#J Francis Davis

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GROVER CLEVELAND •Grover Cleveland: A Study In Courage by Allan Nevins (BOOK) •An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers (BOOK | AUDIO) •A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BENJAMIN HARRISON •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman, 1865-1888 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President, 1889-1893 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK)

WILLIAM McKINLEY •In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (BOOK) •President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE) •William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT •The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Edmund Morris Trilogy •The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •T.R.: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT •The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •William Howard Taft: An Intimate History by Judith Icke Anderson (BOOK) •Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court by Lewis L. Gould (BOOK | KINDLE)

WOODROW WILSON •Wilson by A. Scott Berg (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover (BOOK) •The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WARREN G. HARDING •The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell (BOOK) •The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren G. Harding by Andrew Sinclair (BOOK) •1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles L. Mee Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE)

CALVIN COOLIDGE •Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election by Garland S. Tucker III (BOOK | KINDLE)

[vitalphenomena]

PLAYLIST DIRECTORY

CHARACTERS

alessandra baresi — you gotta see the artistry in tearing the place apart with me

alex haven — and mostly i can't even tell what i'm running from.

beck boy — beck boy

burns harris — MY BROTHER'S BLOOD

cain glass — i need you to pencil in the rest.

cass hwang — i'm the fucking florist

cullen glass — sins of the father

davy nichols — forgiveness in the weeds

esther thomas — esther thomas

graham sinclair — i'm truly alone and i like it.

harris harris — WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR????; sorrow's native son @jupiter3

juniper harris — me & my dog & an impossible view; only with grace @jupiter3

kieran glass — he is a bad bad boy

mackenzie knight — if a god is a god and a man is a fraud then imma lost cause ;)

maryanne barkan — maryanne barkan

phoebe nichols — i'm ready to try

spirit harris — songs for crazy crazy little girls; i just keep losing

ROMANTIC SHIPS

amelia hartmann & theo haven @bluedprints — you're so perfect baby were you made for me? @bluedprints

alex haven and ridley bragin @withbeasts — i'll see you in everything, tomorrow and all the time

andrew bragin @withbeasts & spirit harris — the good that he saw; he loves her he can't love her love her

beck boy & francis funke @freekzout — bf @freekzout

beck boy & houston morin @jupiter3 — A Good Thing @jupiter3

boris pavlikovsky @jupiter3 & rifat hordiyenko @corsey & spirit harris — c'mere tough guy

cassius bairn @bluedprints & spirit harris — biting you biting you biting you

cassius bairn @bluedprints & cass hwang — c4c

cullen glass & jane monday @bluedprints — I WANNA BE UR DOG

daniel romano @despiterage & spirit harris — Daniel & Spirit (red is their color.) @despiterage; baby if it feels good then it can't be bad

deborah baresi @corsey & richard hayes — every man needs a companion

deco lakatos @corsey & spirit harris — i wanna feel the way that others do

elijah knight & henry sinclair @bluedprints — why, god of elijah?

ezra haven & spirit harris — i will mold myself just for you.; ezra is a vampire

feyd-rautha harkonnen & spirit harris — she's illiterate about him.

frenchie @gingerspiice & spirit — like a pornographic puzzle

flynn nichols @jupiter3 & spirit harris — flynnspirit but it's just mitski songs @jupiter3; feeding you my cake (eating it too) @jupiter3; pressfspirit; what would you do if i made a flynnspirit playlist in 2022

gabriela glass & tuesday nolan @jupiter3 — she's so hard to erase!!

gary baker @corsey & spirit harris — I KNOW YOUR EYES CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME :(

george nichols @jupiter3 & spirit harris — i'm not yours to lose., all our friends are laughing at us

houston morin @jupiter3 & spirit harris — i go back to that house sometimes (hoping i'll run into you.); even pretending to ourselves @jupiter3

isla maddix & theo haven @bluedprints — theo and isla's extraordinary cali adventure

[EXTRA SPECIAL PLAYLIST MOST IMPORTANT BEST ONE] juniper harris & phi.l couls.on @tahitiwoke — THIS IS MY SHOW

[mixtape by] juniper harris & [for] tao song @despiterage — j mix for t

juniper harris & rudy boy — don't you hear me howling babe

[redacted] @jupiter3 & spirit harris — why do you do this if it's so goddamn demeaning?

mackenzie knight & elfgar mason @corsey — the gentler side of mankind's death wish

mackenzie knight & mr. johnson @alulars — all night you're talking to god

marcus dunham @despiterage & spirit harris — you were playing for keeps; Marcus & Spirit @despiterage

[redacted] @flmed & spirit harris — sex money feelings die

norah levy @bluedprints & rachel knight — my cannibal queen <3

[space] pneuma johns @plebcourt and spirit harris — space squire 4 space squire @plebcourt

reaper @dxsole & spirit harris — she sought death in a queen-sized bed

rifat hordiyenko @corsey & spirit harris — the misanthropes next door are probably conceiving a daemon!; they should NOT be at the club @corsey

sasha chasnik @midcenturies & spirit harris — you crazy girl

spirit harris & trevor quinn @bluedprints — for nothing but to deserve you

spirit harris & u. swift @diicktective — do u want to fuck like u know that i do?

spirit harris & victo.r zsa.sz @dogtccth — TEAR YOU TO PIECES AND RIP YOU APART.

spirit harris & whitmer breslin @jupiter3 — in our bedroom

OTHER DYNAMICS

george nichols @jupiter3 & harris harris — [redacted]? [redacted]

haven family — i'll get it right sometime @bluedprints

flynn nichols @jupiter3 & juniper harris & spirit harris — they're gonna have a baby!!!!

juniper harris & harris harris — this isn't love

harris harris & spirit harris — get over it, kiddo.

burns, harris, juniper, lila, & spirit harris — how much worse can it get?; my hatred turned to pity; my resentment blossomed flowers

stevie danvers @wristful & spirit harris — I STARTED USING AGAIN

beck boy, fern @withbeasts, lake @holyrots, rudy boy @bluedprints, saya @corsey, valen — it's us against the world collab

burger kink (isla maddix & hazel kumari @jupiter3 & connor takeda @bluedprints) — BURGER KINK collab

members of kieran glass's cult — it is horrible and it is beautiful.

josephine lewis @ruinaa & kieran glass — i just want to go home

ARCS

second generation @bluedprints @holyrots @jupiter3 @rekant — i'll never have friends like these again!

post-glass @bluedprints — glass is dead. @bluedprints

We Are Killing Ezra Haven @bluedprints — cullen glass is not a violent man

vampire au — MID-CENTURY VAMPIRES, 21ST CENTURY VAMPIRES

royal/fantasy au — CROWNS AND SHIT

[saints-who-never-existed]

Hello! I was wondering, where did the story of Lady Jane Franklin laying the Union Jack flag on Sir John before his expedition come from? Did one of the two tell anyone about it or is it made up as a tale to foreshadow Franklin’s death?

Hi! I'm so flattered to receive lovely and very interesting asks like this, especially as I'm far from an expert in anything Franklin-related. I'm afraid I don't have a clear or comprehensive answer for you, my friend, but that being said, I've done my best!

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I first came across that particular apocryphal tale in Beattie & Geiger's Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (1987) and have since found it mentioned by several other authors too. The earliest and most detailed reference to the story I've been able to find so far goes back to Francis J. Woodward's Portrait of Jane: A Life of Lady Franklin.

Below is the full quote:

"One day - so Davies Gilbert's daughter told her friend Caroline Fox - he was so tired that he lay down on a sofa in the lodgings they had taken in Lower Brook Street and fell asleep. Jane was sitting beside him, putting the final stitches to a flag that she had made - in the tradition of explorers' wives - for him to take to the Arctic. Anxious that he should not feel cold , she threw it over his feet. The touch of it startled him into half-wakefulness. "Why, there's a flag thrown over me!" he exclaimed, "Don't you know that they lay the Union Jack over a corpse?"

Portrait of Jane: A life of Lady Franklin, Francis J. Woodward, 1951 (p253).

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It's not clear to me where exactly Woodward got that information though...

Davies Gilbert was an engineer, politician and at one time, president of the Royal Society while I believe the Caroline Fox referred to here was a noted diarist and writer of the time (though I could well be wrong about that!). Perhaps one explanation could be then that one or both of those women moved within the same social circles as the Franklins or were even actively friends with Lady Jane and the story originated with her?

That's purely speculation though, my friend, and beyond that, I really can't say much more with any certainty!

Does anyone else within this wonderful community of clever people have anything more to add to this? <3

[jylesthejester]

An introduction cause I've seen a lot of pages I follow have one and I don't so-

{ General stuff }

☆ Names i go by are Mist, Jyles, or Ucm!

☆ I have many prns I use but the main ones are He/Him, It/Its, They/Them, Byte/Bytes, Vamp/Vamps, Space/Spaces

{ Fandoms (main) }

♤ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (all vers)

♤ Rockymedia/Ryguymedia

♤ Horrormashfriends/Ybamedia

♤ Little big planet (mainly lbp3)

♤ Ducktales

♤ Cuphead

♤ Gizzygazza roleplays (clue, purge, etc)

♤ Casino Cups

♤ The little club

♤ TSBS/The security breach shows

♤ Jonjon media

♤ The Invisible Davis media

♤ Stardew Valley

♤ Good pizza great pizza

♤ Invader Zim

{ Miscellaneous }

◇ my favorite spider is the green Lynx spider, my favorite tarantula is the Brazilian white knee

◇ most of the names I use are from fandom characters (fun fact)

◇ My fav TSBS chars are Sun, Frank, Jack, and Foxy :D

◇ My favorite computer games at the moment are minecraft and roblox

◇ My favorite minecraft blocks are the pistons(for sound. Satisfying.) And the green froglight :D

◇ My favorite stardew villagers are Haley, Clint, Gus, Shane, and Gunther :3

◇ 1# FRANK AND FRANCIS FAN

◇ Sometimes I'll build stuff based off of ocs or fandom chars in minecraft ^^

◇ I make art sometimes

{ A few songs I enjoy }

♡ Ship in a bottle - fin

♡ She say he say crash test dummy - FlimsByNB

♡ Flight of the crows - Jhariah

♡ Ur Vampire - 6arelyhuman

{ Webtoons/Books I like }

♧ My vampire roommate (webtoon)

♧ Any of the FNaF books

♧ Gravity falls journal 3

♧ Unfamiliar (Webtoon)

{ ask box }

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¤ Hate against fandoms(the ones im in or that other people are in), the people I follow, the people that follow me, the things i do, or just general hate

¤ Don't force your headcannons/ships on me

¤ Nothing problematic

Do put in ask box! :

¤ Any art you've made (I love seeing other people's art ^^)

¤ Questions (it is an ask box afterall)

¤ Rambles about fandoms/theories/hcs

¤ things you'd want thoughts on

¤ Questions about any ocs or creations I've posted here!

¤ Anything that isn't on the "don't put in ask box" list ^^

Socials! :

Ao3 - Hyperlinks_Constellations

Spotify - C4s3ys_L1ght3r

Tumblr - Guess /j

YouTube - UCM_Toxinz⭐️

Pinterest - Alankyeldrichentity

Other socials(? If you can call them that) :

Roblox - Poppe6Sans6Afton6 (listen I made the user during 2020-)

Minecraft - M1nt00z3

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This is where you will find the best X-Men covers of all time organized by artist and character. X-Men covered is a growing archive so if you have any suggestions let me know!

Archive

Cover Sets

Crossovers

Gatefold Covers

Homage Covers

Mock Covers

Non-Comic Covers

X-Men Cards

X-Men International

Top Characters (I will add a master list soon)

Nightcrawler

Cyclops

Rogue

Gambit

Dazzler

Beast

Havok

Wolverine

Magneto

Polaris

Storm

Jean Grey

Shadowcat

Colossus

Jubilee

Iceman

Top Artists

2020 - 2029

Peach Momoko

Mark Brooks

Ryan Stegman

Kaare Andrews

Joshua Cassera

Tyler Kirkham

Jen Bartel

Lucas Werneck

Mahmud Asrar

Todd Nauck

Kael Ngu

2010 - 2019

Pepe Larraz

Esad Ribic

Stuart Immonen

Russell Dauterman

Dustin Weaver

David Yardin

Ed McGuinness

Leinil Francis Yu

Phil Noto

R. B. Silva

David Nakayama

Humberto Ramos

J. Scott Campbell

2000 - 2009

John Cassaday

Frank Quitely

David Finch

Michael Turner

Clayton Crane

Ron Lim

Phil Jimenez

Pasqual Ferry

Pat Lee

Michael Ryan

Gurihiru

1990 - 1999

Jim Lee

Andy Kubert

Joe Madureira

Barry Windsor Smith

Adam Kubert

Greg Capullo

Carlos Pacheco

Joe Quesada

Rob Liefeld

Chris Bachelo

Todd McFarlane

Hiroshi Higuchi

Alex Ross

Whilce Portacio

Sam Kieth

Mike Mignola

Mark Texeira

Michael Golden

Ken Lashley

1980 - 1989

Art Adams

Paul Smith

Marc Silvestri

Bill Sienkiewicz

Walter Simonson

Alan Davis

Frank Miller

John Romita Jr. 

Bob McLeod

Bret Blevins

Jean Frisano

John Buscema

Erik Larson

Steve Lightle

Rick Leonardi

1970 - 1979

John Byrne 

Dave Cockrum

Gil Kane

Neal Adams

1963 - 1969

Jack Kirby

Werner Roth

[opera-ghosts]

Frances Alda sings Ave Maria - vitaphone film 1928

Fanny Jane Davis, who rose to international prominence under the stage name Frances Alda, was one of the first of a long line of New Zealand opera singers to achieve such fame. She came from a strong musical background: her maternal grandparents, Fanny and Martin Simonsen, were important opera impresarios in Australasia during the 1870s and 1880s. Five of their children, including Fanny's mother, Leonore, were professional singers, and one, Frances Saville, achieved European fame as a member of the Vienna Hofoper. Fanny's father, David Davis, a merchant, was a gifted amateur musician and some of her paternal relatives sang in J. C. Williamson's light opera companies. Such an inheritance almost predestined her for a career on the musical stage.

After Fanny Davis was born in Christchurch on 31 May 1879 David Davis objected to his wife resuming her professional career, and the couple divorced in September 1880. Thereafter, Fanny and her older brother alternately lived with relatives or accompanied their mother on tour. When Leonore Davis died in San Francisco on 29 December 1884, shortly after marrying Herman Adler, her two children finally found a stable home with their Simonsen grandparents in Melbourne.

Fanny Davis's musical gifts were apparent early. She studied both piano and violin, but her greatest enthusiasm was for singing. Although she later took lessons from the distinguished Australian tenor Armes Beaumont, much of her technical and interpretive knowledge came from listening to her beloved grandmother teach. She seems to have found her grandfather a forbidding figure. Her grandmother's untimely death in 1896 precipitated Fanny's decision to leave home and earn her own living. In March 1897 Melbourne periodicals reported her engagement by the J. C. Williamson organisation; she was billed as 'Francie Adler'.

Her professional début, in the Adelaide production of the musical extravaganza Matsa, was followed by a small role in the Australian première of the hit musical The gay Parisienne. Subsequently she appeared in pantomime, sang in productions of Gilbert and Sullivan and other light operas, and performed with the Harry Rickards variety company at Sydney's Tivoli Theatre. In August 1901 she left Australia to pursue her vocal ambitions in Europe. At this time she amended her first names from Fanny Jane to the more elegant Frances Jeanne. She also began to falsify her age, shedding four years to create the persistent fiction that she had been born in 1883.

In Paris she became a pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, who gave her the stage name 'Alda' and arranged her successful European début, at the Opéra-Comique on 15 April 1904, in the title role in Massenet's Manon. For the next three seasons she gained experience as a leading soprano at the Théâtre royale de la Monnaie, Brussels. Her career also gathered momentum elsewhere, with operatic débuts at London's Covent Garden (1906), Parma (1907), La Scala, Milan (1908), and Warsaw (1908), as well as numerous concert engagements.

On 7 December 1908 Alda made her début at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, singing Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. The 'Met' was home to the world's most star-studded opera company. Alda spent 22 seasons there from 1908 until her retirement from the operatic stage on 28 December 1929. During this period she gave 281 performances at the Met itself and a further 88 while touring with the company. Critics considered the finest of her 26 roles to be Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She sang it 80 times – a company record – partnering all the leading tenors of her era from Caruso to Gigli. Other successes included the title role in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff and Desdemona in his Otello, Margherita in Boito's Mefistofele, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust and Lady Harriet in Flotow's Martha. She also participated in the premières of several short-lived American operas.

Between Met seasons, Alda undertook extensive recital tours throughout America, and performed several times at South American opera houses. She made her gramophone début in 1910, eventually recording more than 120 titles for the Victor Talking Machine Company. These included two New Zealand items, 'Waiata Māori' and 'Hine e hine'. After retiring from the stage she took part in a pioneering series of radio productions of Puccini operas and made three short musical films. Her autobiography, Men, women and tenors, was published in 1937. Notable for its candour and writing style, the book contains much good advice for young singers. It also makes clear Alda's allegiance to New Zealand.

Although she spent very little time in the country of her birth, Alda consistently described herself as a New Zealander. After revisiting the country during an Australasian recital tour in 1927, her adherence became wholehearted. She maintained contact with several paternal relatives, and despite the precautionary acquisition of American citizenship in 1939 continued to emphasise her New Zealand origins and identify strongly with the country and its people.

Alda's decorous stage presence contrasted with her tempestuous private life. Bluntly outspoken and acutely sensitive to slights, yet impulsively generous and with a robust sense of fun, she made enemies and friends in equal proportion. She was an advocate of women's rights in the music profession, and never hesitated to resort to law on her own behalf. For much of her career she was handicapped by her marriage, at New York, on 3 April 1910, to the Met's general manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. His need to avoid any hint of favouritism restricted her opportunities, while she felt a continual need to prove her artistic worth – as much to herself as the public. She divorced him in 1928; they had no children. On 14 April 1941, at Charleston, South Carolina, she married New York advertising executive Ray Vir Den. Alda spent an affluent retirement, entertaining lavishly at her Long Island home and indulging in her passion for travel. She died of cerebral haemorrhage in Venice on 18 September 1952.

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[tkblythofficial]

i'm trying to be as objective as possible when i say that J's attitude doesn't jive well with mine... I get that he's laid back, but a lot of small things he does are so ugh for me - I felt it when they were talking about working with famous actors, and I believe that T mentioned asking for advice, becoming close with Peter Dinklage, etc. etc. Which is awesome and part of the reason actors want a job like this: connect with experienced A-listers, learn from them. And then J said that he just didn't try talking at all, which H agreed to, so... a bit irritating to me, like dude you're in a room with Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage, why don't you use it?

I know it's a small thing that I'm griping about, but this combined with the audition tape story made me go nahh. It isn't even about him as a person, but as an up and coming actor. I don't want to root for someone who doesn't seem to be rooting for himself. Might be because I'm pretty ambitious myself and am really happy to see T making all the right career choices, making lots of friends and connections everywhere he goes.

R and T are network magnets lol. Some people just know how to talk and make connections. I don’t think J knows how to do that. Even the wine story with Francis. J told him a white lie about liking wine and Francis found out J didn’t really like wine after gifting him an expensive bottle that J let rot in his car for months. Ouch.

I’ve told white lies to my boss / coworkers before but that’s definitely a way to do it. Instead of lying about liking wine, J easily could have said “I’m getting more into drinking wine recently. Can you tell me all the good brands and where to start as a beginner wine connoisseur?” It would have been a totally different vibe and Francis would have been delighted to teach him and J would have created a honest dynamic with him but now Francis thinks he’s a liar now lol. Connection squashed.

For H, it seems like she’s just nervous and stays to herself. She also filmed the last 2 months where connections already formed so she probably felt awkward and out of place, I’ll give her a pass.

R and T definitely talked to Peter, Viola, and Jason which I’m glad since those are valuable connections.

J is lucky that Nina got him on another project with her or he would be jobless right now.

[kwebtv]

Burke’s Law -  List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era.  Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos.  This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.  

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden,  Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Hold Jesus Liable To Arrest As Radical,” Toronto Star. October 20, 1932. Page 3. ---- Could Be Charged With Sedition, Anarchy, Religion and Labor Body Says ---- New Haven, Conn., Oct. 20 - The National Religion and Labor Foundation, organized by leading Jews, Catholics and Protestants to arouse the interest of the church in improving labor’s status, announced in its first bulletin to-day a ‘Reward - for information leading to the apprehension of Jesus Christ.’

Under a pen and ink sketch of Jesus, there appears the following:

‘Wanted - For sedition, criminal anarchy, vagrancy, and conspiring to overthrow the established government.

‘Dresses poorly, said to be a carpenter by trade, ill-nourished, has visionary ideas, associates with common working people, the unemployed, and bums. Alien - believed to be a Jew - alias ‘Prince of Peace,’ ‘Son of Man,’ ‘Light of the World,’ etc. Professional agitator, red beard, marks on hand and feet the result of injuries inflicted by an angry mob led by respectable citizens and legal authorities.’

The bulletin contains a letter from Tom Mooney serving life in San Quentin prison, California, in connection with the 1916 preparedness day bombing in San Francisco, addressed to Professor Jerome Davis of Yale, one of the foundation’s leaders, appealing for financial assistance to enable his defence to investigate the alleged confession of Paul Callicotta of Portland, Ore.

‘We desperately need a reawakening of the flaming social righteousness of the prophets of old,’ says a communication signed by Davis, Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Edward Israel, Allen K. Chalmers and John A. Lapp.

[AL: The National Religion and Labor Foundation is still around!]

[jfrancisdaviscpallc]

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[arwainian]

Reading This Week 2023 #40

Started and Finished:

62 fatt fics for the marathon

various zines from the massachusetts independent comics expo:

A*R*T CRITIC by Giles Crawford May 3rd, 1996 by Giles Crawford New York City, words by They Might Be Giants, art by Giles Crawford Basilisk by Erin Roseberry

The City of God, Book XXII by Augustine, translated by Marcus Dods

"Those Who Cannot See the Whole Are Offended by the Apparent Deformity of a Part": Disability in Augustine's City of God by Alexander Massmann

Chapter 4 of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity: "A Nightmare Silhouette: Racialization and the Long Exposure of Transition" by C. Riley Snorton

The Rediscovered Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano, translated by Timothy J. Johnson

"Biocultures: An Emerging Paradigm" by Jay Clayton, Lennard J. Davis, Jonathan M Metsl, Priscilla Ward, and Bernice L. Hausman

"Kinesthetic Empathy, Physical Recoil: The Conflicting Embodied Affects of Samuel Beckett's Quad" by Hannah Simpson

"Border Crossing by Hearing Children of Deaf Parents: The Lost History of Codas" by Robert Hoffmeister in Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking

"An Intimate History of Slavery and Freedom" from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiment by Saidiya Hartman

"Two Erotic Lessons I Learned from My Mother (and Other Women Who Nourished Me)" by Shoniqua Roach

"The Black Living Room" by Shoniqua Roach

Select poem from Ibn Arabi, Giacomo De Lentini, & Guittone d'Arezzo, as well as "Song of Creatures" by San Francesco

"Metaphor as Experimental Medicine" from Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry by Julie Singer

Ongoing:

Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon

[catenaaurea]

I’ve decided that I will take 2023 to become an “expert” in moral theology. A lot of the posts I will make in between the catechisms will be from the manuals. This is the list of manuals I will be reading:

Brief Textbook of Moral Theology by Fr. Charles Coppens

Elements of Moral Theology by John J Elmendorf

Outlines of Moral Theology by Francis J Connell

Moral Theology by Heribert Jones

Handbook of Moral Theology by Dominic Prummer

Moral and Pastoral Theology (3 volumes) by Henry Davis

A Handbook of Moral Theology (5 volumes) by Antony Koch and Arthur Preuss

Contemporary Moral Theology (2 volumes) by John C Ford and Gerald Kelly

A Manual of Moral Theology for English Speaking Countries by Fr Thomas Slater, SJ

Moral Theology A Complete Course by Fr John A McHugh, OP and Fr Charles J Callan, OP

Theologia Moralis by Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Perhaps more, the goal is to read all of the manuals available in English. This is the starter list which will already prove a challenge to me as someone who views reading as a chore.

[sexy-footballer-dreams]

Players summary

All posts of a specific player. The players listed here are ordered alphabetically and only players are listed that have appeared on this blog.

A

• 🔗 Abdelhamid Sabiri 🇲🇦

• 🔗 Achraf Hakimi 🇲🇦

• 🔗 Allan Saint-Maximin 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Alphonso Davies 🇨🇦

• 🔗 Amine Adli 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Amine Harit 🇲🇦

• 🔗 André Trinidade 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Andrey Santos 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Ansu Fati 🇪🇸

• 🔗 Antonee Robinson 🇺🇸

• 🔗 Antonio Rüdiger 🇩🇪

• 🔗 Ashley Young 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Aurélien Tchouaméni 🇫🇷

B

• 🔗 Ben Godfrey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Breel Embolo 🇨🇭

• 🔗 Bruno Guimaraes 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Bukayo Saka 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

C

• 🔗 Christian Kouamé 🇨🇮

• 🔗 Christopher Scott 🇩🇪

• 🔗 Cody Gakpo 🇳🇱

D

• 🔗 David Alaba 🇦🇹

• 🔗 David Neres 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Dayot Upamecano 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Denzel Dumfries 🇳🇱

• 🔗 Duván Zapata 🇨🇴

E

• 🔗 Eduardo Camavinga 🇫🇷

• 🔗 #Ellis Harrison 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

• 🔗 Ezri Konsa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

F

• 🔗 Francis Amuzu 🇧🇪

G

• 🔗 Gabriel Jesus 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Gabriel Martinelli 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Gavin Bazunu 🇮🇪

• 🔗 Geisson Perea 🇨🇴

• 🔗 Geoffrey Kondogbia 🇨🇫

H

• 🔗 Hee-Chan Hwang 🇰🇷

• 🔗 Hueng-min Son 🇰🇷

I

• 🔗 Ibrahima Konaté 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Irfan Fandi Ahmad 🇸🇬

J

• 🔗 Jacob Ramsey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Jeffrey Schlupp 🇬🇭

• 🔗 Jeremy Doku 🇧🇪

• 🔗 Jesse Lingard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Joao Gomes 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Joe Gomez 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Jonathan David 🇨🇦

• 🔗 Joshua Zirkzee 🇳🇱

• 🔗 Jude Bellingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Jules Koundé 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Julian Alvarez 🇦🇷

• 🔗 Jurriën Timber 🇳🇱

• 🔗 Justin Kluivert 🇳🇱

K

• 🔗 Keshi Anderson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Kingsley Coman 🇫🇷

• 🔗 Kylian Mbappé 🇫🇷

L

• 🔗 Lautaro Martinez 🇦🇷

• 🔗 Leon Bailey 🇯🇲

• 🔗 Leroy Sané 🇩🇪

• 🔗 Lisandro Martinez 🇦🇷

• 🔗 Lyle Foster 🇿🇦

M

• 🔗 Manuel Akanji 🇨🇭

• 🔗 Manuel Benson 🇧🇪

• 🔗 Marcus Rashford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Mario Lemina 🇬🇦

• 🔗 Matheus Pereira 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Michy Batshuayi 🇧🇪

N

• 🔗 Nathan Aké 🇳🇱

O

• 🔗 Odion Ighalo 🇳🇬

• 🔗 Ollie Watkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

P

• 🔗 Paulinho 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Pedri 🇪🇸

• 🔗 Pervis Estupiñán 🇪🇨

Q

• 🔗 Quincy Promes 🇳🇱

R

• 🔗 Raheem Sterling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Reece James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Renato Sanches 🇵🇹

• 🔗 Rico Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Rodri 🇪🇸

• 🔗 Rodrygo Goes 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Romain Saiss 🇲🇦

• 🔗 Romelu Lukaku 🇧🇪

• 🔗 Romeo Lavia 🇧🇪

• 🔗 Ronald Araujo 🇺🇾

• 🔗 Ryan Gravenberch 🇳🇱

S

• 🔗 Salomon Kalou 🇨🇮

• 🔗 Samuel Da Granada 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Steven Bergwijn 🇳🇱

T

• 🔗 Tajon Buchanan 🇨🇦

• 🔗 Tammy Abraham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Thiago Silva 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Trent Alexander-Arnold 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• 🔗 Tyrone Mings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

V

• 🔗 Vincent Kompany 🇧🇪

• 🔗 Vinicius Jr 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Virgil Van Dijk 🇳🇱

• 🔗 Vitinho 🇧🇷

• 🔗 Vitor Jacaré 🇧🇷

W

• 🔗 Weston McKennie 🇺🇸

• 🔗 Wilfried Bony 🇨🇮

• 🔗 Wilfried Zaha 🇨🇮

X

• 🔗 Xavi Simons 🇳🇱

Y

• 🔗 Yeboah Amankwah 🇬🇭

[byneddiedingo]

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorhead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris. Screenplay: Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Cinematography: Gregg Toland. Art direction: Van Nest Polglase, Perry Ferguson. Film editing: Robert Wise. Music: Bernard Herrmann. 

Things I don't like about Citizen Kane:

The "News on the March" montage. It's an efficient way of cluing the audience in to what it's about to see, but is it necessary? And was it necessary to make it a parody of "The March of Time" newsreel, down to the use of the Timespeak so deftly lampooned by Wolcott Gibbs ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind")? 

Susan Alexander Kane. Not only did Orson Welles leave himself open to charges that he was caricaturing William Randolph Hearst's relationship with his mistress, Marion Davies, but he also unwittingly damaged Davies's lasting reputation as a skillful comic actress. We still read today that Susan Alexander (whose minor talent Kane exploits cruelly) is to be identified as Welles's portrait of Davies, when in fact Welles admired Davies's work. But beyond that, Susan (Dorothy Comingore) is an underwritten and inconsistent character -- at one point a sweet and trusting object of Kane's affections and later in the film a vituperative, illiterate shrew and still later a drunk. What was it in her that Kane initially saw? From the moment she first lunges at the high notes in "Una voce poco fa," it's clear to anyone, unless Kane is supposed to have a tin ear, that she has no future as an opera star. Does she exist in the film primarily to demonstrate Kane's arrogance of power? A related quibble: I find the portrayal of her exasperated Italian music teacher, Matiste (Fortunio Bonanova), a silly, intrusive bit of tired comic relief.  

Rosebud. The most famous of all MacGuffins, the thing on which the plot of Citizen Kane depends. It's not just that the explanation of how it became so widely known as Kane's last word is so feeble -- was the sinister butler, Raymond (Paul Stewart) in the room when Kane died, as he seems to say? -- it's that the sled itself puts so much psychological weight on Kane's lost childhood, which we see only in the scenes of his squabbling parents (Agnes Moorehead and Harry Shannon). The defense insists that the emphasis on Rosebud is mistakenly put there by the eager press, and that the point is that we often try to explain the complexity of a life by seizing on the wrong thing. But that seems to me to burden the film with more message than it conveys. 

And yet, and yet ... it's one of the great films. Its exploration of film technique, particularly by Gregg Toland's deep-focus photography, is breathtaking. Perry Ferguson's sets (though credited to RKO art department head Van Nest Polglase) loom magnificently over the action. Bernard Herrmann's score -- it was his first film -- is legendary. And it is certainly one of the great directing debuts in film history. But I don't think it's the greatest film ever made. In the top ten, maybe, but it seems to me artificial and mechanical in comparison to the depiction of actual human life in Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953), the elevation of the gangster genre to incisive social and political critique in the first two Godfather films (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 1974), the delicious explorations of obsessive behavior in any number of Alfred Hitchcock movies, the epic treatment of Russian history in Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966), and the tribulations of growing up in the Apu trilogy (Satyajit Ray, 1955, 1956, 1959). And there are lots of films by Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges, Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Robert Bresson, and Jean-Luc Godard that I would rewatch before I decide to watch Kane again. There are times when I think Welles's debut film has been overrated because he had a great start, battled a formidable foe in William Randolph Hearst, and inadvertently revealed how conventional Hollywood filmmaking was -- for which Hollywood never forgave him. It's common to say that Citizen Kane was prophetic, because the downfall of Charles Foster Kane anticipated the downfall of Orson Welles. That's oversimple, but like many oversimplifications it contains a germ of truth.