TIL: The gang truce meeting at the start of The Warriors was inspired by an actual gathering of the gangs for a truce meeting.
Seeing that background, and the list of gang names, I can totally get why somebody heard about that and thought “Hey, I’ve got a great idea for a movie!”
Joseph Mpa of the Black Panthers stated that the truce itself played a role in the rise of hip hop culture since it permitted greater ease of travel between neighborhoods without fear of reprisals for crossing gang boundaries.
That can’t be right. The book that the movie is based on is from 1965.
MonsterTalk S04E37: High Weirdness with Erik Davis
We’re joined by Erik Davis to discuss his book High Weirdness – a history of psychedelics and counterculture as a triptych embodied with three prominent figures: Terrence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson. From Blade Runner to the Illuminati to Magic Mushrooms these three laid down foundational blocks decades ago that underpin (or perhaps undermine?) our present.
In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace’s standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: “What is a woman?”
My answer is simple. A woman is not a what. A woman is a who.
I want to expand a bit from the essay on what I think this matters.
Must have gotten a lot of positive feedback, to already have expanded that!
Understandable. If the regime falls without prominent US involvement, then all those decades of hostilities will have been for nothing.
(See also: Cuba, sooner or later)
… One of them earned a Guinness World Record for travelling the “world’s longest railway spiral”. The start and end of the Dulishan Spiral are only 570m apart, but an elevation difference of 233m means trains traveling on this stretch must negotiate 5km of twisting track to cover what would be a 570m straight-line distance.
I found it. Here is the Dulishan Spiral mapped out.
Kristi Noem was just taken by ambulance to a hospital. An “allergic reaction” of some sort. Interesting.
Google for updates.
Only a minute long ye all.