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Hotep Heroes... Black Lightning
I’ll be honest… Until last Monday, I had never even HEARD of Black Lightning. As a part-time comic book nerd who has found himself in a dearth of time for it for most of my adult life – who, by the way, was never much for DC Comics anyway – it was just completely under my radar. Episode 1 was about to come when my lady mentioned it to me. “Hell, I’ll watch,” I said after a perfunctory Google search of the premise of the show. On the whole, I was impressed with the show. The presentation of Black life in America, a man willing to do what he must for his own kids and in the protection of those in his responsibility and a well-written story were all wins. This is The CW we’re talking about here, so I was fully expecting low-value production bordering campy or even comical. In the latter, they did not disappoint. This would be made ESPECIALLY obvious when our hero finally donned his costume. Cheesy superhero quotes ensued, even through attempts by the w
True Story©... Back on the Hunt
Life is hard these days… Y’all recall clearly back in October when I was fired over titties and not ONE of you came to my aide? [ link ] Well, I have been trying with all I can to come up with SOMETHING to do for money in the in-between and still getting no assistance from any of my readers, but somehow I have managed to make due. Well I finally got an interview! After 3 months now of throwing my resumé EVERYWHERE I thought it would stick, I finally earned myself a call back from a company not far from my house. That would be a plus, compared to the 23+ mile commute I had been up against for the previous several years. Nerves dragged me out of my bed last week at 5am, I showered and brushed my hair, ironed my clothes, brushed up on rehearsed interview responses front-loaded on me by my lady. The interview was set for 8:30am, which gave me time to drop my daughter off at school and show up to the interview approximately ten minutes early prepared for