#Rodney Powers

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Richard Horvitz characters

[orawyra]

idfk why my last post got so many notes last week lol but thats prettycool. part two electric boogaloo

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“Dad I know you kinda felt bad when I growing up that you couldn’t give me a lot of stuff but you gave me the most important thing, you believed in me”

- Rodney Copperbottom

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14-year-old Arisa Trew makes her mark as the first Woman to Successfully land a 900

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thinking about the memorial site they would have on atlantis for all the lost members of the expedition

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I like to imagine that after “The Game” Evan, John, Radek, and Rodney started playing table top games together.

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1967 Grace Slick & Rodney Bingenheiner

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John Sheppard absolutely believes in the power of friendship. He yells "Friendship is maaaagggiiiccc" while doing yet another suicide save the day run

[tariah23]

Finished Supacell!!!

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That’s alright for some. I’ve got to spend the rest of the day at that garage on my own. (Part 1)

Daz’s panel is now being held at Rodney’s. All arrive at the Mill to determine the fate of Daz where he speaks up for himself. While the panel are making a decision, Jack, Andy and Daz make a stop at the garage to fill Robert in on what’s going on. The panel are nearly unanimous regarding Daz until Scott puts a kibosh on things as he sees Daz playing everyone for fools. Note, the first part is setup for what is going to happen at the end of the episode.

25-Jan-2004

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Pan-African theory in general, and the work of Rodney in particular, should be reconsidered as central to the development and genealogical construction of theories and knowledge upon which we build in the current moment. We now have many ways to reach the important issue of the fraught relationship between knowledge and power, and we have great work left to do to create knowledge that is liberatory in relation to power. Rodney’s work is one of our greatest models in this urgent task.

Jesse Benjamin in Africa Is a Country. Groundings with Walter Rodney

AN INTERVIEW WITH Monique Bedasse Erin MacLeod Nijah Cunningham Matthew J. Smith Jesse Benjamin

On the 50th anniversary [2019] of Walter Rodney's Groundings with My Brothers, a small group of scholars on the impacts of Rodney on their intellectual development and political commitments.

The Groundings With My Brothers

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You To KNow

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PosterSpy's Expanding the Brand Challenge - Almost Skateboards Magazine mock-up for Almost Skateboard's 20th anniversary. Created in Adobe Illustrator. Powered By Jayna August 2023

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Art Credit to Rodney Ulibarri

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Summary: No one was sure what to do with the four high school students who'd fallen out of the sky when McKay touched what appeared to be an Ancient refrigerator, but in hindsight was probably one of the predecessors of the Quantum Mirror.

My thoughts: So GOOD! I like how they talk about the cultural conception of monster in the Power Rangers world due to how things evolved in their world as a result of having rangers. I wish we'd gotten to see Tommy getting involved somehow, maybe chasing after his kids. There's an unfortunate lack of Tommy. But Trent on a hairtrigger in also fun.

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Movie Reviews: Lynch/Oz and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

This week I got to review 2 films, one narrative and one documentary:

Lynch/Oz

Alexandre O. Philippe has very quietly become one of the great pop culture documentarians of our time. The People Vs. George Lucas looked at the love/hate relationship between Lucas and his fans, Doc of the Dead looked at zombies in pop culture, 78/52 examined the shower scene in Psycho (read my review here), and Leap of Faith was William Friedkin talking about making The Exorcist (read my review here). But more than any subject Philippe is examining, his films are really a thesis about what it is to be a film geek who is fanatical about a film, filmmaker or genre. Now he is after an iconic filmmaker David Lynch and his connection to an iconic film The Wizard of Oz with the new doc Lynch/Oz, opening this week.

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The overall doc is examining the influence that Oz had on Lynch and his work. Structurally it is set up into chapters, where each one has a different commentator (John Waters, Rodney Ascher,  Karyn Kusama and more) examining their perspective on that influence, intercutting with clips from Oz and Lynch’s films as well as other films. 

This reminded me a ton of Rodney Ascher’s brilliant doc Room 237, where he examines theories and interpretations of The Shining each with a different commentator you don’t see only hear and they are connecting dots that may or may not be there, but you’re intrigued nonetheless. So it made perfect sense that Ascher was a commentator. Going into this, the immediate film I thought of was Lynch’s Wild at Heart, which is literally and visually referencing Oz. But after watching this doc, I feel like Oz’s DNA is all over so much of Lynch’s work in more ways than I saw upon first viewing. This is definitely a treat for fans of Lynch, but at times it might get a little academic for non-fans. But for someone like me who has inhaled so much of Lynch’s work, it’s worth checking out!

For info on Lynch/Oz: https://exhibitapictures.com/films/lynchoz/

4 out of 5 stars

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After countless iterations of Spider-Man movies (i.e. Sam Raimi’s trilogy, Marc Webb’s reboot, and Jon Watt’s reboot that plays into the MCU), 2018′s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was an animated story of Miles Morales and how he becomes Spider-Man in his universe and how he connects with other Spider People in parallel universes to defeat Kingpin. It was a breath of fresh air: the same Spider-Man story we’ve seen countless times already was now new again in a fresh, charming, and fun ride. Best of all, because it was about parallel universes, it didn’t disrupt the existing live-action Spider-Man movies of the last few years, so there was no confusion for fans. Into the Spider-Verse won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature and I named it my #7 Movie of 2018. Now the sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opens today.

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Before I get into this movie, let me say I always try to avoid spoilers in movie reviews. That is going to be a challenge here. It’s not just about avoiding giving away the ending, there’s so much in the beginning and middle as well that are surprises and I don’t want to give too much away to ruin the fun. Here it goes: In this universe, Miles is a teen getting used to being Spider-Man. As he goes into other universes he meets with other Spider-People too. There is a master plan and when any Spider-Person does something that veers from that plan it could unravel the fabric of history. Other films like Back to the Future and that episode of Star Trek where they go back in time, have addressed this very same concept, but this one is packing it with more action and colorful visuals.

With my movie reviews, I usually attend press screenings (sometimes screeners), and for this particular one I got to bring my son, who is 7 and loved the last Spider-Verse movie. It was such a treat to be able to bring him and enjoy this movie with him! I did not feel like this was nearly as impressive a Into the Spider-Verse, but it definitely sustained the originality of the last one and more than anything there’s a sense of fun amidst the complex storylines and theories. For a big Summer franchise sequel, you could do a lot worse. Now (semi-spoiler ahead), this does suffer a little from middle-movie syndrome, where there’s no really beginning and no real ending unless you’re watching the trilogy as a whole. It’s hard for me to get critical without giving much away, but I kind of wanted some closure the way the other Spider-Man movies are stand-alone movies. Having said all this, this is one of the best super hero movies I’m likely to see this year!

For info on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: https://www.acrossthespiderverse.movie/

4 out of 5 stars