i had no idea june lockhart was still with us.

i generally believe the celebrity deaths that feel like cultural bellwethers depend on… the culture(s) you belong to. but this is objectively true.

hi. "the morning show" was *actually* insane this week. like...

… yall, i’m not gon make true peace with this d’angelo thing for a *long* time.

also, i must say: it’s so nice to know that the kids are still using whore and not just this “dummy” parlance that rose to prominence long after my time. that is a true Baltimorean 1990s throwback insult.

at a Giant in Baltimore County, an employee gets into a loud n-word laden, masculinity-disparaging altercation with a customer as his colleagues call calls for security. Another colleague reminds him that they don’t have security in Sundays. you, a business-minder, continue shopping.

Me after signing something random: “This a good pen.”

visiting my nana and mom this weekend which means watching religious and inspirational Black films. i have such a soft spot for this one. www.swirlfilms.com/our-work/for...

I’ve been recalling all the covers. and this one, like “cruisin” before it, was my first encounter with this track, as heard in spikes’s film “get on the bus.” . youtu.be/2fSY8Fanxrc?...

every season, “reasonable doubt” has at least one distractingly bad actor in a lead or frequently recurring role.

i don't usually do this, but if y'all have a minute, can you please share this link with people who you think may read it? stacialbrown.substack.com/p/a-sonic-be...

i love karen pittman. i love her acting style, i think she's really pretty and i love her fashion sensibilities. but i've always had a little cognitive dissonance with the way she plays mia jordan on the morning show.

it's always so weird to watch anything on apple tv and see real iphone interfaces (text/email) being used. i'm so used to a generic trademark-related workaround. i always think either "how much did they pay for that usage?" or "ooh, they gon' get in trouble" and then i remember.

in case you missed it, i wrote about d’angelo’s privacy, power and legacy. stacialbrown.substack.com/p/a-sonic-be...

when i say *devastated.*

i was just playing “spanish joint” on repeat last week. 🥹

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

so i’ve been spending some time with this whole score since i posted this and i am utterly convinced that a symphony orchestra should screen this and perform this film. the way i’d be sat.

diane keaton definitely ain’t got no business bein gone.

i used to be obsessed with this song that appears briefly in “mo better blues,” performed by denzel as bleek gilliam on a bridge in this one gorgeous night shot. it’s not on the film’s soundtrack so i really had to work to find it. music.apple.com/us/album/sin...

yall wanna know what is still one of the *coldest* film score tracks?? to this day? lo, these many 30 years hence? music.apple.com/us/album/fru...

billy crudup gives such an unhinged performance in "the morning show." always has. it's... so weird and interesting to watch.

y’all mind if I live-post my mammogram right quick? it’s been like 2.5 years since my first one. this is my second. co-pay was $96. parking at this hospital will also cost. i was late, finding parking. in waiting room now.

i guess I’m in a minority but: i don’t love “one battle after another.” it had its moments but the writing felt underdeveloped in a lot of ways that mattered to me.

watching adolescence for the first time now means that I’ve been fully spoiled. so i’m definitely not experiencing this the way it was intended.i can’t appreciate the precision of it all, though. the skill.

things i did not have on my 2025 bingo card: guy branum discussing the “mammy dearest” episode of “a different world” on “keep it!” & it was lovely.

i’m the parent of a child with autism. and i clock how folks talk about it.

I was gonna wait for streaming for that Paul Thomas Anderson movie until I saw Leonardo DiCaprio on this press tour for it. He seems really proud of it. Between that, the three Black women co-stars *and* Benicio Del Toro… I might have to give this the big screen treatment.

please reconsider any impulse you may have today to engage members of marginalized groups in conversations about people whose hatred of them has been extensive and well-documented. find someone else to talk to about that.

re-reading this, one of my favorite novels, in memoriam. 💔

you guys, am i ever going to be a person who can finish writing a book?

i’ma delete that one post. but spike *is* colorist and he writes women poorly.

everybody on the press junket for this kept talking about how asap rocky “can actually act.” and it’s like… I’m still waiting to see the evidence.

the entire second hour of this has been a ridiculous viewing experience. but i’ve had fun. 🥴😩😂

almost all the women in this film are light skinned and they’re acting partially lobitomized. … which is actually an unsurprising occurrence in a spike lee joint.

i know it ain’t gon happen but i want spike to let go of the use of “da” for “the” in 2025 soooo bad.

score and soundtrack are working overtime. (this eddie palmieri song, “puerto rico,” was also in crooklyn.)

i know i didn’t just hear “media takeout” and “Black twitter” name-checked in 2025. should’ve just said TikTok probably…?

like how high is the risk of losing the money forever in a ransom sting operation?

don’t kidnapping units have a way of tracing ransom transfers and getting the money back when they arrest the kidnapper?

just starting “highest 2 lowest” and i don’t know what i’ll think of the film in total, but i’m enraptured by norm lewis singing, “oh, what a beautiful morning” over shots of the city. just wow.

maturing is realizing you weren’t into the podcast; you were into that one cohost who left. it’s unlistenable for you now and that’s okay.

somebody scoop me up and take me to this Radiohead comeback tour. 🙏🏾

Baltimore just recorded the FEWEST homicides for August in a half-century – proving that with the right investments and resources we can succeed.

today, i drove past a hair salon called “curl up and dye.” is that not spectacular?

“y’all actin like we died” is proof that Devon Walker is funnier than that show made room for him to be. deadline.com/2025/08/devo...

COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

ludwig goransson know he put his foot in that smokestack twins suite. like... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0C...

i just finished editing a radio segment about a musical about people living on death row. snuck this in as the musical outro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NIg...