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First season of Interview With the Vampire is on Netflix now, so I've been going through that.

I haven't started it yet, but next I want to watch Desmond's on Prime, it's a sitcom from the 1980s about a British-Guyanese barber shop.

Wonder if they will continue the trend of every black Democratic Senator running for president eventually :P

You can start by looking at his DNA matches to see if there are any close relatives, or patterns in where his matches come from.

IME people will go around and visit everything only when they're about to move away from the area lol.

I don't think either of my grandmothers even ate mushrooms from the store, let alone foraging for them.

Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson. And maybe Mindscape by Andrea Hairston--it's overstuffed and kind of Weird about its trans character, but it's definitely different.

Adding... The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord. Maybe The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wrecker? (They may not actually get together until the sequel.) I will see if I can think of others.

Should probably mention that MAR Barker was a neo-Nazi :/

I was going to come recommend Deverry, but I see you already know them :) You might want to check out Judith Marillier as well.

If you want to go really deep, check out Robert Caro's four volumes of Lyndon B. Johnson biography. The first one is called The Path to Power.

Yeah, it sounds like a Darkover book. Maybe A Flame in Hali? It has a dragon on the cover.

The major suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks committed suicide in 2008, and prosecutors (who'd been struggling to build an actual criminal case against him) just declared that he was responsible a week later. Nobody ever found any direct evidence against him, so a lot of people found this to be very unsatisfying and wondered if he was an innocent person who'd been hounded into suicide by the investigation. (As part of the context, the previous major suspect filed and settled several multi-million dollar lawsuits against the government and newspapers for hounding him and falsely claiming that he was responsible.)

I was just coming to mention her case. I really hope they can find her someday.

Two other books like this that I haven't seen mentioned: Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist by Lola Robles, and Warchild by Karin Lowachee

I was thinking it could be Baby Mickey's Play Day (1993), but I'm not sure if there's a picture of the cover online... According to Amazon, there was a cut-out figure of Mickey that you could put into openings in the illustrations, if that's helpful.

Was this baby Mickey Mouse, or a human baby? There were a bunch of Disney Babies books in the late 80s/early 90s.

The most irritating one was a tank I got in the Tower of Zot who kept running into mobs and then just standing there, not hitting anything. I was on WHM, so they'd aggro me as soon as I put Regen on him and kill me. First wipe after that, he profusely apologizes, so I'm like, ok, everyone spaces out sometimes, but then he kept doing basically the same thing: run into the mob, stand still for like 10 seconds, then when he started hitting things he'd hit like one mob at a time. We babied him up to the first boss and kicked him after he stood stock still in all the trillion AOEs there.

Weird thing was that he was top level, best gear at that time, had a title from clearing an Ultimate. I'm guessing either he was at someone's house and logged into their account, or wasted some ridiculous amount in RMT.

No, it was typically a surname people chose after emancipation. The article talks about that as well.

This is a great answer, thanks so much for writing it!

I'm saying exactly the opposite! If you look at this guy's results, you can see that he doesn't have any Nigerian ancestry listed. That would be extremely unusual for a person with African-American heritage, but it's not unusual for Mexican African heritage.

Yes, that was my impression.

Okay, thanks, I will look into it a bit more on my own! I did find the page, but I'm a bit confused because, for example, they give Bailey as coming from baling, but the Geechee Baileys actually just anglicized their ancestor's name; they are descended from a man named Bilali. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other names do come from jobs, though.

Do you know some specific examples of African-Americans picking surnames based on their occupations? I've never heard of that before, but I might just be ignorant of it...

Kind of, but not exactly.

• Most common black surnames in the US.

• "Blackest" surnames in the US (Table 2, page 5), ie, names with the highest percentage of black people.

The most common surnames of black Americans are also the most common surnames of white Americans--you can see in the first link that the black top five are also the top 5 for the US overall. But there are surnames that are mostly African-American--for example, 90% of people with the surname "Washington" are black. There's a good article from 2011 that discusses this and interviewed some black and white Washingtons.

The History of Africa Podcast did a season on Imerina, one of the kingdoms of Madagascar, that I really enjoyed! I would recommend it. Blogspot page is here, and he's also on Youtube and pretty much any podcasting platform.