Chi-Raq (2015)

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Chi-Raq (2015): Lysistrata set in Chicago's South Side by Spike Lee. Daring concept. Worthy effort. Hard to revive a 2,500 yr old drama. C+

POTD: Butting Heads

Butting heads. No, I'm not talking about the recent school board election (in the end, that turned out to be not much of a fight at all). And I'm certainly not talking about the presidential election (that headline would be "Butthead," not "Butting Heads").

No, today's photo-of-the-day is from Ranthambore National Park in India's Rajasthan province, where these two Sambar deer practiced their fighting skills for us tourists (or, more likely, for the nearby herd of female Sambar deer).

From 2016 02 07 Ranthambore

Review: Between the World and Me

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From Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it. I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself."

A letter from a father to a son, explaining what it means to be black in America. It's not written for me, a white man lost in the Dream, but I need it, too. Maybe the most.

After the jump, my review.

Spring in the Steger Garden (2016)

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Bonus photo after the jump.

Look Who's Back (2015)

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Look Who's Back (2015): Hitler in time warp wakes up in 2014, sets out to make Germany great again. No shit. Life imitates art. B-