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The story of Rhea Silvia is the story of a woman of pre-Roman Latium whose life is overtaken by the forces of war. A woman who loses her city, her family, her children. A woman whose mother (by my telling) comes from forest people, deer-hunters and black-pottery sculptors, and whose father is one of the descendants of the mythic Trojan Aeneas (of Virgil’s Aeneid fame). I’m sharing this story in two parts this weekend and next for all my readers, accompanied by the audio-recording I made of it several years ago on my podcast, Kalliope’s Sanctum.

What is a meme? To answer that question, most people will quote Richard Dawkins, who writes in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) that a meme is “a basic unit of cultural transmission” and memes, like genes, mutate and become widespread in a population through a process of natural selection (Dawkins, 192). Following Dawkins’ logic, human culture has chosen Doge the same way human biology has chosen ears, and a meme (like the gene for ears) succeeds because it is best adapted to its environment and out-competes other rival memes for our attention.

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(CW: Please note the following story describes bigotry, violence, and sexual assault and includes NSFW language.) For over seventeen years Robert Rechsteiner has served on the Cherokee County board of education and now serves as Vice Chair, having first accepted an appointment to the position in 2005. There were some initial complications with his first election but he ultimately won his seat and easily held it in the years since—in no small part because of his more famous stage name from the world of professional wrestling: Rick Steiner.

What a sad week it’s been with MC Conrad’s death. Like many many others around the world, I’ve spent hundreds of hours with the recordings he features on, as well as catching him live several times. He nurtured a style of MCing that was rooted in a very human interface between his mind, voice and the music played by LTJ Bukem and others. I’ve heard people say over the years, “I’m not a fan of MCs, but Conrad, he’s a different class”.

I am Alexandra. I am a writer, artist, author, and mentor and coach to women. Here’s a little about me: I left the world of film and TV at age 31 when things seemed to be just started to kick off for me…I was directing brand content docs for United Airlines, I was seated in a room shopping a new script with an Oscar winning director you would know, I acted in a TV show with Clive Owen, I had a script I wrote in a major film lab, read on a stage in Lincoln Center.

Who is the Gen Z bimbo?  A November 2020 Rolling Stone article declares that she’s “back, like for real!” The U.K.’s CHECK-OUT Mag explains “how TikTok and Gen Z redefined the core principles of being a bimbo” as though it’s a real political movement campaigning on the platform of bimboism. ARefinery29 headline announces the “rise of the new-age bimbo.” And recently, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled “Meet the Self-Described ‘Bimbos’ of TikTok.

My mother tells a story, so old it is now frayed around the edges, about the first time she ate a Ritz cracker. She was 7 years old and living in the small community of Reynoldsville, north of Bainbridge, where she was born in the spring of 1928. My grandmother was a teacher. She was widowed at the age of 20. My grandfather went on a fishing trip and caught pneumonia, a death sentence in those days.

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’m a great admirer of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 trashterpiece “Road House.” This wasn’t always the case. I had a buddy back in college who often extolled the virtues of this Patrick Swayze vehicle. Ignorantly, I called him a hick (sorry, Adam) and told him “Point Break” was better. Then I revisited the flick with my patient pal and he was correct … “Road House” rules!