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Had a free trial of Prime recently.  I actually detest Prime.  For one, there's never really anything on there (though now I'm sad to know that Supernatural is on there, but I still won't be keeping Prime), but also that my telly, which is fairly new (three years?) is a Fire TV, so is Prime, but won't actually play Prime or Freevee (or whichever is the free app that says it's now on Prime to watch for free).   Anyway, not really the point.  The point is that on our telly in the den, it'll play just fine & I saw that they had Sinners, so waited for my sister to get home from house sitting so we could watch it together. I was... not impressed.   I think that it was because it was hyped up so much, so without that it might have been a pretty OK film, but with the hype it fell flat? Besides just general hype, I was sorta led to believe that The Choctaw Vampire Hunters would have a much larger presence in the film.

Like just about everyone out there, I have a Facebook account.  One thing I use my account for is to peruse a group dedicated to the history of my town.  It's fascinating.  Tonight, I wondered if there was a page like that for the town where my parents grew up.  I found one and was not disappointed. I'm looking through the groups photo albums and after ten pages I see something familiar.  Very familiar in fact because it is my family's home; the one where my mother and aunt grew up and I spent most of my childhood there visiting my grandmother.  Actually it wasn't even the house, just the greenhouse.  I exclaimed, out loud, "Holy crap it's me!", which is just easier to say than "Holy crap that is the greenhouse in the yard of the house where my mother grew up!"  It became even stranger because some commenter's were talking about my family. 228 East Kingston Str, Laurel, Mississippi This house was originally white, though the very top...

This story, The Hensons and Camp Sister Spirit , came through my news feed today.  I read the article and watched the entire video. It is important to me for several reasons; One, this is a story from my home state, and not far from me at all.  Two, I remember it, and Three, it is great to actually know about it after all these years. When I say I knew about it, I mean in a child way.  I was eleven and twelve when they first started building their camp and apparently were all in the news.  The only thing I ever heard, however, were other children laughing, "Lesbians in Ovett!  Hey Derek you live in Ovett, are you going to that camp?"  And parents and children alike simply saying the name 'Camp Sister Spirit'.  Nobody was really talking about it beyond that, at least not in front of their children.  I couldn't see the big deal about it except why would anyone purposefully move to po-dunk-ville, Mississippi?  I knew that lesbians were women who...

This article came across my news feed today; Mississippi, Burned , which talks about the dismal healthcare in my home state.  It is quite a lengthy article, but worth a read. To surmise, our former Governor, Haley Barbour, wanted to jump onboard with a healthcare market place similar to Mitt Romney's.  Things were started, the ball was rolling; entire groups of people here who had no access to healthcare would be covered, including myself.  But then Phil Bryant got into office and he's dug his heels in.  I'm not really sure how we'll vote him out. Bryant basically put a ridiculous political agenda before his own people.  All the work that Barbour and Chaney (not VP Chaney) initiated, that hundreds of people worked on for several years, Bryant flushed it all down the toilet at the last minute.  He refused to accept the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so we were denied.  If things had gone down the way they should have, we would have been an independent h...

Anti-Discrimination is the hot topic currently in the state of Mississippi.  The LGBT community is sorely underprotected in the civil liberties department, and while both measures are directly in reference to this particular community, it's broadened also to include everyone. In January, the city of Starkville proposed a Pro-LGBT Equality Resolution .  A few days later, Hattiesburg followed with the same resolution.  Both were passed unanimously by their respective city officials. The resolution "declares it the public policy of the City to respect the inherent worth of every person, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, sexual orientation, familal status, veteran's status, disability, or source of income"...; in essence all peoples are equal & shall not be discriminated against.       By March, however, citizens of the state were calling Governor Phil Bryan...