BlueSky + Underwater UFOs + A McNightmare + Honestly, Shut The Penn Museum Down At This Point + The War On Books + The Last Showgirl + Gavin Newsom + Tyson v. Paul
Follow @culturework on BlueSky, duh. (Substack is still the only place I publish regularly, but let's change that!)
I try to use the top half of the newsletter for life updates, but, I gotta be real with you…. ain’t nothing new going on over here. Maybe next week I’ll leave the house and have something fabulous to report back to y’all. Until then…
A Mc-Fucking-Nightmare Blunt Rotation (TDB)
So Aliens Live In The Ocean? Do We Still Have To Pay Rent? (ABC)
AfroTech Is For Lovers! (TT)
When He’s Right, He’s Right (Variety)
The Harris Campaign Definitely Didn’t Pay Oprah Paid $1M (Yah, They Did) (The Daily Beast)
Where’s Liam Payne’s Rolex? (Page Six)
Introducing Voodoo Spiritual Supreme: Ms. Terri Joe (culturework)
John Krasinski Is, Technically, Alive, Yes (HungUp)
The Penn Museum Is Still Hoarding A Teenager’s Remains (TheArtNewspaper)
It’s been over a year since I first wrote about the fight to get the Penn Museum to return the remains of 12 year old Delisha Africa. In 1985, she was killed alongside several adults and four other children when Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop a fucking bomb on their home.
The war on books is here. It’s been here. It never left. This week over on TikTok, we discussed just how organized, tactical, and adamant white woman (conservative, or not) are in preserving a literary legacy that not only keeps them comfortable, but also protects them.
Lit Hub’s James Folta unpacks just exactly what has been unfolding since the election (read more here).
“I don’t whether to scream or cry.” — Unicef Spokesperson James Elder
A new acronym has had to be created to describe the child victims of the US-funded, Israel-actioned genocide in Palestine: WCNSF.
Wounded child. No surviving family.
Israel defied US’s 30 day aid-blocking deadline because the deadline was a lie
Utah NIMBYs would rather you freeze to death than have a warming center near by
If you’re having trouble keeping up…
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Without a thought and without seeing anything more than this trailer, Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl is getting thrown right into my iTunes library alongside Showgirls, Swingers, ConAir, and Fear and Loathing. Watch the trailer here.
