Eiayay On The Reel

  I finally decided to see what all the buzz was about, so my Reel of the Week is 2013's GRAVITY. Well I've hopped on the bandwagon and am still scratching my head or my brain...& looking for a way to hop off. With that much Award hoopla, I was expecting much more. The star of GRAVITY is most definitely the cinematography, it was spectacular, but the movie itself was very small.  Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a medical engineer who accompanies  Astronaut (George Clooney) into space. While repairing their shuttle, a disaster leaves the pair hopelessly adrift in orbit. GRAVITY was as formulaic as a movie can get, you know: Everything is fine, then everything is not fine, solution, mini disaster, inner or outer pep talk,then success. I'm not really sure what made it Oscar worthy.  Sandra Bullock   was adequate. She did her thing & it was okay.  George Clooney   was a clone of a lot of characters he's played over & over. Snarky, emotional...

  I originally joined Facebook & Twitter to keep in touch with friends & family, but as the years have gone by I find navigating Social Media as a Person Of Color   an exhausting & disturbing tight rope walk. People participate on Facebook & Twitter to share a little bit of who they are and tidbits of their lives. As as POC I have to deal with racism in my everyday life, so, yeah, it's going to show up in my timeline.   I expect to see racism when I am casually surfing the web, but what I find disheartening is the passive & sometimes blatant racism that I find myself exposed to on my own timeline, from FB & Twitter friends & their friends. I see racist posts & my friends comments and Likes. I get to see racist memes that get shared, LoL'd and "liked". I see conversations with friends & their friends speaking in what they perceive as "Black Vernacular" as if the height of humor is speaking like what they think of as "g...