Book and TV Watch (FU Hallmark)

Graphic fiction and nonfiction is often a great medium and by chance found a very good book by Mira Jacob set around her talking to her son about race, the whole thing overall autobiographical. It is funny, touching, informative and the graphic style (the pictures are like cutouts) is cool. Not sure about her over 500 page fiction book though.

It is almost silly this time of year with Christmas movies (Lifetime actually had a cute half-Jewish one) with a bunch on Lifetime, Hallmark (multiple channels), ION (ditto), Up Channel and at times others. I watched bits and pieces, but have had some problem finding one I like. Maybe, a bit of overload; you start to recognize certain actors as regulars. Plus, I know it finds even kissing a bit too much even if movies (a kiss is often the finale), but Hallmark went too far bending to protests and taking down ads for a wedding company because women kissing is "controversial." They need more diversity generally; other channels make more of an effort to have non-white female leads, as a for instance.

"Teddy" from Good Luck Charlie, or rather the actress, popped up so I checked her Wikipedia page. And, you do find some interesting tidbits -- turns out she is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's niece and tweeted her support when that all came out. From what I can tell, BM's mom is Ford's sister. Also: "Mr. Sheffield" IRL (and his wife) is great politically on Twitter too.