Just one more dig at the #OscarsSoWhite

Chris Rock delivered a stinging commentary on the utter whiteness of the Oscar nominees, and then he took a break, as it say here, to take a stab at the whole model minority thing — Asians! Good at math, right?!?! — and it was tiresome. This was especially dumb because of they had three little kids …

Did you see the super moon? And then the eclipse?

We repaired to our town beach to watch, and then we stayed to watch what we thought was the eclipse, but it was slow in coming so we went home and watched that from the privacy of our back stoop. The trip to the beach was worth it, though. Entire families came in their cars …

Perhaps the most awesome request for donations, ever

(Photo stolen from HartBeat Ensemble’s website) Gregory Tate’s turning 60 on January 26th. Tate is the co-founder of  HartBeat Ensemble, a 10-year old theater ensemble Hartford is lucky to have, but which this year lost a $57,000 state education grant because of budget cutbacks. So rather than get a bunch of socks (what does one buy …