July 2, 2023
Summer is Hot
“Song of Summer” by Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai is a song about warm summer weather
(prev., their song about winter weather and futons addressed similar, if inverted, themes. Their song about living on a cat planet is unrelated.)
(prev., their song about winter weather and futons addressed similar, if inverted, themes. Their song about living on a cat planet is unrelated.)
The Americas' biggest monkey returns from the brink of extinction
The Americas' biggest monkey returns from the brink of extinction. Four decades ago there were just 50 northern mariquis left in Brazil's Atlantic forest and the Americas' biggest monkey was threatened with extinction. Now there are 232 in a protected reserve, plus more in the wild. [more inside]
Tear Here
Barbenheimer
Forget DC vs. Marvel, scruffies vs. stuffies, even Pepsi vs. Coke--the real match of the century is nearly upon us. In this corner, Christopher Nolan with the dawn of the atomic age in all its nuclear-powered fury! In this corner, Greta Gerwig with umpteen squigglewatts of shocking pink hot-pink-laser girlitude! Which one will you choose? Or, you know, just do both. [more inside]
An Oral History of the Capitol Crawl
When I made it to the top, I was exhausted and my elbows and knees were bleeding. JULIE FARRAR: By the time of the crawl, I was about 19. I was pretty tiny and much more mobile. I was known for being able to crawl around, through, up, down, over police barriers, stairs and so on.
We were watching Bob Kafka and waiting for the signal to start crawling up the stairs. The feeling of camaraderie was palpable — the excitement on our march there, the staging. I don’t remember the speeches. I just remember feeling so proud in a very sacred communal way of being a part of it all. [Happy Disability Pride Month! Join the
Roll call of mefites with disabilities in the first post] [more inside]
The song ‘Party in the U.S.A.’ celebrates making it in America
The song captures in vivid terms the blind optimism it can take to survive — and stay sane — in immigrant America. “Party in the U.S.A.” was released in 2009. By last year, the song had hit 1 billion streams on Spotify. Over the same period, America’s reckonings with things like racial inequality, police brutality, and poverty have dominated the American discourse. “This can’t be the same USA Miley was partying in,” a recent tweet noted. It got nearly 200,000 likes on Twitter.
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