Olá, amigos. Time for another round of links to good shit.
Para quem lê português, o jornalismo do novo fonte Setenta e Quatro merece atenção.
Anyone interested in getting a better look at the deeply weird, quite lovely, and insanely fucked-up state I call home should read the Texas Observer, the Texas Tribune, and the Texas Signal.
Speaking of Texas, Lina Hidalgo has been overseeing Harris County since 2018, and has been a model of professional competence and steely resolve the whole time. For some fucking reason (cough, corruption and cronyism, cough), she has a bunch of Democratic challengers in this year's primary, which is nuts. You'd think that getting behind a young, effective immigrant woman would be a no-brainer, but apparently local Democrats would rather throw their lot in with cop unions and the unspoken preferences of officials who profit from county contracts. Lina Hidalgo is the only Harris County Commissioner who doesn't take money from contractors. That alone would be a reason to vote for her if she hadn't, you know, gotten us through the pandemic and 2021 freeze better than most officials in similar positions. (And if you're voting for Lina Hidalgo, make sure to vote for Molly Cook while you're at it.)
My brother's former bandmate recently turned me on to Black Braid, a one-man Native American black metal outfit from the Adirondacks. Naturally, this led to further research into that particular field, and the results are promising. Mutilated Tyrant and Parábola are from the Navajo Nation, while Lionoka represents the Yaqui people (and, according to the Metal Archives, runs Grey Matter Productions). Each band has its own sound, ranging from fairly orthodox black metal to longer, more ritual-tinged work, and I'm glad to see the continued growth of black metal far beyond its mostly Scandinavian roots.
Catch y'all later.
DAS
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