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In The Garden, for giant robot’s Fruit and Veggie show.

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super interesting exhibit about this at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian. as I recall, this started after Custer's Last Stand. the military at the time justified naming stuff after Indigenous groups by saying "oh they were fierce warriors" or something of that ilk. and then they just kept doing it.

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That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Now that we are all equally unemployed and underfunded, I think it’s finally time that humanities and STEM people set aside our differences and unite against the true enemy (business majors)

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bunny

Description: An illustration set against a bright red background. At the bottom half of the illustration is a rabbit, mid run. It's head is pointed down and the iris of it's eye is the same red as the background. Text overlaying the image says 'If they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.' Which is from Watership Down by Richard Adams.

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心に残るゲームでした

感動をありがとう

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“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”

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going wild thinking about the use of Rocky Road to Dublin in Sinners. It’s a really tight microcosm of a lot of the film’s themes just by itself. Credentials: I’m a retired Irish dancer, I went to worlds and the whole bit. My family is appalachian and I grew up on bluegrass

It’s played on a banjo, an instrument with origins in West Africa formally invented in the US by enslaved people (and then popularized in Irish music through Irish American immigrants, largely in the South and Appalachia). Even the instrument telegraphs an attempt at cultural exchange morphing into theft and exploitation, especially because the history of the banjo has been purposefully obscured by white people

It’s got a strong down beat, making it the musical opposite of the swung blues sound (emphasis on 1/3 as opposed to 2/4). The scene is clearly meant to evoke klan imagery, and giving it this marching feel ABSOLUTELY contributes

It’s in 9/8 meter (with some mixed—it’s a uniquely weird song), making it, traditionally, a slip jig. Historically, this is a light shoe dance for women only (he’s dancing hard shoe in the movie) meaning that Remmick’s attempt to reclaim his own culture has been botched, obscured, and lost as he’s been alienated from it and co-opted into the symbolic hive of American whiteness/cultural orphanage/cultural patricide.

The song itself is about a guy cutting a shillelagh (a walking stick/club with a folkloric purpose of warding off evil spirits) to protect himself on his journey to Dublin, but winding up using it against a few Englishmen mocking him for his Irish accent. It’s a parallel to exactly what Remmick was not able to do—protect himself from monsters, and protect himself from colonization. It also highlights that this number is being used to threaten violence against the leads

It’s such a clever combination of inverting swing/jazz sounds and showing ways Remmick is missing the point. Since he sold his soul for power, comfort, and conformity, he’s only able to access a shadow of his culture, while misunderstanding and misrepresenting major pieces of his own traditions. Even his attempts to culturally “share” through the banjo is plowed over by his use of it and Black bodies and voices for his own individual pleasure and as a threat of further violence. It’s such a smart pick

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Friend: Don't you want to have a romance?

Me: I'm good, I have romance at home.

Romance I have at home:

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(5 years late, covered in sweat) GUYS.... I JUST PLAYED OUTER WILDS