Posts Tagged ‘Memoirs of a Superfan’

I bawled like a baby while listening to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s remarks on the South Lawn yesterday. I should cry more often.

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars 2022 in “the slap heard ’round the world,” which became a moment of collective shock and trauma, with discourse still spewing. I saw it as a moment of collective dissociation.

Min Jin Lee’s remarks at the anti-Asian hate rally in NYC, March 16, 2022. “I’m a novelist and it is my job to have empathy for everyone. And I imagine that things must be pretty awful for a person to carry a hammer, to shout racial slurs, sleep on the streets, be off their medication, and wish to take another person’s life. My assailant is likely a person without much reason, and I’m sure he’s desperate. And yet, when I think of my brothers and sisters almost imprisoning themselves in their homes, modifying their own faces in the hopes of not getting hurt, I get angry. Why are we tying ourselves in knots trying to solve a problem that we did not create?”

Pixar’s Turning Red is only the second Pixar film directed by a woman – Domee Shi. It is also centered on an Asian American girl going through the turbulent emotions of puberty. Not surprisingly, it triggered a racist, sexist and clueless response. But it’s a fantastic film coming at an important time! Here’s my review.

THE EXILES is a film for our time, chronicling the career of Christine Choy and the struggle of dissidents and exiles from the democracy movement in China post-1989. The Chinese government, like the GOP, is trying to erase memory and history to maintain power.

The San Francisco School Board Recall Special Election on February 15, 2022 channels frustration about COVID school closures into racist and elitist outcomes and agendas.

Truong Tran and Terrance Hayes unflinchingly call out White supremacy in their outstanding works of poetry. Plus a look at the “universal human transmissions” as embodied in the gifts of the Magi and the life and death of Jesus.

We need to check social media, particularly Facebook, in support of actual society. “If we put out the wildfires of social media, maybe we can have a shot at growing back the rainforests we’ve destroyed, another effect of our outsized ego of limitless growth and greed.”

Memoirs of a Superfan Volume 16.8 – The Soul of America: Gosar, Biden, and Beyond by Ravi Chandra, M.D. Posted on November 22, 2021. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) was censured and stripped of his committee assignments by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, mostly along party lines. Gosar tweeted a violent video…

A review of the exasperating book, The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang