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2019 Year in Review

Previous Posts: (2018) (2017) (2016) (2015) (2014) (2013) (2012) (2011)

It’s actually kind of interesting how... less interesting these year-in-reviews get as I get older. Depending on how you look at it, 2019 was somewhat of an unremarkable year. I spent much of it tragically broke, I didn’t get the opportunity to do much traveling. But at the same time, not having these flashy, colourful experiences to write about all the time makes me value the easy, simple things more. It forces me to be a bit more reflective about how the day-to-day life I am carving out for myself teaches me things and about the person I am becoming.

Far and away, the most positive thing to come out of 2019 has been that I am real deals social worker now. I have the best job in the entire world. I have “RSW” in my email signature and on my business cards. I do work that is meaningful to me every single day. There is so much to learn but I’m in the right place to be learning it. And I am really proud of myself for getting here ❤️

January

Unlike the last few years, 2019 began on a high note. The millisecond that student loan hit my direct deposit, I took a little trip to Jasper to visit my friend Oliver who was teaching snowboarding at Marmot Basin for the season. I braved some very treacherous roads to make it to Jasper. It took me nearly eight hours. Highway 93 was closed so I had to take the long route and basically white-knuckled it the whole way. But it was so worth it. I found myself later that evening in a dorm room full of young Scandinavian people, downing American Vintage iced teas and feeling like I was at a frat party. We went to this club called Four Peaks and they played Rasputin by Boney M and everyone went crazy. I hooked up with this gorgeous Danish ski instructor named Rasmus. He was so beautiful. I am proud of that one, honestly. Oliver and I went skiing and hiking and we went to Earl’s and he tried a Caeser. By the end of the weekend, I think we maybe ran out of things to talk about. But it was really cool to see him and to hear about the last few years of his life and how excited he was to move to New Zealand to be with his girlfriend (whom he met on the same trip where he and I met, in Hawaii!)

On January 14, I started my second practicum. It was a sad transition. My time at CommunityWise had been so great that anything new was going to pale in comparison but my new placement was especially bad. It was so slow there. My computer hadn’t been updated in years and I didn’t have access to anything for weeks. My supervisor was barely around (not her fault, though. She was finishing her MSW, had two young children, was the team lead for both family centres in the city and had two practicum students to supervise. Girl was busy). I remember one morning while I was helping one of the caseworkers with some menial task like organizing the food pantry, and I was just so frustrated, I kind of asked her point-blank, “Is this practicum meant to be more self-directed?” and I just started crying as I asked it. I kind of… whimpered it. It was awkward but from that point on, they made way more of an effort to give me tasks and engage me in the work that was being done there. Lesson learned: you get what you ask for.

February The first weekend of February is what we would call a “power weekend.” Looking back on these actions now, I cringe. However, at the time, I was pretty stoked. I slept with a friend from podcast club after a house party. For ease, I will refer to him as W. W had asked me out twice prior to this happening. I actually said yes, and we had plans to get drinks, but his best friend ended up going through a breakup the night before and he cancelled last minute. So then we slept together. Drunkenly. And it wasn’t… good. I chalked it up to the drunkenness. We went out on a real date, I made sure to have like one glass of wine maximum. He was lovely and great company and he taught me how to play crib but… you know that feeling when you’re like god, I wish I was enjoying this but I am just not enjoying this. It was like that all night. And it felt heavy. If I am being completely honest, there was also this strange moment that night where I had the thought, “he kind of looks like my grandfather if he were younger” and there is truly no recovering from that kind of realization.

February was also a terrible month because I had no days off. I will go to my grave angry about being required to work for free in my practicums. I was doing 32+ unpaid hours at this boring practicum and then working evenings and weekends at Famoso whenever I could. And Famoso was dead, so I wasn’t even making good money. This was also where I began to start witnessing things in my practicum that started to fuck with me. At first, I thought I was just having trouble sleeping. But over time in seminar and debriefs with my social work friends who were going through the same thing I realized that it was the oh-so-pleasant combination of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.

Over the reading week, I went to Fernie with Maddy and her friends for a ski/party weekend and that was truly awesome. One of those weekends where your ribs ache for days once you’re back because you laughed so hard. Some highlights:

It snowed 60cm the night before we skied. It was powder up to your waist.

• Maddy’s friend Melissa liked our bartender at the hostel. She took his phone and texted herself from it so he would have her number and vice versa. Then she got so drunk that later the same evening, she was looking at the text and forgot that she had sent it to herself so she texted back, “Who is this?” Also LOL #Bryna.

• I took nudes of Maddy in the hostel shower to send to the guy she was seeing at the time. LOL. What are friends for?

• Maddy and I met this set of twins who are the definition of gym bros. Identical twins. We ended up hooking up with them. At the same time. In our bunk bed at the hostel. We high fived. I later fell off the top bunk. We gave them a beer for the road when they left. All year long, we send one another their Instagram posts and stories whenever it’s them flexing in the gym mirror and just laugh about, “we really slept with those guys.”

March

In March, I got the flu. It was very annoying. I had to miss practicum (meaning I’d have to make up the hours somehow later). I stated binge watching Grey’s Anatomy.

I ended things with W. It was kind of harsh but it needed to be done. I need to stop breaking up with people in the weeks prior to my birthday because we had a total Dave-Simard-2.0 situation where W told me he had purchased a birthday present for me and he still wanted to give it to me.

I also ran the St. Patrick’s Day Road Race again!!! Good times as always.

Practicum got much better in March. I had many things to do. I got to design the curriculum for and facilitate a six-week girl’s group. I assisted with the planning and running of a series of community tax clinics which was cool. Except the guy from the agency whose project it was is a creep. He kept telling me all of these stories that were incredibly inappropriate given the fact that we knew each other only in a professional sense. He made many comments about women’s bodies and appearances that were gross. And I got left in some pretty unsafe situations all by myself. AND he made me pay out of pocket for snacks for one of the tax clinics and never reimbursed me for that. I kind of forgot about that until just now. Wow.

April

April was a big month!

I went to Portland for my birthday weekend with Matt and Connor. When I think back to this trip, it was lovely, but mostly what I remember is a lot of beer, a lot of rain, and being hungover. Portland is a really cool city. I wasn’t totally expecting to be confronted with as much homelessness and substance use as I was but, that’s my privilege talking. Some highlights from the trip include:

• The “Flower in the Kettle” IPA I had.

• The mascarpone, corn and lobster agnolotti I had for my birthday dinner at A Cena. Recommended to me by a trusted friend I worked with at Famoso. So rich. SO FUCKING GOOD.

• Meeting this really drunk real estate agent at a dive bar and convincing her that Matt and Connor were both my boyfriends. I still have her business card in my wallet. I am unsure why.

• The Weezer concert was honestly awesome.

• Matt actually trying out the guyliner.

• Meeting some random guy when I went to get gum at a corner store. His name was Dan. He was old. His girlfriend had kicked him out and he was just walking around. He’d been in prison for a lot of his life. We had a good chat. I got his phone number and now we have each other on Facebook.

• In the airport on the way home, Matt and I were so overtired that absolutely everything was hilarious. The gif game (the gif of Kevin from The Office dropping the bucket of chili. “Me in Thailand”), and the beginning of when I got let in to the “KEVIN!!!!” joke. I had tears in my eyes.

• Connor yelled at me in a pizza restauraunt LOL (sorry Connor. I know you Ctrl+F your name. But this was memorable to me.)

In the middle of April, I FINISHED MY PRACTICUM HOURS AND EFFECTIVELY GOT MY DEGREE. I cannot describe to you how good it felt to be driving home from one of those tax clinics after my third twelve-hour day (making up practicum hours is fun) knowing I never had to go back. Knowing that soon enough, I’d get to work on all the same cool projects but actually get paid for my time.

We visited Saskatoon for Easter, which would turn out to be the last time I got to see my Baba. She was very ill, and both of us knew that it would likely be the last time, so I did get to say my goodbyes. It was very difficult and I sobbed for a lot of the ride home. It’s a weird feeling, when someone you love has been so ill for so long, and you begin to see their condition really deteriorate. When the idea of life without that person starts to become a reality. There was almost an… acceptance? It sounds so callous to say and it’s way more complex than this but also somewhat of a relief in the finality of it. I don’t know. It was a lot.

April was also when I started interviewing for social work jobs. I had two interviews. The first one was at CCASA, essentially for what I thought was my dream job. I have never psyched myself out so hard for anything in my life. I thought about that interview and that interview alone for weeks. I studied harder than I have for any test ever. When the time came for the interview, I was so nervous. I became this meek and mild version of myself. It was honestly devastating. But of course, had I gotten that job, I would never have interviewed at the University of Calgary. My boss-to-be called me for a pre-interview while I was on shift at Famoso. It was busy, too. But I just said fuck it and ducked into the back and talked to her on the phone for twenty minutes. She invited me for an interview a week later where I had to give a five-minute presentation on managing stress as a student. Rock on.

May

On May 1, I got offered THE JOB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! It was truly one of the happiest moments of my life. There is nothing more satisfying and exciting than actually attaining something you’ve been dreaming of for so long. It was for a one year contract on a maternity leave coverage, facilitating community trainings around suicide prevention, helping skills, all that good stuff. I was going to be on salary. I was going to have benefits. I WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO WALK TO WORK AND HAVE A REAL CAREER THAT I WOULD BE PROUD OF AND EXCITED ABOUT.

I hung up the phone after accepting the job, texted all the requisite people about the good news, and then immediately drove to Famoso to quit. My boss at Famoso was angry with me because I did not give two weeks notice. I said I would work out the rest of my scheduled shifts. He was a jerk, he yelled at me in frustration saying, “You work here for five fucking years, we accommodate every trip, every vacation, every practicum and you don’t even have the courtesy to give me two weeks notice?!” It wasn’t a big deal though. He was just being an asshole. And hey, Steve, you’re still an asshole!

So my last day serving tables at Famoso Westhills was May 3, 2019. I’m usually not good with goodbyes but it was the easiest thing in the world to just walk out of there at the end of the night knowing I would never be back. I had ten days until I started my actual job at the University (a bit of an oversight on my part because I had ~no money~ so what the fuck was I going to do with ten days).

My grandmother passed away on May 19, 2019. Back to Saskatoon on May 28 for the funeral. It was really fucking sad and really fucking weird to see all of my cousins crying. My grandma also had a big Catholic funeral and none of us are particularly religious and as the direct relatives of the deceased we were at the front of the church and it was really obvious none of us had any idea when to kneel vs. stand and didn’t know any of the words or tunes to the songs.

On a happier note, my brother was accepted into medical school in May. Not that I ever doubted my brother would be a successful person, but this just really solidified it. Dr. MacKay.

June

June was rather uneventful. I was honestly so cripplingly broke at this point, and it was so long before I actually saw a full salaried paycheck. I had to borrow money from my parents just to like, function. And pay my bills. It was embarrassing. But I was working full time and learning so many cool things about the job that it made it alright.

I walked the stage on the first week of June and accepted my BSW degree. I didn’t want to go but it was actually a pretty awesome and happy occasion.

The other big thing that happened in June is that Maddy moved to Australia. It sucks that I only met Maddy in the summer of 2018. She is so awesome and we became so close so quickly. I genuinely love her so much and spending time with her is so easy and fun, it was really sad when she left knowing that it was highly possible she may never return or at least not for several YEARS.

July

By July, my new job was in full swing. I was facilitating trainings every other day (so much public speaking experience!), I was sitting on a committee, every day was new and challenging and exciting.

My dad had a giant party for his 60th birthday, with some friends even coming from Saskatoon. They rented a limousine that took us to the Black Diamond hotel because apparently my parents have some kind of significance there. I did a shot with my grandfather? We played pool and Big Buck hunter? None of my friends came but all of my brother’s friends came and I honestly think that it turned the tables in terms of who my parents’ favourites are in terms of friends.

I also had an awesome weekend at Folk Festival mostly with Kendal and Lachlan but also featuring guest appearances from Chad and Gillian. Podcast club pals. There is just nothing better than folk festival, honestly. Food trucks and music in the sun and drinking sangria from a flask and admiring everyone’s cool outfits and getting a tan and listening to concerts all day. I had a nap in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday and it was like the most glorious 45 minutes of my entire year.

August

Oh, no. August. I was still cripplingly broke (it takes a long time to catch up to a point where your entire paycheck is not just going to paying back things you’ve borrowed) and I made the utterly stupid decision to go to a music festival.

Big Valley Jamboree, baby. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the best weekend that I am never ever doing again. Some highlights:

• Mere minutes after arriving, I watched a man vomit.

• The “Tony Keith” joke really took off. Lucas and I were so #inone on the Friday night we kept yelling and trying to start chants (“old man graphics!” is my personal favourite in response to Toby Keith’s random, pro-military Americana concert graphics).

• I gave my phone to somebody and then wandered off in search of this stupid boy’s campsite. I got very, very lost. The BVJ campground is a large place. I had no idea where I was going and was literally just stumbling through the dark and the mud. I ended up in the middle of some middle-aged Newfoundlanders’ campsite. They welcomed me. They offered me and sandwich and several beers. We chatted for like an hour. It was the best. I walked for SO LONG and finally found my own campsite. But we’re talking literally hours of walking around blind and disoriented. There were a few moments when I genuinely thought I was going to have to wait until the sun came up.

• A few less-than-classy moments in porta potties.

• The HANGOVERS. Jesus lord. I couldn’t survive.

• Airwaves guy was great and I also had a really good buffalo chicken poutine thing that I remember fondly.

In happier and much more professional news, I facilitated my first Community Helpers training in August. I was very nervous. Like, stay up all night the night before nervous. And we had some technical difficulties with setting up. But my coworker / work BFF Jeannie was there and she was a great support to me. She ran and got me a coffee and a banana bread because I hadn’t eaten and was so so stressed. And she encouraged me through the whole thing. It went really really well. I almost choked up at the end while thanking the participants for coming and explaining how it was my first training and they were such a great group to do it with.

The squad was all super broke so we turned to free activities. It was very wholesome. We spent many afternoons and evenings reading in Prince’s Island Park with snacks. We went to Shakespeare in the park. We went hiking.

A lot of my friends moved away in August. Such is life when your friends are all academics or have bright futures that are not confined to the Calgary city limits. Sydney moved to Victoria to start her PhD and we had a nice day at Elbow Falls eating berries and then having dinner with my family. Adam and Kendal both moved to Ottawa to start a fancy new government job and an MSW degree, respectively. I am really really proud of all of my friends but I miss them, too. Calgary is not the same without these people.

On the flip side – a new roommate moved in! Maddie left to move to Red Deer to be with Joel and so our new roommate was a French exchange student named Aurore. She arrived and was shocked to see that none of the advertised furniture was in her room except for one limp mattress. Karla and I hadn’t even known she was coming because my landlord sucks, but we helped her get her things together and then ordered her some Skip the Dishes. She was exhausted. And sweet. And was starting a block week MBA class the next day in her second language. I felt for her.

September

In September, the inklings of me moving into a different role at the university were planted. My boss called me in to her office one afternoon and shut the door. I was terrified but she said to me, “you’re not in trouble. Actually, just the opposite.” She brought up the recent vacancies in the job I now hold (lol: spoilers) and said, “Just think about it. I just want you to know that there would be no hard feelings if you chose to apply for the role.” I was flattered but also caught off guard. I did not think I was qualified for the job. I had virtually no client experience in either of my practicums. I wasn’t even registered with the ACSW at this point. And I loved my old job and my health promotion coworkers so so much. But also… I was on a twelve month contract. And the person away on leave was definitely coming back. I was “strongly encouraged” to get registered with the college.

It was honestly such a mess. They gently nudged me towards applying for the role, I was torn. Then they told me it probably wouldn’t work because I wasn’t yet registered with the ACSW, and even if I did register would still only be provisional. I felt an odd sense of relief at that, and had totally psyched myself out of being able to do the job at that point. At the last minute, I was told “just submit an application to keep our options open.” I did so. I got an interview. I interviewed (and it was SO fucking stressful…. Interviewing with people you already work with is 10x worse than interviewing with strangers. I tell ya.). And… I got the job!!! Not only did I get the job, I got a full-time, permanent contract (there were two positions, one full-time and one on a longer contract. I was told from the beginning I would just be applying for the longer contract but I ended up getting the FULL TIME ONE.) It was a HUGE boost to my confidence and again, one of the happiest days of the year.

September was also just absolutely insane for work. So many orientation presentations, students reaching out wanting to get involved, starting all of the volunteer programs, planning. I was so, so, so SO FREAKING TIRED. But we did lots of fun things. Like we took Aurore and her friend Cecile to Banff, had them try Caesers and Beaver Tails and all kinds of Canadian things.

October

On my last day in my old role, my coworkers decorated my desk with a homemade banner and got me desserts. We went to McDonald’s for a feast and sat in the Hub and made jokes. It felt really special and I was really touched.

On October 7, I started my new-but-also-kind-of-the-same job. I was very nervous and there was a lot to learn right from the get go. And it was so… strange. I HAD MY OWN OFFICE. WITH MY NAME ON THE DOOR AND EVERYTHING. The imposter syndrome hit me like a tsunami. I was extremely stressed, extremely overwhelmed. But my teammates and my boss are great. They understand I’m new not just to the role but to the field. They were (and are) so kind and patient with me and answer all of my questions.

For Thanksgiving, we went to Banff. We had beers and did a little bowling at High Rollers and then went to the Rimrock for dinner. It was very nice. A few weeks later, I hosted my own friendsgiving dinner and roasted a turkey! And spent all day decorating my parents’ house and the table to look fancy. Everything turned out really really well. I was super stoked. Note to self: throw more dinner parties.

November:

What I recall from November is just… stress. The case management / social worker life came at me real hard, real fast. I had to call CFS for the first time. My client did not want me to. It was hard. I did not cope well. My coping strategy was to fuck off to Lake Louise (?) for a weekend in a hostel and drink two bottles of wine with some random sorority girls from Chicago. And tears.

The cooking phase was in full swing at this point. Eggs benedict, soft pretzels, curry, French onion soup, gnocchi, prosciutto apple blue cheese chicken, apple and chai galettes.

The third week of November was also when I decided to start training for the half marathon. I found a plan online and set out to follow it and honestly, it’s been great. I usually don’t stick to exercise routines for longer than a month because I tend to go too hard, too fast and I overdo it and I let one hungover day derail me. But this plan wasn’t focused on distance but rather time spent running. So rather than, “I have to run 5km” today it’s, “I have to run for 45 minutes today.” I thought I’d hate that but I actually really like it. It encourages me to go a little slower and just run out the clock, at whatever pace. And the speed is building gradually, and naturally.

December:

Aaaand December!

December has been so much marathon training. Today, I am entering my seventh week of consistent running and exercise. That is a badass accomplishment for me. I am very pleased. I even managed to do my runs in Saskatoon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Aurore left back to Paris. She had a birthday party at the house with all of her international friends and we went for sushi and looked at Christmas lights in the rich people neighborhoods before she returned home. She ended up being so wonderful. I will miss her.

I went to Radium for a weekend with Kennedy, Matt, Amanda, and their friend Katie. The takeaways from this experience are: I am excited to get to spend more time with Kennedy and Amanda and to become better friends with them, I think I like smoking weed now, and skiing is the best.

2020:

To be completely honest, my life is pretty good. I sometimes wish I had somebody to share it with, and that’s something I hope to be a little better about in 2020 is putting myself out there in more of a meaningful way.

I also am super excited to continue down this path with my career and to develop personally and professionally as a social worker. There is truly so much to learn and I’m really motivated and excited right now to do well at this which is an awesome feeling. I do need to work on not taking my work home with me so much, about separating the social work life from the personal life. Setting boundaries and all that good stuff.

I’m hopefully going to run my first half marathon in 2020. May 31. The countdown is on. Excited to cross that item off the bucket list and experience the rush of crossing the finish line! That endorphin high is going to be insane.

And I want to keep developing my cooking skills. Though they may be small, they are mighty. I want to try and learn how to make fresh pasta dough. LOL. Simple goals.

Anyways... thank you 2019 for all you have brought me and taught me. I am grateful for the life I get to the live and the experiences I get to have. And I’m super stoked to see where 2020 takes me.

#megbox #personal #year in review #2019

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McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics—Shortlist Announced!

The nominees for the fifth annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics are here!

After reading scores of comics published in 2018, the judges have selected their top ten. In alphabetical order, they are: Be Prepared, by Vera Brosgol, sends young Vera, a Russian girl living in an American suburb, to summer camp—Russian summer camp, the only one her single mom can afford and the one where she just might be able to fit in,

The Cardboard Kingdom, by Chad Sell, follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity.

Hidden Witch, by Molly Knox Ostertag, continues the story of Asler, hero of The Witch Boy, as he takes magic lessons from his grandmother and tries to help his non-magical friend Charlie escape from a curse that's trying to attach itself to her.

Last Pick, by Jason Walz, takes readers to an earth overrun by alien invaders, where only those too young, too old, or too "disabled" have been spared from abduction...but maybe the kids last picked can step up and start a revolution.

Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, by Lilah Sturges and polterink, finds the Janes separated during an orienteering outing, thanks to a mysterious compass that others very much want to lay their hands on.

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder, by Nie Jun, introduces Yu'er and her grandpa, who live in a small neighborhood in Beijing that's full of big personalities—with a story around every corner and a hint of magic each day.

Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter, by Atelier Sento, transports readers to the places where natural and supernatural meet, as it explores some of the lesser-known parts of Japan in a story that is part fantasy and part travelogue.

Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths, by Graham Annable, tells the story of two best friends who are nothing alike—Peter loves their tree and never wants to leave, while Ernesto loves the sky and wants to see it from every place on earth.

The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang, finds Prince Sebastian hiding a secret life―taking Paris by storm wearing fabulous dresses as the Lady Crystallia―and relying on the brilliant young dressmaker Frances, who guards his secret but has dreams of her own.

Sanity & Tallulah, by Molly Brooks, features best friends who live on a dilapidated space station at the end of the galaxy―but when Sanity creates a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, the havoc it wreaks may mean the end of their outer space home.

Many, many thanks to judges Faith Roncoroni, Tameshja Brooks, and Nola Pfau, who were assisted by Kids Read Comics and A2CAF co-founder Edith Donnell!

The winner will be announced on Friday evening, June 14 at the Ann Arbor District Library

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Here is the complete list of books that were considered for this year’s award:

5 Worlds 2 by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boya Sun

Akissi by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin

All Summer Long by Hope Larson

Amulet 8 by Kazu Kibuishi

Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill and Ari Yarwood

Banana Sunday by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover

Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol

Brobots 3: Brobots and the Shoujo Shenanigans! by J. Torres and Sean Dove

The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

Catstronauts: Robot Rescue by Drew Brockington

Caveboy Dave 2: Not So Faboo by Aaron Reynolds and Phil McAndrew

Chasma Knights by Boya Sun and Kate Reed Petty

The City on the Other Side by Mairghread Scott and Robin Robinson

Clem Hetherington 1: Clem Hetherington and the Ironwood Race by Jen Breach and Douglas Holgate

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo 2: The Monster Mall by Drew Weing

Crush by Svetlana Chmakova

Cucumber Quest 2: The Ripple Kingdom by Gigi D G

The Dam Keeper 2: World Without Darkness by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi

Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom by Terry Blas, Molly Muldoon, and Matthew Seely

Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules by Tony Cliff

Demon Slayer Kimetsu No Yaiba 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge

Dog Man 6: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey

The Dream of the Butterfly Part 2 by Richard Marazano and Luo Yin

Earth Before Us 2: Ocean Renegades! by Abby Howard

Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker 1: The Night Door by Frank Cammuso

Estranged by Ethan M. Aldridge

Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner

Fruit Ninja: Frenzy Force by Halfbrick Studios and Erich Owen

The Ghost, The Owl by Franco and Sara Richard

The Girl Who Married a Skull: And Other African Stories by Nicole Chartrand et al

Gordon: Bark to the Future! by Ashley Spires

The Hidden Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag

Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm's Woods: The Comic Book You Can Play by Manuro and Gorobei

How to Spot a Sasquatch by J. Torres, J. and Aurélie Grand

Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano

Last Pick by Jason Walz

Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges and polterink

Making Friends by Kristen Gudsnuck

Mega Robo Bros by Neill Cameron

Modo: Ember's End by Arthur Slade and Christopher Steininger

Monster Mayhem by Christopher Eliopoulos

Monsters Beware! by Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado

Mr. Wolf's Class by Aron Nels Steinke

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun

The Nameless City 3: The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks

Narwhal and Jelly 3: Peanut Butter and Jelly by Ben Clanton

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales 8: Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale by Nathan Hale

New Shoes by Sara Varon

Nick the Sidekick by Dave Whamond

Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sento

Petals by Gustavo Borges and Cris Peter

Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths by Graham Annable

The Phoenix Colossal Comics Collection 1 by Robert Deas, Jamie Smart, Laura Ellen Anderson, Dan Baultwood, and Jess Bradley

Pizzasaurus Rex by Justin Wagner and Warren Wucinich

Positively Izzy by Terri Libenson

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

Quirk's Quest 2: The Lost and the Found by Robert Christie and Deborah Lang

Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo 2: The Middle-Route Run by James Parks and Ben Costa

Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks

Scarlet Hood by Mark Evans and Isobel Lundie

Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter by Marcus Sedgwick and Thomas Taylor

Science Comics Sharks by Joe Flood

Sci-Fu 1: Kick It Off by Yehudi Mercado

Secondhand Heroes: The Last Battle by Justin Larocca Hansen

Secret Coders 5: Potions & Parameters by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes

Secret Coders 6: Monsters & Modules by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes

The Secret of the Wind by Jim Pascoe and Heidi Arnhold

Sheets by Brenna Thummler

Short & Skinny by Mark Tatulli

Even More Monstrous! by Rémy Simard

Small Things by Mel Tregonning

Smash 2: Fearless by Chris A. Bolton and Kyle Bolton

Sparks by Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto

Star Scouts 2 The League of Lasers by Mike Lawrence

Star Wars Lost Stars 1 by Claudia Gray, Claudia and Yusaku Komiyama

Space Boy 1 by Stephen Mccranie

The Stone Man Mysteries 2: Sanctuary by Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, and Orion Zangara

Super Potato 1: The Epic Origin of Super Potato by Artur Laperla

Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki and Joelle Jones

The Unsinkable Walker Bean And the Knights of the Waxing Moon 2 by Aaron Renier and Alec Longstreth

Wings of Fire 1: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland and Mike Holmes

Wires and Nerve 2: Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer and Stephen Gilpin

#awards #McDuffie award

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Moncton Memorial Run held in memory of fallen Mounties

Hundreds of people gathered along the Moncton Waterfront on Sunday to remember three fallen heroes taken from their children far too soon.

The annual Three Fathers Memorial Walk/Run event was started in memory of RCMP constables Doug Larche, Dave Ross and Fabrice Gevaudan, who were killed in the line of duty by a gunman on June 4th, 2014.

“We get to come together and remember the three who can’t be with us anymore, and be proud of them and remember them,” says Cst. Christy Elliott of the Codiac RCMP.

Participants could choose between a 3 km, 5 km, or 10 km distance. But regardless of the distance, runners all came for the same reason, in memory of three fathers who served their community and were taken far too soon.

“I think it’s really important to honour these heroes,” says runner Michel Dupuis.

“It hasn’t wavered, every year these people continue to come and it speaks volumes about the type of people that live here, and their commitment to first responders,” says Cst. Elliott.

Among the participants were the widows of the late constables, on a bittersweet Father’s day that they hold close to their hearts.

“This run is important to my family because my husband was Dave Ross, and so it’s a way for my two boys to come and remember their dad, and honour their dad,” adds Rachael Ross.

“My husband was a runner, so I think me and my family coming out and participating in an event like this, that’s a running event, I think it’s very meaningful,” says Nadine Larche, widow of Doug Larche. “It’s a hard day, but seeing all the love and support from the community really strengthens me.

Those who knew the fallen officers best, say this event is a perfect way to remember them.

“I would love Dave to be remembered as a guy who had a contagious laugh. When he laughed, you just felt warm to your heart,” said Rachael Ross.

Runners say Sunday was the perfect day to show their support for the fallen officers, the community as a whole, and to spend some time with dad.

“It’s family participation, it’s a great activity, and I think it’s getting people to go out more with their kids and there’s no competition, so it’s kind of nice for that too,” says runner Denise Kenny.

Money raised by the event goes towards providing $1000 dollar scholarships for 18 high school students from the six area high schools served by the Codiac RCMP.

“It’s amazing to see how many people really support the community and the RCMP, and really shows how people come together as family,” says runner Marissa Simard.

Proving that Constables Gevaudan, Larche and Ross are still serving their community, and being remembered fondly on a day reserved for fathers.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Kate Walker.

from CTV News - Atlantic http://bit.ly/2x0uGIc

#new brunswick #prince edward island #nova scotia #news #politics #canada #CTVAtlantic

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mclegsmrloui · 6 years ago

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Summer of 84 (2018) Directores: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Actores: Graham Verchere, Caleb Emery, Judah Lewis, Cory Grüter-Andrew.

En los últimos años, una oleada de nostalgia por los años 80 ha llegado hasta nosotros por series como Stranger Things, o películas como el remake de It, y esta película no es la excepción, sin embargo no deja que el peso de la nostalgia sea lo que dirija esta película (cosa que sería mala) y nos entrega una mirada al final de la infancia, y la pérdida de la inocencia que genera empezar la adolescencia, es una película que toca fibras finas respecto a la nostalgia de crecer y a tener que enfrentarse al mundo dándonos cuenta de que no siempre estaremos seguros.

Esta película trata de Dave y sus amigos, que viven en un pequeño pueblo de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, no hay mucho que hacer más que divertirse jugando manhunt (cacería de hombres), o esconderse a beber del licor robado a sus padres y hablar de fantasías acerca de chicas que no existen, hasta que un día llega el aviso de que la policía ha recibido una nota de un asesino serial, alertando que durante la última década ha asesinado a varios niños de entre doce y dieciséis años, lo que pone en alerta a la comunidad. Lo que nadie sabe, es que Dave ha visto a uno de los niños desaparecidos un par de días antes sentado en el comedor de su vecino. Entonces la búsqueda de los cuatro amigos para encontrar pistas acerca del asesino empieza.

Sin duda alguna es una película muy interesante, sus giros y su trama son increíbles, y las sorpresas que genera son muy buenas, está bien contada y genera varios momentos de empatía con nuestros personajes, así como la cantidad de nostalgia ochentera esperada, sin embargo tal vez la amistad en el grupo parezca algo etéreo y poco desarrollado, ya que dos de nuestros personajes caen en clichés un par de veces: el chico nerd y el chico bad-boy, pero al desarrollarse en un plano más personal podemos ver que son mucho más profundos (particularmente nuestro protagonista (cuya actuación es fenomenal) y Woody). La moraleja de la película queda clara, y definitivamente es una película memorable, interesante y que nos deja a todos con un buen sabor de boca.

#summer of 84 #sundance #corey gruter #judah lewis #caleb emery #francois simard #anouk whissell #yoann-karl whissell #suspenso #estreno #cine #indie movies #grahamverchere

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In Regensburg wird es wieder grotesk, schaurig und wunderschön. Das 6.Hard:Line Filmfestival präsentiert im Ostentorkino einen breiten Querschnitt durch den aktuelle Genrefilm und hat nicht nur Filme zu zeigen, sondern auch deren Macher zu Gast. Nachdem Deep Red Radio letztes Jahr in klarer aber effektiver Unterzahl vor Ort war, wird es dieses Jahr vom 27. – 30.09.2018 die Veranstaltung überrollen, als interessierter Gast und Medienpartner. Wir werden Filme sichten und besprechen, Eindrücke schildern und mit Regisseuren, Autoren und Darstellern ins Gespräch kommen und das alles für euch aufzeichnen und bei unserem Podcast bereitstellen. Wem das nicht reicht, der kommt einfach selbst nach Regensburg. Das Team von Deep Red Radio freut sich auf das lange Wochende der Subkultur und auf die herzensguten filmverliebten Hardliner.

Und weil heute so ein spezieller Tag ist, verraten wir euch, wenige Tage vor den Beginn des Dauerkartenverkaufs, die ersten vier Filme. 6 Hard:Line Filmfestival Wann: 27.9.-30.09.2018 Wo: Ostentor Kino; Adolf-Schmetzer-Str. 5; 93055 Regensburg Tickets: Dauerkarte – 60 € ab 01.08.2018 (Early Bird) ///// 70 € ab 01.09.2018 Tages- & Einzeltickets können auf der Homepage erworben werden. Website: https://www.hardline-festival.de Filme: Five Fingers For Marseilles (Südafrika 2017) Framed (Spanien 2017) – Deutschlandpremiere in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Marc Martínez Jordán, Kameramann Yuse Riera und Darsteller Àlex Maruny Dave Made A Maze (USA 2017) Summer Of 84 (USA 2017) – Deutschlandpremiere in Anwesenheit der Regisseure François Simard, Anouk & Yoann-Karl Whissell

#SoundCloud #music #DeepRedRadio #Hard:Line #Filmfestival #Regensburg #Ostentor

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yessadirichards · 5 years ago

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Broadway stars stream; rock stars stay off road amid virus

NEW YORK

From helping others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover from but can cause severe illness in the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

SINGING AT HOME

Broadway shows may be shuttered, but that’s not stopping some Broadway voices.

Stage stars like Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Norbert Leo Butz, Kelli O'Hara, Wayne Brady, Betty Buckley and Laura Benanti will appear singing and performing live from their homes in two daily mini-online charity shows starting Monday night.

The shows are the brainchild of Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the host and producer of Sirius XM's "On Broadway," and will follow the traditional theater times of 2 p.m. Eastern and 8 p.m. Eastern.

The shows will encourage viewers to donate to The Actors Fund’s services for those dealing with the coronavirus outbreak and its financial costs.

“Broadway at Home” will kick off Monday with Kelli O’Hara. The shows can be seen at The Actors Fund YouTube channel, as well as Playbill.com and BroadwayWorld.com.

Some other stars who have signed up include Shoshana Bean, Sierra Boggess, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel, Melissa Errico, Raúl Esparza, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ana Gasteyer, Mandy Gonzalez, Justin Guarini, James Monroe Iglehart, Jeremy Jordan, Marc Kudish, Judy Kuhn, Linda Lavin, Beth Leavel, Telly Leung, Beth Malone, Lindsay Mendez, Kate Shindle, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Rosie O’Donnell, Alice Ripley, Adam Pascal, Faith Prince, Keala Settle, Marc Shaiman, Jennifer Simard, Elizabeth Stanley, Patrick Wilson and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Couples who also plan to appear are: Sebastian Arcelus and Stephanie J. Block, Will Chase and Ingrid Michaelson, Jen Cody and Hunter Foster, Jenn Colella and Chilina Kennedy, Colin Donnell and Patti Murrin, Santino and Jessica Fontana, Andy Karl and Orfeh, Liz Larsen and Sal Viviano, Steven Pasquale and Phillipa Soo, plus McDonald and Will Swenson.

Online concerts have taken on a new appeal as the virus keeps people inside. Latin singers Juanes and Alejandro Sanz recently performed on YouTube Live, a pair of Metropolitan Opera stars have belted out tunes on Facebook and Instagram, the Russian-German pianist Igor Levit took to Twitter on Thursday to stream his music and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra live streamed a Beethoven symphony.

MET GALA MUST WAIT

The Met Gala, annually one of the biggest nights in fashion, has been postponed due to the coronavirus.

Host Anna Wintour announced Monday on Vogue.com that the gala will not be held on its usual first Monday in May, due to the “unavoidable and responsible decision by the Metropolitan Museum to close its doors."

This year's previously announced celebrity hosts include Lin Manuel-Miranda, Meryl Streep and Emma Stone.

The Met Gala was one of the last remaining major cultural events in the coming weeks that had yet to be postponed or canceled.

Other delayed events announced Monday include the GLAAD Media Awards, which had been set to honor Taylor Swift and Janet Mock for their advocacy for LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles on April 16, and the iHeartMusic Awards, which were scheduled for Los Angeles with host Usher and performers including Lizzo on March 29.

OFF THE ROAD

Elton John is postponing part of his North American tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The superstar said Monday that the March 26 through May 2 shows of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour will be rescheduled. Tour performances for May 22 through July 8 remain as scheduled.

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl says he didn’t cancel shows when he broke his leg —and performed from a wheel chair onstage — but he must postpone his band’s tour because of the coronavirus. The rocker wrote Monday on Twitter that “playing a gig with a sock full of broken bones is one thing, but playing a show when YOUR health and safety is in jeopardy is another.” The band has postponed April dates of its Van Tour 2020, and says “information on the May dates will be forthcoming.”

CELEBS SAY THIS IS SERIOUS

Idris Elba tweeted that he has tested positive for coronavirus but has shown no symptoms so far.

Elba said Monday that he has been isolated since Friday, when he found out he might have been exposed.

Elba in a video message said that his wife has not been tested yet but is feeling OK.

“This is serious. Now's really the time to think about social distancing, washing your hands,” Elba said.

Olga Kurylenko, the Ukrainian actress who starred in the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” also says she has tested positive.

“Take care of yourself and take this seriously!” Kurylenko said in an Instagram post Monday.

And “Game of Thrones” actor Kristofer Hivju announced on his Instagram page that he has tested positive and will be isolating himself at his home in his native Norway.

VOICES SILENCED

PEN America has called off its annual World Voices Festival, a weeklong May gathering in New York that features dozens of writers.

This year's scheduled attendees included Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri, Amitav Ghosh and Zadie Smith.

In a statement Monday, PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel and World Voices Director Chip Rolley noted that the festival had been founded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as an "antidote to cultural isolationism." With a "new and unexpected isolation thrust upon us," they added, “we regret deeply that we won't be able to shine that light or foster those vital in-person connections.”

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universallycrownpirate · 5 years ago

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Ray Charles bei seinem letzten Auftritt auf dem Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2003

Ray Charles (* 23. September 1930 als Raymond Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia; † 10. Juni 2004 in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Songwriter und Komponist. Er wird auch als der „Hohepriester des Soul“ bezeichnet. Sein Einfluss war stilprägend für die Entwicklung von Rhythm and Blues, Blues, Country und Soul. Insgesamt hat er etwa 90 Millionen Tonträger verkauft.

Ray Charles starb 2004 im Alter von 73 Jahren an Leberkrebs im Kreise seiner Angehörigen in Beverly Hills. Er wurde am 18. Juni 2004 auf dem Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood bei Los Angeles beigesetzt. BB King, Glen Campbell, Stevie Wonder und Wynton Marsalis spielten zu seinen Ehren bei der Beisetzung.

Das Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM) ist das größte Jazzfestival der Welt.

Gew��hnlich findet es zu Beginn der kanadischen Festival Saison statt (bzw. Ende Juni bis Mitte Juli). Über 2 Millionen Menschen besuchen die elftägige Veranstaltung. Während des Festivals sind große Teile der Innenstadt (Downtown Montreal) für den Auto-Verkehr gesperrt, so dass auch im Freien Konzerte stattfinden können. Einige der Open-Air Konzerte werden von mehr als hunderttausend Menschen besucht. In Pubs, Clubs, Theatern, Museen, Konzertsälen und sogar einigen Kaufhäusern werden dann Konzerte veranstaltet. Von den mehr als 650 Konzerten sind 450 frei und finden an etwa zehn Open Air Plätzen statt. Neben Jazz treten auch Weltmusik-, Pop- und Blues-Musiker auf. Das Festival besuchen jährlich rund 2 Millionen Besucher, davon 250.000 Touristen. Es wird von einer unabhängigen non-profit-Organisation geleitet. Es ist bekannt für seine lockere Volksfest-Atmosphäre.

Das Festival wurde 1980 auf Initiative von Alain Simard (der vorher schon über die Agentur Kosmos Productions Jazz- und Blueskonzerte in Montreal organisierte) und André Ménard erstmals ausgerichtet (kurz darauf ergänzt durch Denyse McCann), mit ihrer gemeinsamen Firma Spectra Scene. Schon 1978 kündigten sie das Festival an und organisierten auch Konzerte z. B. mit Bill Evans, B. B. King und Charles Mingus, erhielten aber keine Förderung. Auch 1979 klappte es nicht (dafür gab es Konzerte mit Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett), sondern erst 1980 mit Unterstützung von CBC Radio und Verkauf von Radio-Rechten an Radio Québec. Damals traten auf der Insel Sainte-Hélène u. a. Gary Burton, Chick Corea und Ray Charles auf und es kamen 12000 Besucher. 1982 zog es in das Viertel St. Denis, das aber auch bald zu klein war. Bald darauf war sein Renommee mit dem Auftritt von Stars wie Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Stéphane Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan gefestigt. 1987 erhielt es nach einer finanziellen Krise erstmals Unterstützung durch die Stadt Montreal und ab 1989 fand es an seinem heutigen Ort in Downtown Montreal statt um den „Place des Arts“ und den „Complexe Desjardins“. 1989 hatte das Festival über 1 Million Besucher.

Auf dem Festival werden auch Preise vergeben: der „Ella Fitzgerald Award“ für Vokalkünstler (ab 1999), der „Miles Davis Award“ für etablierte internationale Jazzmusiker (ab 1994), der „Oscar Peterson“ Award für kanadische Jazzmusiker (ab 1989), der „Antonio Carlos Jobim Award“ für Weltmusik.

Beim 30. Festival im Jahr 2009 trat Stevie Wonder im Rahmen der Eröffnungsveranstaltung vor rund 200.000 Zuhörern auf. In einer bewegenden Ansprache erinnerte er vor seinem Auftritt an den wenige Tage zuvor verstorbenen Michael Jackson. In diesem Jubiläumsjahr traten daneben unter anderem Al Di Meola, Buddy Guy, Dave Brubeck, Joe Cocker, Katie Melua, Pink Martini und Wayne Shorter auf.

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His Battered old Relic Turned out to be a 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe with New England Racing History

Buried.

Years ago, Dave Simard, who is known for building elaborate street rods out of Leominster, Massachusetts, picked up an old stock car from Harvey Price. Harvey had dug the relic, a ’32 three-window coupe, out of a sand pit in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. In the early 1990s, Bruce Tonneson bought the stock car’s body and a ’32 Victoria body from Dave and then left them at Howard Towne’s shop on his way home. After the parts sat around for a while—two years, it turns out—Howard ended up selling the stock car body back to Dave. Dave needed the right rear quarter, the only good panel on the body, to complete another ’32 three-window. Howard had two other three-window bodies that were in far better shape, so it wasn’t hard for him to give up the old car. Had he known its history at the time, though, things might have been very different.

Dave then sold what was left of the body to Fred Ferrah, who used some of its parts to raise the roof on his chopped ’32 three-window. Fred took what was left of the car to the Hershey swap meet to unload it, but none of it sold. He then went to the Amherst, New Hampshire, flea market in 2002 to see if anyone would take it. A friend of Howard’s out of Enfield, New Hampshire, bought it all and then asked Howard if he was interested in any of the parts. Though he wasn’t too keen on them, Howard decided to take a look and ended up taking all the parts home. To Howard, it seemed like he did his best to get rid of the car, but it just kept coming back. Everywhere he went, he kept bumping into pieces of it.

An old friend of Howard’s, Randy Haubrich from Grafton, Massachusetts, also had old stock cars, and he was visited often by Marty Harty, who sold tools, air hoses, jackstands, and so on, out of his van. On one trip Marty brought by some pictures of stock cars he had built long ago to share with Randy. One looked familiar to Randy, so he brought Marty up to meet Howard to confirm the car in the photograph was indeed the same car Howard had sitting there. Sure enough, the images depicted the same holes in the body as well as the door welds and other unique features. Howard had the car known as 000.

Special Number

At this point Marty began to give Howard the whole history, although now Howard had a lot more to fix than if he had kept the coupe the first time it was in his hands.

The 000 name was not something Marty liked, but this was a special number for Jim Travers. In the spring of 1959, Jim paid Marty $700 to have the car built and ready to race in just a week’s time. Jim and his wife came to Marty’s junkyard and picked out the only three-window he had at the time. With the help of his brother, Marty finished the build with a ’56 Dodge Royal Blue Metallic paint job and Jim’s name on the driver side.

000 ran exhaust stacks, as seen in many of the early images, until Memorial Day 1959, when they were removed, leaving the mounting holes still visible on the sides of the body. That year Jim went to the Indy 500 with Marty’s brother to see the race, and while he was gone, Marty figured somebody should drive the coupe to keep the points up. Fred Borden drove 000 that night and won everything, though Jim was upset they had altered the car without his authorization. But if Fred hadn’t raced while Jim was away, Jim would never have won the Brookline, New Hampshire, championship. 000 raced in 1959 on four tracks, in Hudson and Brookline, New Hampshire, as well as West Peabody and Westbourough, Massachusetts. After that season, it was sold.

Howard decided to restore the coupe back to that very day in 1959. It would take him eight years, off and on, to complete the project. He had to find another quarter-panel plus other pieces to put the roof back that had been cut out. He saved everything else, like the chassis, and kept as much of the original body as possible. Howard even decided to fix some items you normally wouldn’t do, like cutting up postage-stamp-size pieces of metal to fill the Swiss-cheesed body, taking a considerable amount of time.

The hardest challenge was fixing the rough body without buying new parts. The door skins, for example, had been welded right into the hull so the driver had to climb through the window. Howard decided to imitate the look and was able to locate the original driver-side doorskin that had been ripped off previously. He mounted it to the wooden frame behind the original welds, but he also made the passenger door open and shut so he wouldn’t have to get in the car through a window.

With the body coming together, Howard began to further study Marty’s photographs, ask him questions, and examine the parts he had from 000 to complete the rest. For instance, the car didn’t come with a front or rear suspension, so Marty described how, instead of using shackles, he had anchored the front spring solid on one side and made it slide on the other side (and was able to shim to adjust height for track requirements). That kept the spring action, but the front end wouldn’t sway with shocks mounted up high.

Obsolete

Marty also informed him that the five-vented rear wheels were ’39-’42 Ford 3/4-ton wheels, compared to the normal ’36-’39 Ford passenger-car front wheels. Apparently in the 1950s, you could get the rear wheels from the Ford garage because they were obsolete and nobody wanted them. For a race car, though, they were stronger and an inch wider. Howard was able to find five of them while building the project.

The 1959 image shows the engine quite clearly. It’s a ’37 21-stud, 85hp motor with water pumps in the block. Howard went through three engines before finding one without cracks, then had machine work done before putting it together. While the coil is a ’42-’48 Ford and the fuel pump has a glass bowl, Howard did install a generator instead of the original idler. Howard also added a few gauges for convenience, so he could monitor the engine for overheating.

From the vintage image, it was determined there was no toe board, so Howard left it that way but may add one later. The bulky steering linkage was a universal joint from power-take-offs used on dump trucks, which Howard found at a flea market for $10 each brand new. This helped, as the steering shaft doesn’t come straight off the steering box because it’s a later model. Marty also advised that 000 steered off the right front spindle, not the left (typical for the car) because it was better for racing.

As the build neared completion, Howard was contacted by Jim’s half-brother Richard, who is the kid in many of the images Marty had. Richard told Howard that while Jim had moved to California, he was still in Massachusetts. He drove up to New Hampshire to see the project just before it was finished and has been in touch since then.

Howard then started wrapping up the build. He used a ’36 Ford steering wheel, since that’s what the coupe had in one of the old photos. The pedals could be seen in a photo, looking like ’32 pedals modified to work hydraulic brakes. The remains of the original ignition switch were in the car when Howard had it, so he replaced the knife switch that was used for ignition. The seat was still in it, so he had the frame to work with plus Marty’s memory to fill in the details. With the interior done, Marty and Richard then signed 000. The images do show a rollcage, which is the next item to install, and Howard plans on reusing as much of the original as possible.

While traveling to several historical track race nights, a little more of the 000’s history from the 1980s surfaced. That’s when Harvey Price got it out of that Lunenburg sand pit, and where they later were allowed by the land owner to dig up the original motor that had been pried out while removing 000 from the ground.

Saved from Mother Nature’s burial, 000 is now cruising around the New Hampshire mountains thanks to Howard. It’s that rare race car that got away, but just kept coming back!

Howard Towne owned this race car survivor more than 20 years ago but wasn’t aware of its New England heritage as he donated its parts to other regional builders. Luckily, the coupe kept coming back to his yard until it was identified.

The Ford was in rough shape when Howard first rescued it from the New England weather. After becoming aware of its history, he sought to keep as much of the original steel as possible, leading to hours of metalwork.

The exhaust stacks that were originally on 000 are seen in many of the early images of the car, including this one with Jim Travers and his half-brother Richard. The stacks came off on Memorial Day 1959, though the mounting holes were still visible on the sides of the body.

This mostly stock ’37 flathead was coupled to a ’39 Ford transmission. Howard used Marty’s images and knowledge of the build to obtain the correct period parts. Howard went through three engines before finding one without cracks, then he had machine work done before final assembly using stock carbs and other components that were identified in the old photos.

Here is the 3.78:1-ratio rearend, suspended using a ’38 Ford spring with extra leaves that were flattened and ground to fit a ’32 welded crossmember under the Model T gas tank.

The front suspension used a Model A spring with extra leaves that were fixed at one end while the other side was adjustable to allow tuning to the track requirements. The stopping power is provided by ’40 Ford brakes.

The bulky steering linkage was a universal joint from power-take-offs used on dump trucks. Howard found them at a flea market for $10 each brand new. Marty told Howard that 000 steered off the right front spindle, unlike the way a normal ’32 steers from the left, as it was better for racing.

Marty used Ford 3/4-ton wheels on the rear end when he was building 000 because they were stronger than passenger car wheels, an inch wider, and nobody wanted them because they were obsolete at the time. To set up the car as if it were headed for the track, Howard put a 550-16 on the left front, a 600-16 on the right front and left rear, then a 650-16 for the right rear.

While the coupe’s interior was mostly stripped to shed weight for racing, the Metro van seat was still in it, giving Howard a frame to work with. Tom’s Tops and Trim reupholstered the seat.

Marty’s old photos of 000 helped Howard get many of the interior details right, including the ’36 Ford steering wheel.

Old photos also revealed that the car used original ’32 pedals, modified to actuate the ’40 hydraulic brakes. There was no toe board in those old pictures, so Howard left it out, for now, anyway.

Some years ago, Howard’s friend Randy Haubrich thought something looked familiar in one of the old stock car photos Marty Harty was sharing at the time. These door welds, along with some holes in the body, confirmed the ’32 Ford was 000. Howard was able to locate the original doorskin that had been ripped off previously, which he mounted to the wooden frame behind the original welds.

It would take Howard eight years off and on to complete the build. Now 000 looks very much like it did in 1959 and is a blast to drive on the winding New Hampshire dirt roads.

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yessadirichards · 5 years ago

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Broadway stars stream; rock stars stay off road amid virus

NEW YORK

SINGING AT HOME

Broadway shows may be shuttered, but that’s not stopping some Broadway voices.

The shows are the brainchild of Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the host and producer of Sirius XM's "On Broadway," and will follow the traditional theater times of 2 p.m. Eastern and 8 p.m. Eastern.

The shows will encourage viewers to donate to The Actors Fund’s services for those dealing with the coronavirus outbreak and its financial costs.

“Broadway at Home” will kick off Monday with Kelli O’Hara. The shows can be seen at The Actors Fund YouTube channel, as well as Playbill.com and BroadwayWorld.com.

MET GALA MUST WAIT

The Met Gala, annually one of the biggest nights in fashion, has been postponed due to the coronavirus.

This year's previously announced celebrity hosts include Lin Manuel-Miranda, Meryl Streep and Emma Stone.

The Met Gala was one of the last remaining major cultural events in the coming weeks that had yet to be postponed or canceled.

OFF THE ROAD

CELEBS SAY THIS IS SERIOUS

Idris Elba tweeted that he has tested positive for coronavirus but has shown no symptoms so far.

Elba said Monday that he has been isolated since Friday, when he found out he might have been exposed.

Elba in a video message said that his wife has not been tested yet but is feeling OK.

“This is serious. Now's really the time to think about social distancing, washing your hands,” Elba said.

Olga Kurylenko, the Ukrainian actress who starred in the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” also says she has tested positive.

“Take care of yourself and take this seriously!” Kurylenko said in an Instagram post Monday.

And “Game of Thrones” actor Kristofer Hivju announced on his Instagram page that he has tested positive and will be isolating himself at his home in his native Norway.

VOICES SILENCED

PEN America has called off its annual World Voices Festival, a weeklong May gathering in New York that features dozens of writers.

This year's scheduled attendees included Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri, Amitav Ghosh and Zadie Smith.

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thepoolscene · 7 years ago

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The Pool Scene - Alain Martel, Dany Nguyen, Mike Black, Wayne Tate - Quebec Billiards

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Falcon Tour Results

Here are the falcon tour results from 28/10/2017, at Le 755 in Trois-Rivières,Québec

1 Danny Hewitt 1085 $

2 Martin Daigle 840 $

3 Jeff Blais 620 $

4 Alain Martel 440 $

5 – 6 Michaël Bernier 300 $

5 – 6 Luc Salvas 300 $

7 – 8 Dany Nguyen 200 $

7 – 8 Guillaume Beaudet200 $

9 – 12 Maxime Villeneuve 0 $

9 – 12 Yan Lalande 0 $

9 – 12 Ghislain Champagne 0 $

9 – 12 Jonathan Hébert 0 $

13 – 16 Daniel Gagné 0 $

13 – 16 Joey Cicero 0 $

13 – 16 Francis English 0 $

13 – 16 René Boussonneault 0 $

17 – 24 Pat Desbiens 0 $

17 – 24 Michel Ferland 0 $

17 – 24 Carol Audet 0 $

17 – 24 Sébastien Binette 0 $

17 – 24 Éric Lottinville 0 $

17 – 24 Steve Lefebvre0 $

17 – 24 Éric Hamel 0 $

17 – 24 Mehdi Bahloul 0 $

25 – 32 Danick Duchaine 0 $

25 – 32 Patrick Bureau 0 $

25 – 32 André Bouffard 0 $

second chance tournament

andré bouffard 1 200 $

steve lefebvre 2 150 $

eric lottinville 3 100 $

rene boissonneault 4 50 $

Results from le terminus bar billard in gatineau quebec 18-11-2017

1 Dany Nguyen 1125$

2 Francis Crevier 900 $

3 Danny Hewitt 680 $

4 John Leblanc 500 $

5 – 6 Andrew Aupin 340 $

5 – 6 Martin Daigle 340 $

7 – 8 Pierre Normand 200 $

7 – 8 Luc Salvas 200 $

9 – 12 Jean Thériault 90 $

9 – 12 Maxime Villeneuve 90 $

9 – 12 Éric Hamel90 $

9 – 12 Alain Martel90 $

13 – 16 Nicolas Charette40 $

13 – 16 Markus Noé 40 $

13 – 16 Mehdi Bahloul 40 $

13 – 16 André Goyette 40 $

17 – 24 Pierre Côté 0 $

17 – 24 Mike Black 0 $

17 – 24 Wayne Tate 0 $

17 – 24 Mike Donnely 0 $

17 – 24 Jonathan Lessard 0 $

17 – 24 Sébastien Cousineau 0 $

17 – 24 Neil Ayotte 0 $

17 – 24 Joey Cicero 0 $

25 – 32Luc Richard 0 $

25 – 32 Yan Lalande 0 $

25 – 32 Mathieu Charlebois 0 $

25 – 32 Gilles Duciaume 0 $

25 – 32 Kitty Solomon 0 $

25 – 32 Pierre Paul 0 $

25 – 32 Éric Horth 0 $

25 – 32 Dave Simard 0 $

33 – 48 Sylvain Sigouin 0 $

33 – 48 Adam Desjardins 0 $

33 – 48 Alex Lalanne 0 $

33 – 48 Luc Parmentier 0 $

33 – 48 Marc Ducharme 0 $

33 – 48 Mike Young 0 $

33 – 48 Jacques Roy 0 $

33 – 48 Christian Dodier 0 $

33 – 48 Ron Bradshaw 0 $

33 – 48 François Jourdain 0 $

33 – 48 Michel Ferland 0 $

33 – 48 Danick Roy 0 $

33 – 48 Luc Simard 0 $

33 – 48 Dominic Gauthier 0 $

33 – 48 Jean-Serge Labonté 0 $

33 – 48 Leslie Cookish 0 $

49 – 64 Steve Gélinas 0 $

second chance tournament

Nom

Position Bourse dave simard 1 200 $ dominic gauthier 2 150 $ alex lalanne 3 100 $ neil ayotte 4 50 $ sylvain sigouin 5 – 6 0 $ jacques roy 5 – 6 0 $ steve gelinas 7 – 8 0 $ jean serge labonte 7 – 8 0 $ mike young 9 – 12 0 $ francois jourdain 9 – 12 0 $ luc simard 9 – 12 0 $ adam desjardins 9 – 12 0 $ mathieu charlebois 13 – 16 0 $ danick roy 13 – 16 0 $ christian dodier 13 – 16 0 $ pierre paul 13 – 16 0 $

results from le Patriote in st-eustache,quebec 02-12-17

1 Alain Martel 1000 $

2 Joey Cicero 800 $

3 Martin Daigle 625 $

4 Dany Nguyen 460 $

5 – 6 Mike Patrowitcz 330 $

5 – 6 Luc Salvas 330 $

7 – 8 Daniel Gagné 200 $

7 – 8 Jeff Blais 200 $

9 – 12 Martin Sears 70 $

9 – 12 Danny Hewitt 70 $

9 – 12 David Deschênes 70 $

9 – 12 Mehdi Bahloul 70 $

13 – 16 Éric Hamel 0 $

13 – 16 Pierre Normand 0 $

13 – 16 David Lanthier 0 $

13 – 16 Vincent Beaurivage 0 $

17 – 24 Alain Caya 0 $

17 – 24 Dave Simard 0 $

17 – 24 Jean-François Simard 0 $

17 – 24 Guillaume Beaude t0 $

17 – 24 Yan Lalande 0 $

17 – 24 Dominic Byrne 0 $

17 – 24 Jean-Guy Carignan 0 $

17 – 24 Markus Noé 0 $

25 – 32 André Goyette 0 $

25 – 32 Keith Nelson 0 $��

25 – 32 Maxime Villeneuve 0 $

25 – 32 Martin Bouthotte 0 $

25 – 32 Wayne Tate 0 $

25 – 32 Steve Gélinas 0 $

25 – 32 Denys Zbikowski 0 $

25 – 32 Mike Black 0 $

33 – 48 Michel Ferland 0 $

33 – 48 Éric Horth 0 $

33 – 48 Jerry Leblanc 0 $

33 – 48 Daniel Sumum 0 $

33 – 48 Anick Cadorette 0 $

33 – 48 Stephen Scobie 0 $

33 – 48 Valérie Bédard 0 $

33 – 48 Bruno Morin 0 $

second chance tournament

vincent beaurivage 1200 $

dominic byrne 2150 $

david lanthier 3100 $

martin bouthotte 450 $

guillaume beaudet5 – 60 $

anick cadorette 5 – 60 $

keith nelson 7 – 80 $

valerie bedard 7 – 80 $

jean francois bouchard 9 – 120 $

stephen scobie 9 – 120 $

steve gelinas 9 – 120 $

daniel sumun 9 – 120 $

jerry leblanc 13 – 160 $

#Alain Martel #Dany Nguyen #Mike Black #Wayne Tate

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thepoolscene · 7 years ago

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The Pool Scene - Danny Hewitt, Martin Daigle - Quebec Billiards

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Danny Hewitt wins Falcon Tour

Here are the results from our latest tournament at Dooly’s Valleyfield, Quebec on september 16-17

1- Danny Hewitt 1065$ 2- Martin Daigle 800$ 3- Joey Cicero 600$ 4- Alain Martel 440$ 5-6 Nicolas Charette et Marco Caron 300$ 7-8 Dave Simard et Pierre Normand 200$ 9-12 Éric Hamel,Sébastien Laramée,Jeff Blais et Jean Thériault 100$

Second Chance Tournament 1-Rémy Lefebvre 200$ 2-Mehdi Harraq 150$ 3-Darren Auclair Clément 100$ 4-Daniel Sumun 50$

#Danny Hewitt #Martin Daigle

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itsworn · 7 years ago

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1934 Deluxe Roadster is Better Than Original

Solid.

Mike Griffith’s ’34 Deluxe Roadster is remarkable in many ways. Its condition is remarkable: Most of the sheetmetal is original and rust-free, and those few parts that have been replaced are gennie Henry Ford steel, not repop. The car’s top is remarkable in that it’s original. Time-worn, certainly—it’s more than 80 years old, after all—but not ragged or torn at all.

That Mike bought the car, sight unseen, after a five-minute phone conversation is remarkable. We’ll get to that in a bit.

Maybe most remarkable of all is the fact that the roadster passed through three different car collectors between 1964 (the farthest back Mike can trace, to date, anyway) and when he bought it a year ago, and none of those gentlemen did much, if anything, with it. They all prized it and had plans to restore it, but for various reasons left it sit, largely untouched, for decades.

Not preservation, exactly. More like benign neglect.

All that changed when Mike bought it. When we first saw the car a year ago (and showed you pictures in the Sept. ’16 Roddin’ @ Random department), Mike told us his plan was to get the car running by hopping up the original flathead but to leave as much as he could as-is. “It’s only original once,” he told us then.

For the most part that still holds true. But when he put his head together with his buddy Rocky Webb to get the car on the road, they realized there were myriad details that needed attention, restoration—and in some cases modification—to fulfill Mike’s desire to drive the roadster. So while the body, top, and some of the running gear are still as they were when they rolled out of the Ford plant, Rocky and Mike have unapologetically hot rodded the car. “We’re doing it as if it’s 1950 and we’re 19 years old,” Rocky explains.

Previous Lives

Mike has been buying, selling, and collecting hot rods and speed parts for years. He’s one of those people who seems to know everyone in the hobby, and through those connections finds remarkable (there’s that word again) examples of historic and significant coupes, roadsters, gassers, customs, you name it. His parts collection borders on mythic; at one time he had gathered on the order of 100 Deuce grille shells. Mike is often our go-to guy if we need a vintage part—or an interesting location—for a photo shoot.

As is often the case with his purchases, Mike did extensive homework on this roadster and was able to trace its history back to 1964. That’s the year it was purchased by a collector in Fallbrook, California, who intended to subject it to a full, back-to-factory restoration. That never happened, though. It sat in his garage until a cancer diagnosis in 2000 prompted him to sell. The buyer was a man named Chris Carrier. “He was a collector of famous cars, cherry cars,” Mike says. “He bought Barris cars, bought Neal East’s car.” But, says Mike, “he had cancer himself.”

Carrier took the car to Connecticut, and it was most likely he who installed the replacement fenders, hood sides, and gas tank cover—all real Ford steel. “That’s a trademark of Carrier,” says Mike about the provenance of the parts. “It had to be right.”

Carrier passed away before he could do much else with the roadster. “His significant other put his cars up for sale, and a man named Jim Lowrey from New Hampshire bought six or seven of them, including this one,” Mike recounts.

Lowrey replaced the roadster’s original flathead with a ’34 21-stud engine out of a pickup that belonged to his father. Beyond that he left the car alone.

About two years ago Mike ran into another collector buddy, Dave Simard, at a Southern California swap meet. The two got to talking, the subject of Chris Carrier came up, and Simard told Mike about the ’34 roadster. Simard said the car was available, though he wasn’t interested. “I have 60 cars,” Simard told Mike. I don’t need another one.”

Intrigued, Mike got in touch with Lowrey. Or tried to. For three months. “Either his phone’s not working, or he’s not answering, or something,” Mike recalls. Finally Mike got Lowrey on the phone, and within five minutes the deal was done. “He’s straight up and knows his stuff,” Mike explains. “If Simard is high on it, and if Chris owned it, I know it’s good. I didn’t even ask for photos. I saw it for the first time when it rolled out of the trailer.”

Road Worthy

Rocky Webb is a contractor and industrial steel fabricator whose passion is hot rods. “My dad was born in 1932, and he had these kinds of cars when he was young, so I enjoy working on them,” he explains as we walk around his own Model A-based roadster. Turning to Mike’s oh-so-original car, he says, “I’d never be able to own one of these, but because of Mike I get to work on one.”

Rocky’s contributions to the car are more than we can list here, but among the highlights: When the two men realized the engine in the ’34 would need more work than our photo shoot schedule would allow, Rocky loaned Mike a ’39 Merc 99A flathead he had in his garage, and then hopped the motor up with an immaculate McCulloch supercharger. Rocky swapped the car’s original mechanical brakes for hydraulic binders (and found a trick way to plumb them with modern hardline that looks like brass), mounted a reverse-eye spring pack on a stretched and filled front axle that came from Mike’s parts stash, reworked the linkage for a set of ’39 pedals, and even built a new seat frame from scratch.

“It’s a good combination,” Rocky explains, “Mike’s knowledge of old-school hot rodding techniques and my fabrication abilities.” Rocky also wanted to give credit to several people who helped him get the roadster ready in a short time, including Mike Herman and the crew at H&H Flatheads; upholsterer Victor Lozano; Bill and Mike McGrath at the Early Ford Store, who “were really accommodating and even opened their place on a Sunday to let us get parts”; and Rocky’s friend Ray Covarrubias, who “spent a lot of nights with me helping me get this car together and tight.”

Rocky took the roadster on its initial shakedown run just a couple days before our photo session, to make sure we’d have no issues shooting car-to-car action. There are a couple small things to fix, he admits, like getting the hood to close over the tall Stromberg on top of the blower, and finding a set of shocks. But overall, he’s pleased.

Mike’s maiden voyage didn’t take place until we were there, cameras in hand.

“It’s a runner,” he tells us with a big grin after Wes gets his action shots. “It handled great at speed. Went down the road smooth and straight. No wobble. It’s tight, nothing’s loose. It’s solid.”

For more than 50 years, this ’34 Deluxe Roadster languished in the garages of several collectors, essentially untouched. It took the efforts of owner Mike Griffith and his friend Rocky Webb to get it back on the road again.

The sheetmetal on Mike’s roadster has been on the car since it left the factory, save for the driver-side front and rear fenders, the gas tank cover, hood sides, and a small patch panel behind the driver’s door. “The original factory black paint is still on the body,” Mike says. “Our next step will be to slowly remove the thin coat of primer and polish out the original paint.”

Like the body, the roadster’s top is original, and in excellent shape considering the fabric is more than 80 years old. “In all the years I’ve owned hot rods, I’ve never owned one with an original top,” Mike says.

Rocky graciously loaned his ’39 Merc 99A flathead when the flattie in the roadster couldn’t be made worthy in time for our shoot. Starting with a bare block, Rocky had built the motor over the course of a year using “parts and good advice” from H&H Flatheads. Inside the motor are new pistons on the stock rods and crank (with N.O.S. Michigan bearings), an H&H blower cam, adjustable lifters, and small-block Chevy valves and keepers. The Red’s headers came from Mike’s parts stash.

The Merc is bigger than the Ford engine, so they had to really shoehorn it into the roadster’s engine bay. With the motor pushed right up against the firewall, Rocky had to fab a new oil filler tube. He even had to bend the fan blades for extra clearance.

Rocky bought the McCulloch supercharger from Mike Spacik at the L.A. Roadsters Father’s Day show swap meet. “It was the nicest, most complete McCulloch blower I’ve ever seen, so I bought it,” Rocky says. He figures it’ll push 4 to 5 psi “and should add 20 to 30 hp.”

The reverse-eye spring and stretched and filled front axle also came from Mike’s collection of hot rod parts. “It was probably dropped in the late ’40s or early ’50s,” he says. Bending the $2.50 eBay steering arm to accommodate the new axle “was a real thrash,” according to Rocky.

Mike and Rocky left the rearend alone, with the exception of adding ’48 Ford juice brakes. “It’s amazing that the rearend hasn’t been rebuilt, the transmission hasn’t been rebuilt, and they work so well,” Mike says. “We did drain the goo out of the rearend and replaced it, but that’s it.”

Those mufflers are so old they’re packed with steel, not fiberglass. They give the flathead a very mellow tone.

The car came with a seat cushion and some upholstery that looked like it could have been original, but that was it. No seat back. Rocky fabbed a seat-back frame in wood and metal, restored the wire springs in the cushion, and found some material at Victor Lozano’s upholstery shop that looked a lot like the original seat covers. “Victor did the seat in a moment’s notice,” Rocky says. He and Mike plan to use more of the same material to finish the rumble seat.

The steering wheel, column, shifter, and dashboard are all original. For now there are modern gauges in the panel to monitor the fresh flathead, but eventually Mike will put ’34 gauges in the holes. On the drawing board is an underdash panel, hooked to a piano spring, for temp, oil pressure, and amp gauges. “That way we can flip it down when driving and flip it up, out of sight, at shows,” Mike says.

The 16-inch Kelsey Hayes wheels also came from Mike’s parts collection. While the rear tires are Coker Firestone repops, the fronts are vintage Olympic Air Ride tires Mike got from fellow SoCal rodder Robert Lomas.

“A lot of people would mothball a car as nice as this,” Mike says. “But it’s meant to be driven.”

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itsworn · 8 years ago

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1933 Ford Phaeton is all Hot Rod

When you sit and think of all the amazing domestic marques of cars that have rolled off assembly lines since the inception of the horseless carriage it gets pretty daunting. Regardless if they were from the Big Three or from fringe builders who disappeared almost as soon as they evolved, the sheer amount of style and design invested into a multitude of models was nothing short of spectacular. From roadsters to cabriolets and onto coupes, sedans, and trucks there were plenty of offerings to satisfy every type of consumer from the average worker to the debutante. Some models, however, were produced in smaller batches than others making them extremely scarce today.

Where exactly have all the phaetons gone? It’s a question Network Director/Editor Brian Brennan posed in a recent STREET RODDER Editorial. For example, Ford production in 1933 totaled 334,969 units with only 1,483 deluxe phaetons and only 232 standard models produced. Granted that’s not a lot while looking at the total model year production, but still significant enough to make you wonder what happened to them. The long, sleek, dramatic lines that flowed from the pens of designers to create a look that rivaled the larger more expensive marques like Duesenberg, Cadillac, and Packard gave the phaeton a truly glamorous look at a fraction of the cost. Hot rodders embraced the look while giving it a fresh new attitude for decades, but they have all but disappeared from the landscape recently.

For Vaughn Veit of Buffalo, Minnesota, growing up in nearby Minneapolis let him experience hot rodding at an amazing level during the ’50s. Running the strip and frequenting both Porky’s Drive-In and the Sun Drive-In left a lifelong impression on him. Always hanging out with the older crowd, he was able to experience firsthand the hottest hot rods and customs making the scene. It wasn’t long till he built his first car, a ’50 Chevy mild custom followed by a wicked chopped ’28 Ford sedan sitting on a Z’d chassis with a hot Chevy V-8 (he still owns both cars today). Many others followed including an extensive collection of ’33 Fords as well as countless performance cars. Somehow in the early years he acquired a fascination with ’33-’34 Ford phaetons, eventually starting a quest to locate one. With the rarity and so few cars available for sale, finding one turned into a game of cat ’n’ mouse translating into see me now and catch me later … years later! We all know the story of locating the perfect car, making an offer then losing it to someone else to only find it again years later. They say that every great hot rod has a story to tell and this one is no different, seeing that it was fate that eventually brought Vaughn and the car together.

Having seen the meticulous traditional hot rods being built by East Coast Custom in Leominster, Massachusetts, for the last few decades, it was an easy decision that they would be taking on the build. Vaughn met with shop owner Dave Simard to discuss the direction of the project and the pair shared many of the same ideas, so a deal was made and the car was delivered. Once disassembled, the team started on creating a perfect period-correct chassis. Working with a straight original spine the front crossmember was lowered while the X-member and rear crossmember were also modified. To accommodate the lower stance the rear ’rails were C-notched and the frame was then completely boxed for added strength. Out back a Ford 9-inch rear was packed with Currie 31-spline axles spinning 3.70:1 gears. It’s suspended in place by a TCI Engineering four-link and Panhard bar matched to a re-arched and reverse-eye ’40 Ford spring and So-Cal Speed Shop tube shocks. To set the right attitude up front a So-Cal Speed Shop 4-inch dropped forged axle was deftly matched to modified ’40 Ford spindles linked to matching SO-CAL hairpin radius rods and Panhard bar. SO-CAL tube shocks and a slightly de-arched 1933 Ford stock spring with custom-rounded ends soak up the bumps. When it’s time to slow speed, a 1967 Ford dual master pushes fluid through custom stainless lines to 11-inch Ford drums out back and 11-inch discs and calipers from Magnum Suspension up front. For a classic look a set of 15-inch front and 17-inch rear Wheel Vintiques 71-Series Street Rod Wires with ’33 Ford caps are shod with Goodyear Integrity blackwall radials linking it all to the street.

There’s nothing quite like deciding on the mill to power your car. For a perfect ’60s-era feel Dave came up with a genuine ’65 Chevy 283ci V-8 that was still fresh in crate from the factory. With everything still fresh from the day it was built the block was packed with a stock crank, rods and pistons while Dave altered the thump by adding an updated ’65 Chevy L79 cam. Factory iron heads generate plenty of seamless power while up top an Edelbrock three-deuce intake breathes deep through a trio of Stromberg 97-series carbs wearing Cal Custom-style 40-30 air cleaners from O’Brien Truckers. Endless attention to detail includes custom fuel lines, vintage Corvette valve covers, and plating by Jon Wright’s CustomChrome Plating. A PerTronix Flame-Thrower stock-look distributor lights the fire while spent gases flow through a set of vintage Ram Horns to a custom stainless exhaust sending notes through Stainless Specialties mufflers. A GM 700-R4 warmed over by Jeff Lynch links to a custom steel driveshaft from Mitchell Driveline to move the power rearward.

It takes true craftsmen to bring back vintage steel back to life that’s over 80 years old. Starting with modifications, Dave along with team members Ryan MacDonald and Joe Carbone first chopped the top, including the windshield, and proceeded to cut down and modify the top irons to increase the angle of the rear window. From there they highly modified the hood for a perfect fitment with uniform gaps all around, and continued on metal finishing the body and setting all the gaps flawlessly to make it razor sharp. The painting duties were then handed over to Kevin Olson of ECC to work his magic and lay down the mile-deep coating of PPG jet black vibe. Exterior accents were also brought to life by Jon Wright while Dennis Day added the final icing with his brushes.

Maintaining the correct level of elegance inside the car was of the utmost importance to make the car memorable. The stock dash was filled with refreshed original gauges by Instrument Specialties of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, who also updated the speedometer to 140 mph. A neat starter button tagged “fire” was also integrated into the dash face. A focal point is the stock ’39 Ford banjo wheel cut down to 16 inches by Bob Monetti and treated to a cosmic altering red translucent coating by Bob Deneault of D&D Automobilia of Lincolnton, North Carolina, while shifts move through a Lokar swan-style unit. To add plenty of distinction, Steve Pierce of One-Off Technologies in Gilford, New Hampshire, designed a classic pleated red leather interior accented by a black convertible top and complementing black loop carpeting. Bringing it all to life, Skip Readio crafted a custom cloth wiring harness adding the final bit of class. The completed car has an amazing presence, bringing out the finest points of the phaeton’s design elements with plenty of style from the team at East Coast Custom. This is a car that won’t gather any dust as Vaughn promises to lay down plenty of miles, and, to us, that’s just bitchin.

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