#Anne Hagan

[laf-outloud]

stephanielenzcasting Thank you to The Austin Film Society @austinfilm for hosting a screening of the final #Walker episodes. 😭❤️ I will be forever grateful for working on this show the past 4 seasons. From working as #background on the show, to #casting the background with Legacy Casing @legacycasting_global The atmosphere on set was incredible. A true family that will forever stay with me! 🎬

appleswartz

reyesashleyreyes

What a wonderful opportunity given by the Austin Film Society for the cast and crew to get together and watch the final episodes.

[gatalentan]

Lisa Ann Walter, Molly Hagan & Wendie Malick 📺 Life's Work S01E17 "Dates" (1997)

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: The Death Watcher (1.4, Thames, 1971)

"I should like to have danced with you first, you know. It may sound frivolous, but I mean it. There's a certain communication involved there. Have you noticed how some couples have a much more highly developed intuition? They dance as one. There is instinctive anticipation. I used to be very good at ballroom dancing. These are my trophies. Once, I reached the county finals with a girl. Her name was Beryl Harcourt. We were completely in sympathy, you see. That's why I made her the subject of my first experiment. After she'd... gone, I used to play the gramophone in my bedroom for hours on end. We used to do a speciality tango. There's a lot of jealousy and backbiting in those competitions, you know."

[slashify]

Warnings: needles, tattoos being given in the story, passing out, piercings (not being giving in the story), memories of bullying, memories of swirlies.

Tommy and Carol come into Eddie’s shop one day. He can tell they’ve barely done their research, but he and Steve are the only ones close to 5 star artists within at least ten miles, so he figures they just went with whoever Yelp or Google or whatever said was best.

They clearly don’t recognize him. It’s not the first time someone he knew in high school doesn’t. Hell, Steve hadn’t recognized him at the expo where they’d met again. He gets it. He could pass for any number of metalheads or goths or punks if you don’t know what you’re looking for. And they’d barely given him a second glance in high school, except to giggle in his general direction about him being trailer trash or a super senior, or whatever they felt made him beneath them that week.

Eddie is a fucking professional, okay?

He plays up being Mr. Helpful. Flashes his pierced tongue and pretends not to notice both of them noticing it.

And Steve’s name is right there on the flash they’re checking out.

They pick a couples tattoo Eddie hates so much he’s lobbied Steve at least a dozen times to take it out of their portfolio. The side of Steve that his father put through several ill-fated business courses always comes out to reason with Eddie. It’s popular, it’s easy, it makes them easy money… And after a few rounds of that plus a shoulder massage that has him wondering if Steve should change careers, Eddie always relents.

Carol volunteers to go first, which makes sense considering what Eddie remembers of her from school. It takes a good while, even though it’s basic, and Tommy keeps asking her if she needs water, but Carol is handling it like a champ. Eddie knows Tommy is trying to work out his own nerves. He makes sure Tommy knows where the water cooler is.

Tommy scuttles over to get himself a cup and Eddie decides to engage with Carol.

“So how long have you two been together?”

Carol takes a deep breath and sighs it out. “About eight years. High school sweethearts, ya know?”

Eddie let’s out a noncommittal mmhm. “That’s sweet.”

Carol breathes deliberately deeply as he colors over the big vein in her forearm. “Mm. What about you? You got a girl?”

Eddie pauses with the tattoo gun in case she reacts badly, pulls away and says, “Not. Not a girl, no. I’ve been with my partner a few years now. He’s one of the other artists here. You need a break?”

Carol takes a break. Takes water from a shaky Tommy. Takes slow breaths. Eddie thinks they’re going to get back to it, but she pauses. Gets up and pulls the back of her yoga pants down a little to display a really shitty lower back tattoo. A dolphin with tribal details stretched from one ass dimple to the other, the whole thing badly scarred, ink skipping whole lines. Tommy looks like she just stripped off to her birthday suit in the middle of downtown.

“You guys do coverups?” She asks. Eddie nods. They get back to work. Eddie asks her what she’d like to cover up the lower back tattoo and is surprised when she has a few ideas. She asks if black roses could cover up the shitty tribal, if he could do a heart to cover the dolphin. They toss ideas back and forth, and by the time she’s done she has a second appointment with Eddie for a coverup. When she’s done, Eddie takes a minute. Tells them he needs to stretch out his fingers, needs a smoke break.

And he’s a professional, okay? He’s a fucking professional. And he knows this isn’t high school anymore, but he also knows how Tommy’s fingers feel in his hair when he shoves Eddie’s face into a toilet. He takes a page out of Carol’s book. Deep, slow breaths.

Tommy is not as much of a trooper as Carol is. He holds his breath, and when he lets it out it’s panicky. Eddie makes him take a few breaks, gets him a can of pineapple juice. He’s about done with the coloring when Steve comes in with his and Eddie’s lunch. The second Eddie hears Steve’s voice he pulls the gun up and out of range of Tommy.

‘I got you that broccoli stir fry thing, Ed-“ is all Steve gets out before Tommy passes out.

[camyfilms]

SULLY 2016

No one warned us. No one said "You're going to lose both engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history. But, be cool, just make a left turn for LaGuardia like you are going back to pick up the milk". This was dual engine loss at 2800 feet followed by immediate water landing with 155 souls on board. No one has ever trained for an incident like that. No one.

[haggishlyhagging]

The book list copied from feminist-reprise

Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory

A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Jan Raymond

Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory, Julia Penelope

The Lesbian Heresy, Sheila Jeffreys

The Lesbian Body, Monique Wittig

Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye

Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism 1976-1992, Marilyn Frye

Lesbian Ethics, Sarah Hoagland

Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde

Radical Feminist Theory –  General/Collections

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism, edited by Miranda Kiraly and Meagan Tyler

Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, Renate Klein and Diane Bell

Love and Politics, Carol Anne Douglas

The Dialectic of Sex–The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone

Sisterhood is Powerful, Robin Morgan, ed.

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara A. Crow

Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf

Sexual Politics, Kate Millett

Radical Feminism, Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, eds.

On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Adrienne Rich

Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, Marilyn French

Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Catharine MacKinnon

Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, Sandra Bartky

Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, eds.

Wildfire:  Igniting the She/Volution, Sonia Johnson

Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith ed.

Fugitive Information, Kay Leigh Hagan

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks

Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot, Pearl Cleage

Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, Maria Lugones

In Search of Our Mothers�� Gardens, Alice Walker

The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer

Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin

Feminist Theory – Specific Areas

Prostitution

Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Rachel Moran

Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self, Kajsa Ekis Ekman

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, Sheila Jeffreys

Female Sexual Slavery, Kathleen Barry

Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution:  A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.

Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution, Jan Raymond

The Legalisation of Prostitution : A failed social experiment, Sheila Jeffreys

Making the Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls, Donna M. Hughes and Claire Roche, eds.

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress, Melissa Farley

Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds.

Pornography

Pornland: How Pornography Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, Gail Dines

Pornified: How Porn is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families, Pamela Paul

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, Gail Dines

Pornography: Evidence of the Harm, Diana Russell

Pornography and Sexual Violence:  Evidence of the Links (transcript of Minneapolis hearings published by Everywoman in the UK)

Rape

Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller

Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell

Incest

Secret Trauma, Diana Russell

Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self, Janet Liebman Jacobs

Battering/Domestic Violence

Loving to Survive, Dee Graham

Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft

Sadomasochism/”Sex Wars”

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, Irene Reti, ed.

The Sex Wars, Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, eds.

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism, edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond

Sex, Lies, and Feminism, Charlotte Croson, off our backs, June 2001

How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement, Sheila Jeffreys

A Vision of Lesbian Sexuality, Janice Raymond, in All The Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism, Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller, eds.

Sex and Feminism: Who Is Being Silenced? Adriene Sere in SaidIt, 2001

Consuming Passions: Some Thoughts on History, Sex and Free Enterprise by De Clarke (From Unleashing Feminism).

Separatism/Women-Only Space

“No Dobermans Allowed,”  Carolyn Gage, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.

For Lesbians Only:  A Separatist Anthology, Julia Penelope & Sarah Hoagland, eds.

Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, Kya Ogyn

Medicine

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals, Gena Corea

The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs, Gena Corea

Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler

Women, Health and the Politics of Fat, Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003, No. 20

Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology, Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins

Motherhood

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich

The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow

Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick

Marriage/Heterosexuality

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich

The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930, Sheila Jeffreys

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, Sheila Jeffreys

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace

The Sexual Contract, Carol Pateman

A Radical Dyke Experiment for the Next Century: 5 Things to Work for Instead of Same-Sex Marriage, Betsy Brown in off our backs, January 2000 V.30; N.1 p. 24

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

Transgender/Queer Politics

Gender Hurts, Sheila Jeffreys

Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett

Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds, Cordelia Fine

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Cordelina Fine

Sexing the Body: Gender and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling

Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling

Unpacking Queer Politics, Sheila Jeffreys

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, Janice Raymond

The Inconvenient Truth of Teena Brandon, Carolyn Gage

Language

Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues, Julia Penelope

Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary, Mary Daly

Man Made Language, Dale Spender

Feminist Theology/Spirituality/Religion

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation, Mary Daly

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly

The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas

Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Women’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Pure Lust, Mary Daly

Backlash

The War Against Women, Marilyn French

Backlash, Susan Faludi

History/Memoir

Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman

Going Too Far:  The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist, Robin Morgan

Women of Ideas, and What Men Have Done to Them, Dale Spender

The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Gerda Lerner

Why History Matters, Gerda Lerner

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches, Ellen Carol Dubois, ed., Gerda Lerner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Suffragette Movement, Sylvia Pankhurst

In Our Time: Memoirs of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller

Women, Race and Class, Angela Y. Davis

Economy

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth, Marilyn Waring

For-Giving:  A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, Genevieve Vaughn

Fat/Body Image/Appearance

Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression, Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, Sheila Jeffreys

Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Jean Kilbourne

The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf

Unbearable Weight:  Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo

The Invisible Woman:  Confronting Weight Prejudice in America, Charisse Goodman

Women En Large: Photographs of Fat Nudes, Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin

Disability

With the Power of Each Breath:  A Disabled Women’s Anthology, Susan E. Browne, Debra Connors, and Nanci Stern

[positivexcellence]

Walker 4x13 “See You Sometime”

Walker (Jared Padalecki) tries to make up for lost time and wants to be what Geri (Odette Annable) deserves. Cassie (Ashley Reyes) and Trey (Jeff Pierre) have their final interviews for the lieutenant position. Captain James (Coby Bell) advises Cassie and Trey. Stella (Violet Brinson) discusses with Liam (Keegan Allen) what she may want for her future. Bonham (Mitch Pileggi) and Abby (Molly Hagan) admit to each other what they really want for the next phase of their lives. August’s (Kale Culley) graduation brings everyone together to celebrate. The episode was written by Anna Fricke and Blythe Ann Johnson and directed by Steve Robin (#413).  Original airdate 6/26/2024.

[vital-information]

"But, for at least part of the 1999-2000 TV season, Freaks And Geeks was a beacon to anyone whose high school experience was awkward, boring, humbling, or painful—basically, anything other than the sexy and stylish depictions that had dominated teen-centered movies and shows. It begins with a feint in the pilot episode, one of best series introductions ever. Director Jake Kasdan scans the high school track, seeking out a very blond football player (Gabriel Carpenter, in a role not unlike his appearance in 1999’s Drive Me Crazy) who’s confessing his affection to a very blond cheerleader in the bleachers. This early encounter is the extent to which Freaks And Geeks would engage with the kind of prepossessing teens who were frequently the subjects of these shows. This decision, Feig tells The A.V. Club, was based on having “grown up on such a diet of teen stuff being about beautiful people who were so cool with everything, including sex. It didn’t reflect anything I grew up around. You would see those kids; they were around. But they weren’t my group. They weren’t the majority of the kids that I knew.”

The camera ventures under the bleachers, where Daniel Desario (James Franco) is holding court among the other “freaks,” before panning over to our protagonist, Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), who’s lurking nearby, ever between groups. The camera keeps moving, settling on an altercation between the “geeks”—Lindsay’s brother, Sam (John Francis Daley), and his friends Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) and Neal Schweiber (Samm Levine)—and a bully named Alan (The Sandlot’s Chauncey Leopardi). Lindsay comes to their rescue, but inadvertently offends Sam by referencing his diminutive stature. Lindsay is insulted by Alan’s buddies for her trouble, and Sam stalks off. This opening scene is a prime example of the brand of subversion found in Feig’s good-hearted show. A lesser series would have dedicated at least five minutes to Lindsay making up her mind, either in approaching the freaks or standing up for her brother. In Feig’s pilot, Lindsay acts decisively and still gets it wrong, which is not how this is supposed to go—that is, not on network television, and certainly not on the powerhouse network that was NBC in the late ’90s.

That was far from the last time Freaks And Geeks would defy expectations. In the same episode, we learn Lindsay is in the midst of an existential crisis brought on by her grandmother’s death. Hearing from her grandmother, the kindest and best person Lindsay had ever known, that there was nothing waiting on the “other side” leaves her questioning everything. So the former mathlete goes looking for answers in unlikely places, including under the bleachers and on the “smoking patio” with the freaks. Lindsay bonds with the freaks, especially Kim Kelly (Busy Philipps), whose depths were just as filled with teen-girl fury as insecurity. She even manages to win over the caustic Ken Miller (Seth Rogen). But her behavior flummoxes her parents, Harold (Joe Flaherty) and Jean (Becky Ann Baker), and to a lesser extent, her brother. Lindsay’s quest, which unfolded over the course of the season, was probably just as baffling for NBC executives (and possibly viewers). She wasn’t mollified by a new relationship with sweet stoner Nick Andopolis (Jason Segel), nor did she quickly learn her lesson and return to her high-achieving best friend Millie’s (Sarah Hagan) side. The absence of easy answers became a defining element of Lindsay’s life, as well as of the show.

But Freaks And Geeks was always just as optimistic as it was realistic, which is a key part of its enduring appeal. It’s a show about survival, about how a found community can help you muddle through anything. Despite the labels, Feig’s characters are all basically good people—failing that, they’re people who are capable of doing better."

Danette Chavez, "Why Freaks and Geeks Is the Teen Show that Endures"

[televisionpromos]

Walker 4x03 "Lessons From the Gift Shop" Promo - Trey and Liam try to help Walker figure out his next steps with Geri. Liam confides in Walker that he's worried about Stella. Meanwhile, Stella and Sadie look into recent events. August begins his bootcamp training and it is not what he expected. Liam helps Cassie sift through the clutter. Lastly, the family works together on a fundraiser. Also starring Molly Hagan and Mitch Pileggi. Ben Hernandez Bray directed the episode written by Blythe Ann Johnson. Original airdate 4/17/2024.

[faerieroyal]

𝒶 𝑔𝓊𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈… music, writing, every shade of pink, making playlists, daydreaming, true crime, musical theatre, reading, comfortable blankets, scary stories, fairytales and folk tales, urban legends, twinkle lights, iced coffee, pretty things, baby animals, all kinds of magic and whimsey.

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓂𝓈… the batman, dc comics, the wizarding world (all eras), the chronicles of narnia, dead poets society, the outsiders, good omens, ted lasso, triple frontier, formula one, stranger things, marvel, top gun & top gun: maverick, the slasherverse, twilight, x-men, the magnificent seven (2016), little women (2019), musical theatre in general, and many more !!

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈… caraval, good omens, the janes series, harry potter, all hail the pumpkin queen, a darker shade of magic, wings of fire, heartless, the land of stories, anne of green gables.

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈… queen, olivia rodrigo, p!nk, carrie underwood, billie eilish, hozier, ajr, sabrina carpenter, halsey, lainey wilson, lauren alaina, fall out boy, green day, billy joel, abba, maisie peters.

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓈… wicked, hadestown, beetlejuice, legally blonde, newsies, hello dolly!, sweeney todd, mean girls, oklahoma!, a gentleman’s guide to love and murder, assassins, mamma mia!, chicago, in the heights, rent.

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓈… ghostbusters, the princess bride, star wars, dead poets society, wandavision, community, welcome to night vale, the nightmare before christmas, the fantastic mr. fox, brooklyn nine-nine, the corpse bride, the batman, 9 to 5, coraline, the magnus archives, good omens, our flag means death, glee, the a-team (2010), harry potter, twilight, m*a*s*h, the league of extraordinary gentlemen, beetlejuice.

𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎’𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓀… 3 o’clock things by ajr, tough to be a dreamer by felix hagan and the family, vienna by billy joel, mirrorball by taylor swift, keep your head up by andy grammer, when you wish upon a star by cliff edwards, the fools who dream by emma stone.

template is from the amazing @hyucksfairie !!

[laf-outloud]

The synopsis has been released for season 4, episode 13 of Walker, the series finale, which is set to air on Wednesday, June 26. The episode is titled “See You Sometime”. It’s also noted that the finale will air from 8:00 p.m. to 9:03 p.m., an extra three minutes longer.

Here’s the synopsis:

Walker (Jared Padalecki) tries to make up for lost time and wants to be what Geri (Odette Annable) deserves. Cassie (Ashley Reyes) and Trey (Jeff Pierre) have their final interviews for the lieutenant position. Captain James (Coby Bell) advises Cassie and Trey. Stella (Violet Brinson) discusses with Liam (Keegan Allen) what she may want for her future. Bonham (Mitch Pileggi) and Abby (Molly Hagan) admit to each other what they really want for the next phase of their lives. August’s (Kale Culley) graduation brings everyone together to celebrate. The episode was written by Anna Fricke and Blythe Ann Johnson and directed by Steve Robin (#413). 

While I'm thoroughly sad about it, the description (and episode length) make it seem like a true series finale. I hope everyone ends up in a good place.

[iceflwers]

𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓯𝓪𝓮

𝒻𝒶𝑒’𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈… music, writing, every shade of pink, making playlists, daydreaming, true crime, musical theatre, reading, comfortable blankets, scary stories, fairytales and folk tales, urban legends, twinkle lights, iced coffee, pretty things, baby animals, all kinds of magic and whimsey.

𝒻𝒶𝑒’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈… caraval, good omens, the janes series, harry potter, all hail the pumpkin queen, a darker shade of magic, wings of fire, heartless, the land of stories, anne of green gables.

𝒻𝒶𝑒’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈… queen, olivia rodrigo, p!nk, carrie underwood, billie eilish, hozier, ajr, sabrina carpenter, halsey, lainey wilson, lauren alaina, fall out boy, green day, billy joel, abba, maisie peters.

𝒻𝒶𝑒’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓈… ghostbusters, the princess bride, star wars, dead poets society, wandavision, community, welcome to night vale, the nightmare before christmas, the fantastic mr. fox, brooklyn nine-nine, the corpse bride, the batman, 9 to 5, coraline, the magnus archives, good omens, our flag means death, glee, the a-team (2010), harry potter, twilight, m*a*s*h, the league of extraordinary gentlemen, beetlejuice.

𝒻𝒶𝑒’𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓀… 3 o’clock things by ajr, tough to be a dreamer by felix hagan and the family, vienna by billy joel, mirrorball by taylor swift, keep your head up by andy grammer, when you wish upon a star by cliff edwards, the fools who dream by emma stone.

[kwebtv]

With Murder in Mind - CBS - May 12, 1992

AKA: With Savage Intent

Crime Drama (Based on a True Story)

Running Time: 100 minutes

Stars:

Elizabeth Montgomery as Gayle Wolfer

Robert Foxworth as Bob Sprague

Howard Rollins as Samuel Carver

Maureen O'Sullivan as Aunt Mildred

Lee Richardson as John Condon

Paul McCrane as Tim Francyzk

Danton Stone as Benny Lazarra

Tom Mardirosian as Captain Bob Browning

Jude Ciccolella as Conrad Marley

Ronny Cox as McLaughlin

Mary Ann Hagan as Susan Claridge

Adam LeFevre as Roger McBain

Kevin O'Rourke as Ted Sloan

Seret Scott as Sarah Bendix

[sidekick-hero]

Tagged once again in the URL song title challenge by @steves-strapcollection. I already did this once (Playlist can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3t9dVF2Et1YZrNyD2uZkj6?si=d394b2246c6c4076) but given the insane amount of music I listen to I am happy to do it again with some new bangers, so thanks for the tag dear 🫶

S – (Still A) Weirdo (KT Tunstall)

I – I love you but I need another year (Liza Anne)

D – Dreamstate (Dayseeker)

E – Euclid (Sleep Token)

K – Kiss me when I’m dead (CARR)

I – Initiation (Green Lung)

C – Carnivore (Bear Attack!)

K – Kiss the Misfits (Felix Hagan & The Family)

H – Hold me like a grudge (Fall Out Boy)

E – Exile (Loveless)

R – Relic (Awaken I am)

O – Only Love (Mother Mother)

Once again, have a playlist:

Aaaand I tag (no pressure dears!): @yournowheregirl, @legitcookie, @vecnuthy, @starryeyedjanai, @starrystevie and @firefly-party 💜

[joshuahyslop]

BOOKS

The last 10 books I’ve read:

1. Hallelujah Anyway - Anne Lamott This book should have actually been in the last list of books I’ve read, but I missed it. I’m a bit scatterbrained sometimes, so I keep lists. I have several different lists of “books I’ve read” to try and keep track of where I’m at. Needless to say, I sometimes forget to update one (or more) of the lists and then forget which one is most up-to-date. Anyway. I read this recently, too. I loved her book, “Bird by Bird” but I read it ages ago, when I was at a very different place in my life, spiritually. I forgot that she was so religious and, therefore, found this a little tedious. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t arrive in my life at the right time like, “Bird by Bird” did. Also, there’s a fantastic album by Hiss Golden Messenger called “Hallelujah Anyhow” and that also got me interested in this book. MC Taylor has recommended books to me in the past and, though he didn’t recommend this one, I wondered if there would be some kind of connection between the two. I didn’t find one.

2. Porno - Irvine Welsh There it is. I finished the sequel. I think if I’d read Trainspotting when it first came out I would’ve been far more interested in reuniting with the cast, but as I went directly from book one to book two, I found it a bit boring. The characters are all pretty well put together and the writing is still good. It’s just the storyline itself that didn’t intrigue me. Simon, aka, “Sick Boy” is now the owner of a sketchy club and decides to try to make a porno film in his establishment to try and go as legitimate as possible. All the other characters kind of play into it, but it’s not as engaging or interesting as the first book. Also, Irvine Welsh’s attempt at writing female characters was, in my opinion, pretty lacking. It wasn’t my favourite but I’ll be speaking on and off in a thick Glaswegian accent for the next while.

3. Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Webber and Rolling Stone Magazine - Joe Hagan I’ve always been curious about Rolling Stone magazine. I remember watching Almost Famous for the first time when I was around 17 and falling absolutely in love with the music and that specific time period. I’ve been inspired by that era for a long time and Jann Webber (as a character and the actual person) have small cameos in the film. I remember listening to The Cover of The Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook when I was a teen and dreaming of gracing its cover myself one day. I was always curious why Rolling Stone Magazine existed at the same time as The Rolling Stones and if there was a connection and, it turns out, there really was. I won’t spoil it for you but I was really disappointed. The book itself is well written and engaging but Jann Webber seems to be a very narcissistic power hungry person who had no problem throwing family and friends under the bus if it meant even a smidge more celebrity or power or money for himself. In the same way, it seems he used the magazine as his social club and it was mainly a way for him to become some kind of self-elected gatekeeper of fame. Kind of sad, really.

4. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer I’ve read a bunch of books by Jon Krakauer and I’ve enjoyed them all. Into The Wild, Into Thin Air, etc. They’re captivating books and they’re always very well researched. I was very interested in this book because it’s a true crime story and one of the reviews on the back compared it to “In Cold Blood” by Capote - another true crime story that I was also captivated by. Without really knowing what it was, I bought it from my local used bookstore and dove in. It’s kind of two books in one. Book one deals with a grisly murder committed by two brothers in the 80′s, and the Mormon fanaticism that they embraced which lead them to commit such a heinous crime. Book two explains the history of the Mormon religion. It’s a fascinating look at human nature, at religion, at fanaticism and at the evils that can be committed in god’s name. Not at all a read for the easily disturbed, but a fascinating book if true crime is your cup of tea.

5. Black Wings Has My Angel - Elliott Chase I have a very long list of books on my “to read” list. In fact, I have several “to read” lists scrawled in many different places: on my computer, in a journal, on the back of a receipt, kind of everywhere. I don’t remember where I heard of this book, but I know it was on more than one of my lists. I took a trip over to Vancouver a week ago to do some recording and while I was there I stopped at one of my favourite bookstores and asked one of the clerks for some recommendations similar to Hard Rain Falling and Fat City - both of which I’d read (and loved) after they’d been recommended by the same clerk previously. He grabbed several books and I saw this one in the pile and called it out with excitement. It’s been out of print for a long time but the good folks at New York Review Books have recently reprinted it. I read it in a day and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

6. A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor was a fantastic writer. That said, it can be tremendously hard to read her stuff. It’s not how gritty and bleak things are in her stories; it’s not the seemingly infinite amount of unhappy endings, it’s the racism. It’s interesting because she was a highly religious person but her stories and her characters are often non-believers or hypocrites. It’s like she was able to be one thing in life but then able to write from a separate, if not opposite stance. She points out religion’s and society’s flaws and makes you question their motives. She points to the unbelievability of religion and the narrow-mindedness that so often goes hand in hand with a religious outlook. For that, I love her stuff. However, the same cannot be said of her views and her writing on race. The blatant racism in her work mirrors her own personal outlook and it is very hard to get past. And I don’t think it’s appropriate to try to just, “get past” it. You can’t sweep it under the rug. I think it’s important to acknowledge, even though it’s uncomfortable, the two sides to this particular coin. She was a great writer, of that there is no doubt. She was also an avid racist. There’s no doubt there either. But I do think it’s possible to simultaneously hold these two facts and enjoy the art while condemning the artists viewpoint, morals, humanity, language, etc. It requires reading with a critical eye. It means reading things you know you will disagree with, but I would argue that there is great benefit in doing so. Not only can it help you deepen your own understanding of why you believe what you believe, it can also help strengthen your conviction and your grasp of the world and of humanity and of its flaws. For a much better, far more articulate view on O’Connor’s racism in her writing, check out this article from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/how-racist-was-flannery-oconnor

7. In A Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes This was another book in the pile of recommendations from my favourite bookstore. I also read this in one sitting. I’d never heard of it before but it’s fantastic. It’s a fictional story about a murderer in the LA area and from the beginning to the end it’s an exciting read. It’s one of those books that are hard to put down. It’s under 200 pages but it’s a great cat and mouse story. At times, the main characters relationship reminded me a bit of Raskolnikov and the detective from Crime and Punishment. It’s all a game of words. I really enjoyed this one.

8. Why I Am Not A Christian- Bertrand Russell This is a book of essays and some are far more interesting than others. I thoroughly enjoyed the title essay, but essays such as “The Fate of Thomas Paine” were less enjoyable. I’d never read anything by Russell before this. I wasn’t really even aware of him. But, in reading Jon Krakauer’s book, “Under The Banner of Heaven”, I was moved by some of the quotation’s he’d used as introductions to his chapters. More than one quote from this particular book of essay’s was employed. So I picked it up and dove in. It reminded me of Christopher Hitchens’, “God Is Not Great”. It’s clear that essays and philosophers like Russell, if not Russell himself, had a large impact on people like Hitchens and I, for one, am thankful for that. Regardless of where you fall on the pro/anti-religion argument, this is a good book to read. It’s always good to reflect and deepen your understanding of what you do or do not believe and why. Books like this can certainly help to achieve that.

9. The Great Spring - Natalie Goldberg I’ve read a few books by Natalie Goldberg before. I often find that I really enjoy her writing but she comes across as quite cold and even, at points, rude to others. Not all the time, but often enough that it stands out. Still, writers don’t have to be friendly. They don’t have to be anything at all, besides human, I suppose and not all humans are always friendly. It’s beside the point. I like her style and I like her writing so, that’s that.

10. The Innocent Man - John Grisham I might be on a bit of a true crime kick. Under the Banner of Heaven got me into it, I think. This is an absolutely crazy story. After reading it I discovered there’s actually a Netflix docuseries about it. I haven’t checked it out yet. I think I will, but if it stays close to the book it’ll be hard to watch. Not only because of the heinous crimes committed but also because of the complete lack of justice served. It’s a captivating story and at times it’s hard to believe it’s true.

more soon, -joshua

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Mary Lumpkin (1832-1905) was born enslaved in Richmond, Virginia, may have been the multiracial child of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, one of his relatives, or a white overseer. Sold away as a young girl, she was purchased by the slave trader Robert Lumpkin, a violent white man 27 years her senior. When she was about 13, she was forced to have the first of five children with him. She told him he could do with her what he wanted but demanded that their children be freed. She and the children lived with him on the compound of his slave jail, where he imprisoned thousands of enslaved people (1844-1866). Some were imprisoned there before the sale, and others were held after the sale.

She managed to educate her children and find a path to freedom, moving to Pennsylvania with Robert’s blessing before the Civil War. She inherited the jail when he died and bequeathed the property to her. She helped a white Baptist missionary from the American Baptist Home Mission Society turn the “Devil’s Half Acre” into “God’s Half Acre,” a school where dreams could be realized. The grounds became the cornerstone of Virginia Union University.

Her relationships with other enslaved women, including Lucy Ann Cheatham Hagan, Corinna Hinton Omohundro, and Ann Banks Davis, have helped protect her in her interactions with Robert and made her daily life easier to bear.

She showed empathy and concern for other enslaved people who were tortured and held captive in Lumpkin’s Jail. She ensured that her children were educated, but she helped make education available to newly free African American men in the aftermath of the Civil War to generations of Black Americans.

They fought back to avoid abuse, and they protested beatings. When they could not avoid rape, they attempted birth control and chewed cotton roots to abort pregnancies. In despair and defiance, some took the lives of their infants rather than see them grow up enslaved. A few killed their enslavers. Others slit their throats, cut off their hands, jumped from windows. They rescued other enslaved people, and they led slave revolts—stories that are only now coming to light. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence