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 Babes and bots,  Welcome to the sandwich. Hope you had a good meal today and that you are not, in fact, reading this garbage before breakfast. I certainly don't.  Last night I had a genius idea so I raced to my computer and typed it out. This morning it made no sense. Allow me to paraphrase:  radical. you'll know in the morning ;)  My past self is a real shit. They are also incredibly productive 5 minutes before falling asleep, which likely explains "you'll know in the morning." Direct translation: am tired, too tired, talk later? Such promise...so anyways I was at an art gallery minding my business when genius accosted me in the full frontal face. Anyone ever heard of Austin Uzor ? If you hadn't, now you have. He's what they call 'up-and-coming.' The following are from Memories of the Future (2021), currently in Fort Arts Gallery.  According to the gallery manager, Uzor's exhibition is a play on the American Dream or an expectation vs. reali...

Good afternoon babes and bots!  What's hopping and popping in your life today? Everything is still flooded, or on fire, or out of power, or some combination of the three. And Creepy Joe is out there making speeches. And radical activists are out there radicalizing the world with their activism. And I'm sitting on a couch writing a blog post that four people might read. So here's Childish Gambino.  more trees, please So I was hiking through a gorgeous piece of unceded Cherokee land in Tennesee violently renamed Great Smokey Mountains National Park. As it turns out, when nasty president jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 18somethingstupid , Cherokee were among the many Indigenous peoples forced into Oklahoma. Some remained, however, under the leadership of an epic warrior named Tsali. Their descendants live on the Qualla Reservation .  I had not previously understood why they were called the Great Smokeys. Linguistically, great smokies is a botched translation of the ...