For the past few days, I’ve wanted to invest some time in writing a comprehensive post about Trump’s former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and his former top Russia advisor, Fiona Hill, both of whom defied the administration’s non-cooperation edict, and agreed to tell their stories behind closed doors on Capital Hill, demonstrating the kind […]
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Sisters are doing it for themselves
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged awesome women, diplomacy, Don McGahn, Donald Trump, Fiona Hill, impeachment, Kellyanne Conway, Marie Yovanovitch, meltdown, Michael McKinley, Mike Pompeo, Nancy Pelosi, rorschach test, strong women, subpoena, Susan Collins, threats to Democracy, Ukraine, unhinged, whistle blower, women, women's history 164 Comments
Awesome U-M undergrads launch startup to teach American history through the stories of inspirational women
The Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation a few days ago awarded a $1,000 grant to Virginia Lozano, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who, along with her twin sister Beatriz, created an education technology company called Leesta in order to “inspire 8-11 year olds by teaching American History through the stories of women.” After bestowing […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Awesome Foundation, Education, History Also tagged A People's History of the United States, advertising, American Studies, animation, art school, autism, awesome women, Beatriz Lozano, Bessie Coleman, BrainPop, Charles H. Wright African American Museum, Coco Chanel, Dolores Huerta, education reform, entrepreneurship, gamification, Grace Lee Boggs, Howard Zinn, hugging machine, Leesta, Mike Huckabee, misunderstanding American history, Paula Friedrich, rewriting history, software, Stamps School of Art and Design, Stephanie O’ Neil, strong women, Temple Grandin, University of Michigan, Virginia Lozano, Zinn Education Project 6 Comments
R.I.P. Tura Satana
Somewhere around this drafty old house of ours, I have an audio recording of director Russ Meyer talking with Linette and me about his career. It was probably recorded in 1994. We’d met him in Atlanta, as I recall, at a screening of his cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! If memory serves, he was […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged actress, another famous person has died, b-movies, bad girls, bad movies, breasts, cult films, Elvis, exploitation films, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, go-go dancers, Harold Lloyd, horror movies, Kate Moss, King of The Nudies, Manzanar internment camp, pin ups, Reno, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, strippers, Ted V. Mikels, The Astro Zombies, tough broads, Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, Tura Satana, Varla, waif models 10 Comments