#Frank Moten

[gwydionmisha]

You are asking the hard questions!

Sexiest Old Man Tournament: Round 2

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[ljones41]

Ranking of "FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST" (2024) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the episodes from the PEACOCK limited series, "FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST"., the 2024 adaptation of Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts' podcast, "Fight Night". Created by Shaye Ogbonna, the eight-part miniseries starred Kevin Hart:

RANKING OF "FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST" (2024) EPISODES

1. (1.08) "Round Eight: Testify" - In this surprisingly tense finale, numbers bookie Gordon "Chicken Man" Williams and Atlanta Police Detective J.D. Hudson face off against the mastermind of the "Fight Night" robbery at the former's post-fight party in a daring hustle.

2. (1.03) "Round Three: Black Vegas" - The city of Atlanta celebrates Muhammad Ali's big comeback victory. Unfortunately, Chicken Man's fight night party turns into a nightmare, thanks to a group of robbers.

3. (1.07) "Round Seven: Jekyll Island" - Detective Hudson and Chicken Man track the surviving robbers to an abandoned resort on the Georgia coast, leading to a violent standoff. Chicken Man's mistress, Vivian "Sweets" Thomas forms a business alliance with powerful gangster Frank Moten, securing her future.

4. (1.01) "Round One: The Ballad of Chicken Man" - Atlanta prepares for Muhammad Ali's comeback fight and Chicken Man sets his eye on the prize by offering to host the post-fight party on behalf of the country's Black Mafia leaders arriving in town. Detective Hudson is ordered to lead the bodyguard detail for Ali.

5. (1.04) "Round Four: Real Policework" - Suspected of being the robbery's mastermind, a desperate Chicken Man sets out to prove his innocence. And the Black Mafia leaders seek revenge for the robbery.

6. (1.05) "Round Five: Ambition Ain't Free" - Now on the run, Chicken Man is forced to form an alliance with Detective Hudson. And the latter finds himself in the spotlight as the media, the law and the Black Mafia contemplate on the robbery.

7. (1.06) "Round Six: Community Men" - The manhunt for Chicken Man increases, making it difficult for him to clear his name. Detective Hudson continues to work outside of the law to prove Chicken's innocence.

8. (1.02) "Round Two: Fight Night" - The Muhammad Ali-Jerry Quarry boxing match commences, while Chicken Man hustles to impress Frank Moten. The robbers begin their heist at Chicken Man's house.

[yesterdayandkarma]

Prisca by Frank Moten

[librarycards]

my fellow tumblrinas, you know me too well. @probablymoons tagged me in the 9 books to read for 2025 tag, and i did it previously for novels i am prioritizing, but wanted an excuse to do it again for poetry & poetics.....soooooo here i am!

my poetry & poetics priority tbr for 2025:

Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

Fred Moten, perennial fashion presence falling

Ching-In Chen, Recombinant

kari edwards, Bharat jiva

Lauren Berlant [z"l] and Kathleen Stewart, The Hundreds

Rachel Zolf, No One's Witness

Sam Sax, Pig

Sarah Ghazal Ali, Theophanies

Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs

tagging people i didn't already tag for the novel one, but feel free to do any/all genres and forms ofc!!

@waajidah @umeboshilover @sadhoc @boykeats @maisysplayhouse

@slowtides @grimesapologist @closet-keys @twinkubus @materialisnt

@thepixiediaries @metamatar @myalgias @noncompliantcyborg @yesthattoo

+ anyone else who wants to!

[kineticpenguin]

So I finished the Fallout series

And that was a mistake.

You know how like, 2 episodes in I said "the only character anyone involved in this show seems to actually give a shit about is the Walton Goggins ghoul"? Yeah, that stays consistent for the whole duration. You know how people use "NPC" as an insult? Lucy is worse: she's a BethSoft Fallout PC. She just steps on out of that vault with generic do-gooder personality, and basically everything brought to that character is entirely from the person playing her, certainly not the goddamn writers. Let me be absolutely clear: this is not Ella Purnell's fault, she is acting her ass off. It's just the writers gave her such trash to work with and the only button they have on their keyboard is "well that just happened!"

It's almost as bad for Maximus the Hapless Brotherhood Dipshit (Aaron Moten) but not quite. The writers thought maybe they'd do a fakeout to make you question whether or not he's a good guy or not, and absolutely did not commit. Another character where the actor had to do their best with nothing.

So obviously Lucy and Maximus fall in love and... here's the thing. She's smitten from the moment he first shows up in power armor, calls him a "knight," even though she's supposedly up to speed on prewar history and knows T-60 armor when she sees it. Why she just got obsessed with this idea that this guy is a Knight and not a remnant of the US Army remains to be seen, but I'm pretty sure it's because Todd Howard hears "knight in shining armor" and gets a big fat chub and dreams of being carried off into the sunset.

I can't even say Walton Goggins steals the show as the ghoul Cooper Howard, because most of this show is actually really all about him. He is the actual protagonist.

Overall assessment, though? God, where is the copypasta about Fallout 3... ah, yes. It makes about that much sense. They retconned the NCR into a fragment and then finished it off out of what I can only assume is 14 years of pure spite from Todd Howard. Why? Because they want you to know that it seems that Vault-Tec is bad. Uh, very bad.

Vault-Tec's bad, huh?

HEY FRANK THIS GUY'S OVER HERE WATCHIN' AN AMAZON SHOW OVER HERE THAT SAYS THAT VAULT-TEC... IS BAD!

It's a show with nothing for everyone. It holds its cards close to the chest so non-fans won't understand what's going on, and shits all over existing canon which fans won't like.

And also it just sucks. The plot doesn't make any sense and the fight choreography occasionally achieves "acceptable" at best. Battlefields populate and depopulate and repopulate without explanation. There is no flow to the combat. There is a moment in the finale where banner-bearers with the BoS flag and the NCR flag just rush at each other. BECAUSE TROOPS ATTACKING BY HELICOPTER AND PEOPLE DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM THEM, BOTH SIDES USING MACHINE GUNS, ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT BATTLE STANDARDS LIKE IT'S 1844

Fuck this show.

[widefuturesss]

The Widefuturesss drive has just been updated with the following texts: The Future is Black (2021), Black and Blur by Fred Moten, Ontological Terror by Calvin L. Warren, Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson, The Position of the Unthought by Saidiya Hartman & Frank b. Wilderson and an anonymous text: Black Armed Joy - Some Notes Towards a Black Theory of Insurrectionary Anarchy.

[tejedac]

Les harmonies vintage · Playlist

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra · Ted Lewis · Scott Joplin ·The Ink Spots · Muggsy Spanier · Sister Rosetta Tharpe · Jelly Roll Morton · Rose Murphy · Leo Monosson · Kid Ory · Vera Lynn · Comedian Harmonist · Al Bowlly · Mezz Mezzrow · Carroll Gibbons · Elizabeth Cotten · Barnabas von Geczy · The Mills Brothers · The Firehouse Five Plus Two · Mississippi Sheiks · Sippie Wallace · Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians · Cannon's Jug Stompers · Savannah Churchill · Frank Stokes · The Andrews Sisters · Bunny Berigan · Blind Boy Fuller · Gus Viseur · Barbecue Bob · Harry Roy and his Bat Club Boys · Robert Wilkins · Marek Weber · Tino Rossi · Django Reinhardt · Coleman Hawkins · Red Nichols · Tiny Parham · Mamie Smith her Jazz Hounds · Paul Specht · Ma Rainey · Robert Pete Williams · Sam Morgan's Jazz Band · Bernie Moten · King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band · Sam Lanin and his Orchestra · Tony Murena · Original Dixieland Jazz Band · Helen Kane · Ray Ventura · etc,

[a-minus-content]

Between love and saving,

love and waiting, love and

singing what can't

be sung or said; between love and salvation--what it is

continually to be saved by the music, continually to ask

this of the music from way back and way up ahead, where desperation and desire cut each other up to put

something away, the content of what

can't be said in the scar of singing something, for something other than that.

- Fred Moten, sweet Nancy Wilson saved frank Ramsey, from THE LITTLE EDGES

[neegaadeek]

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/13/archives/17-guilty-of-conspiracy-in-200-million-narcotics-ring.html

[thenerdsofcolor]

Samuel L. Jackson on the Reality and Fictional Qualities of ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’

NOC Interview: Samuel L. Jackson on the Reality and Fictional Qualities of ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ @SamuelLJackson @peacock #FightNight

Samuel L. Jackson stars as Frank Moten in Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. The first three episodes of the series are currently streaming on Peacock and new episodes will be released every Thursday through October 10.  Continue reading Samuel L. Jackson on the Reality and Fictional Qualities of ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’

[oldmanbracket]

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[themovieblogonline]

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist Trailer

Peacock, the streaming service that brought us hits like The Office and Parks and Recreation, is diving headfirst into the world of crime dramas with its upcoming series "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist." Peacock just dropped the trailer for their upcoming series and it’s already setting the internet ablaze. This looks like one of the most fun projects this stellar cast has been a part of in quite a while. When you see names like Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, and Taraji P. Henson together, you know you’re in for something special. Let's dive into why this trailer has everyone buzzing. This feels like a match made in comedy heaven. First things first, the cast alone is worth the hype. Kevin Hart as Chicken Man? Say no more. It's refreshing to see Hart in a comedy surrounded by other Black actors. Samuel L. Jackson plays Frank Moten, and you know when Jackson's in the mix, things are about to get intense and hilarious. Don Cheadle takes on the role of J.D. Hudson, one of Atlanta's first Black detectives. And let’s not forget, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson reunite. That's right, the "Empire" duo is back and bringing their A-game. Here's the lowdown: Fight Night throws us back to 1970, the night of Muhammad Ali's legendary comeback fight. Kevin Hart plays "Chicken Man," a hustler throwing a massive afterparty for Atlanta's elite. But this ain't your typical soiree. The night takes a wild turn when a crew pulls off the biggest heist Atlanta's ever seen. Chicken Man, naturally, becomes the prime suspect. Now he's gotta clear his name, and fast. Enter Don Cheadle as J.D. Hudson, one of the first Black detectives in Atlanta's newly desegregated police force. These two former adversaries gotta work together to catch the real crooks. The trailer is a visual feast. The fashion and hairstyles alone are worth the price of admission. This series is dripping with 1970s style, and it's giving me major vibes. The attention to detail in the costumes and set design transports you straight into that era. Peacock clearly spared no expense in making sure everything looks authentic and eye-catching. Honestly, I don't even need to know much more. This trailer is pure fire. It's got action, comedy, drama, and a killer cast. "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist" is shaping up to be one of the must-watch shows of the season. Keep your eyes peeled, folks, because this one's gonna be a knockout.

[webionaire]

BLACK STUDIES—as modeled by the transdisciplinary work of contemporary thinkers such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Saidiya Hartman, Kara Keeling, Katherine McKittrick, Christina Sharpe, Fred Moten, and Frank B. Wilderson III—has grown increasingly central to critical thought in the art world and the academy, with especially urgent implications for art-historical praxis: How do the discipline’s notions of objecthood and objectivity shift in light of transatlantic slavery’s production of persons as property? How must art-historical methods, given their origins in racist, sexist, and colonialist epistemologies, be retooled to engage with complexities of Black life and expression that are designed to evade capture? What becomes of art history as an intellectual enterprise when the ethical imperatives and liberatory horizons of Black studies occasion an interrogation of both the discipline’s objects of analysis and its political imaginaries? This year marks the publication of two groundbreaking books that address these questions.

[yesterdayandkarma]

Raquel by Frank Moten

[deepartnature]

Let's Ride: Art history after Black studies

"BLACK STUDIES—as modeled by the transdisciplinary work of contemporary thinkers such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Saidiya Hartman, Kara Keeling, Katherine McKittrick, Christina Sharpe, Fred Moten, and Frank B. Wilderson III—has grown increasingly central to critical thought in the art world and the academy, with especially urgent implications for art-historical praxis: How do the discipline’s notions of objecthood and objectivity shift in light of transatlantic slavery’s production of persons as property? How must art-historical methods, given their origins in racist, sexist, and colonialist epistemologies, be retooled to engage with complexities of Black life and expression that are designed to evade capture? ..."