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Last week, we told you about Diva D, the ruffly-bottomed drag queen that made national news by doing cartwheels on a table at Sutton High School last month as part of their Connections Conference (or ConCon). If you haven’t read the first part of our investigation yet, click the link below: Since the first part of our investigation hit the web, we’ve gotten lots of questions about ConCon. We’ve also kept an eye on the social media commentary surrounding the issue, and seen some bad info swirling around about the history of ConCon, Sutton High’s role in the conference, and more.

In Guyana, it’s not that the ingredients of the roti are any different from the typical paratha roti on the Indian sub-continent, though here they usually call it oil roti. There’s flower, baking powder, salt and a little bit of fat. Everything is incorporated in much the same way. The ingredients are mixed and left to rest, then kneaded, rolled, spiraled and then flattened. It’s the same as roti canai in Malaysia or roti prata in Singapore I’m told.

I thought for a long time I could help the church (or at least my slice of it) change. I could take a community and denomination rife with racism, cronyism, misogyny and abuse and change it. How foolish I was. Scholar, author, and speaker wrote this doleful reflection last fall, several months after she had announced her departure from Southeastern Bapti…ncG1vNJzZmijkamyrcXNm5yarKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqpubXaS5pXnBqLCsZZOhwqN5x5qppp2UYriivsSnZKyvkaG5sMOMqamip6I%3D

There have been numerous attempts to explain why author George R.R. Martin still hasn’t finished The Winds of Winter, the sixth novel in his epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), despite having been at work on it for over a decade. Many think that Martin tends to occupy himself with a lot more projects nowadays than he used to due to his popularity having skyrocketed in the last decade and this is preventing him from focusing on Winds.

Cops were lurking at the barricades, so we started blasting house music. It was a sweltering hot afternoon in early September and everyone was exhausted from staying up all night. Nobody knew when the cops would violently eject us from Camp JTD, the autonomous zone and homeless encampment in Philadelphia that’s been running since June. The city had released a notice saying they would evict residents by 9am, but it was already past noon, and the police cars were just parked at the entrance, lights flashing, waiting for some invisible command.

This long post was originally published in the "Oil Drum" in 2009 on the occasion of the bimillenary of the battle of Teutoburg of 9 A.D. that forever stopped the attempt of the Roman Empire to expand in central Europe. It was my first post on this subject and, revisited 14 years later, I see that I was basically correct in identifying the main elements that lead to the collapse of empires.

The myth of the modern woman “having it all” has been lambasted for so long that it’s now only possible to use the term ironically.  It’s the “it” doing so much lifting that renders the phrase silly on its face. “It” contains multitudes. Inside of the “it” is crammed a fulfilling partnership, a happy and healthy child, a beautiful home, a great career, professional respect, maternal success, marital bliss. Part of the “it” still seems to be passing it off as though you’re doing it without help.

When we talk about the meaning of a film, or the story it tells, we often focus on what is happening on screen. But how a movie is made, or how a story is shown, can often communicate just as much as what is shown. And in some movies, the relationship between the how and what, is where the entire thematic content of the film lies. This is the idea I’m exploring in my latest video on The Zone of Interest, a movie that uses film form and structure to communicate most of what it’s trying to get across.

Welcome! We’re back with another exciting edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is the agenda today: 1 — on the making of Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. 2 — the animation news this week. 3 — a wonderful film by Norman McLaren. New around here? We publish Sunday and Thursday. You can sign up for free to receive our Sunday issues in your inbox every week: Now, on we go!