My game is tight

What pisses me off is that there’s this growing sense that somehow Hollywood is the end-all and be-all of everything, EVAR, and that somehow everything good must be purchased and repackaged and buffed and relabeled with the Hollywood stamp. God, Hollywood, YOU DON’T HAVE TO PUT YOUR THUMB IN EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN PIE.

We do love to do that, don't we? It reminds me of a tourist writing about his realization that he wasn't being fucking cool going to foreign countries and venturing in less popular tourist areas. As he trudged through a jungle located on some remote island, he bumped into a small child that smiled and held out his hands. Another child appeared and began acting rather hostile to him. He was confused by the latter child's defensiveness and walked away thinking about the incident. It came to him that he was being a real dick, wandering into someone's property like that. That was probably their land and territory he was entering and the second boy was trying to protect his little bro.

This reminds me of the incident in Atlanta, Georgia of a Fulton County Superior Court judge ordering white lawyers out of the courtroom, hoping that his words would have a greater impact on the homogeneous crowd of black criminals that passed through his docket. Kicking out the white people in the courtroom caused some murmurs among the locals. I feel like it was the right thing to do in terms of increasing that the chance that these young men would take heed of what he was saying, but I can understand the inherent unfairness of what he did. Part of the judge's explanation:

"I didn't want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying 'Please get yourself together,'" he said.

What the fuck? Guilt is a real bitch. I need to be a bully.

Hollywood to Remake Another Korean Film (via Racialicious)

Correction: I wrote about the post on Racialicious from memory. I didn't re-read it and my version of the story is much cooler and much more of a lie than his story. His story is not a lie. I hope.