#Elgin Award

[angela-yuriko-smith]

“The Gates of Katharion” by Maxwell I. Gold

Please welcome Maxwell I. Gold into the Poetry Spotlight reading “The Gates of Katharion” originally published in Weird Tales Magazine #366, Sword and Sorcery Issue.

Iron mouths smiled with teeth of rust and blood,while Katharion waited,with hinges so black and doomful.On amethystine nights, there collecteda mass of death and pride as the armies of tomorrowrotted and decayed on fields of someday.Old bones, so gray and dusty,withered under shadows aghast,expelled from garish, crooked towers,while Katharion waited;where cities fell, banners wilted in the…

[cnu-newurbanism]

Integrating new and historic in affordable housing

Larkin Place in Elgin, Illinois, is the adaptive reuse of a historic orphanage, on a block with affordable missing middle housing. Full Circle Development and Cordogan Clark won a CNU 2023 Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category.

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[laurenscharhagwrites]

I am simply thrilled to share that my poetry collection, Moonlight and Monsters, has been nominated for an Elgin Award. BIG THANKS to the Gnashing Teeth Publishing folks for this honor! Gnashing Teeth https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/product/moonlight-and-monsters-by-lauren-scharhag-2/

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[stephensmithuk]

The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Retrospection

It was common to refer to foreigners by the foreign versions of their titles; much less common today.

Costa Rica declared its independence from the defunct Federal Republic of Central America in 1838. Bar three small exceptions, most of Latin America was independent by 1889.

It was much easier for people to establish new identities back then - documents were much easier to forge.

The British Museum opened in June 1753; its two most controversial exhibits, the Elgin Marbles and Rosetta Stone had long been present by this time.

Dr Mortimer would be facing a professional conduct hearing today - he's blabbed about a man's heart condition to a stranger with no good reason!

Fulham Road, aka the A304, runs from the bottom end of Chelsea to Fulham Palace, then the home of the Bishop of London and now a museum. It passes Stamford Bridge, home ground of Chelsea FC.

Ross and Mangles sounds a rather on-the-nose name for somewhere that sells big, vicious dogs.

The "West Country" is an area covering SW England; precise definitions vary, but it would include Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, along with the city of Bristol. There is an ITV region called ITV West Country that covers this area, with its own local news programme.

One assumes that the page survived despite Stapleton/Baskerville shooting him like that.

"It is suggestive that Anthony is not a common name in England" - although there have been quite a few well-known people with that name since, such as Anthony "Tony" Blair or Anthony Ainley, the latter being the Master in Doctor Who from 1980 to 1989.

I can't find a white jessamine, but there are several plants called "white jasmine".

Les Huguenots is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer that premiered in Paris in 1836. It's about the events leading up to the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which was the mass murder of Protestants by Catholics in that country. A 2018 production can be viewed here:

The de Reszkes were three opera singers from this period who came from what was then the Russian-ruled "Congress Poland" - Josephine had retired at this point (and would die in 1891 aged 35), but Édouard and Jean were hugely acclaimed, making popular performances in London and later being honoured by Queen Victoria with the Royal Victorian Order.

That award, created in 1896, was and is at the sole discretion of the monarch; it is typically given for personal service to the monarch. Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, was made a Knight Grand Cross in that order in 2023 by Charles III, basically for doing the Coronation. Needing to adjust the Crown on his head clearly didn't count againat him.

That wraps The Hound of the Baskervilles. Onto The Valley of Fear!

[scotianostra]

Harbourne Mackay Stephen was born in Elgin on 18th April 1914.

Harbourne was the son of a bank manager. He was initially educated privately, but then went to schools in Edinburgh and later at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire. He finished his schooling when he was 15-years-old and soon afterwards shifted to London to work in the newspaper industry. His first job was copy boy with Allied Newspapers and later he moved to the advertisement staff of the Evening Standard.

Stephen joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in April 1937 as an and learned to fly. Having achieved the required standard and number of flying hours, Stephen was offered the chance to train with the regular RAF for six months and was given six months leave of absence from his job.

He was offered a full Commission in April 1940 Stephen was posted to 74 Squadron at Hornchurch Over Dunkirk on 24th May he shared in destroying several German aircraft.

Pilot Officer Stephen shot down his first German plane on July 28 1940, and in the next 14 days he shot down 11 more. His score of eight victories in one day came on August 11th when he destroyed three Me109s and two Me110s, probably destroying another and damaging two more. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Flying Spitfires with 605 squadron he took part in the air battles over France and Dunkirk and throughout the thick of the Battle of Britain. He was one of the top scoring R.A.F. pilots at the end of 1940 with 22 and a half air victories

Harbourne Mackay Stephen was the first airman to be awarded a DSO, )Distinguished Service Order)in the field As one of the ''Tigers'' (74 Squadron) he shared the honour of shooting down the 600th aircraft to be destroyed by fighters from a single RAF. After the Battle of Britain, Stephen was posted to Turnhouse , Edinburgh as Chief Flying Instructor; but this was not his idea of active service, and he soon volunteered to go to the Far East in 1942 where he took command of 166 wing, remaining in fighters until the end of the war.

After the war he had a successful career in newspapers where he became managing Director of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. He died on 20th August 2001.

[jamieroxxartist]

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The Scotty Hollywood Band, led by singer/songwriter Scott Argiro, is set to release their latest single "The Phenomenon" on January 22nd, 2024. The highly anticipated song is an anthemic tribute to elite athletes and is sure to be the perfect soundtrack for sporting events, including the current pro football playoffs and championship game.

Produced by Emmy Award winner Steve Avedis, "The Phenomenon" features a collaboration with rap artist Troof from Shreveport, Louisiana. The song showcases the band's signature energetic performances, emotion-filled vocals, and undeniable talent. "The Phenomenon" is a testament to the band's versatility and ability to seamlessly blend different genres of music. With a mix of rock, hip-hop, and electronic sounds, the song is sure to captivate listeners and keep them on their feet. The single is accompanied by a visually stunning music video directed by Elgin Cahill. The video features dynamic footage of athletes in action as well as captivating performance shots from the band.

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[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

hello, me again (person watching the last leg) - i've reached series 11 and i'm still really enjoying this show so i've come back with more notes from the past few seasons

-so far my favourite guest has been jessica hynes, due to her calling trump and pence cunts and the story about punching a guy who threw eggs at her. in a similar vein i liked miriam margolyes, who called alex a yob and said they should bleep josh more and then proceeded to say cunt twice in quick succession. -i experienced a brief millisecond long crush on josh when he snapped "well we should give back the elgin marbles cos they're not fucking ours" like yes king rage against the british museum

Part 2:

-one of my problems with this show is their tendency to "both sides" things a little too much, so im worried for when the topic of transgender people starts to pick up. idk how bad it is in canada but in the uk the media is extrememly biased against trans people, including the bbc, so i've got a bad feeling it won't be handled with a lot of grace.

-i think my favourite example of someone still laughing after the segments changed is in s10 ep10, where everyone is still laughing well after alex's misguided joke and josh is in hysterics during the outro

-im still not used to politicians turning up, but i dont have such an instinctive knee-jerk reaction anymore. yesterday i watched ed milibands episode and i was not prepared for him to a) have a sense of humour, or b) make that pig fucking joke. that being said i'm glad they all have the snooty rp accent because otherwise i might start actually liking them.

-in bad news, i've just realised that they've taken all but the most recent three episodes off of all 4 so when i get to later seasons i'm going to have to head to reddit for pirating links. i dont understand why they'd do this, honestly it makes me really sad to think theres a chance it's gonna be gone forever.

anyway yeah, im still having a blast watching this!

That's great, I'm glad you're enjoying it! And glad you still have notes!

- Jessica Hynes has been fantastic every time on The Last Leg (and just on everything else she does, which is on my mind at the moment as I only just watched last week’s episode of Outsiders and I think the way she and Joe Wilkinson play off each other is the best thing about this season). She was very good next to Chris O’Dowd in that episode when he showed up hammered, a whole situation that I found so hilarious that it makes me readjust how highbrow I like to think my sense of humour is. Another thing that reminds me I’m really not above things like that is I think Miriam Margolyes saying “cunt” twice in about a minute, and the collective reactions to that, is one of the funniest things that’s ever happened on that show. I sometimes re-watch just that bit and lose my breath laughing every time. Margolyes comes back a few times in future seasons, and she’s just good every time.

- Yeah Josh Widdicombe is not super political, but every once in a while he says something like that with what sounds like some genuine venom behind it, and that’s always good. Welcome to crush on Josh Widdicombe club, even if you were only briefly a member!

- Yeah, the tendency to “both sides” is a recurring issue, and one that, to be honest, only gets worse. It’s mostly not that bad, the show does take clear stances on lots of the most important issues, but sometimes they drop the ball. I understand why, they’re a mainstream Channel 4 show and they’re not trying to get in trouble, and sometimes, to their credit, they say some controversial stuff anyway. But they’ve pulled punches at times that I haven’t liked.

I can’t recall a lot of specifics about the way they take on trans issues, but I think I’d remember if I ever thought they handled it particularly badly, so you don’t have to worry about that too much, with one glaring exception. In 2019, people on Twitter asked them to give the “Dick of the Year” award to Graham Linehan, and they refused. I agreed with their reasoning for refusing – it involved the fact that Linehan had Tweeted about how he wanted to win that award, and they have a policy against using their silly year-end thing as a way to give more attention to people who are actively courting that attention, so anyone who says they want to win the Dick of the Year isn’t allowed to win it. That’s fair enough, but I didn’t like the way they explained it. There was a very short, careful, speech that really “both sides”-ed the issue in a way I did not and still don’t like. I think people Tweeted about giving Linehan that award because transmisogyny is clearly an important issue to lots of fans of The Last Leg, and they dismissed those concerns with the way they responded. I wrote a post around this time last year with the exact wording of what they said, if you want to know how bad it was before getting further invested.

I think it was a serious misstep, and not the only time I’ve remembered that they’re not going to get on the wrong side of people who do things like significantly influence their industry or, for example, give them MBEs. Their recent post-queen death episode reminded me that I should not expect this show to take difficult positions on things (I didn’t expect them to come out calling for a Republican revolution or anything, but any nuance at all in their sycophantic reverence for the monarchy and all it stands for would have been fucking nice). Having said that, I think they’ve got a lot of things right over the years, and moments with which I have a significant problem are few. But it’s good to keep your expectations at a level where you’re not too disappointed when they refuse to rise above things.

- Back to fun parts! The outro is always the funniest time for one of them to have an uncontrollable attack of laughter, because it’s when they’re not able to make up lost time by rushing through other stuff later, so Adam really has to just keep reading the autocue over whatever’s happening. Always funny. More often happens with Alex, but sometimes with Josh too, and sometimes they just set each other off. I think that might be my favourite thing about The Last Leg – any time Josh and Alex set each other off about anything.

- Oh God, I forgot they had Ed Miliband on. I suppose the fact that he can be so likeable on a comedy show is why comedy shows shouldn’t have politicians, but having said that, they sometimes create among the best episodes (I have to admit the Nick Clegg episode made me like Nick Clegg, it’s a good thing I don’t have a vote in British elections).

- Don’t worry, The Last Leg is well archived not gone forever. Send me something I can reply to privately (a private message or a non-anonymous ask) if you end up having trouble finding links, though stuff from seasons 15-ish and later tend to be not that hard to find. The early seasons are tough though, I’m glad I picked those up when I did. And the London 2012 episodes might actually be gone, but the rest is out there.

[lboogie1906]

Elgin Gay Baylor (September 16, 1934 - March 22, 2021) was a former basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the NBA for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals. He was a gifted shooter, a strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, he regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots. The #1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and a 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, he is regarded as one of the game’s all-time greatest players. In 1977, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

He spent 22 years as general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers. He won the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 2006 before being relieved of his duties shortly before the 2008–09 season began.

His popularity led to appearances on the television series Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In in 1968, the Jackson Five’s first TV special in 1971, and a Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode, “Olympiad”. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi

[samwaverley]

Book Review: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween.

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween. Review This collection of poems explores themes of hauntings and the supernatural and offers readers a journey through ghostly encounters and eerie tales steeped in history. Each poem is meticulously crafted and…

[sallymajors]

Book Review: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween.

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween. Review This collection of poems explores themes of hauntings and the supernatural and offers readers a journey through ghostly encounters and eerie tales steeped in history. Each poem is meticulously crafted and…

[rachellepryce]

Book Review: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween.

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween. Review This collection of poems explores themes of hauntings and the supernatural and offers readers a journey through ghostly encounters and eerie tales steeped in history. Each poem is meticulously crafted and…

[thechrysalisbrewproject]

Book Review: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween.

Elgin Award-winning speculative poet LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” is a masterful exploration of the supernatural with the spine-chilling essence of Halloween. Review This collection of poems explores themes of hauntings and the supernatural and offers readers a journey through ghostly encounters and eerie tales steeped in history. Each poem is meticulously crafted and…

[frontmezzjunkies]

The 2024 #TAPA's #DoraAward Winners Were Announced Last Night at a historic Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre ceremony hosted by the wonderful #RyanGHinds #TheaTO

The 2024 Winners of TAPA's #DoraAwards

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(via The 2024 Winners of TAPA's Dora Awards)

[scotianostra]

24th August 1198 saw the birth of King Alexander II in Haddington, East Lothian.

Alexander II made Scotland stronger than ever before. First he attended to parts of his country that were always causing trouble; in particular, he was determined to subdue the disturbances in the remote lands of Argyll. In 1221 he collected a strong army from Galloway and the Lothians and prepared a fleet to sail up the Clyde. Unfortunately, he had failed to take the stormy September weather and tides into account, and was forced to return to Glasgow. The following year he took his army across country to Argyll and re-established order, making sure the peace would last by transferring the titles of disloyal nobles' lands to more reliable subjects.

Later that same year, he faced a different kind of rebellion. Unwisely Bishop Adam of Caithness had been charging the people in his diocese double the sum that was normally due for the support of his church, in spite of their repeated complaints. In the end, 300 angry people stormed their way towards his palace, prompting his servants to run to the Earl of Caithness home nearby to ask for help. Possibly not realising the imminent danger, the Earl told the servants, 'If the bishop is afraid let him come to me at my castle', the people took their complaints to the Earl who legend has it, famously told them..." The devil take the bishop and his butter; you may roast him if you please!

So they took him at his word an angry crowd later seized the helpless bishop, stripped and beat him, and then carried him to his kitchen fire and roasted him alive!!!

Alexander was just setting out to attack England when the news reached him. He came at full speed to Caithness and exacted a terrible penalty, hanging the majority of the those responsible, while mutilating the remainder. Alexander's actions were applauded by Pope Honorius III, and a quarter of a century later, he was continuing to receive commendation, as in a bull of Celestine IV.– no one would ever think of roasting a bishop again. He also confiscated half the lands belonging to the Earl of Caithness in punishment for his lack of assistance for Bishop Adam.

Alexander, like David I, was keen to grant land for the construction of cathedrals and abbeys. In 1223 he awarded the Bishop of Moray the seat at the magnificent Elgin Cathedral, and, in 1230, gave permission for the building of three abbeys: Pluscarden Abbey, south-west of Elgin; Beauly Abbey in Ross-shire; and Ardchattan Abbey in Argyll. These communities were peopled by an order of Benedictine monks called the Valliscaulians who operated under a very strict code and initially had a very close relationship with France.

In 1249 Alexander made an attempt to regain the Western Isles from King Haakon IV of Norway. Unfortunately, before he could reach them, he fell ill and died on the island of Kerrera, off Oban, on 8 July that year.