#16: All The Things Dave Chappelle Could Have Been Other Than A TERF
Love turns accident into gold
over time, with the kind
of concentrated responsiveness of
a physical therapist or a baseball
coach … (“High Naturalism” by Tom Snarsky, Words & Sports.)
What would a trans Dave Chapelle have made of the work of the other Dave Chapelle in the Netflix special The Closer? “Congratulations on still being anxious about being straight at age 48 in the year of our lord 2021? For not realizing that Denzel Washington’s performance in the first half of Philadelphia happened twenty-eight years ago?”
I’m attaching a conversation between Eve Ewing and C. Riley Snorton in lieu of saying more. There are some bits in this conversation where I know I’d be curious to learn more — I’m not well-versed on the intersection between colonialism and gender studies, for one, and so can’t speak with the kind of nuance and certainty I’d like to on the subject — but I know this is the kind of chat I’d rather lift up and center than the other thing.
Fifteen games out by June and still
I insist on watching every inning
as if to prove devotion outlives discretion. (“Balk” by Robert Wood Lynn, Words & Sports)
CLIMATE: “Michigan plans to build the country’s first wireless EV charging road” / “Most Americans would rather rebuild than move if natural disaster strikes, poll finds” (which is interesting to consider in light of the news story and talk we flagged over in ‘Climate Corner’ last week) / “We would need about half of cars to go electric next year in order to meet the federal government’s own targets for transportation emissions … That clearly isn’t going to happen – currently only 1.3% of vehicles in Germany are electric. So the only solution is to reduce the amount of driving that’s happening, not just to change how we drive.” /
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Rutgers is offering a six-week labor history course for $90.
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‘Apocalypse Now’ by The Sword and The Sandwich.
An interview with John Ashbery on Brockport Television in November of 1972.
Hamish Imlach live at The Gallows — a folk club in Herford, Germany — in 1972.
Images: House at Dusk by Edward Hopper, 1935.