#1980s career

[busterblackcherry]

I love watching sabbat live. They were so young and happy. And did not know that it was ABOUT TO GO DOWN

Next year April 21st marks the 36th anniversary of imai's arrest for possession of lsd. Congratulation🥳🥳

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1971/99 Personal/“Private” Photos

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[dozydawn]

Valentino, 1983.

Model: Cecilia Chancellor.

[marypsue]

Been thinking about Stranger Things s1 characters in the events of Dracula and vice versa (because they’re both ‘small groups of loosely-related characters experience a supernatural mystery from different perspectives and ultimately have to team up to figure out what’s really going on and how to fight it’ stories about The Power Of Friendship And Love And Also This Gun I Found), and. 

Jonathan Harker somehow has an even worse time in the Upside Down than he did at Castle Dracula. Mina Murray-to-be-Harker absolutely refuses to believe that he’s skipped town and left her at the altar, because...something something Christmas lights? (She also doesn’t need to do a blood exchange with the monster to track its movements, here, because psychics are well established in the series lore, but she might need to be a little cagey about who she tells about that...) Disgraced presumed-crackpot Dr. Van Helsing is, of course, the only one who believes her. At first. 

Joyce Byers’ youngest son is Not Himself. The doctor she really couldn’t afford was convinced it’s tuberculosis and she’s making herself hysterical over it, but that wouldn’t explain why Will’s acting so strangely lately. Or why he seems to be losing so much blood. With her husband...abroad, her family out in the country, her older son working long hours as a solicitor’s clerk to try to keep them out of the poorhouse, and no one else to turn to, the friendship she strikes up with a wounded American soldier ends up becoming a lifeline. In more ways than one, because as it turns out, this isn’t the first time Jim Hopper has seen blood loss like Will’s...

Also featuring such highlights as: 

Jonathan Byers and Nancy Wheeler work for the same solicitor, him as a clerk and her as a secretary. Her fiancé assumes she’ll give it up once she becomes Mrs. Harrington, but Nancy’s discovering she doesn’t really want to, and that she might have more in common with the ‘New Woman’ than she’d realised. 

Lucy Westenra disappears from rich popular Arthur Holmwood’s pool party, and her friends and boyfriends shut the entire fucking town down to look for her. Barbara Holland gets preyed on by a vampire and nobody but her parents and Nancy notice, and half of Whitby ends up getting eaten. 

Everybody assumes El is a boy or an escaped mental patient more than ever in the Victorian era. Slapping a hat and some skirts on her is the most effective disguise imaginable. (Her powers in a Dracula AU are probably more mesmeric in nature than telekinetic, but she can still ‘find’ people.)

Van Helsing may actually have been involved in MKUltra. It’s never quite made explicit, but he certainly knows a lot more about what’s going on than he ever fully reveals to the others. 

I have no idea how Mike and the Party fit into this version of things, but there are definitely some Frog Brothers vampire hunting shenanigans involved. 

Quincey Morris is still a yeehaw stereotype in 1983 Indiana. No one questions this. 

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Not for the Likes of Us (BBC, 1980)

"It was a relief when she married you, I'm telling you. That'll calm her down, I thought, stop these crazy ideas. Mind you, I can't say that it did. Do you remember that spiritualism craze she had, when she was carrying Paul? Eight months pregnant and trying to contact other worlds! I said to her, that baby will be born funny in the head."

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The Clash ''Career Opportunities'' (Kid's Edition)

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[eirianabryce]

Remembering Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)

Kirstie Louise Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1951.

Alley with her future second husband Parker Stevenson in Aspen, Colorado, in 1979. The couple was married from 1983 to 1997 and share two children.

Starring in Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan along with William Shatner, DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nemoy.

John Travolta, director Amy Heckerling, and Alley on set of the hit film "Look Who's Talking," which was released in 1989.

Alley in a scene of the TV show "Veronica's Closet." Alley played the title character in her second hit television show, which debuted in 1997.

Alley embraces fashion designer Zang Toi after walking the runway at the Zang Toi show during New York Fashion Week in 2011.

Alley attends a signing for her book "The Art of Men" in Los Angeles in 2012.

credits: @CBS Photo Archive/Getty @CNN @Insider @Everett Collection

[jcmarchi]

Bob Prior: A deep legacy of cultivating books at the MIT Press

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/bob-prior-a-deep-legacy-of-cultivating-books-at-the-mit-press/

Bob Prior: A deep legacy of cultivating books at the MIT Press

In his first years as an acquisitions editor at the MIT Press in the late 1980s, Bob Prior helped handle a burgeoning computer science list.

Thirty-six years later, Prior has edited hundreds of trade and scholarly books in areas as diverse as neuroscience, natural history, electronic privacy, evolution, and design — including one single novel that he was able to sneak onto his list of otherwise entirely nonfiction titles. In more recent years as executive editor for biomedical science, neuroscience, and trade science, his work has focused on general interest science books with an emphasis on the life sciences, neuroscience, and natural history.

Prior argues, though, that his work — while fundamentally remaining the same — has always felt keenly different from year to year. “You utilize the same kind of skills, but in service of very different authors and very different projects,” he says.

And after a career at the press spanning three-plus decades, Prior is set to retire at the end of June.

He will leave behind an incredible legacy — especially as “a master networker, an astute acquiring editor, and a champion of rigorous and brilliant scholarship,” says Bill Smith, director of sales and marketing at the MIT Press. “His curious mind is always on the lookout for brilliant scientists and authors who have something to say to the wider world.”

“I’ve always valued his excellent instincts and competitive drive as an acquisitions editor, and his passion for his work and for the research in the fields that he works on,” says Amy Brand, director and publisher of the press. “In recent years, he’s been very generous in providing astute guidance to me and other press colleagues on specific projects and our overall acquisitions program.”

“Best of all, Bob is a boundary pusher, constantly questioning the preconceptions of what a smart, general reader book can be,” says Smith.

For Prior, some of his favorite projects over his career at the press have been some of the most personal.

One of the books he is proudest of having worked on is “The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist,” written by lauded neuroscientist Ben Barres and finished just prior to his death from pancreatic cancer in 2017. Prior was tasked with editing Barres’s book posthumously.

“It is an incredibly personal story; he talks about his experiences being an undergrad at MIT, his transition, and the challenges of his life,” says Prior. With the diligent care that is a hallmark of Prior’s work as an editor, he helped bring Barres’s final work to the public eye. “It’s a book I am very proud of because of Ben’s legacy and the person he was, and because every person I know who has read it has been transformed by it in some way,” Prior says. “The book has strongly impacted my view of the world.”

Other books acquired by Prior over the course of his career include “The Laws of Simplicity,” by John Maeda; “The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World,” by Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen; “Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist,” by Christof Koch; “Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are,” by Robert Plomin; and “The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another,” by Ainissa Ramirez.

According to Gita Manaktala, executive editor at large at the MIT Press, Prior’s dedication and incredible success throughout his career is no coincidence. “For nearly 40 years, Bob Prior has shown us how to cultivate books by scientists and technologists,” Manaktala says. Each week Prior writes to a list of people he has never met but whose work he admires. Sometimes he hears back; but just as often he does not, Manaktala says — or at least not right away. Even so, Prior has never given up, knowing that books and relationships take time and effort to build.

“His sustained interest in people, ideas, and their impact on the world is what makes a great editor,” Manaktala adds. “Bob has helped to grow hundreds of essential books from small seeds. The world of ideas is a richer, greener, and more fertile place for his efforts.”

“I’ll personally miss him and his insights a great deal,” says Brand.

“While my life after MIT Press will be full with family, friends, and meaningful work in my community, I will definitely miss the world of publishing and chasing down great authors,” Prior says of his 36 years at the press. “What I will miss the most are my incredible colleagues; what an amazing place to make a career.”

[cyarsk52-20]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have … not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Credit: Will Stenberg

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[dozydawn]

E.G. Daily attends the Valentino Fashion Awards, 1986. Photographed by Ron Galella.

[heritageposts]

By Ahmad Ibsais, First generation Palestinian American and law student.

I do not blame Benjamin Netanyahu. I do not blame the Israeli prime minister for what is happening to my people. I do not blame him today, as Israeli bombs destroy every corner of Gaza, and children die under the rubble. I did not blame him back in 2013, when I had to watch the slaughter of my people in Gaza on the evening news, either. My mother did not blame him when snipers perched on rooftops shot at her as she tried to make her way to work in the West Bank. My grandfather, God rest his soul, did not blame him as he died without ever returning to the land settlers stole from him in the 1980s, either. For me, for my family, for my people, what we are witnessing in Palestine today is not “Netanyahu’s war”. It is not his occupation. He is nothing but another cog in the relentless war machine that is Israel. Yet if you were to ask senators Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, the supposed champions of Palestinian rights and progressive humanitarianism in the United States, everything that has happened to us in the past 75 years, and everything that is happening to us today, can be blamed on one man, and one man alone: Netanyahu. Sanders insistently calls the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza “Netanyahu’s war”, and demands that the US “not give Netanyahu another nickel”. Meanwhile, Warren denounces “Netanyahu’s failed leadership” as she calls for a ceasefire. For these progressive senators, the cause of all the pain and suffering in Palestine is clear: a far-right, hawkish prime minister hell-bent on continuing a conflict that keeps him in power. Sure, Netanyahu is evil. Sure, he committed countless crimes against Palestinians and against humanity, throughout his long career. Sure, he is continuing to fuel the carnage in Gaza today in part for his own political survival. And he should be held accountable for everything he has said and done that caused harm and pain to my people. But the racism, extremism and genocidal intent that is on display in Gaza and across the occupied Palestinian territory today cannot and should not be blamed on Netanyahu alone. Blaming Israel’s blatant human rights abuses, disregard for international law, and open celebration of war crimes on Netanyahu alone is nothing but a coping mechanism for liberals like Sanders and Warren. By blaming Netanyahu for the suffering and oppression of the Palestinian people, past and present, they keep alive the lie that Israel was built on progressive ideals, rather than ethnic cleansing. By blaming Netanyahu, they whitewash their seemingly unconditional support for a state blatantly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. By blaming Netanyahu, and casting Israel as a progressive, well-meaning state that would respect international humanitarian law but is currently taken over by a bad leader, they are absolving themselves – and the US at large – of complicity in Israel’s many war crimes.

. . . continues on Al Jazeera (7 Mar 2024)

[oldschoolfrp]

Influential RPG adventure writer, artist, and video game creator Jennell Jaquays has died.

She was a founder of the Dungeoneer zine before it was sold to Judges Guild. Her D&D adventures Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia became classics, often studied as examples of adventure design. She also wrote and illustrated for TSR, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, and many other publishers. Her video game career included developing many of Coleco's titles in the 1980s and level design for the Quake sequels at id Software in the 90s, and she co-founded the SMU Guildhall video game program.

She recently was hospitalized for symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses is still active.

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