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MUSIC MONDAY: "Move on Up" - The Best of Curtis Mayfield (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) This June 3rd was the 81st anniversary of Curtis Mayfield’s birth. Today, on Juneteenth, we offer Move On Up: The Best of Curtis Mayfield playlist to celebrate the Chicago native who made an indelible mark on popular music through his protest songs and on the movie soundtrack album in…

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Mondo: So how far away is Six Flags?

Superfly: We’re not going to Six Flags, we’re going on a hit. 

Mondo: Oh, that’s strange I could’ve sworn we were going to Six Flags...

Mondo: CONSIDERING I’M ALREADY IN THE CAR AND WE’RE GOING TO SIX FLAGS!

Bebob & Rocksteady are cheering in the car, knowing full well Mondo cannot drive. 

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When Raph was hanging out with Bebop and Rocksteady and he said "I've never met someone as angry as me." When Bebop and Rocksteady went against Superfly and they realized that he was the one making them angry all their life. When Splinter saw the clear parallels between how he raised the turtles and how Superfly raised his family. That moment when Splinter was talking to all of them, and the only one who couldn't look at him was Raph.

To quote Mikey, "we need to get you some therapy"

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RANDOM MUTANT MAYHEM HCS PART 1 GO‼️‼️‼️

Leo’s a HUGE Percy Jackson fan. He adores the books and has never acknowledged the movies.

Donnie watches the Snapcube sonic fandubs religiously and quotes them daily (Mikey probably does too- he admires the improv).

Leo DEFINITELY almost cried the first time he got in trouble at school (SELF PROJECTION LETS GOOOO).

Leo really likes checklists and feels super accomplished whenever he checks something off.

All of the turtles pretend they’re in edits a lot lmao.

Donnie uses Twitter and refuses to ever call it X.

Mikey will send the most out of pocket videos and images to the family group chat at like 3am.

Mikey and Donnie played undertale together and they both cried at the true pacifist ending (Ik I’ve already said that a while ago but I still thought it belonged here).

Raph and Mikey both didn’t drink milk for like a solid month after you-know-what happened.

All the turtles make up roasts abt Cynthia and Superfly to pretend they all weren’t seriously traumatized by both of them.

Mikey’s aro ace, Raph’s bi, Leo’s transmasc, and Donnie’s non binary (he/they). These actually aren’t head canons tho Seth told me this himself /j

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DA BOIS

I SAW THE MOVIE

I WAS INTRODUCED TO THE UTTER NONSENSE THAT IS MM /aff

I HAVE THOUGHTS

NOT, LIKE, ANALYSIS WHICH MAY COME LATER

JUST THOUGHTS

AND SPOILERS

So I’m studying the boys and at first I was just “They really are leaning into this whole teen thing, huh” but then I thought back to every memory I have of my brothers and how they interacted and was just like- OH

OH WAIT

THIS IS ACCURATE

🤣 The bacon and egg scene- literally my brothers in a nutshell. The constant quotes and references- a little on the nose, but accurate.

BUT I SPENT

THE ENTIRE MOVIE

Waiting to see which turtle would spike my patented they need some hurt/comfort and at first I was leaning towards Leo- BUT THEN WHEN THAT BUS/TRUCK (I forget exactly what it was) FLEW STRAIGHT AT DONNIE AND MIKEY’S WATCHING IN HORROR AND DONNIE IS STUMBLING AND HURT AND OBLIVIOUS AND LOOKS ONLY HALF PRESENT-

Hands down. That got me.

I has a favorite and he’s so innocent and bright-eyed and deserves injury and kidnapping. I will make this happen.

The boys as a family were so fluffy and vibrant and relatable.

The boys as individuals…?

Leo has personality and concerns and attachments and a crush and flaws and strengths and he just felt like an person.

The rest seemed kinda… Plain. Raph had the anger thing going for him, but I have a hard time distinguishing Mikey’s and Donnie’s personalities. Mikey was friendly and liked improve, but that was never really touched on at all. In battle or otherwise- Donnie was the one who was thinking fast and taking the lead when talking to the Superfly. And Donnie was the one who Leo described as the best with people.

I’m not exactly sure what Mikey had going for him…

Donnie isn’t much of a techie, other than his headphones and phone, which is only used casually. He can drive and read comics, but that’s not really an abnormal teen thing. Like, any of his brothers couldn’t have driven using game skills? Or come up with a comic/movie solution to defeat Superfly?

That’s more nitpicks than anything tho. I might have missed things as well- it’s only my first watch. You shouldn’t make any firm decisions or judgements based on a first meeting. Hopefully, I’ll spot differences between them later on or they’ll flush out the characters more in the series.

They pushed a LOT into this movie. Everything was happening all at once. Like, they didn’t skip a BEAT when shifting from evil mutants trying to kill the boys to TCRI is locking them up.

And what the heck did Leo expect April to do?? SHE WAS ON A HIGHWAY BRIDGE?? DID HE EXPECT HER TO JUMP DOWN- SHE’S COMMENTED ON HOW CRAZY THEIR ROOFTOP TRAVEL IS! What makes him think she can do that??? 🤣🤣

At the very least she had to bike around and off the bridge to do anything, and he would have been unconscious by then. Boi just like “she abandoned us 🥺” when she could have been trying to help them while they were being loaded before going to get Splinter.

All hypothetical, of course. Would make for a good OneShot tho.

I like how the April betrayal was just a “I guess I was wrong” type of disappointment and not some dramatic heartbreak, because that feels more realistic to me. Relieved the crush wasn’t played off for laughs and all the brothers seemed disappointed.

April was such a good teen. They never played her off as anything but a normal person who didn’t have quite the right amount of self-preservation. Probably where the journalism comes in.

She was also a good representation that you don’t need green skin to not fit in. Life is hard, man, and I hope the series explores that even tho people don’t scream when they see them, that doesn’t mean life will be any less difficult. School is still prey grounds and people are still predators .

OMGEE SUPERFLY THO

DUDE WAS SCARY. BUT THE WHOLE TIME. I WAS WATCHING.

I COULDN’T NOT LIKE HIM FOR BEING EVIL

Dude got his daddy KILLED after daddy talked about raising him and his siblings and being a loving family by a bunch of weapon-using scary humans that also tried to kill them WHILE HE WAS A BABY

TCRI CREATED A FORMATIVE MEMORY THAT WAS STRAIGHT TRAUMA! OF COURSE HE HATES HUMANS-

That poor fly 🥺😔

The parallel between Splinter and Superfly was interesting. Felt a tiny bit forced at the end there, but I can respect it. Can’t dictate a fam’s every choice. That’s not fair. Gotta let your fam be free to grow and make their own mistakes and create their own morals~

I have a couple other thoughts, but I want to formulate them a bit more. See if I can make stuff off of them.

One last thing before I go…

MY SOCIAL ANXIETY HEADCANON STILL STANDS

NOT ONCE IN THE WHOLE MOVIE WERE THEY SEPERATED UNTIL THE SCHOOL

And even then it’s in a controlled environment. They all know where the other is. It seems safe.

But what happens when that illusion is gone…?

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MUTANT MAYHEM SPOILERS -

Movie Review/Rambiling alot

This is ur last warning >:o

AHHHH I LOVED IT

Visuals- BRO THE ANIMATIONNNNN UGGGG all the textures and little squiggles makes my brain go brrr. Was it just me or did the horses have googly eyes? Heh cute 🐎 UGH THE BABIES. THE BABIES. ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION THEM. Ever since having an influx of babies in my family, those parent baby scenes have gotten to my heart strings. Those scenes used to never get to me but man they really do now I cried. It's really interesting how everything EVERYTHING in this movie is not symmetrical. Opposite Wes Anderson, I like to call it. It's eye candy. It gives me the same feeling as watching old cartoons that used cells. Like each frame is homemade. it helps bring life to the mundane.

I could see if people think it's a little too different for them to like, BUT NOT ME 10/10

The Turtles - Very teen it's cool. It is impressive to have teen characters that don't make me cringe and sink into my chair. So that's suchhh a plus! While most of there slang will be obsolete in a couple years that's fine. Actually making them act their age is a great decision.

Leo got that unintentional rizz. No bit actually has a show ever done a Leo April ship? It's interesting it was cute. I don't see much chemistry but tbh I think that was intentional / a good thing. I would have disliked if there was a bigger Leo April sub plot. I like how he was pretty reasonable throughout the whole movie. Not a total party killer, but also not lazy as a leader. It will be so interesting to see how they all grow 🥺

Raph- He's pretty cool, the brute as always not getting everyone one in trouble :D

Donnie- I know Mr. Rogan wanted too make them realisc teens, sadly this also took away Donnies super intelligence. It's very understandable but I wish he was a lil bit more of a nerd, saying something smart here and there. Probably my bias tho since I really like super intelligent characters :P none of Donnie's doohickeys in this one. It might be cool to see him throughout the series and other movies slowly begin to code and make stuff. At least his winning personality shines in this movie!

Mikey- Just Mikey being mikey. Its so nice seeing him happy and at the end go to High school and live among humans 🥺 it's the ending I kinda wanted for Bay verse Mikey, at least we can see it here!

The other mutants- Also very cool but there's a bit too many to really get everyone's say, which is what I was worried about when I saw the cast list. Other that SuperFly and Mono Gecko it felt like many didn't get a time to shine. (Especially Bebop & RockSteady)

Story/Plot- Honestly with all the all the TMNT content I have imbedded into my brain I thought I wouldn't ever see the "status quote" change SO dramatically. It was compelling to see that Splinter (and super fly) TRIED to go in the human world. And were automatically shunned and basically beat up emotionally/physically. The way super fly explained how he unalived that guy who was harassing them was scary. Very vivid and almost reminded me of Batman? Like the way SuperFly explained that he beat the guy up to a the point were the guy was no longer a threat (which is what Batman does) but Superfly, unlike Batman kept beating him up until... yeahh. It was sad that Baxter Stockmen apparently got killed? If I understood that right. It was very sad to hear especially cause again, baby stories are gut punching me. Baby SuperFly was cute I need a plush of him🥺 I'll raise him good not evil.

I had no idea the turtles and the mutants (other then SuperFly) were gonna team up so fast. It was a bit of a surprise but good.

The ending of all them moving in together tho. Also if they have so much space why don't the boys have separate rooms? Anyway, Team Found Family wins again <3

I really enjoyed Splinter noticing his mistake and like fixing so quick. It's a bit better than Rise Splinter where us arc takes awhile more.

THE TURTLES GOING TO SCHOOL?!?¿¡?!? ¿QUE? DOING WHAT NO TURTLE HAS DONE BEFORE. GOOD FOR THEM <3

The "I'm gonna turn the whole world into mutants" is kinda over done :/ but still good stakes!

Humor- Milk joke coming back full circle. Donnie your not supposed to be driving >:[ but while. Your at it go there. Heh it was funny and loved it.

Cons- Throw up joke. Ehhh just went on a bit too Long

Humans suddenly accepting is a bit too optimistic but I'll allow it.

Overall- Animation makes it worth watching and of course the story, characters and laughs. 9/10 I'm so excited to see it again!!!

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53: Camp Lo // Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night Camp Lo 1997, Profile

There’s an old Donald Glover bit about how people who rave about ‘80s hip-hop need to go back and actually listen to it, because it’s mostly just guys saying shit like, (in a Melle Mel candence) “Well I went to the hat store todayyyy / and I got myself a hat / ha HA!” I think of ‘80s rap as equivalent to ‘50s rock: it’s raw and exciting stuff, but for the modern listener it’s bound to feel a little primitive because you’re hearing a genre before its techniques and technology have fully matured. And that makes the ‘90s hip-hop’s equivalent of rock’s ‘60s, the first decade when artists had a fixed foundation to build upon, and the genre exploded into a psychedelic variety of styles that has continued to expand to this day.

Camp Lo had as idiosyncratic and unprecedented a sound on their debut Uptown Saturday Night as Wu-Tang Clan, OutKast, Digable Planets, or the Beastie Boys did. Released in a year when Juicy Couture velour defined urban style, Camp Lo’s emcees were duded up like Blaxploitation-era pimps, spitting a thieves’ argot studded with references spanning 70 years of New York culture. Their beats, largely provided by DJ Ski, were sparkling boom bap that pulled as much from Roy Ayers as James Brown. According to Ski, Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba talked to each other in the same impenetrable slang they rapped in, bringing to mind the phenomenon of twin language:

Check the queen bee, Lady Ree digging Grace Check the place 3 o’clock. Shot? No, we ain’t Fret and cock, bring it in the paint? No such thing Flash the dynamite, sing my superfly to the Cleopatra in the casino with gold sugar Dig my harlequin and drench you in my Donald Goines (from “Coolie High”)

Short of discovering some remote enclave in the Bronx where people talk like this, it’s safe to assume Suede and Cheeba had developed a mutually-reinforcing linguistic bond, where (to pull a quote from that twin language story) “words are invented and abbreviated or restricted codes are used because full explanations are redundant.” Though there were a few emcees with more variable flows, nobody in the game sounded slicker than Camp Lo.

As fly as the rhymes are, Uptown Saturday Night is a producer’s showcase. Though he doesn’t get touted as frequently as Pete Rock, DJ Premier, or Large Professor, DJ Ski is as great a producer as New York has ever produced. Dusty literary journal The Kenyon Review, of all places, published a great (and uncredited?) piece on Ski’s beats for Camp Lo a few years back that’s worth reading. Here’s the writer on Uptown closer “Sparkle (Mr. Midnight Mix)”:

“Appearing at a time when boom bap beats were at their peak, the song has no drums, but somehow still has a very high nod factor. Extremely low in the mix are what sound like the original drums, so low that they might only be audible because of headphone bleed in the vocal track. But it is really the flow of Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba that retains the rhythm of the original, heavily swung drums. The vocals thus carry a ghost rhythm propelling the track forward, even as the vibes and fluid, filtered bass and piano lines lazily rise and fall, cresting here, submerged there.”

Great shit. Uptown covers a lot of stylistic ground, though high-rolling party tunes are the order of the day, like “Luchini (This is It)” with an irresistible trumpet loop launching itself off a thwacking snare hit. Nearly every beat on the record is indelible, from the kaiju-sized horns of “Krystal Karrington” to the cooing, vibe-chilled “Coolie High” (a preview of Ski’s 2010s work on Curren$y’s classic Pilot Talk trilogy). And, on the warped Twilight Zone-sampling “Negro League,” Ski even seems to have an ear on the off-kilter underground sound El-P was creating with Company Flow.

Various forms of fuckery on the part of Camp Lo’s label conspired to prevent the band from following up on Uptown Saturday Night till 2002, and by then it was too late to recapture their former momentum. They’ve had sparks of inspiration in the decades since, but we’ll never know whether the magic of their debut would’ve been reproducible under better circumstances. Regardless, Uptown Saturday Night has a place among the greatest records of rap’s first golden decade.

53/365

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Replying to Glassknife

I can't help but imagine the worst-case scenario, mate, but you're right. I need to have more faith that things will not be as dramatic as I imagine them to be. My youngest girl, I guess now second youngest, still hasn't come home and I can't help but fear that she'll think she's been replaced when she does come home. But I need to remember that she isn't that dramatic, she might have feelings about having a new little sister but she's also always loved kids and can get fiercely protective of them. I'm the most worried about my youngest son M. He's made a few strides in his behaviour since I last posted here, but he still tends to run his mouth a bit, and I'm concerned that he'll say something without thinking. As for finding out more about Kitty's needs, I've tried contacting her maternal family and even the man who raised her. Her maternal family (former Pilties) just stuck their noses up at me and started ranting about propriety and lineage, and were just borderline ableist towards Kitty, they clearly thought they were above me. The entitlement, honestly, pissed me off and I'm almost happy that they decided to not take Kitty in because the idea that she would be surrounded by those people makes my skin and bones crawl. Her former father wasn't much better, I had arranged to meet him at my pub, but he came strolling in with a couple of his mates, clearly hoping for a brawl, and balked at the sight of me, I'm a 6"7 man whose, quoting P, built like a building on steroids ??? and can shift into a humanoid wolf creature (basically a werewolf). So after the three men decided that it was in their best interest to use their words instead the former father sat down and had a chat. I managed to find out that this man had absolutely no idea how to actually raise a child and never even bothered to get to know the little girl that he was raising for, he said in his words "She's kinda r******, but at least she's quiet" he clearly was taking his anger towards his wife's infidelity out on Kitty, I still don't know the circumstances on why she ended up in the Temples care but I'll find out so that I can help her, this man actually dared to ask me to reimburse him for Kitty's care, or to set up a payment plan for Kitty to pay him back herself when she's older. I threw all three out and told her former "father" to get in touch with my lawyer if he's really that concerned but haven't heard anything as of yet. Sorry for the rant, this all happened yesterday and I'm still pissed about it.

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Replying to Superfly

Ripping the bandaid off is usually my go-to solution, I just wanted to be mindful of my eldest child's frame of mind. She's been having a rough time the past year. Her sister ran away two years ago and hasn't reached out, then she and her ex got into a massive fight and broke up earlier two weeks before Christmas last year and has had a hard time with alcohol abuse that she's just recently started going to AA meetings for. There's a good chance having a new little sister will either give her more motivation to get back on track or it will send her spiralling.

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Thanks mate I would appreciate that! Luckily communicating with Kitty isn't a problem because she uses ASL, me and the rest of the kids learned it years ago in order to speak with my SIL, who is also mute and knows about everything. She's been amazing in helping me prepare my home for Kitty. Could you dm me?

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Replying to Tenclaws

Thanks for the advice mate, I'm less worried about them being mad at me, they rib me constantly and would most likely just crack jokes at me. I'm worried about how they'll be with Kitty. I don't think, in the slightest, that they'll be malicious or cruel to her but she's a very timid girl and we're all very energetic and outgoing. I'm worried about the culture shock. Honestly, she reminds me more and more of my daughter P.

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r/parentingadvice

How do I tell my adult children that they'll have a new little sister?

16th of December, 2023

I (45 M) have found myself in a position I didn't think I would find myself in at this point in my life.

It has been a while since I last posted on this site but the last time, I posted I was met with some really good advice, and even made a few friends, so I'm hoping I can get some really good advice now.

The title is self-explanatory. I have four children already, all adults now, and recently, a social worker contacted me to inform me that I possibly have a five-year-old daughter, now six as I write this. To say I was surprised was an understatement, I actually sat for hours racking my brain trying to remember who I slept with in the last six years, I'm not very active in the dating scene and can only remember having a one-night stand once which lines up with my new daughter's age.

There wasn't any actual confirmation that I was the father, and the worker was asking for a paternity test to locate this child's biological parent. I readily agreed to the test, and the results came back positive. It was then that I learned that my new daughter, who I'll call Kitty because she reminds me of one, had recently lost her mother (I wasn't given any details) and the man who had been raising her up until now had learned that Kitty wasn't his biological daughter and doesn't want anything to do with her, and neither does any of Kitty's maternal family after learning she was born both out of wedlock and is a result of her mother's infidelity.

I want to put out there, that I was under the belief that Kitty's mother was single at the time, I can't even remember her name (although the one given to me by the social worker didn't sound familiar in the slightest) and the number she gave me that night turned out to be for an 80-year-old woman who managed her social groups Tupperware "store", I think I was stuck on that phone call for two hours listening to this kind old lady go through her Tupperware sales speech, forget said speech and then rinse and repeat. And yes. I bought a lot of Tupperware that day. My daughter Pow (20) mocked me endlessly for doing so but had a blast baking to fill those containers.

It goes without saying, but I decided to get guardianship of Kitty, I've already met her. She's weary, which is fair she's going through a lot of changes at the moment and is silent which is a result of her being nonverbal (I've been told that she possibly has autism but hasn't been assessed yet) and strangely enough is already confirmed to be a Shifter; usually, people don't find out they're a Shifter until they become teenagers but she's an early bloomer.

Right now, she's in the hands of Janna's Temple until the transfer of custody can be finalized, I have set up appointments to go visit her so that she's used to my presence in her life and so that her transition into my home can go more smoothly.

My biggest worry at the moment is how my kids are going to react. They're all good kids, minus a few hiccups growing up, and I trust them to act accordingly with her but I also can't help but continuously imagine the worst-case scenario.

Has anyone else been in this situation? And if so, can you offer me any advice on how to navigate it in a way where I don't end up horrifically traumatizing my new daughter?

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Jen’s motivation #4

♥ ♥ ♥ Jen is a wise woman. She always expresses everything with such passion and light. ♥ ♥ ♥

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♡  Shrek Sentence Starters ♡

Quotes from the movie Shrek (2001)! Feel free to adjust as needed.

“She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon.”

“It'll grind your bones for it's bread.”

“Please, don't turn me in. I'll never be stubborn again.”

“Five shillings for the possessed toy.”

“Father, please! Don't let them do this! Help me!”

“Talk, you boneheaded dolt, talk!”

“You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly.”

“Hey, wait a minute! I got a great idea! I'll stick with you.”

“Together we'll scare the spit out of anybody that crosses us.”

“Your breath certainly will get the job done, 'cause you definitely need some Tic Tacs or something”

“Only a true friend would be that cruelly honest.”

“You got that kind of "I-don't-care-what-nobody-thinks-of-me" thing. I like that. I respect that.”

“You know you are quite a decorator. It's amazing what you've done with such a modest budget.”

“I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.”

“I like my privacy.”

“You don't know what it's like to be considered a freak.”

“This is gonna be fun! We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning... I'm making waffles”

“What are you doing in my swamp?”

“He huffed and he puffed and he signed an eviction notice.”

“Do not get comfortable. Your welcome is officially worn out.”

“You're a monster.”

“No, no, not the buttons. Not my gumdrop buttons!”

“Do you know the muffin man?”

“She's a loaded pistol who likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.”

“You're going the right way for a smacked bottom.”

“Maybe I could have decapitated an entire village and put their heads on a pike, gotten a knife, cut open their spleen and drink their fluids. Does that sound good to you?

“Parfaits may be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet.”

“Did you do that? You gotta warn somebody before you just crack one off. My mouth was open and everything.”

“Let's have a dance then, shall me?“

“I'm gonna die.”

“So where is this fire-breathing pain-in-the-neck anyway?”

“The princess will be up the stairs in the highest room in the tallest tower.”

“I'm an asthmatic, and I don't know if it'd work out if you're gonna blow smoke rings and stuff.”

“This be-ith our first meeting. Should it not be a wonderful, romantic moment?”

“You know, you should sweep me off my feet out yonder window and down a rope onto your valiant steed.”

“You could recite an epic poem for me. A ballad? A sonnet! A limerick?”

“I pray that you take this favour as a token of my gratitude.”

“Slow down, baby, please.”

“I believe it's healthy to get to know someone over a long period of time. Just call me old-fashioned.”

“Let's just say I'm not your type, okay?”

“Put me down, or you will suffer the consequences! This is not dignified! Put me down!”

“Hey, can you tell my future from these stars?”

“Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world that seems to have a problem with me.”

“They judge me before they even know me. That's why I'm better off alone.”

“Look, if you wanted to be alone, all you had to do was ask.”

“Now, I don't mean to brag, but I make a mean weed rat stew.”

“You're afraid of the dark, aren't you?”

“Wake up and smell the pheromones. Just go on in and tell her how you feel.”

“Ah, that's beautiful. I didn't know you wrote poetry.”

“Only my true love's kiss can break the spell.”

“I mean, really, who can ever love a beast so hideous and ugly?”

“I ask your hand in marriage. Will you be the perfect bride for the perfect groom?”

“You are mean to me. You insult me and you don't appreciate anything that I do! You're always pushing me around or pushing me away.”

“You're so wrapped up in layers, onion boy, you're afraid of your own feelings.”

“She said I was ugly, a hideous creature.”

“Really, it's rude enough being alive when no one wants you, but showing up uninvited to a wedding...”

“He's not your true love.”

“We're but a kiss away from our "happily ever after." Now kiss me!”

“I'll make you regret the day we met. I'll see you drawn and quartered! You'll beg for death to save you!”

“Celebrity marriages. They never last, do they?”

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Movie Review | New Jack City (Van Peebles, 1991)

Probably the most intriguing element of New Jack City is the way it consciously invites comparisons to other movies. Blaxploitation is referenced repeatedly, with characters watching Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song on TV, and one character calling another "Superfly" while monitoring an undercover operation. And in a key scene, the villain watches the ending of Scarface in his home, perhaps unaware of the irony presented by his enjoyment of the movie. But I think that last point of comparison is key to what Mario Van Peebles is trying to do with this movie. It's a fact that Scarface, despite having a "crime doesn't pay" message obvious to anyone who really paid attention, has also become iconic in certain circles and has been misread both by defenders and detractors as aspirational. This is a "mistake" that Van Peebles doesn't want to repeat.

Scarface starts off in the grim realities of the streets, and as the protagonist climbs the criminal ladder, the movie gets more and more insular, with the climax taking place in his mansion as the manufactured reality of his empire collapses around him. The movie is about cocaine, the use of which brings about the protagonist's downward spiral, but we never see its effects on ordinary users. New Jack City presents us with scene after scene of characters and communities ravaged by the crack epidemic, and situates much of its action in the projects and in the streets to make sure we know the true consequences of the villain's actions. And I use "villain", instead of "protagonist", because the movie avoids making him our point of identification, placing us instead with a small team of unconventional cops determined to take him down. And despite Wesley Snipes' immense charisma, we're never meant to find him appealing, as the closest we get to him are when he admits to gunning down an innocent woman, and later uses a child for a human shield during an attempt on his life. Van Peebles wants us to know this is a bad guy who does bad things. (Van Peebles also stacks the deck against him by associating him with New Jack Swing, a genre nobody has listened to since the early '90s, and giving him a ridiculous shark fun hairdo. If he'd just had a regular flattop, he would have looked great. The cops instead get "New Jack Hustler" by Ice-T, easily the best song on the soundtrack. I also found Snipes' red suit, turtleneck and gold chain combo a bit gaudy, but I supposed that was considered cool at the time.)

I used "mistake" in quotes above because I don't actually think those things are flaws with the movies Van Peebles compares his to. The caution he uses in presenting this material makes his message clearer, but not necessarily more potent, as we're never able to be seduced by the villain's lifestyles. This was released the year after King of New York, another movie that captures the tension between a villain who vows to help his community and the evil he really does, but that movie dared to have us identify with, and at times even root for its villain. (And it's more pointed about its racial commentary to boot.) Snipes' character offers some justification for his actions, mentioning that "You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era" and offering a systemic condemnation during his trial:

I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

But these are never argued persuasively. The movie closes things off in a way that perhaps harkens back to the Hays Code Morality that Van Peebles is trying to channel, but instead comes off as a little convenient. All that being said, the movie is directed engagingly, with actions scenes defined by their claustrophobia, as well as some nice textured supporting performances by Ice-T and Judd Nelson as the two loose-cannon cops, and Chris Rock as a junkie trying to redeem himself. And of course, you can't argue with the Snipes performance.

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New Muse!

Meet Nurse Dianna Damage!

Nurse Dianna Damage

Full Name: Dianna Crippler Damage

Alias:

• Dianna "D" Darling (Real Name)

• Nurse Damage (the most Famous Demolition Derby Name)

• Dianna the Killer Nurse

• The Diva of Deadly Medical Services

Species:

• Human (Formerly)

• Demon Clown

Age: Immortal

Gender: Female

Sex: Straight

Affiliation: Ladyclown Demolition Derby

Occupation:

• Demolition Derby Racer

• Doctor & Nurse (Both jobs)

Best Friends & Allies:

• Jackie the Clown (BFF)

• Miss Klaira (Bus Driver (Used to be), Teacher of Miss Klaira's Racing Skoool)

• Fiona McFlame (BFF)

• CCK (BFF)

• Aria Moterhouse

• Jasmine Charliechanga

• Billine

• Blind Spectra

• Ms. Liability

• Cigilert

• Perri Pushover

• Texi Faregame

• Filia Fishtail

• Hilda High Impact

• T-Bonnette

• Toca Taco

• Tiana Tailgate

• Tolia Pizzarami

• Sianna Superfly

• Countess Klownula (BFF)

• Giganormous (BFF)

• Jenny "The Harlequin" Ray

• "Eyeless" Penny Ray

• Cammi "Crazy Cannibal" Marie

Love Interest ❤: Jonathan Afton (Because she's a creepy stalker)

Weapon: Knives, Dangerous Needles, & Shock Treatments

Vehicle: Ambulance

About: Nurse Dianna Damage is a Demolition derby racer. She has a high and somewhat rough voice, and most of her dialouge are medical service-related threats.

Bio: Dianna "D" Darling used to be a normal paramedic back when she's alive, but her job is cut short after a horrible car crash, the siren of her ambulance became broken and she was prone accident. She died before she lost her job as a paramedic. Years later, in 2001, she came back to life as a demon clown with red eyes with black sclera now she's known as Dianna Crippler Damage, she lost her job Because of her damaged siren and her accident is very prone. But thanks to Miss Klaira, she turned her accident proneness into her greatest strength and she fixed her siren too. Nurse Dianna Damage is the hospital demolition derby racer who takes part in the demolition derby at the Ladyclown Demolition Derby. She is the doctor & nurse racer, bearing the number 666. Nurse Dianna Damage is one of the many demolition derby racers of whom mistaken Lianna Lightning and Carl Williams compete against after mistakenly entering the event. She is eliminated from the competition after Texi Faregame flies to her back, making her lose control and hit a wall. Nurse Dianna Damage makes her first speaking appearance in Miss Klaira's Racing Skoool, where she talks about the positive impact Miss Klaira has had on her life, it reveals that she lost her job due to her death, a broken siren and her being accident prone. However, with the help of Miss Klaira, she turned her accident proness into her greatest strength, and she helped her "fix" her siren. However, in reality, she was just making the sound with her mouth. Nurse Dianna Damage crushes the competition with the speed and agility of an emergency vehicle on high alert. She made a career of racing to the Hospital; now she sends her challengers there. She and Aria are Crazy Eight regulars and have a fan base on their own.

Quote: "Whee-doo! Whee-doo! Whee-doo! Whee-do! Whee-doo!" -Nurse Dianna Damage mimicing the amulance siren

Nurse Dianna Damage's Dialogue:

*Insane Giggles and Laughters*

1. "I'm gonna flatline ya!"

2. "Huh? Ambulance chaser!"

3. "I'm pulling a plug on you!"

4. "I'm calling the crash cops!"

5. "*Insane Giggling* I'm gonna do some surgery."

6. "You better have insurance!"

7. "You're about to have, an accident!"

8. "*Insane Laughter* You're asking for a shock treatment!"

9. "You want some free medical advice? BACK OFF!"

10. "I'm gonna take you to the Demolition morgue!"

11. "*She Growls* You want a trip to the boneyard, do ya?"

12. "Ha ha! Here's a hundred CC's of pain!"

13. "Emergency! Coming through!

14. "*Insane Laughter* Stop your begged and tagged, I love to do this."

15: "Clear! *Insane Laughter*"

16. "You're quarantined!" *Insane Laughter*

17. "Diagnois, whopped! *Insane Laughter*

18. "See you in a graveyard!" *Insane Laughter*

19. "Prognosis, fatal!" *Insane Giggling*

20. "I'm pronouncing you, beat!"

21. "You're on a trip to the Graveyard do you?"

22. "Vital sign's failing, W-We're losing him!"

23. "MVA with multiple fractures!"

24. "Patient is terminal!"

25. "Total old, it's the jumper cables!"

26. "Critical condition!!!"

27. "YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM US! *Insane Laughter*

Gallery:

Nurse Dianna's Ambulance

Type of Vehicle: Ladyclown Demolition Derby Ambulance

Racing Number: 666

Symbol: Red Skull and Crossbones

[gregorychatman]

“If True Love were easy everyone would have it..”

[the-homicidediaries]

Chris Benoit

Guys.

I am so excited to talk about this.

Not because of the context, but because this is one of the reasons I love wrestling so much; there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes that people have NO CLUE about.

There have been several professional wrestlers who have killed people or been killed themselves and the rabbit hole goes deep.

(Rey Mysterio accidentally killed a man on live tv and they still have the video up on YouTube.)

(Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka murdered his girlfriend in May of 1983. Who is Jimmy Snuka? Jimmy Snuka was related to The Rock, Rikishi, and The Uso’s.)

THERE ARE SO MANY MORE THO.

But today, I want to talk about the Daddy of them all, Chris Benoit.

Chris Benoit’s crimes are so heinous and unforgivable Vince McMahon has swept his name under the rug and removed him from The Hall of Fame.

Benoit’s crimes also changed the dynamic of professional wrestling forever.

Chris Benoit was born in Montreal, Quebec to Michael and Margaret Benoit on May 21, 1967. He and his family resided in Edmonton, Alberta, however.

During Benoit’s childhood, he idolized Tom “Dynamite Kid” Billington (a British wrestler who competed in the 1980’s and had ongoing feuds with Hart) and Bret “Hitman” Hart (a Canadian-American wrestler and a member of the notorious Hart Family. He is a personal fave of mine as well).

When Benoit was 12 years old, he attended a local wrestling event where both Dynamite Kid and Hart were competing and he knew right then and there that he was destined to become a wrestler.

He trained in The Hart Family “dungeon” and was coached by none other than Stu Hart (Bret and Owen Hart’s father. If you don’t know Owen Hart, you should google him as well because he died under bizarre circumstances on live tv as well.)

When Benoit fought in the ring, he channeled both Dynamite Kid and Hart, even adopting Hart’s signature move, “Sharpshooter” as his finishing move.

Chris began wrestling in 1985 in Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling promotion. He was quickly recognized as a force to be reckoned with and received his first title, the Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship, on March 18, 1988.

(This dude has a very extensive history or wrestling in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, World Champion Wrestling, Extreme Champion Wrestling, and World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment, but I just.. I cain’t get into all that, please forgive me. Haha! We are talking 22 years here! So I am humbly skipping to his family life.)

-Okay, so. I would love for this to be a romantic love story for the ages and the deaths resulted in crimes of passion, but that didn’t happen. At. All. Not at all.

You’ll see soon why this was all brushed under the rug.-

Benoit was married twice.

His first wife, Martina, and he had two children David (who is a wrestler as well) and Megan. By 1997, their marriage had broken down and Benoit and Martina decided it was best to end it.

Benoit began living with his girlfriend, Nancy Sullivan, who was the girlfriend of Benoit’s frequent opponent, Kevin Sullivan.

(It started off as an on-screen relationship for views and it led to a real-life affair. Many people joke that Kevin Sullivan booked his own divorce.)

On February 25, 2000, Benoit and Nancy’s son, Daniel, was born.

On November 23, 2000, Benoit and Nancy were married.

This 👏🏼 was 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 good 👏🏼 marriage.

In 2003, Nancy filed for divorce from Benoit, saying he would break and throw furniture and was cruel to her. She later dropped the suit as well as the restraining order she had set against him.

Benoit became good friends with fellow wrestler Eddie Guerrero, (a beloved and incredible wrestler, one of my dad’s faves), following a match in Japan, when Benoit kicked Guerrero in the head and knocked him out cold. This started a friendship that lasted even after Guerrero's death in late 2005, in which Benoit had written diary entries to him just ten days after his passing.

(I’m only mentioning this because Guerrero’s death has been rumored to be one of the reasons Benoit did what he did.)

Here’s where it gets gory.

So we know Benoit and Nancy did not have a good marriage, but things seemed to be okay because she dropped all the charges against him.

Benoit and Nancy were living in Fayetteville, GA, with 7 year old Daniel.

On June 25, 2007, police entered the Benoit home after Benoit’s WWE employers requested a welfare check after Benoit missed weekend events without notice.

(Benoit was actually scheduled to win another title during these weekend events.)

Upon arriving at his Georgia home, authorities found Nancy wrapped in a towel. She had died from asphyxiation.

Their son was also found, also dead, apparently strangled. Benoit placed a Bible next to each of their bodies.

Benoit’s body was the most disturbing to be found. The wrestler was hanged on a lat pulldown machine, with a Bible lying on the weight machine beside him. There were also allegedly 10 empty beer cans and an empty bottle of wine.

Autopsies concluded the murders and suicide took place over the course of three days.

On Friday, June 22, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy in an upstairs bedroom. Her limbs were bound, and her body was wrapped in a towel. A copy of the bible was left by her body. Injuries indicated that Benoit had pressed a knee into her back while pulling on a cord around her neck, causing strangulation. Officials said that there were no signs of immediate struggle. Toxicologists did find alcohol in her system, but they were unable to determine if she had been drinking prior to her death or if it was a product of decomposition.

Daniel was suffocated and killed in his bedroom, and a copy of the bible was left by his body. Daniel had internal injuries to the throat area, showing no bruises. Daniel's exact time of death is unknown. The reports determined Daniel was sedated with Xanax and likely unconscious when he was killed. Daniel's body had also just started to show signs of decomposition but was not as far along as his mother's body, so they were able to determine he was murdered after his mother.

(It was later alleged that Daniel had Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that is characterized by mild to moderate intellectual disability. Physical features may include a long and narrow face, large ears, flexible fingers, and large testicles. About a third of those affected have features of autism such as problems with social interactions and delayed speech. Males are affected more than females. Daniel also had needle marks in his arm and it’s alleged that these were the result of growth hormones given to him because Benoit and his family considered him to be undersized.)

Chris Benoit committed suicide by hanging. Benoit used a weight machine cord to hang himself by creating a noose from the end of the cord on a pull-down machine from which the bar had been removed. Benoit released the weights, causing his strangulation. Benoit was found hanging from the pulley cable.

(On a podcast called The Talk is Jericho in 2016, Nancy’s sister Sandra Toffoloni divulged some more information. She said Benoit’s internet search history showed he had searched “the quickest and easiest way to break a neck”. Benoit had a towel wrapped around his neck when he committed suicide and his neck was broken instantly.)

A suicide note was not discovered, but a note written in one of the bibles Benoit had said, “I’m preparing to leave this Earth.”

A few possible motives I’ve seen people mention have included:

•CTE - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries. Symptoms do not typically begin until years after the injuries and can include behavioral problems, mood problems, and problems with thinking. During his autopsy, it was concluded that Benoit did suffer from CTE after wrestling for so many years. (Back when they threw people from tops of cages, hit each other over the head with chairs and ladders, etc.) Autopsy experts say Benoit’s brain was so severely damaged that it resembled a 85 year old Alzheimer’s patient.

•Nancy’s abuse and filing for divorce - In February 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Benoit was having an affair with a female WWE wrestler and Nancy found out. It was also speculated they argued over life insurance policies.

•Benoit’s alcohol abuse - Benoit abused steroids, but many people believe it was his alcohol abuse that led to these horrific murders. Many of Benoit’s colleagues attested he would drink more when problems with Nancy occurred.

•Eddie Guerrero’s death - Benoit and Guerrero and Benoit were very close. When it came out that Guerrero has died in his hotel room in November of 2005, Benoit was devastated. WWE held a televised memorial for Guerrero and when Benoit was giving his testimony, he broke down in front of the camera. Some of Benoit’s colleagues say, “he was never the same” after Guerrero’s death.

But at the expense of sounding completely heartless, (mind you, I’ve been suicidal myself), why didn’t he just commit suicide?

Why did he have to murder his wife and seven year old son? If we go with the CTE theory, it makes sense because he was not thinking rationally.

I wish Nancy had had the strength to leave him when she tried.

The night after Benoit’s body was found, WWE Raw had a televised memorial for him and his family with Vince McMahon standing in the middle of the ring breaking the news and a video montage.

No one knew he was the one who had killed his family.

When it was later revealed that Benoit had committed these crimes the episode was removed and WWE made the decision to remove nearly all mention of Benoit from their website, future publications, video games, merchandise, DVD/Blu-Rays, and future events.

Like I said.. swept him under the rug.

Benoit is now the “He Who Shall Not Be Named” of professional wrestling.

In ending this, I’d like to quote Stone Cold Steve Austin now.

“Well first and foremost, what I think about Chris Benoit is that guy was one of the most nicest guys I ever met in my life. He’s one of the most talented, hard working cats I’d ever seen in the squared circle. Anybody who knew Chris would tell you those exact two things. That guy loved the damn wrestling business, he was born to be a wrestler and was absolutely phenomenal. Drawing a lot of his influence from The Dynamite Kid, he blazed a path as the Pegasus Kid and his legacy as The Crippler Chris Benoit was just one hellacious career.

“One night, Chris ended up killing his wife and his kid. That is an act so terrible and horrible I can’t even comprehend or guess as to what happened in that house. That will always overshadow any accomplishment Chris had in the ring. He’ll never be in the Hall of Fame, it will just never happen. His career will speak for itself but his record as a human being, his first and foremost, and those actions will never be forgotten. That’s my feelings on that, we don’t even need to talk about the Hall of Fame. Speaking for myself, Chris Benoit as the person I knew, loved him. Chris Benoit as a wrestler, loved him. Chris Benoit as the person who did what he did, unforgivable. Bottom line.” – via NoDQ.com.

Pictured below are Chris and Nancy Benoit, their son Daniel, and their home in Fayetteville, Georgia.