stacia l. brown
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writer. mother. sound-capturer. newsletter: stacialbrown.substack.com site: stacialbrown.com/bio
emily in paris is so *painfully* basic and i really need that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
emily in paris is so *painfully* basic and i really need that right now.
sam jackson is about to be 78 years old in a few days. i don't know if he's ever going to look his chronological age. it took morgan freeman until he was over 80.
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
sam jackson is about to be 78 years old in a few days. i don't know if he's ever going to look his chronological age. it took morgan freeman until he was over 80.
asked and answered. www.eonline.com/news/1425151...
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
asked and answered. www.eonline.com/news/1425151...
yall. zootopia 2 calling to mind eminent domain, Black Wall Street, gentrification, indigenous history and and Lake Lanier was not in my 2025 bingo card.
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
yall. zootopia 2 calling to mind eminent domain, Black Wall Street, gentrification, indigenous history and and Lake Lanier was not in my 2025 bingo card.
i love this song. it feels very sonically weird. i don’t speak music so I’m sure there are technical terms for it. to me it just sounds… eccentric in a way i really dig. music.apple.com/us/album/be-...
Be Alive (Original Song from the Motion Picture
Song · 2021 · Duration 3:40
music.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
i love this song. it feels very sonically weird. i don’t speak music so I’m sure there are technical terms for it. to me it just sounds… eccentric in a way i really dig. music.apple.com/us/album/be-...
i noticed that hailee steinfeld hasn’t done m(any?) award circuit appearances with the rest of the sinners cast. this could be bc she’s on location w/other projects, taking time off as a newlywed or any other number of reasons. (jack also hasn’t done much yet, maybe for the same booked/busy reason.)
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i noticed that hailee steinfeld hasn’t done m(any?) award circuit appearances with the rest of the sinners cast. this could be bc she’s on location w/other projects, taking time off as a newlywed or any other number of reasons. (jack also hasn’t done much yet, maybe for the same booked/busy reason.)
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Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
i went from not planning to have a tree at all to buying a tree and a bunch of ornaments yesterday and planning a full-on mother-daughter decorating party for tonight. homemade hot cocoa, chocolate chess pie-baking and The Princess Switch are all on deck.
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i went from not planning to have a tree at all to buying a tree and a bunch of ornaments yesterday and planning a full-on mother-daughter decorating party for tonight. homemade hot cocoa, chocolate chess pie-baking and The Princess Switch are all on deck.
the occoquan exit on 95 is the bane of mu existence every time i travel to and from baltimore. i type this as i sit practically parked at it at 9 in the morning on a sunday.
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
the occoquan exit on 95 is the bane of mu existence every time i travel to and from baltimore. i type this as i sit practically parked at it at 9 in the morning on a sunday.
i want a new job so bad. which is not to say i don’t appreciate the one i have. i just want a different one. with some growth potential, a higher salary and more compatibility with my skill set.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
i want a new job so bad. which is not to say i don’t appreciate the one i have. i just want a different one. with some growth potential, a higher salary and more compatibility with my skill set.
not me repressing a sob over a Holly Robinson Hallmark Christmas movie. 😩
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
not me repressing a sob over a Holly Robinson Hallmark Christmas movie. 😩
i overheard Lainey Wilson singing for the first time, on the parade this morning. i can see why she’s everything they said she was. she sounded great. lol
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
i overheard Lainey Wilson singing for the first time, on the parade this morning. i can see why she’s everything they said she was. she sounded great. lol
i love that busta rhymes is never too cool for a Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade float performance.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
i love that busta rhymes is never too cool for a Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade float performance.
tyler perry films ain’t rooted in *no* kinda reality. never have been. how’d he fix his final draft pro to type a scene where a lady in a sarin slip dress and pleather trench coat falls into a frozen lake for an undisclosed amount of time and just wakes up w/o frostbite, hypothermia or an afterlife?
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
tyler perry films ain’t rooted in *no* kinda reality. never have been. how’d he fix his final draft pro to type a scene where a lady in a sarin slip dress and pleather trench coat falls into a frozen lake for an undisclosed amount of time and just wakes up w/o frostbite, hypothermia or an afterlife?
not this de la album opening with a features roll call led by Giancarlo Esposito…
a woman in a striped shirt is making a funny face .
ALT: a woman in a striped shirt is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
not this de la album opening with a features roll call led by Giancarlo Esposito…
are Karen Pittman and William Jackson Harper flirting in this morning show season finale?!
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
are Karen Pittman and William Jackson Harper flirting in this morning show season finale?!
i love this one, too. music.apple.com/us/album/the...
The Package by De La Soul on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:13
music.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i love this one, too. music.apple.com/us/album/the...
kid you not, there’s something about the second half of wicked that just… turns me off. when i saw the play, we left at intermission. and now that it’s time for the second half of this film, I don’t wanna go. 😩
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
kid you not, there’s something about the second half of wicked that just… turns me off. when i saw the play, we left at intermission. and now that it’s time for the second half of this film, I don’t wanna go. 😩
I just pre-added that whole new de la to my Apple Music library and I see there’s a track with Bilal on this album. *sigh* they made this for me, i fear. from the album title on down.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I just pre-added that whole new de la to my Apple Music library and I see there’s a track with Bilal on this album. *sigh* they made this for me, i fear. from the album title on down.
i love this so much. 🥹
music.apple.com/us/album/day...
music.apple.com/us/album/day...
Day In The Sun (Gettin' wit U) by De La Soul, Q-Tip & Yummy Bingham on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:17
music.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
i love this so much. 🥹
music.apple.com/us/album/day...
music.apple.com/us/album/day...
the national trust for historic preservation just finished restoring nina simone's childhood home in tryon, nc. i'm producing a radio segment about that -- which, of course, provides a prime opportunity for me to use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17-...
Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Audio)
YouTube video by NinaSimoneVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the national trust for historic preservation just finished restoring nina simone's childhood home in tryon, nc. i'm producing a radio segment about that -- which, of course, provides a prime opportunity for me to use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17-...
one of the great surprises of my life has been how much i love Billy Bob Thornton, as a middle-aged woman.
that man has been married 6 times and i understand all six of those women.
that man has been married 6 times and i understand all six of those women.
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
one of the great surprises of my life has been how much i love Billy Bob Thornton, as a middle-aged woman.
that man has been married 6 times and i understand all six of those women.
that man has been married 6 times and i understand all six of those women.
and he didn’t say, “put him,” actually. he said, “put *it* in his cabinet.” which…
there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by since Jack Schlossburg said this that I haven’t thought about it:
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
and he didn’t say, “put him,” actually. he said, “put *it* in his cabinet.” which…
there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by since Jack Schlossburg said this that I haven’t thought about it:
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by since Jack Schlossburg said this that I haven’t thought about it:
sometimes, you just need one good primal scream.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
sometimes, you just need one good primal scream.