Angela "Bones" Bullock

It's interesting to me some of the most influential movie directors have done a significant contribution to documentaries as well. Scorsese with his music docs, Judd Appatow has been doing comedians for years and Peter Jackson with Beatles and They Shall Not Grow Old.

How hard of a life do you have to have lived where a 60 yr old Willem Defoe can so convincingly play you when died at 37? Anyway, this is your suggestion to go watch At Eternity's Gate and Loving, Vincent. Fantastic movies about Van Gogh without the cradle to grave trip ups

Loving Vincent came out first and has an amazing, if minor, performance by Chris O'Dowd.

I just found out that Sister Rosetta Thorpe lived in Richmond, and wtf man, RVA was so close to being a music capital. First half of the 20th century we also had Bojangles Robinson and the Carter Family. Now all the acts that come from here leave except GWAR (which, respect) youtu.be/3NFywQdeKSo

Bojangles was born in Richmond and was friends with Maggie Walker. He's indirectly the origin of the name for the restaurant chain and with Shirley Temple was the first interracial dance partners in a movie in 1935 youtu.be/wtHvetGnOdM

I started reading Song of Achilles for the first time, and I think maybe it’s mainly the description of his curls, but I have Da Vinci’s St John the Baptist as how Achilles looks

I saw The Odyssey yesterday afternoon, and holy shit, I think it's one of my new favorite movies? To me, it shows why we make myths, and how given enough time and ambiguity history becomes myth, but can still be used as a lesson for today.

OMG you can pet cats and dogs and feed chickens in the Black Flag Resynched

It's time for me to weigh anchor and set sail once again.

It's time for me to weigh anchor and set sail once again.

Watching this England vs Mexico game and watching this ref with his quick decisive rulings reminds me of Hank Hill couching soccer. One of the best episodes of the newest season

You know why I love studying American History with all its darkness? It's because I find those pushing back against the darkness. Crispus Attucks was a black sailor who died at the Boston Massacre. There were black militia at Lexington and Concord as well as Bunker Hill.

Japanese American soldiers fighting for the US while their families were locked up in Interment Camps. Black soldiers organizing the Double V campaign actively calling out their governments hypocrisy fighting the Nazis while having Jim Crow.

Another 4th post. As flawed as he was (and being an enslaver is PRETTY FLAWED) I don't think it can understated how important Washington is to the success of the country. Usually revolutions end up as dictatorships or plunge into civil war (which he stopped both)

And then the most important thing in my opinion is the example of stepping down from power (something a good chunk of Congress needs to learn again) Anyway, this song is a banger and I first heard it on July 4th when Hamilton started streaming as the fireworks started youtu.be/uV4UpCq2azs?...