In โApocalypto,โ Mel Gibson transports you into the mind of a Mayan 500 years ago. In โThe Northman,โ Robert Eggers transports you into the mind of a Viking a thousand years ago. In โThe Odyssey,โ Christopher Nolan transports you into the mind of a liberal woman in 2017.
In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting.
Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye.
I asked a woman at the store what it means.
She said, "Roll Tide."
I asked what it means.
She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar."
So I began collecting evidence. I kept a list. I am not embarrassed about the list.
I have now heard "Roll Tide" used as: hello. Goodbye. Thank you. I am sorry. Congratulations. That is unfortunate. I agree. I disagree. And once, in a hardware store, as a complete set of instructions for installing a ceiling fan.
I heard it said at a funeral.
It was appropriate. It was the most appropriate thing anyone said that day.
I began using it. Carefully at first, the way a man handles a borrowed sword.
I said it to a cashier. She said it back.
I said it to a police officer who had stopped me for a broken taillight.
He looked at me for a long moment. He looked at my face. He looked at my taillight.
Then he said it back, and nodded once, and did not write the ticket.
I wish to be extremely clear that I am not claiming those two events are related.
I am also not claiming they are unrelated.
A man at a gas station heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him Japan.
He said, "Roll Tide."
He meant welcome. I knew he meant welcome. There was no ambiguity at all.
I have been in Alabama eleven days.
I have one word.
It has been enough for everything.
I have started saying it in other states.
It does not work in other states.
I said it in a warehouse store in Oregon. One man turned around.
He was from Alabama. He said it back. We did not speak after that. We did not have to.
I say it anyway.
As everyone gets excited for US Men's Soccer, keep in mind that they have never won a World Cup and still get celebrated as the default US soccer team while the women's team has won 4 cups and barely gets recognition on a national stage.
Mediocre men will always outshine outstanding women, as long as the patriarchy controls everything.
As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sinsโwith Khalil Gibran pop platitudesโhe is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.
The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicagoโa $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debtโObama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."
Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiencesโoften at $400,000 a shotโon their own false-consciousness shortcomings.
Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.
@XanderLX2@MattWalshBlog Here are two articles disputing that, one from a Jewish publication and the other one is from PBS. https://t.co/aDiUwgk5LS
https://t.co/rvzXHQuwX4
Each spring, the Cahaba River comes alive with one of the Southeastโs most remarkable blooms. The Cahaba lily thrives in swift, sunlit water, anchoring itself to rocks as it blooms in bright white clusters across the river.
Photo by Keith Boseman
Oh Riley :( not judging you for taking the ad money, I mean we all have to pay bills. But Iโm a bit disappointed as Iโve always admired your courage to stand up for whatโs right despite opposition.
My husband and I got an early access screening to Animal Farm, an animated adaptation of George Orwell's novel made by Angel Studios.
Incredibly well done. They do a perfect job of reminding viewers that Marxism always has and always will fail.
In theaters May 1st! #AnimalFarmPartner