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dottie-wan-kenobi · 5 years ago

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Here you will find 100+ songs that I feel embody Dick Grayson in all his roles and moods, that define his platonic and romantic relationships, and also that I think he would sing (or cry to) in the shower.

Please don’t tag as batcest!!

Songlist under the cut:

#dick grayson #dick grayson playlist #nightwing #nightwing playlist #my playlists #i am never typing out 112 song names ever again oh my god why did i do this to myself #batfam #some of these songs are subject to be deleted....#also im happy to explain why i added any of these songs!!

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wazafam · 4 years ago

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For the past five years, the residents of Bravo's Summer House have invaded the easternmost tip of Long Island, NY to escape the hustle and bustle of work-week Manhattan. In season 5, filmed during the pandemic, they're sequestering together for the whole summer, amping up the tension and heightening the outbursts.

RELATED: Summer House: Where To Find The Cast On Instagram (Season 5)

Since the reality show premiered in 2017, the cast has changed some, but the drama has remained the same. Of course, a number of these up-and-coming professionals stand out from the rest, if only to prove that even with youth and beauty, the struggle can still be real.

10 Luke Gulbranson

He may be the worst of the best, but Luke brought inter-house dating/two-timing into the mix as well as an argument that was one tequila shot away from turning into a brawl. OG cast member Kyle Cooke took umbrage with the Northern Minnesota native's treatment of women, as he'd been playing both Hannah Berner and newbie Ciara Miller. (Ciara didn't take the bait, but Hannah fell hook, line, and sinker.)

The thing is though, Luke is a working actor, most recently appearing alongside Kaley Cuoco in HBO Max's The Flight Attendant, so it's hard to know if his cad-like behavior is genuine or if he's "auditioning."

9 Lauren Wirkus

The now married (since June of 2020 as well as expecting) identical twin of Ashley, brought the confidence of a person who knew someone always had her back. Housemate Carl Radke had no chance when he was in a relationship with Lauren because when they'd have a fight, he'd end up being double-teamed by the Wirkus Circus.

She left the series after season 2, but while Lauren was in the house, she made her presence known, such as when she smashed a cake in Carl's face, or in season 2 when Lauren stepped back and gave the floor to Ashley who smashed a watermelon on it to make known their twin anger at Carl.

8 Stephen McGee

Thus far the only representative of the LGBTQ community, he brought attention to the struggle of trying to balance living his life as an openly gay man (dating Travis) and getting along with his conservative southern family.

In seasons 1 & 2, the event planner was a bit of a pot-stirrer. Giving off a very nice and almost innocent vibe, Stephen appeared to be someone to whom people felt safe in confiding. However, he'd turn around and expose those secrets the minute he felt left out or angered, such as when Stephen got fed up with Carl's treatment of BFF Lauren and revealed Carl's little-known same-sex romantic encounter.

7 Ciara Miller

As with The Real Housewives of New York, Bravo rightly decided it was time to add a POC to the all-white cast. The Atlanta native was introduced as a friend of Luke's, but because of her confidence, broke free of the association and created her own identity and friendships.

RELATED: Summer House: Ciara Miller's Age, Net Worth, Instagram, Job & More

Ciara, although a part-time model, brings a bit of gravitas to the show via her profession as an ICU nurse who was on the frontline of the COVID-19 relief efforts. Because she likely saw real-life drama in her professional life, she doesn't need it in her personal life, keeping her head while those around her are losing theirs.

6 Paige DeSorbo

The native New Yorker and fashion influencer (her bedroom at the summer house looks like a giant walk-in closet) has emerged from the crowd as the voice of reason, and like Ciara has managed to stay above the fray, presumably because she has a non-cast member boyfriend, Perry, hence no on-premises entanglements.

Paige has also evolved into the role of in-house counsel/therapist, intervening to advise, negotiate and point out when there's enough blame to go around. Because no one is perfect, she's been known to stir the pot when someone gets on her bad side.

5 Amanda Batula

When we first met Amanda she was Kyle's beleaguered girlfriend. Even though they were in a committed relationship, he saw no reason to stop seeing other women--especially after drinking too much, which seemed to be every waking moment of the weekend.

Because of that, the guest-cum-cast member had chronic Resting Cry Face, as she often screamed at him. But there's nothing like a long-awaited engagement ring to say all's forgiven. Amanda is very self-assured in her relationship, coming to Kyle's defense against anyone who "comes after my man," and recently left her full-time position as a graphic designer to become the Creative, Branding and Marketing head of Loverboy, a hard teas and craft cocktails venture started by Kyle. Their wedding has been postponed more than once.

4 Hannah Berner

No one can take a conversation from zero to 60 like this roommate. The podcast host (Berning in Hell and the new Giggly Squad with pal Paige) is the epitome of free-spiritedness and has made no secret that she's not just looking for love but looking to be loved. Perhaps now that, on season 5, Hannah has gotten over Luke by getting under new guy (now fiance) Des Bishop, she will calm down.

Unfortunately, this co-host of Bravo's Chat Room is often hard to like because she constantly starts fights--especially with Kyle. The phrase "hurt people, hurt people" comes to mind when it comes to this young woman who, even when smiling, seems rather sad.

3 Carl Radke

They say life doesn't give you more than you can handle. If this is true, then Carl can handle a lot. His brother passed away, his parents' marriage failed and left his mother devastated and using her son as her sounding board, and the sales professional lost his job. On top of all that he had to come to terms with his escalated drinking. Those who recall his earlier season relationship with Lauren, and more recently with current housemates Paige and Lindsay Hubbard, know that as a boyfriend, it'll be awhile before he's ready to settle down.

RELATED: Summer House: Why Some Fans Aren't Happy That Carl Radke Quit Alcohol

Although Carl seems determined to get his life under control, beginning with his position working for Kyle running Sales and Business Development for Loverboy, there is a deep emotion that could be construed as anger under the surface, evidenced by the fight between Kyle and Luke, which had bystander Carl the first to lunge at Luke fist raised.

2 Lindsay Hubbard

Piece of work is a phrase that comes to mind when talking about this blonde bombshell with brains to match. Lindsay is ambitious and business-savvy, and not one to hold back when something's on her mind. She's at once an older sister/advisor to the house's younger female squad, yet when it comes to romance needs a mentor of her own.

Over the seasons we've seen this alpha female have the same confrontation with former cast member/lover Everett, current cast mate/former lover Carl, and current boyfriend Stephen that goes something like: "You should kiss the ground I walk on; You should only focus on me; You should make 'me' a sandwich." There's a fine line between having high standards as to how you want to be treated and wanting to be treated like a Disney Princess. Lindsay seems to be standing on it.

1 Kyle Cooke

This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. The hard-partying entrepreneur has kept it interesting from the pilot by always finding a way to make it all about him. The quintessential Peter Pan, the 38-year-old is everybody's big brother, yet can be the most immature person in the room, unaware that his frat boy days are behind him.

Kyle seems to be one of those people who cannot be confined, hence he chooses to accept the risk of being an entrepreneur rather than work a 9-to-5, and why it took awhile to remain loyal to Amanda, whom he proposed to in season 3 (2019). The couple has yet to marry, citing the global health pandemic as the reason. Although this was probably a factor, Amanda might secretly suspect what viewers have known all along: she might want to wait until Kyle grows up.

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johnhardinsawyer · 7 years ago

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Any Given Sunday

John Sawyer

Bedford Presbyterian Church

6 / 3 / 18

Mark 2:23-3:6

��Any Given Sunday”

(Working for/on the Weekend)

Every Friday at 5 PM when I was growing up, the local classic rock station would play a special mash-up of songs to mark the end of the work week. From “I Don’t Want to Work” by Todd Rundgren to “Take this Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck, they really played up the idea that the five o’ clock whistle had blown and the weekend was now beginning. All of this was usually followed up by a rendition of the 1981 classic, “Working for the Weekend,” by everybody’s favorite band, Loverboy.

Everybody’s working for the weekend,

Everybody wants a little romance,

Everybody’s going off the deep end

Everybody needs a second chance

You want a piece of my heart

You better start from the start. . .[1]

Oh, what great poetry! Anyway, you get the idea – the weekend is a time for fun, parties, romance, and relaxation. And everybody loves the feeling you get when you can leave your job – and all of the responsibilities that come with it – behind you for just a couple of days. It is good to celebrate the Sabbath!

If you ever go to the Western Wall in Jerusalem – the holiest site in all of Judaism – at sundown on a Friday evening, there is this undercurrent of excitement and energy. As the sun goes down, marking the start of the Jewish Sabbath, groups of young men will form circles and start to chant and sing and dance. Soldiers will put down their guns and dance, too. People embrace one another, families join together and then everyone goes off to enjoy their Shabbat dinners. Everyone has been working for the weekend and everything that follows is a gift from God and God is so good.

One of the things you often hear about the Sabbath is that on this one day of the week you should not do any work. Many of our Jewish cousins in faith have been and continue to be fairly strict about this rule. They get this from the Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus:

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work – you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, but rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. (Exodus 20:8-11)

Everyone is supposed to rest on the Sabbath because the Sabbath was – and is – a gift from God. Somewhere along the line, though, people started taking this commandment to rest on the Sabbath so seriously that it grew to have a “Rest. . . or else!” kind of feeling to it. Some of you might remember that stores and restaurants used to be closed on Sundays. Some of you might not have been able to go outside and play as children on the Sabbath. At the time, these restrictions might have seemed onerous, but they weren’t as strict as they could have been, because in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, if you violate the Sabbath on purpose, you are subject to the death penalty.[2] Ouch!

So, in today’s reading from the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus’ disciples are hungry and pluck some grain on the Sabbath to eat and Jesus then heals a man in the local synagogue on the Sabbath, it doesn’t just raise some eyebrows, it actually causes the Pharisees and the Herodians to start plotting Jesus’ death.

When Jesus is accused of the crime of Sabbath-breaking, he has several curious responses. First, he counters the Pharisees’ scriptural argument[3]about plucking grain on the Sabbath with a story from scripture: “Do you remember our ancestor David when he was on the run from King Saul?” Jesus asked. “David was very hungry and the only bread that was available was designated as holy bread. He should not have eaten it,[4]but he did. If David was excused out of necessity[5]because he was hungry, then why are my friends in trouble for plucking grain and eating it?”[6] Then Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath.” In other words, “The Sabbath was made to be a gift for us. we aren’t supposed to be slaves to the Sabbath.” Pastor and author Wayne Muller writes, “[teachings like this] clearly warn against the tendency toward legalism, which suffocates our joy, and drains the spontaneity and passion out of this gratuitous day of delight.”[7]

The Pharisees were clearly not delighted with Jesus’ words, and they really got riled up by what he did next. There was a man in the local synagogue who had a withered hand. In the original language, the hand was “dried up, damaged,” and possibly “paralyzed.”[8] We don’t know if the man had been born like this or if it had happened to him along the way. All that we know is that, for the Pharisees, it was important that people who were blind or lame, or had deformities and other handicaps were not allowed to draw close to God to make offerings.[9] They were not whole people, religiously speaking, and therefore were considered to be less than everyone else.

The Pharisees had reasons for feeling the way they did. They had the ancient laws of Moses backing them up. But anyone can use scripture to back up just about any side of an argument. In contrast to the commandment regarding handicapped people, there is a wonderful story of King David welcoming the grandson of a former enemy and showing kindness to the boy after the boy was paralyzed. He gave the boy – Mephibosheth was his name – land and titles and hosted him at the King’s table.[10]

It is good to follow the rules, but, according to Jesus, it is also good to be merciful. And if the rules (or the people enforcing them) aren’t merciful or just, then maybe we need some new rules or a different type of moral framework from which we make decisions. Jesus provides such a framework. In today’s story, Jesus calls the man with the withered hand to come closer and he asks the Pharisees,

“What kind of action suits the Sabbath best? Doing good or doing evil? Helping people or leaving them helpless?” No one said a word. Jesus looked them in the eye, one after another, angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion.[11]

We don’t have to wonder about whether Jesus ever got angry, or not. The Bible tells us of the time when he angrily ran the money-changers out of the Temple – people who were dishonestly enriching themselves, robbing faithful folks of their hard-earned money.[12] And, in today’s story, Jesus gets angry when faithful people are hard-hearted and not merciful or hospitable to someone who is clearly in need of mercy and hospitality.

Of course, Jesus heals the man, making the withered hand as good as new, doing the work of grace – even on the Sabbath. Because if the Sabbath is about anything at all, it is about grace – resting in God’s grace, remembering God’s grace, giving thanks for God’s grace, dwelling in God’s grace, sharing God’s grace. The Sabbath is supposed to be a day of healing and wholeness, a day of restoration, a day of peace, a day of joy. And, for Jesus, if a little work has to be done on the Sabbath to make these things a reality, not just for himself, but for everyone, then maybe that’s okay.

There are some who might use today’s story to justify working on the Sabbath – “If Jesus did it, then so can I” – but this is not the point of the story. We live in a culture where work has a way of sneaking into our Sabbath. 99% of the time, this “work” that we do is not an emergency or even necessary and has nothing to do with God or God’s kingdom. Our human work can wait a day. But mercy and grace cannot wait a day. And there are those in need of kindness and welcome and healing and wholeness and human decency who have been waiting and waiting for just a glimpse of empathy and acceptance and there is no time like the present to offer this grace – especially here at church. When it comes to God’s grace, no one should be turned away.

This is one of the reasons why we gather around this Table – to share God’s grace – and it is one of the reasons why we proclaim that all are welcome here. Putting God’s welcome into practice is a wonderful way of practicing Sabbath. Sabbath is not supposed to be a selfish act. Remember the commandment is for “. . .you, your son [and] your daughter, your male [and] female slave, your livestock, the alien resident in your town. . .” Normally, we might feel that the weekend is just for us. But scripture reminds us that it is for everyone. Many people work so hard during the week and it is good to be reminded to rest. But some people guard their Sabbath so well – especially in the summertime – that they feel they need to take a vacation from church, too. It is important to remember that Jesus did not work his Sabbath miracle alone, or in a vacuum, or with just his close family at the lake. He did it in public – in community with others. He did it by acknowledging the needs of people – their need to be fed, their need to be healed, their need for some kind of wholeness. Regular public worship reminds us of this and gets us in the rhythm of practicing Sabbath. And, while it might be good for us to get away from time to time, the life we live every day is lived in the midst of people who have the same needs we do. If Sabbath rest can ready us to meet those needs and share God’s grace, then this is good. And, when those needs arise and we can meet them – even on the Sabbath – then it is good to follow the example of Jesus.

Being able to share in God’s grace is a gift – each and every day. And when it comes to the work of sharing this grace, God is not just working for the weekend. God is always at work making us whole. This is a gift – for us, for you and for me – for all people. May we share this gift every day.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc.

[2]See Exodus 31:14-15, Leviticus 24:10-23, and Numbers 15:32-36.

[3]See Exodus 34:21.

[4]See Exodus 29:33.

[5]John Calvin, Calvin’s Commentaries – Vol. XVI.ii(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2009) 48.

[6]Mark 2:25-26, paraphrased JHS.

[7]Wayne Muller, Sabbath – Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in our Busy Lives(New York: Bantam Books, 1999) 31.

[8]Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979) 548.

[9]See Leviticus 21:19 ff.

[10]See 2 Samuel 4 and 2 Samuel 9.

[11]Eugene Peterson, The Message(Colorado Springs: NAV Press, 2002) 1379-1380. Mark 3:4-5.

[12]See Matthew 21:12 and John 2:15.

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