Junk Journal Week 6 and Bird of New Jersey

February, at least in the United States, is Black History Month. I have started a tour of the pictures of Spike Lee and Denzel Washington. I, personally, feel that, when the history of motion pictures covers things released when I was an adult, that Denzel ought to be remembered along with Tom Hanks and Cary Grant as one of those A list actors who both was a great actor and a star of some popular and entertaining movies. Spike Lee has had many great movies, with and without Denzel, including Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Crroklyn, He Got Game, Bamboozled, Inside Man, and BlacKKKlansman. He also has been willing to take chances that gave us pictures that didn’t quite work like She’s Gotta Have It, Girl 6, and She Hate Me.

Are you a Denzel fan?

A Spike Lee fan?

My reading this past week included a good collection of Stephen King novellas, Toni Morrison’s very good and challenging novel The Bluest Eye, and Mark Russell’s graphic novel about the red scare circa 1953 and Tennessee Williams in the form of the Hanna Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.

This week I hope to finish A Brief History of Seven Killings by the Jamaican writer Marlon James.

Is there a Caribbean writer you recommend?

What have you been reading and watching lately?