#Auburn Illinois

[uniqueartisanconnoisseur]

Journey to the Cross, where can you find them?

Easter is just around the corner. Here is a blog on where to travel to see crosses. The cross is the symbol of Christian faith. Traveling to the cross at this most holy of holidays makes this a faith filled trip! St. Simon Island, Georgia. I saw this cross several years ago on a visit to St. Simon’s Island. There I learned about the beginning of the Methodist church. They have roots on this…

[ncwsa]

Voting Now Open for 2024 Annual Award Nominees

Conducted by the Awards committee, a total of 116 nominations across all categories were submitted by peers. The top nominees are selected for the annual honors with a vote by the public in tandem with a board of directors vote. Congratulations to all the nominees for our annual awards! Check out the nominations below for NCWSA Outstanding Leader of the Year, NCWSA Athlete of the Year, and NCWSA…

[undergroundmysteries]

Amber Motsch / Pierce, Unreported Missing Person From Chicago, IL Since 2002

Amber Motsch Pierce is an unreported missing person who was last seen in Chicago, Illinois in December of 2002 when she was 21 years old. Please click the headline to read the full article on her disappearance.

September 7, 2024 — Underground MysteriesAmber Motsch went missing in Chicago, Illinois on or around December 17, 2002 when she was 21 years old. She is considered an unreported missing person at the time I am writing this, as she does not have a police report on her disappearance, nor is she in the NamUs database. I added her case to my database for unreported underrepresented missing people. …

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 5

NATIONAL BIRD DAY - January 5, 2025 

1899 – Kenneth Raisbeck was a playwright and teaching assistant at Cambridge, who befriended the young Thomas Wolfe when he attended that university.

Kenneth Raisbeck was born in Odell, Illinois as the youngest of ten children. His father, Frank Raisbeck, was a hardware dealer from England. Kenneth Raisbeck graduated from the class of 1916 at Bloomington High School in Illinois and went on to graduate Harvard College in 1921 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. According to his passport, he was 5’ 10” tall with grayish eyes, light brown hair, and a straight nose.

Wolfe describes Starwick as a “youth of medium height and average weight, verging perhaps toward slenderness, with a pleasant ruddy face, brown eyes, a mass of curly auburn-reddish hair, and a cleft chin.” His voice, Wolfe adds, “was neither very high nor low, it was a man’s voice and yet one felt it might almost have been a woman’s.”

Wolfe and Raisbeck met just a few days after Thomas Wolfe arrived in Cambridge to attend Harvard University. Kenneth Raisbeck was the assistant to Professor George Pierce Baker for his 47 Workshop playwriting course. Wolfe biographer Elizabeth Nowell observed that it was chiefly through his new friendship with Raisbeck that Wolfe was accepted by the other students in the Workshop. Between 1920 and 1923 Raisbeck became Wolfe’s best and closest friend.

Raisbeck hired as secretary to Professor Baker. During his senior year at college, he traveled to Europe with Baker. His one-act play “Man’s Greatest Hunger,” a tragedy, was well received and performed by the Workshop in Agassiz House theater during the spring of 1920. In his Autobiographical Outline, Wolfe notes the tensions he observed between Baker and Raisbeck, who was considered his most promising student- “two feminines … growing impatience bitterness pique and jealousy.” He noted Raisbeck and another student were “picking up of sailors.”

Wolfe also observes at Harvard a “preoccupation of the intellectuals with the problem of homo-sexualism.” Wolfe and perhaps a few others were aware that Raisbeck was gay. It was not an easy time to be openly gay at Harvard. In 1920, the administration formed a secretive disciplinary tribunal to investigate charges of homosexual activity among the student population. Operating behind closed doors, several students were adjudicated guilty and expelled.

In December 1924, on his first trip to Europe, Wolfe went to Paris. Raisbeck was there touring Paris with two friends from Boston, Marjorie Crocker Fairbanks, and Miss Helen Beal Harding. While there on New Year’s Eve, he stumbled upon a drunk and confused Thomas Wolfe on the steps of the Louvre Museum. Wolfe soon joined his fellow American travelers for the next several weeks. The fictional account of their adventures is chronicled in Of Time and the River as Starwick (the character based on Raisbeck) creates tension in the group when he introduces a young Frenchman named Alec, who he picks up in a bar. Eventually Wolfe, upset about the women and their attention to Raisbeck, creates an argument with Kenneth. It does not end well. They continued their travels separately, and Wolfe and Raisbeck never saw each other again after their time in Europe.

Raisbeck had little success as a playwright in New York. In 1923, a drama written at Harvard, “Torches,” received one performance. It was produced in association with The New York Drama League. In the late twenties, he went to California to work as a screenwriter. Later returning to New York, his 1931 work “Rock Me, Julie” played for two weeks on Broadway.

He was found dead in a Westport, Connecticut cemetery on September 30, 1931. Reported in numerous newspapers, the cause of death developed into a controversy. The police said he was slain, the Medical Examiner thought it an attack of Meningitis. After a coroner’s inquest, the cause of death was changed to strangulation. The killer was never found. Kenneth was returned home where he was interred by family at Hampton, Illinois.

1931 – Alvin Ailey, Jr. (d.1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international touring. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is believed to be the best-known and most often seen modern dance performance.

Ailey was born to his 17-year-old mother, Lula Elizabeth Ailey, in Rogers, Texas. His father abandoned the family when Alvin was only 6 months old. Like many African-Americans living in Texas during the Great Depression, Ailey and his mother moved very often and she had a hard time finding work. Ailey grew up during a time of racial segregation and rumors of violence and lynchings against African-Americans. When Ailey was five, his 22-year-old mother was raped by a group of white men, leaving him afraid of whites. Early experiences in the Southern Baptist church and jook joints instilled in him a fierce sense of black pride that would later figure prominently in Ailey's signature works.

In the fall of 1942, Ailey's mother, like many African Americans, migrated to Los Angeles, California where she had heard there was lucrative work supporting the war effort. Ailey joined his mother later by train, having stayed behind in Texas to finish out the school year. Ailey's first junior high school in California was located in a primarily white school district. As one of the only black students, Ailey felt out of place because of his fear of whites, so the Aileys moved to a predominantly black school district.

Ailey did not become serious about dance until in 1949 his school friend Carmen De Lavallade introduced him to the Hollywood studio of Lester Horton. Horton would prove to be Ailey's major influence, becoming a mentor and giving him both a technique and a foundation with which to grow artistically.

When Horton died in November 1953 the tragedy left the company without an artistic director. The company had outstanding contracts that required and desired new works. When no one else stepped forward, Ailey assumed the role of artistic director. Despite his youth and lack of experience (Ailey was only twenty-two and had choreographed only one dance in a workshop) he began choreographing, directing scene and costume designs, and running rehearsal. Not finding another mentor, he began creating works of his own.

Ailey formed his own group, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in 1958. The group presented its inaugural concert on March 30, 1958. Notable early work included Blues Suite, a piece deriving from blues songs. Ailey's choreography was a dynamic and vibrant mix growing out of his previous training in ballet, modern dance, jazz, and African dance techniques. Ailey insisted upon a complete theatrical experience, including costumes, lighting, and make-up. A work of intense emotional appeal expressing the pain and anger of African Americans, Blues Suite was an instant success and defined Ailey's style.

For his signature work, Revelations, Ailey drew upon his "blood memories" of Texas, the blues, spirituals, and gospel. These forces resulted in the creation of his most popular and critically acclaimed work. Ailey originally intended the dance to be the second part of a larger, evening-length survey of African-American music which he began with Blues Suite.

Ailey was openly gay and is one of the most prominent gay Black men in American history. According to Black gay activist Keith Boykin, this is rarely acknowledged in the Black community due to the stigma surrounding homosexuality. For a time during the 1950s, Ailey was romantically linked with political activist David McReynolds. Ailey died in 1989 at the age of 58. To spare his mother the social stigma of his death from AIDS, he asked his doctor to announce that he had died of terminal blood dyscrasia

1931 – Today is the birthday of Juan Goytisolo, the Spanish poet and novelist (d.2017). Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931, in an aristocratic family; two of his brothers José Agustín and Luis are also well known writers. His father was imprisoned by the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War while his mother was killed in the first Francoist air raid in 1938.

After law studies, he published his first novel, The Young Assassins, in 1954. His deep opposition to Generalissimo Francisco Franco led him into exile in Paris in 1956, where he worked as a reader for Gallimard. In the early 1960s, he was a friend of Guy Debord and Jean Genet was his mentor. He says of the playwright who could fit all his belongings in a suitcase: "He was alien to all kinds of vanity. Because of him, I discovered I was interested in literature, not in literary life. I try to take my work seriously but not myself." He quotes Genet: "If you know your point of arrival, it's not a literary adventure, it's a bus journey." Breaking with the realism of his earlier novels, he published Marks of Identity (1966), Count Julian (1970), and Juan the Landless (1975). Like all his works, they were banned in Spain until Franco's death.

Juan Goytisolo was married to the publisher, novelist and screenwriter Monique Lange, a cousin of novelist Marcel Proust, Emmanuel Berl, and the philosopher Henri Bergson. Monique Lange died in 1996. After her death, he is noted as saying their once shared Paris apartment had become like a tomb. In 1997 he moved to Marrakesh, in part due to the Arab culture's acceptance of his homosexuality. He loved Arabs, particularly illiterate or uneducated men whose gayness is not marked by effeminate behavior but a hyper virility. In Edmund White's view Goytisolo "is an apostle of the revolutionary, anarchic power of sexuality, of the desiring body, to break through the sterile confines of class."

His masterpiece is either his two-volume memoir, groundbreaking for among other things their frankness about gay sex, or his trilogy comprised of Marks of Identity, Count Julian, and Juan the Landless. His most recent novel, A Cock-Eyed Comedy, recounts the ribald sexual antics of a priest in Goytisolo's typically subversive style.

1965 – Robert Beachy, born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, is associate professor of history at Underwood International College at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He formerly taught at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998. Beachy specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of Germany and Europe, and is known for his work on the history of sexuality in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazis, and in Germany after the Second World War.

In 2009, Beachy was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his research on homosexuality in Nazi Germany. Beachy's work also has received support from the Huntington Library, the National Humanities Center, the Max Planck Institute for History, the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the American Philosophical Society.

In 2015, his work "Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity" was named a Stonewall Honor Book in Non-Fiction by the American Library Association.

1978 – Yitz Jordan, better known by his stage name Y-Love, is a Los Angeles-based American hip-hop artist. An Orthodox Jew, Jordan was formerly Hasidic. Jordan rhymes in a mixture of English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Latin and Aramaic, often covering social, political and religious themes.

Jordan, an only child, was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland to a Christian Ethiopian father and Puerto Rican mother, occasionally attending a Baptist church. As a youth, Jordan was a fan of the rhymes of KRS-ONE and Public Enemy’s Chuck D.

Jordan first became interested in Judaism at the age of seven. "I saw a commercial that said, 'Happy Passover from your friends at Channel 2,'" he said, "and I went drawing six-pointed stars on everything at my mother’s house." He started wearing a kippah and observing Shabbat at 14, and converted to Judaism around the turn of millennium. He later spent time studying at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. Jordan has also read the Quran, believing that familiarity with a variety of religious texts will help bring understanding.

After moving to Brooklyn in 2001, Jordan began performing at open mics around the city as Y-Love. In the Fall of 2008, Y-Love released his first solo full-length album, This Is Babylon. XXL said the album "balances Jewish spirituality with party rhymes and political commentary in an effort to spread [Y-Love’s] message of global unity."

In May 2012, Jordan came out as gay. He still identifies as an Orthodox Jew. He received a measure of criticism from the local Jewish population for also being a member of the hip hop community.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

IT HAPPENED AT THE ART MUSEUM

@professorlehnsherr-almashy @exoticb-utters @soviet-supersoldier

HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

THE MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART HAD BROUGHT INTO ITS HALLS, FOR A FEW BRIEF DAYS, AN EXHIBITION OF TRADITIONAL POPULAR ART FROM BRAZIL: 

VARIED STATUES, IN DIFFERENT SIZES, CARVED IN WOOD OR SCULPTED IN CLAY, OF FEROCIOUS LOOKING FIGURES, MIXTURE OF MAMMALS AND REPTILES, KNOWN AS CARRANCAS .

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWED THOSE FIGURES ORIGINALLY INHABITED THE BOW OF BOATS, WITH TEXT CANVAS ACCOMPANYING THE STATUES AND PHOTOGRAPHS EXPLAINING THEY WERE A PROTECTION AGAINST MONSTERS AND SPIRITS THAT LEGENDS TOLD HAUNTED THE SÃO FRANCISCO RIVER AND COULD TURN THE BOATS UPSIDE DOWN, AND IDENTIFIED HOW OLD WAS A CERTAIN PIECE, WHO SCULPTED IT, AND WHICH OF THE FIVE STATES BY WHICH THE SÃO FRANCISCO RIVER FLOWED CAMED DETERMINED PIECE AND PHOTOGRAPH: MINAS GERAIS IN THE SOUTHEAST , BAHIA, PERNAMBUCO, ALAGOAS OR SERGIPE IN THE NORTHEAST.

AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO WATCHED THE EXHIBITION WITH ADMIRATION, THERE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN IN HER LATE TWENTIES: SHE HAD A LONG FACE, SHORT, FEATHERED HAIR COLORED AUBURN BROWN, WITH A BRONZE TINT TO THE SHADOW.

SHE WAS WEARING A YELLOW JUMPSUIT, A PAIR OF WHITE TENIS, AND FRAMING HER EYES WAS A PAIR LIGHT OF SILVER OVAL GLASSES: WHILE THE RIGHT EYE WAS VISIBLE, SHOWING A BRIGHT GREEN IRIS, THE LEFT EYE WAS COVERED  BEHIND A ONE SIDE BLACKED OUT LENS. AND SHE HELD A METAL WALKING CANE.

CAREFULLY THIS YOUNG WOMAN MOVED THROUGH THE EXHIBITION, OBSERVING THE ARTWORKS, INTRIGUED BY THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR CULTURAL MEANING …

AND THEN, ANOTHER VISITOR OF THE MUSEUM CAUGHT HER ATTENTION AMIDST THE CARRANCAS:

LOOKING TO BE IN THEIR MID THIRTIES, THEIR LARGE, MUSCULAR BUILD BODY WAS COVERED FROM FOREHEAD TO TOE IN LONG, FUZZY BLUE FUR, WHILE THE HAIR THAT COVERED THEIR HEAD, WITH FLARED OUT EDGES CUT AND COMBED IN A WAY REMINISCENT OF WOLF'S EARS OR OF HORNS, ALONG WITH THE MUTTON CHOPS AND CHIN STRAP BEARD THAT FRAMED THEIR FACE, WERE IN A DARKER SHADE OF BLUE. 

THEIR FACE WAS COMPLEMENTED BY POINTY EARS, THICK BLACK EYEBROWS AND BLACK EYELIDS, BRIGHT YELLOW EYE PUPILS AND BLUE IRISES, A FLATTENED NOSE WITH A FELINE MUZZLE, AND A SMILE THAT REVEALED A FULL SET OF FANGED TEETH. 

THEIR ARMS WERE RELATIVELY LONG, THEIR GARGANTUAN HANDS PRESENTED SHARP CLAW-LIKE NAILS ON THEIR FINGERS,  AND THEIR BAREFOOT FEET REVEALED OPPOSABLE GRASPING THUMBS BEHIND EACH OF THEIR HEELS ... 

THAT VISITOR WAS DRESSED IN SIMPLE DARK RED PANTS AND A ORANGE SHIRT OF LIGHT FABRIC, AND ALSO WORE GLASSES, BUT THE FRAMES OF THEIRS WERE ROUND, LARGE AND IN THE COLOR RED.

IT WAS LIKE IF ONE OF THE CARRANCAS HAD COME TO LIFE, AND THE YOUNG WOMAN FELT COMPELLED TO TALK WITH THEM, AND SEE IF SHE WASN’T DREAMING …

“AREN’T THEY BEAUTIFUL? ”

THE TALL, BLUE FURRED PERSON HEARD A VOICE ASKING, AND TURNED TO SEE IF SOMEONE WAS TALKING TO THEM. THEY WERE SURPRISED TO FIND A LADY LOOKING AT HIM, SMILING WITH CURIOSITY. BUT DIDN’T REACT WITH SHINESS. 

INSTEAD, THEY ANSWERED:

“YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO TELL ME YOU FIND THE SCULPTURES BEAUTIFUL. NORMALLY, ONE WOULD THINK OF THEM AS SCARY. I THOUGHT OF THEM AS FUNNY. ”

“I  HOPE THE MONSTERS AND SPIRITS OF THE LEGENDS DIDN’T LAUGH AT THE STATUES. IT JUST WOULD MEAN THEY FAIL THEIR FUNCTION IN PROTECTING THE BOATMEN. ”

“BUT WHAT IF BY MAKING THE HAUNTINGS LAUGH, INSTEAD OF SCARING THEN AWAY, THE STATUES ENACTED A MORE EFFECTIVE FORM OF PROTECTION FOR THE BOATMEN IN THE SÃO FRANCISCO RIVER. ”

“THAT IS AN INTERESTING POINT OF VIEW… ”

“EXCUSE ME FOR CHANGING THE SUBJECT A BIT, BUT I NOTICED THAT YOUR ACCENT DOESN’T SOUND LOCAL … ARE YOU A TOURIST FROM THE UNITED STATES AS WELL? ”

“WELL, YOU’RE RIGHT IN GUESSING I WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT I’M NOT A TOURIST. I LIVE HERE IN CANADA NOW. ”

“INTERESTING… WHERE IN THE US YOU CAME FROM?”

“ MISSOURI. ”

“ A MIDWESTERNER! I’M FROM ILLINOIS! ”

“WE WERE NEIGHBORS! WELL … ALMOST! ”

“WHO WOULD IMAGINE TWO PEOPLE FROM THE AMERICAN MIDWEST WOULD MEET UP NORTH! ”

THE YOUNG WOMAN WAS ENJOYING THAT CONVERSATION, AND OFFERED A HAND FOR HER FRIENDLY NEW ACQUAINTANCE TO SHAKE. 

“I’M CARLY. ”

THEY TOOK HER HAND AND SHOOK IT EAGERLY:

“HENRY, BUT YOU CAN CALL ME HANK.”

THE TWO RELEASED THE HANDSHAKE, AND WALKED MORE TROUGH THE EXHIBITION, CONTINUING TO TALK, EXCITED. 

THEN, CHEEKS BLUSHING, A BIT NERVOUS, HANK ASKED CARLY:

“WELL … IF YOU AREN’T BUSY THE REST OF THE EVENING, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO FOR SOME TEA OR COFFEE? ” 

“ACTUALLY, THERE’S A PLACE ON THE NEXT CLOSE TOWN THAT IS BOTH A DINOSAUR THEMED AMUSEMENT PARK AND A BARBEQUE RESTAURANT. HAVE YOU VISITED IT YET? ” 

“I HAVEN’T! IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF YOU SHOWED ME. ”

CARLY OFFERED THEM HER ARM.

“SHALL WE? ”

HE TOOK IT, AND THEY WALKED TOGETHER OUT OF THE MUSEUM.

[lobaznyuk]

super 16 is being livestreamed on youtube this year!

jan 5th

session 1: denver, illinois, san jose state, washington session 2: kentucky, michigan, michigan state, oklahoma

jan 6th

session 3: byu, minnesota, oregon state, southern utah session 4: alabama, auburn, california, ucla

[saulweissberg]

availability / @cassiewestwood setting / la galleria; tuesday, july 16th, around seven pm.

was he having a stroke? truly, was there something wrong with him now that he was over the age of fifty? being ambushed by terry a few weeks ago had been startling, knowing that they had moved to blue harbor and lived within ten miles of him for the first time in twenty-five years, and he had many run-ins with thalia since their divorce two years ago, but he figured the universe had meted out enough punishment for his transgressions. having his second wife—the only ex-wife left in new york—walk into la galleria that night made him feel like his sanity had finally snapped. either he was having some sort of breakdown, or cassandra had a midwestern doppelgänger, albeit with darker hair. like when terry first arrived, the idea of that doppelgänger had been ludicrous, but was it any more ludicrous than his second wife appearing in blue harbor randomly? at least terry had the excuse of micah, and blue harbor was thalia’s hometown. there was absolutely no reason why cassie would be in town. none that saul could think of, at least. g-d, he hoped she wasn't moving to illinois, too.

getting up from his table, he crossed the restaurant in an effort to catch up before she could sit down elsewhere. “ginger!” saul called out the nickname he used to call her—if it was truly cassie, she’d respond to it—and his voice was tinged with affection, but there was clear confusion in his eyes. approaching her and the hostess leading her to a different section of the restaurant, he smiled politely at the young worker before turning his attention back to his ex-wife. “though i see you’re not so ginger anymore.” his hand reached out to brush a strand of hair off her shoulder, the locks no longer the deep auburn she had when they first met. “what’re you doing here?” he asked, struck by how often he was saying that exact phrase this year. who else was going to show up in blue harbor, he wondered. was his third grade teacher waiting in the wings to surprise him, or maybe his freshman year boyfriend? “i mean, not that i’m not happy to see you… but where’s vaughn? and your kids?”

[brookston]

Holidays 11.22

Holidays

Alice's Restaurant Massacre Day

Arbor Day (British Virgin Islands)

Bank Workers’ Day (Armenia)

Black Entrepreneurs Day

Conspiracy Theory Day

Day of Justice (Azerbaijan)

Day of Music (Spain)

Day of Remembrance for President John F. Kennedy

Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania)

Day of the Andalusian Gypsy (Spain)

Family Day (Palau)s

Go For A Ride Day

Good Married Couple Day (a.k.a. Good Husband & Wife Day or Good Spouses Day; Japan)

Good Twin Tail Day (Japan)

Hockey Day

Humane Society Day

International Chick Tract Day

International Ewing’s Sarcoma Awareness Day

International Musician’s Day

Isfahan National Day (Iran)

JFK Assassination Day

Justice Workers’ Day (Azerbaijan)

Kanakdasa Jayanti (Karnataka, India)

Love Your Freckles Day

Love Your Own Country Day

Music Day (Spain)

Musician’s Day (Mexico)

National Agriculture & Related Industries Day (Australia)

National Amelia Day

National Aron Day

National Dental Dam Day

National Dental Nurses Day (UK)

National Housing Strategy Day (Canada)

National Jukebox Day

National Larimar Day (Dominican Republic)

National Nathan Day

National Poetry Day (Philippines)

National Senior Dog Day

National Stop the Violence Day

National Yeti Day

Phonograph Day

Pajama Day (Ireland)

Prosecutors’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Psychologist Day (Russia)

Repentence Day (Sachsen, Germany)

Skywriting Day

Slumber Party Day

Start Your Own Country Day

Substitute Educators Day

Teacher’s Day (Costa Rica)

Turnip Day (French Republic)

22q Awareness Day

White Album Day

World Day of the Schnauzer

World Vasectomy Day

Xanthippe Asteroid Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cranberry Relish Day

Danish Pastry Day (Wienerbrödets Dag; Sweden)

International Stilton Day

Kimchi Day (South Korea; California)

National Cashew Day

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression (Republic of Guinea)

Duvalia (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Lebanon (from France, 1943)

Regelis (Declared; 1999) [unrecognized]

4th Friday in November

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flapjack Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Flirtatious Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

National Day of Thanksgiving (Turks & Caicos Islands) [4th Friday]

Stars in Our Schools Day (UK) [4th Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 22 (3rd Full Week of November)

Deck the Halls Weekend (Seneca Lake region, New York) [thru 11.24]

National Farm-City Week (thru 11.28) [Week Ending On Thanksgiving]

Festivals Beginning November 22, 2024

America's Hometown Thanksgiving (Plymouth, Massachusetts) [thru 11.24]

Beaujolais & Beyond (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

Beef Tongue Cook-Off (Eunice, Louisiana) [thru 11.23]

Bruges Christmas Market (Bruges, Belgium) [thru 1.5.2025]

Cayman Brac (Cayman Islands) [thru 11.24]

Denver Christmas Show (Denver, Colorado) [thru 11.24]

Downtown Baraboo Wine Walk (Baraboo, Wisconsin)

Downtown Raleigh Tree Lighting Celebration (Raleigh, North Carolina)

FOBAB [Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer] (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 11.23]

Mountain Mandarin Festival (Auburn, California) [thru 11.24]

National Biodynamic Conference (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) [thru 11.24]

Night of the Proms (Antwerp, Belgium) [thru 11.24]

Plant City Pig Jam (Plant City, Florida) [thru 11.23]

Salute to Ranching Holiday Dinner-Dance & Auction (Workman's Creek, Arizona)

Silver Bells in the City (Lansing, Michigan)

Tallinn Christmas Market (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 12.27]

Whiskies of the World (Chicago, Illinois)

Feast Days

Amphilochius of Iconium (Christian; Saint)

André Gide (Writerism)

Blackbeard Memorial Day (Pastafarian)

Cecilia (Christian; Saint) [Music]

Christian Rohlfs (Artology)

Clone Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Colbert (Positivist; Saint)

Descending Day of Lord Buddha (Lhabab Duechen) [Bhutan]

Dispute-Settling Assizes (Shamanism)

Feast of Artemis (Moon Goddess; Ancient Greece; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

George (Eastern Orthodox; Georgia)

George Eliot (Writerism)

Herbert (Christian; Saint)

Ignaz Günther (Artology)

Jon Cleary (Writerism)

Light Snow (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Marjane Satrapi (Artology; Writerism)

Miguel Covarrubias (Artology)

Olga Kisseleva (Artology)

Philemon and Appia (Christian; Martyrs)

Pragmatius of Autun (Christian; Saint)

Sagittarius zodiac sign begins

Samonios (Seed-Fall; Celtic Book of Days)

Theodorus the Studite (Christian; Saint)

Vernon the Grizzly Bear (Muppetism)

Ydalir (festival to Ullr, god of archery & skiing; Ancient Norse)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Addams Family (Film; 1991)

The Air Hostess (Phantasies Cartoon; 1937)

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (Animated Film; 1991)

Back to the Future Part II (Film; 1989)

The Beatles [The White Album] (Album; 1968)

Beauty and the Beast (Animated Disney Film; 1991)

Bettie Page Reveals All (Documentary Film; 2013)

Blue Hawaii (Film; 1961) [Elvis Presley #8]

Boléro, by Maurice Ravel (Orchestral Work; 1928)

Captain Kidd (Film; 1945)

Casino (Film; 1995)

The Check’s in the Mail (Money Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1996)

Clambake (Film; 1967)

Coco (Animated Film; 2017)

Convict Concerto (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1954)

Darkest Hour (Film; 2017)

Die Another Day (US Film; 2002) [James Bond #20]

For the Boys (Film; 1991)

Frida (Film; 2002)

Frozen (Animated Disney Film; 2013)

Frozen 2 (Animated Disney Film; 2019)

Goofy’s Glider (Disney Cartoon; 1940)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Film; 2013)

Hypnotize, by System of a Down (Album; 2005)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1931)

Jelly Roll Blues, recorded by Bunny Berigan (Song; 1938)

La Forza del Destino, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1862)

A Lyell Geste of Robyn Hood, by Winked de Word (History Book; 1495)

King Solomon’s Mines (Film; 1985)

Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)

Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (Disney Cartoon; 2017)

Once Upon a Studio (Disney Short Film; 2023)

Pink S.W.A.T. (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (Documentary Film; 2002)

Prefabricated Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1967)

The Producers (Film; 1967)

Shanghai Woody (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)

Shine (Film; 1996)

Star Trek: First Contact (Film; 1996)

Swann’s Wy, by Marcel Proust (Novel; 1913)

Throne of Blood (Film; 1961)

Toy Story (Animated Pixar Film; 1995) Vitalogy, by Pearl Jam (Album; 1994)

Wish (Animated Disney Film; 2023)

With the Beatles, by The Beatles (Album; 1963)

Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose(Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1987)

Today’s Name Days

Cäcilia, Salvator (Austria)

Cecilija, Cilika, Dobrila, Filemon (Croatia)

Cecílie (Czech Republic)

Cecilia (Denmark)

Cecilia, Säsil, Silja, Silje, Sille (Estonia)

Cecilia, Seela, Selja, Silja (Finland)

Cécile (France)

Cäcilia, Rufus, Salvator, Silja (Germany)

Cecilia, Filemon, Filimon, Philimon, Valerios (Greece)

Cecília (Hungary)

Cecilia (Italy)

Aldis, Aldonis, Alfons, Alfonss, Alfs (Latvia)

Cecilija, Cilė, Dargintė, Steikintas (Lithuania)

Cecilie, Silje, Sissel (Norway)

Cecylia, Marek, Maur, Wszemiła (Poland)

Arhip. Filimon, Onism (România)

Cecília (Slovakia)

Cecilio, Filemón (Spain)

Cecilia, Sissela (Sweden)

Cecelia, Philemon, Yaropolk (Ukraine)

Abbey, Abbie, Abby, Abigail, Cecelia, Cecil, Cecilia, Cecily, Cecyl, Celia, Gail Gale, Galen, Gay, Gayle, Philemon, Philo, Shayla, Sheila (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 327 of 2024; 39 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 47 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 22 (Geng-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 21 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 20 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 27 Wood; Sixthday [27 of 30]

Julian: 9 November 2024

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 19 Frederic (12th Month) [Pombal / D’Aranda]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 61 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of November

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 1 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Is (Stasis) [Half-Month 23 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 12.10)

Sagittarius (The Archer) begins [Zodiac Sign 9; thru 12.21]

[lockpickings]

❛ you got guts, i’ll give you that. ❜ 

o, little lamb ; why do you cry ? cornered and petrified , tears glazing over emerald eyes. texan sun pours over her bloodied & bruised flesh, providing sickening warmth in such frigid times. little illinois girl, why do you run from the inevitable? why do you run from slaughter? a lesson learned: the burning stench of rot clings to cloth all too easily. the more heat that passes, the more foul the odor. increasingly evident, the lingering scent of gore was. perhaps it was from her open wounds, or the bodies littered across the property. most likely the latter.

little lamb, shave your wool and show your skin. give identification; used for the side of milk cartons. that’s your reality now. will they remember your sage green eyes , or auburn locks ? sloppy police sketches will never capture your true essence. the big bad wolf poses a threat; one she’s never encountered before. a choppy slicked back mullet, eyes sharp as daggers, looks that could kill, literally, blood splatters across ragged grey top. someone her mama would tell her to watch out for. should’ve heeded that warning, cause now she’s gonna be turnt into a main course for him to devour.

connie thought she was strong—maybe to the morning dew & the flowers which hung around her porch, she was. growing up soft … it doesn’t prepare you for situations like this. in texas , she was nothing but another college student—to some, maybe a midwestern belle. on this farm, she was nothing but meat. meat doesn’t bite back. struggle was evident on paleness , bruises and marks left sporadically. sore joints ached for a break—one that wasn’t available. despite running & hiding for what felt like eons, slaughter was still right on her trail.

not only were her limbs sore, but so was her throat; hoarse after crying for hours. pleas for help, begs for mercy, close friends name still on her tongue. they can’t help you now. they’re all gone. did they leave me ? are they dead ? the redhead struggled to push back such terrible thoughts—but they would only be replaced by even more morbid ones. placid memories slipped out of her grasp, even if it was the only thing she wanted. to close her eyes and go back to those days of peace; eating her mama’s breakfast in the morning, plowing crops with her dad, resting her head on a cows stomach and counting the little amount of stars in the dawn.

‘ you got guts , i’ll give you that ! ’

that voice. that damned voice; the terrifyingly perfect growl on each vowel, and the thick southern drawl. horror snapped her back to reality. he was inching closer—work boots kicking up dust as he jogged. connie had been watching him for quite some time; just waiting for him to leave the area. he never did. almost like a vulture circling already dead prey—marking its claim on the piece of meat. the twigs of the shrubbery she hid in poked and prodded poked at open wounds, only adding to the already unbearable pain. so unbearable, that connie couldn’t help but cover her mouth with her palm to keep quiet.

guts: bravery. she wasn’t brave. brave people wouldn’t leave others behind—brave people wouldn’t hide from the problem. brave people would confront it head on. maybe, she was brave for simply attempting to survive. a feeble, desperate measure—one that was guaranteed to fail.

the accelerated beat of her heart pounded in her ears—if it could leap out of her chest, it would’ve long ago. alongside thick ichor, tears stained her rosy cheeks; mixing with blood and creating a runny texture. it was almost stereotypical, this scene. seen so many times in a horror film—who would’ve thought that someone could truly experience it ? restrained by ropes in a basement, only to be chased by some—abomination with a chainsaw & mask of flesh—shortly after. ( cornered, in the sense that coyotes were slowly closing in. coyote, to be specific. one hunter and one hunted.)

a yearn to be back in that horrid basement—weapons available & dark areas to take shelter. more time to hopefully find her friends … she never would’ve even considered going back after clawing her way out so desperately. anything was better than sharp blade digging into supple flesh. anything was better than him. ( so seemingly normal at first glance, that’s what made it so horrid. )

[uniqueartisanconnoisseur]

Let Fall Linger!

I am writing this blog on Halloween eve. My favorite Halloween costume I ever wore was when I dressed up like Phyllis Diller one year. All I needed was to have Fang along for the ride. For those too young to know, she was a wonderful comedienne. Last night I sat on my youngest daughter’s porch and helped hand out candy. Living in the country this is a joy I don’t often get to do. I saw my…

[ncwsa]

Voting Now Open for 2023 Annual Award Nominees

Congratulations to all the nominees for our annual awards! Check out the nominations below for NCWSA Outstanding Leader of the Year, NCWSA Athlete of the Year, and NCWSA Team of the year! Winners will be invited to the annual USA Water Ski & Wake Sports banquet and awards reception that will be held in Florida in January of 2024. Conducted by the Awards committee, nominees are submitted by…

[tigermike]

🇺🇲 1948 Tucker Torpedo Model 48 4-door sedan

One of the greatest automobile designer of all time Alexander Sarantos Tremulis

Civil Engineer. He is considered by most as one of the greatest automobile designer of all time. Best known as the sole designer of the ill-fated 1948 “Tucker Torpedo”, he had many other automotive, railroad, aircraft and spacecraft designs to his credit, including the original design for what evolved into today's space shuttle, and very possibly being the inventor of the term "flying saucer".

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1914. At the age of 19, and without any formal training in art or engineering, he landed a job on the design team for the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company in 1933. Among his projects there were the now famous and classic “Cord 810” and “812” series, as well as a custom Dusenberg roadster having both convertible and hardtop options.

He became Chief Stylist for Auburn-Cord-Deusenberg in 1936 at the age of 22, and remained in that role until the company failed in 1937. He then went to General Motors, and subsequently to Briggs-Le Baron, who was the coach builder for Chrysler at the time. In 1938 he worked for Custom Motors in Beverly Hills before consulting with Crosley and American Bantam in 1939. His designs for American Bantam remained in production until the firm switched over completely to the production of military Jeeps prior to World War II. Tremulis’ next work was on the 1941 Chrysler “Thunderbolt” concept car, and the production Packard “Clipper”. He enlisted in the United States. Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. There, he worked on advanced aircraft concepts at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force base), and developed a concept, which in the 1970s became known as the Boeing “Dyna-Soar”, a gliding re-entry space vehicle. This project evolved into the present day space shuttle. Also during his tenure in the Air Corps, he made the first speculative drawings of what extra-terrestrial life forms would use as transportation to visit the Earth.

His concept drawings were the first saucer shaped spacecraft drawings documented. This concept generated much controversy, following which (in 1947) the even more famous Roswell "UFO incident" occurred. Freelance writer Deke Houlgate speculated at a 1990 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) tribute to Tremulis: "Do we have Alex Tremulis to thank for 40 years of speculation over space visitors?" After World War II, he worked with the design firm of Tammen & Denison until Preston Tucker hired him to design the 1948 Tucker “Torpedo”. The radical design was considered by most to be as beautiful as it was innovative, and is unquestionably Tremulis’ masterpiece. The ill-fated car was one of the first ever to adopt rear engine mounting, air cooling, hidden fuel fillers, the precursor to the current cornering lights found on luxury cars (a “cyclops eye” third headlight that turned with the wheels), seat belts, pop-out safety glass, padded interiors and several other innovations.

Even after the demise of the Tucker Motors Corporation, and after Tucker’s acquittal on all counts of fraud, Preston Tucker commissioned him to design a revival intended to debut in the late 1950s as the Tucker “Talisman”. However, Tucker died in 1956 before he could put Tremulis’ design into production. Actor Elias Koteas portrayed Tremulis in Francis Ford Coppolla’s 1988 academy award nominated film “Tucker: A Man and His Dream”. He went on to style for the Kaiser-Frazer automotive company from 1950 to 1952. From 1952 through 1963, he worked as the Chief of Ford Advanced Styling. There, among his projects, he was assigned (in 1957) to “design the car he believed we would be driving in the year 2000.” The result was his design, on paper and a small model, of the Ford X-2000.

The design was so enthralling to one Australian (Andy Saunders) that he actually built a running prototype of the car in 1999 and showed it at car shows in Australia in 1999 and 2000. Among his’ designs was the Gyronaut X-1 streamlined motorcycle, which won the land speed record of 245.66 miles per hour from a 90 horsepower engine at the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah in 1966. The Gyronaut got its name from the fact that it was stabilized by gyroscopes. In the 1960s he continued in a consulting role to attempts at automotive world land speed records.

His designs included the "Goodyear Wingfoot Express" (the first rocket powered automobile to reach 520 miles per hour) and the “Green Monster” (which failed to set a record after losing a wheel at approximately 600 miles per hour).

He was commissioned by NASA to submit a design for the lunar rover, though his two-wheeled, gyro-stabilized design was not chosen. Among Tremulis’ last designs were the 1978 to 1987 Subaru “Brat” and the Subaru “X-100”, a three-wheeled, 150 miles per-gallon concept car. He was a frequent contributor to “Road and Track” Magazine, and was elected to the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1982. He died in 1991, after suffering several strokes, one of which had blinded him.

[westdallasgang]

Waco Jailbreak continuation: What happened after Clyde's jailbreak, and Bonnie's missed message from Clyde.

On the day Bonnie read of Clyde's successful jailbreak in the paper, Clyde secretly slipped into West Dallas that same evening (with the 2 other escapees in tow) and rounded up 2 men who were willing to collect Bonnie in Waco. The hired men returned 2 days later empty-handed. It was said by Bonnie's cousin Mary that they did arrive at the house but she and Bonnie pretended to not be home, fearing the men were cops. Clyde didn't tell Bonnie beforehand that he was sending them there to pick her up so, he had to flee the state without her. Once arriving in Illinois, he sent out a telegram for her to join him when things cooled off. Except, things never did cool off. On March 18, Clyde, William, and Emery, were arrested in Ohio. Within a few days they were back in Texas.

Story goes that William Turner and Emory Abernathy were passengers in a stolen car being driven by Clyde. Their car, taken from Missouri, had a set of stolen Indiana license plates on it. After a night of burglary in Middletown, Ohio, Clyde thinks he's heading west towards Indiana. Without realizing he has taken a wrong turn, he steers the car down the steep winding road. At the bottom of the hill the road flattens out and makes a right turn. It was too late when the "Waco Three" realized they have just returned to the scene of their last burglary committed 4 hours ago and they are looking at 2 Middletown Police officers standing outside the B&O Railroad Depot. The officers recognize the license plate and the chase is on.

One officer said Clyde went across to Poasttown Road and then up Wilbraham Road which is a blind street. Seeing he was hemmed in, the bandit ran the car over the lawn between 2 houses where he jumped out and ran to the Middletown Hydraulic Canal, throwing his smuggled Waco gun in the water. The officers caught up with him as he ran down the canal where he surrendered. Officers eventually captured William Turner in an alley near Auburn Street and Crescent Boulevard after firing several shots. Emery was captured an hour later in the east end near the Big Four railroad crossing where he was trying to bum a ride out of town.

When McClennan Waco County authorities arrived to take custody of the Waco Three, they asked Middletown PD for the smuggled gun. They wanted it for evidence to investigate where it came from and how the prisoners got it. They were informed that the gun was unrecoverable, lying at the bottom of the swift-moving and very murky waters of the Middletown Hydraulic Canal. Clyde admitted this to Middletown authorities and later to the Waco Times-Herald. He was quoted as saying this was the gun used in the Waco breakout. Over the decades, rumors of this gun as well as alleged photos of it have risen, but research indicates this gun is still at the bottom of the canal. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to recover the famous gun Bonnie smuggled to Clyde. The gun has been down there for nearly 94 years, but metallurgic experts informed that owing to canal conditions and the silty bottom, the odds are good that it rests in a layer where there is no oxygen. These conditions will slow rusting significantly. Pictured above is the Middletown Canal where the gun is believed to still be.

[lboogie1906]

Tenitra Michelle Williams (July 23, 1979) is a singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame in the 2000s as a member of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling female groups of all time. She earned several accolades including a Grammy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She released her debut solo album Heart to Yours which topped the US gospel album chart and became the best-selling gospel release of the year. Billboard named her the fifth best-charting gospel artist of the year and she received a MOBO Award for “Best Gospel Act”. She released her second solo album Do You Know. After Destiny’s Child’s disbandment, she released her first pop album, Unexpected, which spawned the singles “We Break the Dawn” and the US Dance #1 “The Greatest”. Her fourth studio album, Journey to Freedom received positive reviews and became her highest-charting album in the US; it includes the singles “If We Had Your Eyes”, and “Say Yes” which topped the US Hot Gospel Songs chart for seven weeks and won the Stellar Award for Music Video of the Year.

She has found success as a television, Broadway, and West End theatre actress, gaining a nomination for “Best Lead Female – Equity” at the 18th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. Making her acting debut on Broadway in Aida, she has since starred in the sitcom series Half & Half and the musical productions The Color Purple, Chicago, What My Husband Doesn’t Know, and Fela! She was a featured judge on Top Pop Group, a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in the United Kingdom, and starred in Fix My Choir. She has appeared in both the American and British versions of The Masked Singer. She appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. She began a 28-city tour starring in What My Husband Doesn’t Know.

She graduated from Rockford Auburn High School. She pursued a degree in criminal justice at Illinois State University. She left to pursue a music career, as a backing vocalist for other artists such as Monica. She met Destiny’s Child band members, Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland. A choreographer acquaintance of her who knew the group connected her. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[dstortedstudios]

starter for @shootsxruns

If there was an ideal place to vanish in the United States of America, it was within the Midwest region.  It had been a decision that he had made while on the ferry with Ana.  They had been given ample time to decide with how long their time at sea was.  Two weeks on a boat made both James and Ana grateful when they were finally approaching the docks of Chicago.  He had considered Illinois as an option of where to settle their home, but there still seemed to be a little too much notoriety there.  Chicago was a major city that seemed to be on the further upswing when it came to media attention and they needed to avoid that.

In the end, the final jaunt of their trip was a car ride to the middle of Indiana.  While James had no way of knowing just then, Shelbyville was where he’d been born, and raised for six years.  He hadn’t stayed long, but his young formative years had been there.  Long enough for him to develop the discipline and durability that came with living on a farm.

They arrived just outside of a town called Hawkins and stayed in a hotel for about a week before James had been able to get a house.  He had enough cash to make these steps fairly easy, even if it took just a little bribery to make it so that no questions were asked.  Besides that, the homeowner seemed to be pretty eager to leave the town.  That wasn’t James’ problem though, nor his business.  He and Ana had a home, and as they pulled into the driveway, he looked over to his daughter with a small smile. The shudders were auburn while the roof was an earthy light brown, the rest of the house white. The front and side door were a deep blue-green. There was an attached two car garage and even a space for a garden in the front.

He spoke English now, as was for the best.  “So…” he put the car in park and turned it off, “what do you think?”

[firsttraintovictoriaville]

(using hypnotism) you will release the miss usa hair colors...

...I'm...I'm going to release the Miss USA hair colors....i shall also release the Universities' hair colors I just finished headcanoning under a read more as a bonus

I've also given Miss USAs more dyed hair because it is canon in the fact of Miss Alabama, it is more socially acceptable in the USA for a woman to dye her hair for fun than a man, it more socially acceptable for a man to have gray hair than a woman, and because I am an American woman who dyes her hair so that bleeds into it too

Miss USA-

Blonde- Ohio, Rhode Island, Kansas, Minnesota, Kentucky, California, Hawaii, South Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, DC (18/51)

Brunette- Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, Michigan, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, West Virginia, Alaska (15/51)

Black-haired: Montana, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, New Mexico, Virginia (8/51)

Redhead: Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (6/51)

Have dyed their hair a "natural" color:

Tennessee (dyed auburn from blonde) [she wanted to lived her best Jolene life], Alabama (dyed blonde from brown)

Have dyed their hair an "unnatural" color: Florida (flamingo pink ombre on blonde hair), Nevada (light brown dyed whole head bluegreen that's more blue)

Universities-

Blonde- University of Alabama, University of Tennessee (2/8)

Brunette-University of South Carolina (1/8)

Black-haired: Texas Christian University, University of Michigan (2/8)

Red-haired: Auburn University, The Ohio State University (2/8)

Dyed their hair a "natural" color: University of Georgia (has the front/bangs/face framing strands whatever the style is called of her dark brown dyed pink)