August 16, 2026

A POEM TO HONOR the ninth night a witch turns into a cat, which is the beginning of Cat Nights August 17th, The eight days before a witch can turn into a cat and turn back
 
A Seventeenth Witch
It was a quiet morning, in an eighth seventeenth
Miss Sarah, a witch, had a really long day
A witch, that she is, that she is
The clouds full from night dings, all seem calm underneath
Miss Sarah, wait an encounter, in the street
A witch, that she is, that she is
A tree crack begin a sing, mashes like titans teeth
Miss Sarah, now no human feet, but purring
A witch, that she is, that she is
A girl cry, I am falling! shouts from anger bequeath
Miss Sarah, know hands weave cruel from the lightning
A witch, that she is, that she is
Cat shade, spells from lightning cling, in nights eighth seventeenth
Miss Sarah, four legged, know where the light land
A witch, that she is, that she is
Through parks, dodge wild cans, running, past bright cars underneath
Miss Sarah, absorb the cruelty fore the street
A witch, that she is, that she is
Boom! she leap side hot white bling, she fall on concrete teeth  
Miss Sarah... feel wet licks and a quiet warmth
A witch, that she is, that she is
Eyes open to soeur earrings, We Won! now eighth eighteenth
Miss Sarah, in the pawed coven, knew the price
A witch, that she is, that she is
A teen wait for a purring, cause her mother bequeath
Miss Sarah, in her daughter's arms, now home, safe
A witch, that she is, that she is
No image through tweet will bring, witch pride last seventeenth
Miss Sarah, side sisters, saved all, quietly
A witch, that each is, that each is
If you see a black, purring, rubbing, please don't seethe
Miss Sarah, or sister maybe, just friendly
A witch, that she is, that she is
from
Richard Murray
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Cat Nights begin on August 17th - display any text or art concerning cats. <Cat Nights begin on August 17. This term harks back to the days when people believed in witches. A rather obscure old Irish legend said that a witch could turn herself into a cat eight times, but on the ninth time (August 17), she couldn’t regain her human form. This bit of folklore also gives us the saying, “A cat has nine lives.” Because August is a yowly time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place. Also, nights continue to get longer. Cats, crepuscular creatures, are nocturnal hunters. Their superior night vision means that the nights belong to them
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MY THOUGHTS
the one word I didn't see in the post or comments is experience and that to me is the point cruise made to cavill. you can be young and studied but you need experience for these stunts. Jackie chan nor Tom cruise jumped off of buildings in the new first of fury or risky business... they both grew through experience, yes training, yes studying, yes conditioning,  but experience matters and to me that is the source of cruise's statement to cavill. has cavill really had stunt experience to build up to a drop of the height mentioned? I recall Keannu reeves saying, with each john wick film he gets better. yes, training, yes studying, but experience is a great thing and I argue the greatest to know yourself. And experience doesn't require books or teachers, it requires opportunity. And yes opportunity to fail, but whether you succeed or fail you will learn. And to the care to the film or the collective art project and the various people paying their rent through it, I think Cruise has more experience than most in producing/directing/starring/preproduction preparing a movie to be made in the usa that has stunts that insurance companies detest. I am not suggesting a calamity can't happen. Highly Experienced stunt workers always get killed or badly injured in the history of film making. But I think cruise's experience should be treated with confidence. Ray Harryhausen's finest film is arguably clash of the titans and yet, he has decades of experience to build that film . Experience isn't some safety net. No. All things are possible in nature no matter how well anyone prepares. History proves that. But experience has great value and cruise has that and his comments to cavill prove he thinks cavill needs more experience, which is a very responsible thing to display.
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On the set of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Henry Cavill was eager to prove himself by performing the jaw-dropping HALO jump stunt alongside Tom Cruise. But when Cavill asked to jump from 25,000–30,000 feet, Cruise looked him straight in the eye and said, “Henry, I know exactly how you feel,” before firmly warning, “I can’t let you do it.” The reason? The stunt demanded specific, intense training, and one wrong move could have been fatal—for both of them. Cavill reluctantly backed down, joking, “I was like ‘OK, fine. I’ll sit this one out, Mr. Cruise.’” Curious how Cruise’s dedication sets the bar for Hollywood stunts? Click to read more!
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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Flopped at the Box Office, but It’s Breaking Records on Streaming Platforms
I think what this shows is the theater business model is in trouble. 
I quote the article
Even though the film did not perform well in theaters, it’s finding new life on streaming. On Disney+, Captain America: Brave New World has stayed in the Top 10 in the U.S. for an impressive 56 days straight.
This information was reported recently and shows that people are still interested in the movie, just mostly after it hits streaming platforms.
This trend isn’t too surprising. Superhero movies still have big audiences, but lately many fans prefer to wait for them to be available at home. Streaming services like Disney+ make it easy to watch these films over and over, which can give movies a second chance after a slow theater run.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/captain-america-brave-new-world-flopped-at-the-box-office-but-it-s-breaking-records-on-streaming-platforms/ar-AA1JO0tv?ocid=BingNewsSerp
 
Superman and why theaters are dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjN0xDN45E
MY COMMENT
thank you, I said it for years. When theaters were taken from the film studios that was when theaters went on this road. Theaters originally were owned by the film studios so that they were like the streaming services studios own today.  Because theaters are separate financial entities, as well as cable/t.v./blue ray - dvd, I think studios see a return to their era when they owned theaters, so they had all the profits, and the rest can get lean. 18:06 thank you
Apple doesn't own the theater. It has been discussed but it hasn't happened. One thing you missed is how from when the film studios owned theaters to today, the quantity of theaters has lessened. In NYC many many theaters closed from the past to now. And that matters in that, who is going to go miles to a theater. A movie theater must be local, it is an offline business. With so many movie theaters closed or closing, many people don't live near a theater which ends their viability. 
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Shannon Sharpe's Anti-Blackness was His First Downfall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIABN6WQx4Q
 

 
my comment
You saw it coming:) 
I enjoyed listening to a black womens voice speak of Shannon's dialog:) 
Exactly, from white written "Immitation of Life" to Black written " Devil in a blue dress" by walter Mosely or even better "Passing" by Nella Larsen or some short stories from her friend plus fellow mulatta Alice Dunbar Nelson, female mullatoes biggest attraction to most men in the United States of America historically is their bodies. The white man fetishes the black he abuses. The black man fetishes the white he wants to abuse. Both men are in denial to their passions. The woman true self is iirelevant. And it is interesting that Zora Neale Hurston + Nella Larsen + Alice Nelson who in my opinion are all great writers, but whose literary works were chastised by black male writers when originally published for having opinions different than them. Zora Neale Hurston to her view of the Southern Black town, while Larsen or Nelson to their view of the Black populace pertaining to colorism and the role of the Black women whether dark as the night or undeniably yella. 
8:04 Yes, many black people , especially DOSers as James Baldwin said of his father, hate whites, heaven for them is absent white people, their public vision of jesus. It is a deep hatred that has only manifested for most black people privately. 
9:16 exactly, the whole point of MeToo was from Black Women to say that they are not getting the same legal or media treatment as white women in similar scenarios and this scenario with Shannon sharp is the proof MeToo's original short term goal, to get attention to legal affairs and media inequally treating black women with the long term goal of Black women being treated equally to white women, is far from coming to pass.  
11:48 You have such a serious tone in this video , correctly, so but I did love when you let an accent out to emphasize Shannon needed the village to step in:) 
Plus your correct, the great Bill Russell once said, that Black Athletes are pampered , they have not lived regular lives. So add the common Black inner dislikes to whites and men's desire to have a weaker person to abuse which is commonly a female to the life of an athlete and... danger. 
I end with, you have very pretty hair, face... and body:)
1800s Black Statian Literature
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/446-1800s-black-statian-fiction%C2%A0-free-to-read/
Blackfish
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/266-come-now-blackfish-05082025/
Bill Russell on Athletes
https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/449-bill-russell-born-1934/
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It all began with Get Out, a movie, written and directed by a black person and starring a number of Black people in the top roles. A fantasy film. It made a ton of money. Disney then made Black Panther, a huge budget fantasy film directed and written and mostly starring black people based on a character originally written by a white man. That film made a ton of money.. So all the white producers noted it but didn't react. And I said then, this is the beginning of a genre. White producers want the money of Black PAnther. Then came Black Panther 2 and Sinners. Black PAnther 2 made a ton of money and showed a big budget fantasy film [not urban romance aka just wright or urban drama aka soul food or black southrern drama aka tyler perry films ]written/directed/mostly starring blacks can have a financially successful series Sinners showed fantasy film with a potent but small budget, written/directed/partially financed by blacks /with no white protagonist character or all the white characters were antagonist, can make a ton of money. All three films directed by Ryan Coogler. So white producers know, it is possible for films produced by whites while in all other ways Black can be huge financial victors.
Thus Children of Blood and Bone from Tomi Adeyemi is paramounts answer. ORiginally Disney bought the rights. But they held on. Disney in my view wanted to hold on to Adeyemi's work till after Black Panther 2 or 3. But, the delay allowed other white producers to bid for the work. So, Paramount, who weren't able to utilize the Star Trek brand to keep their company from receivership or being sold to Skydance , in their dire desires , paramount also owns Black Entertainment Television, wanted to have their own black panther, and felt Tomi Adeyemi's work can be as financially profitable as Black PAnther, hopefully even better.
PAramount was so desperate they gave Adeyemi more money for the rights but also gave her the screenwriting credit alongside the mulatto female director BLythewood , [blythewoods biological mother is white , but she was raised by two whites as an adopted child, who knows her black father]. The cast seems to include no one white, with a minority of mulattos/yellas/light skinned folk, all of whom call themselves black.
I wish the film the best, not for the producers who are all or mostly white but for the writer/director /thespians/ and other blacks in the creative process being paid by the producers to make the work.

But I see the problem financially, that no one is addressing. The problem with the modern art world isn't that Black people have money. I rephrase, black people throughout humanity have money. Black people in Africa are billionaires, not all, a minority, but they are not one person. Black people in south america, like Brasil have many millionaires, yes through sport, but that is honest money, it isn't killing native americans through germ war fare or slaughtering weapons. Black people in north america, like the USA have many millionaires. Black people in continental europe have a number of millionaires. Black people in India and throughout asia have millionaires. So. the global black populace has money and thus can pay to see themselves in media. But the problem is that the white producers of the arts , correctly, aren't going to over finance these films. Unlike the 1970s film industry in the united states of america, where many white producers for small budget films were willing to provide black thespians with opportunities, barely any black directors or writers got opportunities then, The Get Out to Black Panther era is demanding significant financial stimulus from any producer for these films. Thus the opportunities are still few, although with large checks.

The only way more Black fantasy films will be made is when Black Money will be willing to risk. The problem, also correct, is that Black Money, unlike White Money, in modernity is majority warranted. Majority of white money in modernity comes from white militaristic power killing non white europeans for land or enslaving non white europeans for labor or legalizing white crimes through a legal system supported by white militaristic power. Black Money in modernity ,does not come from genocides or enslavements or military might allowing a legal framework to support. Sequentially, Black Money is far more cautious about investing. Black Money doesn't have military power to recover financially , to lose all money and still recover all wealth. But the only way Black art in film will grow is when black money invest more., and it has to start with black artist themselves. The lesson in Get Out plus Sinners is that the black artists in question put their own money up. Like Baum, who made the first Wizard of Oz movie with his own money, Black Artists must invest in the multimedia expression in their art. Unlike the world of art auctioning, which has become a boon for black painters/sculptors and other craft arts. Movie making investment can not build on itself. Basquait's paintings value grow with each auction , with each resale, but a film can become a deadly investment .This is why , so many film studios go bankrupt, United Artist/MGM/Warner Bros./ PAramount /New Line Cinema and many others get sold , not because they are making money but their owners can't afford to make any more films and use their film vaults as investment to sell themselves and get one last financial boost before becoming part of another firms portfolio.

As for Adeyemi.... again, Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz financed the first Oz film from his own pocket. She could had done likewise as her book is a bestseller. But she decided to sell the film rights and cut a deal. The only way an writer can control a film based on their work is to finance it themselves. But writers like getting paid and have residual earnings by selling rights. Once rights are sold, you lose control, so whether you are Alzburg with Jumanji or Ende with Neverending story or Adeyemi with Blood and Bone, a writer has to blame themselves for signing their film rights, when they could had paid to make the movie themselves, but that is a gamble.

Toni Adeyemi and children of blood and bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPP0QblvsE
my comment
I see , so tomi promised to use nigerians in the casting.
I knew about the phenotypical elements in the story. I will love to know the background of casting. I think children or blood and bone is also suffering from being one of the few films with so many black thespian roles in a high budget context. So, a fight is over the film.
yeeesshh thanks for sharing the situation. the author is online supporting it and then hate it.
good point on Colleen Hoover , if Children and Blood and Bone financially fail, it will end her book series going into movies. The more odd scenario, is what if children of blood and bone becomes financially the next black panther, what will Adeyemi do? what will paramount do? studios want to milk the breast, and they will want the next book and the next book.
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I think Tomi Adeyemi's scenario with The Children of Blood and Bone film is interesting. She is a black writer, very successful financially. And film producers cause of the fiscal results of black panther, want black fantasy that can yield big dollars. Many black thespians in the story are making good money and it has the potential to be a series. But, Adeyemi has spoken for it and against it, variably. I don't think she comprehended that the film making business isn't like writing a book by yourself. The film making process is a collaborative art work project. And in that collaboration mamy things happen you don't like. You have to accept this truth. Adeyemi will not be the first or last writer not to, but I hope the film does well and she can take the lessons from here and have a better relationship to the film making business.
What say you/

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