#green book

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

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[deadmotelsusa]

The Green Acres Court of Dallas, Texas opened in 1950, at a time when Dallas was 90% white, and closed in the late 70s, after co-owner Redmon Revis died.

At one time, it was one of the only motels in the city that welcomed black people and was featured in the Green Book. Prominent guests included Ray Charles and Etta James. The city's Landmark Commission briefly pushed to save it but when that didn't work, it was suggested that the new owners erect some sort of memorial to recognize the motel's significance instead.

It was replaced by a new development. Not saying it doesn't exist but I was unable to locate a memorial on the property.

#green acres court #dallas #texas #then and now #deadmotelsusa #green book #black history

[ko0l-k1dd0]

Movie night but I talk through the entire movie explaining every micro detail.

#the outsiders #stand by me #the goonies #the hunger games #moana #the grizzlies #hamilton musical #enola holmes #httyd #rim of the world #green book

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

#movies #polls #green book #2010s movies #peter farrelly #viggo mortensen #mahershala ali #have you seen this movie poll

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #food #recipes #📗 #nikki.mov #green book #sundown towns #racism

[mysticaltastemakerwitch]

"I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of. Something to leave behind. I don't just want to look back and say:

'Oh, you know what? I was on the cover of this magazine.'

That's for silly people. And as far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark:

'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.'

Meaning, you can make a lot of money, but you can't take it with you."

- Viggo Mortensen.

#viggo mortensen #Aragorn #Alatriste #Eastern Promises #Captain fantastic #Green Book #The Road

[finemaleactors]

Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen

#mahershala ali #viggo mortensen #green book #male actors #fine male actors

[a-birdie-on-a-rose]

#@birdie-aesthetic #@birdie aesthetic #moodboard #aesthetic #greencore #green moodboard #green aesthetic #green and white #green cake #greenery #green #cakes #cake #books #book #green books #green book #foods and drinks #food and drink #foods #food #picnics #picnic #green outfit #outfit #outfits #black outfit #bedroom #green drink #green drinks

[downfalldestiny]

This distance between us is breaking my sprit ❤️‍🩹 !.

Green book (2018) .

#Life #Distance #Break #Pain #Spirit #Time #Away #Alone #Thoughts #downfalldestiny #downfall #life #حياة #love #حب #Green book #Tv shows #Films #Movies

[jt1674]

#steely dan #green book #everything must go

[raurquiz]

#Happybirthday #viggomortensen #actor #Aragorn #lordoftherings #TheFellowshipoftheRing #TheTwoTowers #TheReturnoftheKing #captainfantastic #TheIndianRunner #CarlitosWay #TheProphecy #AHistoryofViolence #CaptainAlatriste #EasternPromises #TheRoad #GreenBook #CrimesoftheFuture

#happybirthday #viggo mortensen #actor #aragorn #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #the return of the king #captain fantastic #theindianrunner #carlitosway #the prophecy #ahistoryofviolence #captainalatriste #eastern promises #theroad #green book #crimes of the future

[camyfilms]

GREEN BOOK 2018

People love what you do! Anyone can sound like Beethoven or Joe Pan or them other guys you said. But your music, what you do? Only you can do that!

#green book #2018 #viggo mortensen #mahershala ali #linda cardellini #sebastian maniscalco #dimiter d. marinov #von lewis #mike hatton #brian stepanek #joseph cortese #iqbal theba #p. j. byrne #don stark

[deadmotelsusa]

From 1948 to 1976, Hazel and Clayton Sinclair ran the Rock Rest Resort. It was one of many Black-owned and -operated businesses that thrived nationwide during the post-war years until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in public accommodations. Today, Rock Rest still exists as a private residence. Located in Kittery, Maine. Source

#rock rest resort #kittery #maine #then and now #deadmotelsusa #black history #green book

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"

In Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff pulled off a genius inversion: retelling the racist horror tales of HP Lovecraft in reverse, from the perspective of the Black people whom Lovecraft so viciously loathed, casting as villains the white supremacist sorcerers whom Lovecraft turned into heroes:

https://memex.craphound.com/2016/02/16/matt-ruffs-lovecraft-country-where-the-horror-is-racism-not-racist/

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the-horror-of-white-magic/#anti-lovecraftian

Country was adapted by Jordan Peele into a spectacular TV serial — no mean feat, given how much of Ruff’s brilliant characterizations relies on the novelist’s trick of giving readers direct access to characters’ thoughts and internal states, something that is off-limits to screen adaptations without recourse to cheap tricks like voice-overs.

Today, Harpercollins releases The Destroyer of Worlds, a spectacular followup to Country that revisits the characters, setting, and supernatural dread of the original:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-destroyer-of-worlds-matt-ruff?variant=40490768957474

Country was structured as a series of linked novellas, each one picking up where the previous left off, with a different focal characters. Destroyer is a much more traditional braided novel, moving swiftly amongst the characters and periodically jumping back in time to the era of American slavery, retelling the story of the settlement of the Great Dismal swamp by escaped slaves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroons

Few writers can manage a cast of characters this large with Ruff’s deft hand — they are likable, individual, and we root for all of them as they strive to save themselves from the eldritch forces that can only be temporarily vanquished.

It makes for an extremely fast-paced, high-stakes read, as we ping-pong around the Jim Crow south and all the way to the end of the universe. The white sorcerers of Country are still in the frame, as ghosts and exiles — a parable for the tireless nature of white supremacist hatred, and of the festering sores on the American body politic that have suppurated and multiplied in the absence of cleansing truth and reconciliation.

HP Lovecraft was a gifted writer, but he was not a good person. Even by the standards of his day, his racism was particularly vicious, and Lovecraft mixed that viciousness with his prodigious talents to paint the targets of his loathing in the most visceral, cruel light. It was so ugly that even Robert E Howard lectured him about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140701000000/http://read.barretta.cc/post/89727018274/you-express-amazement-at-my-statement-that

“People claiming to possess superior civilization have always veneered their … looting, butchering and plundering… by [claims] of art, progress and culture.”

And yet, Lovecraft’s work made a substantial, undeniable mark on the field, and the literary techniques he invented, advanced and/or perfected are woven into our literature. Rather than deny this influence, some of the field’s best writers have sought to redeem it, wresting Lovecraftian techniques from Lovecraftian ideology.

Ruff is part of that tradition, but by no means all of it. 2019 saw the publication of NK Jemisin’s stunning The City We Became, an anti-racist Lovecraftian tale in which New York City’s glorious riot of race, color, language and viewpoint is set to be devoured by a conservatisizing, homogenizing eldritch power from another universe:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#i-love-ny

Exicitingly, City We Became now has a sequel, The World We Make, which has gotten rave reviews:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/n-k-jemisin/the-world-we-make/9780316509893/

The literature of anti-racist, anti-fascist Lovecraftian horror is a broad and exciting one, including RPGs:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1122788890/lovecraftesque/description

And David Nickle’s essential duology, Eutopia (2011):

https://boingboing.net/2015/03/10/eutopia-horror-novel-about-lo.html

and Volk (2017):

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/11/volk-a-sinister-lovecraftian-tale-of-eugenics-naziism-and-radiant-abomination/

Nickle has written well and extensively about Lovecraftian horror and race:

http://davidnickle.ca/dont-mention-the-war-some-thoughts-on-h-p-lovecraft-and-race/

And the last word on Lovecraft scholarship is certainly Les Klinger’s The New, Annotated HP Lovecraft (2014)

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871404534

Attentive readers will recall that Klinger is the Sherlockian attorney who successfully defeated the Doyle estate’s copyfraud claims that the Sherlock Holmes stories were still in copyright:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada

The benefits from the works of Doyle, Lovecraft, and all other authors eventually return to the public domain is neatly illustrated in this new Lovecraftian creativity. If Lovecraft had to stand alone, uninterpreted and unrebutted, we would lose his brilliance along with his wickedness. But because Lovecraft now belongs to all of us, he can be reworked, challenged, argued over, problematized, and preserved, even if he can never be redeemed.

[Image ID: The cover of Matt Ruff's 'Destroyer of Worlds.']

#pluralistic #matt ruff #horror #science fiction #race #reviews #books #gift guide #green book #lovecraft country

[yearningforunity]

Hotel Clark with Sign “The Best Service for Colored Only”, Beale Street Lined with Pawn Shops and Secondhand Clothing Stores, Memphis, 1939.

#1939 #1930s #Segregation #Jim Crow #Memphis #Tennessee #Green Book #Beale Street #The South #American South

[undermyellowumbrella]

#green book #movie quotes #mahershala ali #viggo mortensen #tvarchive #film quotes #films #caps #netflix