MY UNSOLICITED RANKING OF TELEVISION (2017 Edition)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
The Good Place (NBC)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Harlots (Hulu)
The Deuce (HBO)
Alias Grace (Netflix)
Insecure (HBO)
Dear White People (Netflix)
Billions (Showtime)
The Get Down (Netflix)
Honorable Mentions: Riverdale — This show can be completely bonkers, but it’s incredibly addictive and fills the hole left in my heart by Gossip Girl. That it pulls off being an obsession-worthy TV show while also being a very enjoyable gritty adaptation of Archie is pretty incredible.Â
The Tick (German dub) — The Tick is Amazon’s incredibly fun, breezy superhero comedy you can easily knock out watching in one sitting--it currently only has six 30-minute episodes. It is also glaringly evident the show has problems--were the writers aware the season would be split into two parts?--and a lot of those problems are solved by watching it in German on Amazon.de. Many of the lines are sharper and characters a bit stronger. The only thing fault of the German dub is Dangerboat, the sassy weaponized boat and sidekick of Overkill, is not nearly as terrific as Alan Tudyk’s voiceover performance in the original English. Still, go watch it in German with the subtitles on.Â
Most Overrated: Rick and Morty — It’s a mind-numbingly brutal show. If the show ended after its second season, I think that would have been a good stopping point. Also, there’s nothing special about szechuan sauce.Â
Notable Omission Because I Did Not Finish It: BoJack Horseman, Season 4 —Someone ruined the season for me at a Yom Kippur break fast.Â
Pick a street corner in downtown Hamtramck, Mich., and you’ll be struck by the incredible mix of cultures crammed into this tiny, 2-square-mile city.
A Catholic church across the street from a mosque. Polish pastry shops, sausage factories, and grocery stores promising “the best Polish food, shipping to Eastern Europe,” side by side with Bengali clothing shops that sell richly embroidered dresses and headscarves. And you’d be remiss if you didn’t stop in the many Yemeni restaurants serving fragrant lamb and discs of flatbread the size of hubcaps.
What has united all of the immigrant groups who’ve come to Hamtramck? Good jobs in the auto industry. Hamtramck is surrounded by Detroit, and for decades, car manufacturing was its lifeblood.
Hamtramck, Michigan: An Evolving City Of Immigrants
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been this city’s greatest strength. If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay. We cannot, we will not, let this happen.
Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne in her inauguration speech
[Drawing of a green cup of tea under a caption that says “First, let’s have some tea. Then, let’s do wonderful things (like drink more tea.)”]Â
I’m now going to have “I once got so worked up about the lack of a fence around an abandoned hospital in Chicago, I lost my train of thought while writing” as my bio on all dating websites.Â
why is the bad girl in high school movies always the popular preppy cheerleader why cant we have a movie where the villain is the nerdy girl who thinks shes superior to everyone else because she watches doctor who and drinks tea and is “not like other girls”
A leader of the Stonewall Riots. According to several eyewitnesses, Marsha was the one who “really started it”. She was “in the middle of the whole thing, screaming and yelling and throwing rocks and almost like Molly Pitcher in the Revolution or something”
Dedicated her life to activism:
Co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (later renamed Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries)
Ensured that the young drag queens, trans women and other street kids on Christopher Street were fed and clothed. Marsha also housed them whenever she could.Â
In the 1980s, she was an activist and organizer in ACT UP.Â
Also a leader in the Stonewall Riots - has been identified as the “butch lesbian that threw the first punch” against the police officers.
Several eye-witnesses recollections also recognize her as the cross-dressing lesbian that yelled “why don’t you guys do something” at the bystanders that evoked the reaction from them that helped make Stonewall a defining moment in history.
Unofficially worked at gay bars who otherwise couldn’t afford security.
Bayard Rustin
Was a leading strategist of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement between 1955-1968:
The formidable behind the scenes figure of the civil rights movement who organized the March on Washington
Through his influence, the civil rights leadership adopted a non-violent stance.
Is and was often overlooked in African-American history because of the public’s discomfort with his sexual orientation.
Supported LGBTQ rights and movements.
Was posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Another leader in the Stonewall Riots.
Has been involved in community efforts since 1978. She has worked at local food banks, provide services for trans women suffering from addiction or homelessness. During the AIDS epidemic she also provided healthcare and funeral services.
Is currently serving as the Executive Director for the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, working to assist transgender persons who are disproportionately incarcerated under a prison-industrial complex.
Alvin Ailey
At the young age of 22, Alvin AIley became Artistic Directer for the Horton Dance Company where he choreographed as well as directed scenes and costume designs.
Formed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1958 but continued to choreograph for other companies.
Ailey’s signature works prominently reflects his Black pride.
Is credited for popularizing modern dance.Â
Was also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
They sure don’t market cars like this anymore! This 1937 Pontiac Drive Safety Game was distributed by Pontiac dealers as a way to promote the company’s cars. The board game also came with the added bonus of driver safety lessons. After playing this game, you’ll definitely remember that liquor violations could put you in jail and to slow down in school zones.
Players also get rewarded for stopping at cool locations like city hall, a baseball game, and the radio station. We are amused to note that visiting the library ($75!) yields a substantially larger reward than visiting church or the baseball park. If only it were real cash! But, sadly, it is fake money advertising car features.
This game kind of reminds me of a Monopoly test track Toyota had at the Chicago Auto Show one year. Seeing a guy dressed like Uncle Moneybags at 8 a.m. while you’re guzzling coffee before dashing to press conferences is unnerving.Â
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