Sunday, February 23, 2025

Charles Mudede

Another Top Pick: Daughters of the Dust at SIFF

Here are three important years for black American cinema: 1989, 1990, and 1991. The crowning achievement in the first of these years was Do the Right Thing; the second, To Sleep With Anger; the third, Daughters of the Dust....

Who Wrote This Beautiful Novella? Artificial Intelligence? Or One of Google's Top AI Scientists?

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a leading figure of the present machine intelligence moment in the near 70-year development of artificial intelligence (AI), has written a small book called Ubi Sunt. It's about the pandemic, it's also about the future...

Slog AM: Russia to Batter Kyiv with Bombs Soon; Scientists Post Images of Spider Catching and Eating Bat; Rain, Rain Will Not Go Away

See you next year, you beautifully dreary February. Charles MudedeAll of this water forced a Taco Time in Des Moines to close its doors. The rain also caused another mudslide in a neighborhood that suffered a major mudslide...

Heavenly Creatures Is the Only Peter Jackson Film That Matters to a Marxist

"You need me much more than I need you, you poor girl." MiramaxIt's time to make a confession. I only like one film by Peter Jackson, a director known for a trilogy, Lord of the Rings, that only has...

Slog PM: Capitalism Is Digging This War, Small Businesses Are Only Important if Seattle Is Dying, Woodland Park Zoo's Only Male Lion Put to...

Goodnight, Xerxes, you mighty shumba. Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren / Courtesy of Woodland Park ZooThe party paper for bourgeois economics, The Wall Street Journal, reports that "stocks end higher after new Russian sanctions announced." What the fuck happened? Why wasn't...

This Weekend: Hear the Ghost of J Dilla in Robert Glasper's Performance at the Moore

Courtesy the Moore TheatreRobert Glasper is a talented pianist who, if my ear is correct, blends the inventiveness of Thelonious Monk and the sensitive richness of early Herbie Hancock. A lot is going on in his work. In...

Slog AM: The February Freeze Is Here, Weyerhaeuser Reluctantly Reopens Its Offices in the Heart of Dying Seattle, PNW's Lake Monsters Getting Their 15...

If you can talk to plants, please tell them that it's no longer springtime in Seattle. Charles MudedeSome salt trucks, some ice, some very low temperatures. The February freeze is for sure finally here. KIRO 7 reports that "any...

A Top Pick This Week: Watch Eve's Bayou on 35mm Film This Thursday

The three great black films of the 1990s are, in this order: To Sleep with Anger from Charles Burnett, One False Move from Carl Franklin, and Eve’s Bayou from Kasi Lemmons. The first and...

Slog PM: King Inslee Restores American Freedoms on March 21, Mount Baker Station Can't Stop Sucking, Our Galaxy Loves to Eat

Train arriving at the cursed and badly designed Mount Baker Station. Charles MudedeMount Baker Station still stands as the worst-designed station on the Link line. I have said this before. I will say it again. It failed to accommodate...

The Sounders to Move into Boeing's Former Renton Headquarters

Watching Boeings vanishing act in Renton.... Charles MudedeRemember my post "Boeing Should Sell Its Renton and Everett Plants to China?" You should because it was written only a year ago and received a heap of predictable contempt because it...

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