trying to work on my writing discipline, which means that i'll be sharing more writing there (hopefully). i can't promise that it will be good writing, though. i'm rusty and i think i'm a bit disconnected from the voice i'd been cultivating up until a few years ago.

this song just randomly popped into my head and why does it hold up so well? they made such sturdy songs in the '80s. youtu.be/IIOJdMdS56k?...

wow. my mom-self really popped out here. lol

i just can't help but be grateful that miles caton's entree into hollywood was with a cohort that ryan coogler curated. you can tell he came to that production by way of people who'd enveloped him in lifelong love, joy, and care. you can also tell that that cast really preserved that for him.

i'm still not over sinners just like i'm still not over the first creed just like i'm still not over the first black panther film. there's always something else to be awestruck about.

by contrast, buddy guy sounds like he's lived five lives. and has. the two of them together is just... ugh. give bobby carter his flowers and a raise. www.npr.org/people/30298...

miles caton is so sweet. on "travelin'," you can tell he comes from church and that he's still super-young. buddy wanted him to adlib but he didn't have the life experience yet to do it. i bet everything he's done in the last year and a half has been such an accelerated education.

this is everything i hoped. youtu.be/m5XxOLdMSS8?...

what?!?? 😍

i bought a new car last weekend, which made me think about all of my old cars, which made me think about the trajectory of my adult life. stacialbrown.substack.com/p/a-personal...

so even when an incident has nuance, it’s still gonna be highly triggering for those of us who are being called n—s and monkeys on main again.

we’re living through a time when blatant expressions of racist ideology are being mainstream-platformed again in a way we had once half-succeeded at shaming folks into to relegating to whispers and shadows.

i have been dodging that bafta footage like a last-picked gym student. i’m very sorry to hear that that happened and i don’t want to see or listen to that happen repeatedly, 10+times a day, up and down a timeline.

Normalize observing and noting that we actually live in precedented times.

i’m in a car dealership & they’re playing that song from “a star is born” where bradley cooper keeps saying, “maybe it’s time to let the old ways die.” we don’t talk enough abt he taught himself to sing for that movie & sounded like he could probably secure a contract at a decent country label.

it’s always gonna be The Apostle for me.

this may be controversial, but i don’t like the growing trend of screen projection in stand-up comedy.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

i meant to type "feast." but it was a feat, too! make no mistake.

a visual feat. the nail techs? the sugar cane? the wedding, from engagement to reception? Dolly shot?! baby Benito watching the Grammys and getting a Grammy?? everything. 🤌🏾

that was breathtaking. truly.

okay, so i was wrong about the first part of my cardi prediction, but i'm still feeling like the second half may happen. (also i wouldn't have minded her, over gaga. respectfully.)

come on, ricky! you better hit. that. shit!

omg! baby benito receiving a grammy from his future self!!!

this man is giving us a *narrative.* y un *viaje,* escuchame?

COME ON, SET DESIGN!!!

his delivery on "fall down seven times; get up eight." always gets me.

not them using denzel over the olympics ad. i know that's right.

aw, benito. I hope you have a great show. 🥹

as someone who never watched the harry potter films and has yet to see anything he's acted in, i don't think: i think daniel radcliffe is really handsome.

bear with me; i'm *just* here for bad bunny. i'll dip right back out after halftime. my random pop culture prediction about tonight is that cardi will make an onstage cameo and within the next week or month, announce her breakup from ol' boy.

the helmets never look like they're doing anything substantial enough to protect players' heads against the impact they're absorbing.

i wonder how many people know this is the fifth year that "lift every voice and sing" has been performed at the super bowl pregame. it was part of the post-george floyd wave of corporate gestures.

this uncanny-valley-ass "good will dunkin'" commercial...

just saw this and *loved* it.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

i would not have guessed that sir ben kingsley is 82 years old, watching him act in "wonder man." i'd have put him at about 10 years younger. he is a *preserved* 82.

the ballad of songbirds and snakes film is good. i suspected it might be. but i haven’t read the book and had avoided the film in part bc of it. this is making me want to read the novel.

my adoration of June Squibb could be studied. she is my absolute favorite. what an icon. 👑

also, more context - jamael lundy works for hennepin county attorney mary moriarty bsky.app/profile/oldm...