B.A. Parker

@baparker.bsky.social

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co-host of code switch on npr (she/her)

Books stacked atop each other: Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen True Grit by Charles Portis The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dune by Frank Herbert Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Original one-sheet for the 1972 satire The Candidate starring Robert Redford. He’s blowing a bubblegum bubble while standing in front of an American flag.
Recent Activity: Hearts of Darkness (3 1/2 stars), Clueless (rewatch 5 stars), Apocalypse Now (4 stars), and Eddington (3 stars)
A sleeping cat next to two books. The first books is Their Accomplices Wore Robes by Brando Simeo Starkey. The second book is A Protest History of the United States by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall.
I’ve seen 91 out of the 100 films on the New York Times 100 Best Films of the 21st Century List.
B.A. Parker throwing a ceremonial first pitch before the Orioles v. Cardinals game at Camden Yards in Baltimore. By the grace of god, the ball makes it across home plate. She gets to hug the Bird.
New York Festivals Radio Awards - Silver
My tuxedo cat judging me for making him take a selfie
Some big ass bird in my window on top of my AC. I dunno.
Black Women Independents - co-hosted by Maya S. Cade on TCM Thursday March 6 Naked Acts (1996) 8 p.m. (ET/PT) Alma’s Rainbow (1994) 9:45 p.m. (ET/PT) I Am Somebody (1970) + A Dream Is What You Wake Up From (1978) 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT)
Screenshot of Schoolhouse Rock. Songs listed: 1. No More Kings/ 2. The Shot Hear ‘Round the World/ 3. The Preamble/ 4. Suffering’ Till Suffrage
Picture of the film “Groundhog Day” on a television. Bill Murray says to Andie McDowell “Today is tomorrow.”
(Left book) My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin (Right book) Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
Apple+ home screen for the show Severance. End of Season 1’s date is April 8, 2022. Beginning of Season 2’s date of January 17, 2025.
Video about Maple Match— an American/Canadian dating website
TikTok notification that reads “Welcome back! Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!”
Notice that says: “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now” in front of David Lynch’s full tutorial on how to fix the holes in your pants.
Moynihan Train Hall. Giant advert above local travelers.
Apple Music: Top Albums - Cowboy Carter, TANGK, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, These Songs for You Live, The Outsiders- Great Expectations
Apple Music: Top Songs— Susannah Joffe’s Your Mother’s Name, Alpha’s Sometime Later, Beyoncé’s II HANDS II HEAVEN, Lola Young’s Wish You Were Dead, Big Thief’s Velvet Ring
A gathering of standard pigeons and one ginger pigeon eating breadcrumbs around a yellow community table.
A tiny white nebulizer with a mouth piece, in a pink gold case with saline solution packets.
Dark green acrylic nails that aren’t even that long.
Be kind to yourself today and strategize, cousin
Adorably stern bird, resting next to my Life Wtr.