#Jamie Trotter

[randomrichards]

AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT:

A toaster salesman

Sees the hand that controls him

Meta stop motion

[thena0315]

25th Anniversary / 25th Reunion Party

[jamesbracket]

The matchups have arrived!

This tournament includes 96 characters named James, Jim, Jimmy, and Jay (with some others too), and they will all be competing in 6 brackets of 16, and the winners of those will be participating in two semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals will fight each other in the final finals! (Basically, it’s just how I did it on @blue-character-brawl, but with the amount of participants cut in half.)

Here are the matchups:

Bracket 1

Jim Hopper (Stranger Things) VS. Jim Halpert (The Office)

James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Marvel) VS. James “Bucky” Barnes (Marvel)

James Bonde (Moriarty the Patriot) VS. James Blond (Super Mario Brothers Super Show)

Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) VS. James Bond (James Bond)

Jimmy Carter (Real Life) VS. James Madison (Hamilton)

James Byrd (@byrdsfly) VS. James Byrd (Spyro the Dragon)

JayMoji (Real Life) VS. James Phryllas (Real Life)

Jimmy Z (Wild Kratts) VS. Jimmy T (WarioWare)

Bracket 2

James Baxter (Adventure Time) VS. James (Adventure Time)

Jamestown, Virginia (Real Life) VS. James Webb Telescope (Real Life)

Jim Henson (Real Life) VS. Jim Davis (Real Life)

Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics) VS. Jim Gordon (DC Comics)

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) VS. James Henry Trotter (James and the Giant Peach)

Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron) VS. Shimmy Jimmy (Phineas and Ferb)

James McCloud (Star Fox) VS. Jay Elbird (Ace Attorney)

James (Wii Sports) VS. James (Papa Louie)

Bracket 3

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan) VS. James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island) VS. Jimmy Hopkins (Bully)

Jamie Waring (Black Swan) VS. James Flint (Black Sails)

Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who) VS. King James IV (Doctor Who)

Dr. James Possible (Kim Possible) VS. Jimmy Pesto Jr. (Bob’s Burgers)

Prince James (Once Upon a Time) VS. James (Princess and the Frog)

jim teacher (This TikTok) VS. Nagasaki James (Noonbit Man)

James March (American Horror Story) VS. James Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Bracket 4

James (Pokémon) VS. James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

James the Red Engine (Thomas and Friends) VS. James P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Jamie Fraser (Outlander) VS. James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)

James Ironwood (RWBY) VS. Private Jimmy (Red vs Blue)

James Rallison (Real Life) VS. James Huckle (The Search for Santa Paws)

Jay Walker (Ninjago) VS. Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)

Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones) VS. Jimmy Novak (Supernatural)

Jem Carstairs (The Infernal Devices) VS. James Herondale (The Last Hours)

Bracket 5

James Wilson (House MD) VS. Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)

Jim Lake Jr. (Trollhunters) VS. James Hunter (Animal Ark)

James (The Walking Dead) VS. Jimmy (Scott Pilgrim)

James-Roman Grilfalinas (@artificialkids-2k23-official) VS. Jimmy Lightning (Peggle)

Jamie Wellerstein (The Last Five Years) VS. Jamie Winter (Midsomer Murders)

James Holden (The Expanse) VS. James Ford (Lost)

James Garrett (Zoey 101) VS. James Amber (Life is Strange)

Jay Merrick (Marble Hornets) VS. Meanie Jim (Junie B. Jones)

Bracket 6

Jim Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) VS. James Maguire (Derry Girls)

James Black (Detective Conan) VS. James Gunn (Real Life)

James the Cat (James the Cat) VS. Jimmy the Robot (The Aquabats)

Jimmy King (Emmerdale) VS. Jim Johnman (Monster Factory)

Jame Palrose (Terror Island) VS. Jimmy (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

James Diamond (Big Time Rush) VS. James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)

James West (The Wild Wild West) VS. James Maxwell (We Happy Few)

Jimmy Campbell (Bandstand) VS. James E. Negatus (Yonderland)

Round 1 of Brackets 1 and 2 will be going up on Saturday, May 20!

[motherofplatypus]

Bisan Owda is a journalist in Gaza that keeps updating about the barbaric genocide actions that israel committed with weapons supplied mainly by US, all the while living through that genocide itself.

Over 30k+ has been killed, and over 15k+ of those are children and babies.

The celebs and artists who wanted to rescind Bisan's nomination are as follow:

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO Universal Music Publishing Group, CCFP Chairman & Co-Founder

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts, CCFP Co-Founder

Rakefet Abergel, Actor/Director, Cyclamen Films

Orly Adelson, Former President of ITV Studios, America

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Anne-Marie Asner, Co-Founder, Animation Israel

Jeff Astrof, TV Producer/Showrunner, Other Shoe Productions

Michael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein

Dean Bahat, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham

Andrea Ballas, VP Comms, CBS

Jackie Barrie, A&R Manager, Nvak Collective

Richard Baskind, Partner & Head of Music, Simons Muirhead & Burton

Aton Ben-Horin, Executive VP of Global A&R, Atlantic Records Group

Steven Bensusan, President, Blue Note Entertainment Group

Adam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment Group

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Josh Binder, Co-Founder and Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Neil Blair, Founding Partner, The Blair Partnership

Selma Blair, Actress, Author, Advocate, Sainted Productions

Rebecca Blumberg, SVP Ad Sales, Paramount

Evan Bogart, Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music

Benjamin Budde, CEO, Budde Group GmbH

Bruce Burger, Producer, RebbeSoul

David Byrnes, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham

Civia Caroline, Social Impact Consultant, CLiC Impact

Pamela Charbit, Director of A&R, Warner Music Group

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actor, Yellow Ray Entertainment

Leanne Coronel, Talent Manager, The Coronel Group

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Musi

Paul Craig, Ceo, Nostromo Management

Doug Davis, NATAS Member, 2x Emmy winner, The Davis Firm

Rebecca De Mornay, Actor

Jamie Denbo, Co-Executive Producer, Grey’s Anatomy, ABC/Disney

Josh Deutsch, Chairman/CEO, Premier Music Group

Avi Diamond, Director, Film/TV Sync, Warner Music Canada

Craig Dorfman, President and Owner, Frontline MGMT

Rachel Douglas, Manager, Range Media Partners

David Draiman, Frontman, Disturbed

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter, bigbamboo

Craig Emanuel, Ryan Murphy Productions

Hannah Epstein, Agent, CAA

Rami “Kosha dillz” Even-Esh, Rapper/Comic/Actor

Lindsay Fabes, Actor

Ron Fair, Record Producer & CEO, Faircraft Inc.

Sharon Farber, Composer, Score by Score Music

Danny Federman, Owner, Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club

Eric Feig, Attorney and TV Academy Member, Feig/Finkel

Patti Felker, Attorney, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, United Talent Agency

Ross “Remedy” Filler, Artist

Shalom Fisch, President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting

David Fishof, CEO, RRFC Films, LLC

Siri Garber, Publicist, Platform

David Gardner, President, Artists First

Barbara Garshman, CEO, Garshman Productions LLC

Gary Gersh

Gary Ginsberg, Senior VP, SoftBank Group Corp.

Brian Ralston, Composer/Producer, Studio 74 Music, LLC

David Glick, Founder & CEO, Edge Group

Zusha Goldin, Celebrity Photographer, Zusha Goldin

Michael Goldwasser, President, Easy Star Records

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing

Scott Greenberg, Partner, LBI

Steven Greenberg, Founder and President, S-Curve Records

Daniel Grindlinger, Writer

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris & Trotter

Michael Hirschhorn, Manager, Streaming and Sales, Atlantic Records

Linda Edell Howard, Attorney, Novick Law

Rich Ingram, Artist/Creator

Neil Jacobson, Former President, Geffen Records, Founder & CEO of Hallwood Media

Michael Kaplan, Writer/Producer

Sam Katz, Music Manager, Homebase MGMT, LLC

Zach Katz, CEO & Co-Founder, Fixated

Ketura Kestin, Film Producer, Serendipity Productions

Amanda Kogan, Manager, Aaron Kogan Management

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer/Showrunner

Jason Kozel, Creative Executive, Range Media Partners

Rick Krim, CEO, Krim Music + Media

Evan Lamberg, President, North America, Universal Music Publishing Group

Sherry Lansing, Former CEO, Paramount Pictures

Colin Lester OBE, Founder/Chairman, JEM Music Group

Sean Liebowitz, Agent

Koura Linda, Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Marci Liroff, Intimacy Coordinator/Casting Director

Cory Litwin, Managing Partner, Range Media Partners

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing & Mgmt

Gabriel Mann, Composer

Deborah Marcus, Executive, CAA Foundation

Susan Markheim, Full Stop Mgt., The Azoff Company

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer, SAG/AFTRA & PGA

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Devra Maza, Screenwriter

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Hilary Michael, Agent and Partner, WME

Beth Milstein, Writer

Jennifer Morrow, Actor, CAA

Patrick Moss, Writer, Moroccan Boychik

Robert Munic, Writer/Showrunner, Pull The Pin Productions, Inc.

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Scott Packman, Founder and Managing Member, SSP Partners LLC

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records

Jonah Platt, Actor/Producer

Wendy Plaut, SVP Music & Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Jessica Poter, Writer, Gustavo Anibal Productions

Golan Ramraz, Writer/Producer, EGX Film Factory

Bruce Resnikof

Frederic Richter, Producer, Writer & Researcher

Wendy Robbins, Executive Producer, Creators Inc

Dan Rosen, President, Warner Music Australasia

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor, WME

Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light

Gregg Rossen, Screenwriter

Michael Rotenberg, CEO, 3 Arts Entertainment

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Glenn Sanders, Writer/Director/Creative Director, Masonry Creative

Ayelet Schiffman, SVP Head of Promotions, Island Records

Paul Schindler, Senior Partner, Greenberg Traurig LLC

Jordan Schur, CEO and Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures and Suretone Entertainment

Adam Schwartz, Writer

Sam Schwartz, Partner, Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants/Village

Adam Segal, President, The 2050 Group

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Ralph Simon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Mobilium Global Limited

Tamar Simon, Owner/CEO, Mean Streets Management

Martin Singer, Attorney, Lavely and Singer

Halle Stanford, President of Television, The Jim Henson Company

Mimi Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Jonathan Steinsapir, Partner, Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir

Gary Stiffelman, Founder, GSS Law

Traci Symanski, CEO, Co-Star Entertainment

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer

Fernando Szew, President, Fox Entertainment

Tal Tavin, Actor

Adam Taylor, President, APM Music

Michael Testa, Casting Director, Michael Testa Casting

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Eric Tuchman, Writer/Producer, MGM-TV

Noa Vinshtok, Streaming, Range Media Partners

Joshua Washington, International Recording Artist, JoDavi Music LLC

Avi Weider, Filmmaker, Loop Filmworks

Jon Weinbach, President, Skydance Sports

Nola Weinstein, Tech Executive

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer, Fox

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Evan Winiker, Managing Partner, Range Music

Seth Yanklewitz, Casting Director, Yanklewitz Pollack Casting

Sharon Tal Yguado, Founder & CEO, Astrid Entertainment

Ky Zaretsky, Manager, Range Media Partners

David Zedeck, Global Co-Head of Music

[Sources: here, here, and here]

[lunar-years]

Hey, just wanted to leave a note from a British perspective about your new fic, that you probably shouldn't publish, or you can if you want, but you definitely should know about. I know you aren't too into looking for canon corrections, and I know you want Jamie to have a friendly face on the England team, but Paddy O'Gara is THEE most Irish name in the world, the Arlo White cheat sheet has him down as a former Ireland international, and the animosity and oppression of Ireland by England leading to Ireland gaining independence is extremely culturally important, to the point of it being extremely offensive to mislabel an Irish person as English. I know this is just a side character who never gets a line of dialogue, but the info we have on him says he's Irish and I really wish you would change that in your fic and not have him on the England team. I don't have a massively good solve for you aside from using a real man city player's name who plays for England and would have been there when Jamie was, or maybe a variation of it? Like... God.... Trotter, to mean Kyle Walker? Something to mirror Stones? But given that the small moments and information we have about O'Gara make him someone who shows up in Jamie fics a fair bit... we know he's Irish, and interchanging Irish for English is extremely not good for Irish people. Even in this case, it stings. You're nice so I thought you'd want to know and thought this might sit outside of your "not fussed on getting canon details right in an AU" thing, which I generally support. Being like "this Irish person is actually English in this AU" is not the same, if you get me. It's laden with racial politics. Sorry if this bums you out.

Hi! Few things:

I've gone back and corrected this! I don't feel comfortable using real player's names as I know nothing about the real players, but I think I came up with a decent alternative (making someone up!) :)

I don't mean to waywardly post this when you said I maybe shouldn't, but since you also said I still could, I've decided I'll go ahead and do so so that people know I am receptive to this kind of feedback (and so I can respond and apologize!) If something ever genuinely offends you in my fics let me know and I will try my best to fix it.

In this case this was an honest error, and I definitely didn't mean to be implying like, "so btw this Irish person is actually English in this au." I just picked O'Gara because he's the only man city player Jamie seems genuinely friendly with/interacts with in canon. Obviously I am aware of England's oppression of Ireland so I take total ownership of my mistake! Just want to be super clear it was NOT my intent to purposefully rewrite and mislabel an Irish character as English, it was an accidental oversight.

I am sorry to you and to anyone else who may have been offended. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy the revised version of the story if you decide to give it another go. Thanks for letting me know.

[ulkaralakbarova]

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Curtis Taylor Jr.: Jamie Foxx Deena Jones: Beyoncé James “Thunder” Early: Eddie Murphy Marty Madison: Danny Glover Effie White: Jennifer Hudson Lorrell Robinson: Anika Noni Rose C.C. White: Keith D. Robinson Michelle Morris: Sharon Leal Wayne: Hinton Battle Magic: Mariah Iman Wilson May: Yvette Cason Max Washington: Ken Page M.C.: Ralph Louis Harris Tiny Joe Dixon: Michael-Leon Wooley Jazz Singer: Loretta Devine Jerry Harris: John Lithgow Sam Walsh: John Krasinski Ronald White: Alexander Folk Aunt Ethel: Esther Scott Miami Comic: Bobby Slayton Teddy Campbell: Jordan Wright Melba Early: Dawnn Lewis Talent Booker: Jaleel White Joann: JoNell Kennedy Charlene: Sybyl Walker Stepp Sister: Lesley Nicole Lewis Stepp Sister: Eboni Nichols Stepp Sister: Arike Rice Stepp Sister: Fatima Robinson Little Albert: Aakomon Jones Tru-Tone: Bernard Fowler Tru-Tone: Anwar Burton Tru-Tone: Tyrell Washington Dave: Rory O’Malley Sweetheart: Laura Bell Bundy Sweetheart: Anne Elizabeth Warren David Bennett: Ivar Brogger Jimmy’s Piano Player: Daren A. Herbert Elvis Kelly: Jocko Sims Rhonda: Pam Trotter Janice: Cleo King Club Manager: Eddie Mekka Case Worker: Alejandro Furth TV Reporter: Dilva Henry American Bandstand Producer: Vince Grant Nicky Cassaro: Robert Cicchini TV Director: Thomas Crawford Carl: Charles Jones Technical Director: Robert Curtis Brown Tania Williams: Stephanie Owens Man with Gun: Gilbert Glenn Brown Stagehand: Marty Ryan Detroit Reporter: Michael Villani Chicago Deejay: Gregg Berger L.A. Deejay: Daniel Riordan Photographer: David James Promo Film Narrator (voice): Paul Kirby Security Guard: Derick Alexander Curtis’ Secretary: Yvette Nicole Brown Go-Go Dancer: Nancy Anderson Go-Go Dancer: Joelle Cosentino Go-Go Dancer: Lisa Eaton Go-Go Dancer: Clare Kutsko Go-Go Dancer: Tracy Phillips Go-Go Dancer: Kelleia Sheerin Campbell Connection Dancer: Mykel Brooks Campbell Connection Dancer: Johnny Erasme Campbell Connection Dancer: Cory Graves Campbell Connection Dancer: J.R. Taylor Bad Side Dancer: Corinthea Henderson Bad Side Dancer: Craig Hollamon Bad Side Dancer: Reginald Jackson Bad Side Dancer: Chuck Maldonado Bad Side Dancer: Anthony Rue II Bad Side Dancer: John Silver Bad Side Dancer: Larry Sims Bad Side Dancer: Black Thomas Bad Side Dancer: Kevin Wilson Bad Side Dancer: Adrian Wiltshire Bad Side Dancer: Earl Wright Bad Side Dancer: Russell “Goofy” Wright Disco Dancer: Dominic Chaiduang Disco Dancer: Jose Cueva Disco Dancer: Omhmar Griffin Disco Dancer: Sky Hoffmann Disco Dancer: Trevor Lopez-Daggett Disco Dancer: Leo Moctezuma Disco Dancer: Gabriel Paige Disco Dancer: Terrance Spencer Disco Dancer: Tony Testa Disco Dancer: Quinton Weathers Disco Dancer: Jull Weber Disco Dancer: Marcel Wilson Jimmy’s Band: Stevie Ray Anthony Jimmy’s Band: Matthew Dickens Jimmy’s Band: Jerohn Garnett Jimmy’s Band: Mario Mosley Jimmy’s Band: Jimmy R.O. Smith Film Crew: Casting: Debra Zane Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Executive Producer: Patricia Whitcher Producer: David Geffen Foley Artist: Catherine Harper Foley Artist: Christopher Moriana Producer: Laurence Mark Director: Bill Condon Musical: Tom Eyen Director of Photography: Tobias A. Schliessler Editor: Virginia Katz Original Music Composer: Henry Krieger Production Design: John Myhre Costume Design: Sharen Davis Digital Intermediate: Stefan Sonnenfeld Dialogue Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt Sound Effects Editor: George Simpson Stunts: Dick Ziker Makeup Artist: Judy Murdock Stunts: John Cenatiempo Second Unit Director of Photography: Dino Parks Assistant Costume Designer: Lizz Wolf First Assistant Editor: Ian Slater Casting Associate: Jeremy Rich Casting Associate: Tannis Vallely Music Arranger: Harvey Mason Gaffer: Newton TerMeer Assistant Art Director: Jann K. Engel Costume Supervisor: Elaine Ramires Sound Effects Editor: Donald Flick Script Supervisor: Carolyn Tolley Choreographer: Aakomon Jones Camer...

[xcziel]

oooops i forgot

tuesday new releases for november 14:

patrick rothfuss novella the narrow road between desires (same size as slow regard of silent things)

david baldacci has new thriller the edge

mitch albom novel about the lives of three holocaust survivors little liar

new novel from michael cunningham day

a return to the time-travel cafe: before we say goodbye by toshikazu kawaguchi author of before the coffee gets cold, english translation by geoffrey trousselot

elizabeth crook's western sequel to the which way tree, the madstone

harmony new book of poetry from whitney hanson

jacquelyn mitchard's new familial drama a very inconvenient scandal

.just once new christian fiction by karen kingsbury

letters of j.r.r. tolkien edited and selected by humphrey carpenter with assistance by christopher tolkien

rush drummer geddy lee's new memoir my effin' life

johnny cash: the life in lyrics with mark stielper

the night parade: a speculative memoir by jami nakamura lin

a woman i know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the kennedy assasination by filmmaker mary haverstick

city on mars by kelly and zach weinersmith (good non-fiction gift for those who like the martian and laughing at elon mushk)

tomlin: the soul of a football coach by john harris

entangled life: illustrated edition by martin sheldrake - new gorgeous hardcover for the mushroom and fungi fans

core of an onion another micro-history - with recipes - from michael kurlansky, author of cod and salt

new leather gifting style black cover of 48 laws of power: special powers edition

the bill gates problem the myth of the good billionaire by tim schwab

the money kings by daniel schulman

new hardcover collector editions of madeline miller's circe and anthony doerr's all the light we cannot see

also new romance collector hardcovers of archer's voice by mia sheridan and one last stop by casey mcquiston

star wars the eye of darkness a high republic novel by george mann

the marvel multiverse role-playing game core rulebook is out now

the upcycled self by tariq 'black thought' trotter

political books 😔:

network of lies about fox news by brian stelter

biography mitt romney a reckoning by mckay coppins

mike pence's advice(?) book go home for dinner

tired of winning by jonathan karl about trump and the gop

[jami-attirmidhi]

JAMI’at-TIRMIDHI: The Book on Business: Hadith 1737

Anas bin Malik narrated that Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

"If trotter (lacking meat) were given to me I would accept it, and if I was invited to (a meal of) it I would accept."

Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1338

In-book reference : Book 15, Hadith 18

English translation : Vol. 3, Book 13, Hadith 1338

[tasmiq]

Jumu'ah Khuthbah: 26 May 2023

In the madness of my coughing mystery, did we totally misconstrue the events related to our successful Tariqa offering, to which your Abbu and Maryam Bhen made exciting contributions to. Ya Shakur that it was such a well-organised success and that we didn't mess things up!

#1. Our Jumu'ah Zikr Sohbet, prior to this event, was kicked off soulfully by Shaykh Nishaat - who said that all our devotions that we think are for Allah are actually for ourselves! Salaah, for instance, is just exercise, without heart...

Everything that we do comes from Allah, where we are given an opportunity to serve Allah. Therefore, we must be organised and have a plan to please Allah through our service!

#2. I have been taken to the brink of death where I am uncertain whether my next breath will happen! Eventually I was taking Dr Ruwaida's homeopathic prescription seen here; after 4 different types of antibiotics failed on her (including an intravenous one), and her own patient found this relief from a Homeopathic practitioner 😅 Both patients in arms, Dr Ruwaida and I are on this, after your Dr Nana's prescribed antibiotic Doxycycline failed on me!

It has been a humbling privilege to continually be brought out from facing death, Ya Shakur!

#3. Was an intriguing find that defined secular Islam as one where God is sophisticated enough to design the universe and yet not sophisticated enough to design the world of man!

Now, having grown up with secular ideologies, which have been challenged by my study of economics, experience as a reasonably multicultural globe trotter, and a near death experience...

The truth is; only now have I spiritually awakened to an opening, to earnestly seek Allah's truth. I am best nestled in a marriage and a Tariqa that provide fertile ground for my earnest curiosity to grow. As I am, arrested in disability - Subhana'Allah!

#4. I was intrigued by Imam Al Ghazali's Alchemy (Divine secret) of Happiness creatively explained for modern audiences and simply entitled "Imam Al Ghazali Advice on Knowing Yourself."

The wisdom that captivated me was Imam Ghazali's explanation of the heart:

"... Knowing yourself begins with understanding that human beings have two distinct components; the body and the spiritual heart...

...The heart was created to witness the Divine presence and is its servant.

The heart has a number of qualities and can be grouped into 4 types:

- Predatory (that seeks happiness in rage and killing)

- Beastial (that seeks happiness in overeating and oversleeping)

- Demonic (by thriving on evil and deceit)

- Angelic attributes (that seeks happiness in the contemplation of Divine presence) ...

Including the indisputable conclusion:

In truth, people in this world are deficient and weak. Only until the heart is able to subjugate the base qualities, which it is able to do with the intellect. And knowledge of itself that elevates itself to the rank of angels. That is the start of the alchemy of happiness!

#5. My humble friend Meryl involved in noble interfaith work, reached out to me by saying "Send us an article written from your heart in relation to climate, earth, women, your faith and send some pics. 🙏🏼 It will be awesome to feature it and will appreciate it."

As an accident survivor with nothing but sweet time to ruminate about prescient matters facing humanity, I have to offer my service! With another noble thinker under my belt, we both cannot ignore Allah's calling...

We now prayerfully wish for Abbu's safe return from his work trip, with gratitude to Allah for helping us cope colourfully with the distance! Where we still manage to upkeep our family tradition of our musical ode to the 99 Names of Allah and our daily Wird:

Ya Shakur

Ya Wadud Ya Salaam Ya Jami Ya Nafi

[honeybrownhood]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Trotters Jamie Size 9 W.

[kat-tamin]

Congratulations to Jamie and Michael!!! What an amazing moment! ❤

[thena0315]

" Had a blast celebrating 25 years of @nbclawandorder #SVU with some familiar faces ✨I’m so grateful to be a small part of this huge history. Congrats to the years of cast and crew on this incredible accomplishment!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 #KatTamin #lawandordersvu "

📷 Jamie's Instagram

[jamesbracket]

Round 2 matchups!

We made it to round 2! Brackets 1-3 have already been posted, and 4-6 will be posted tomorrow. Here are the matchups:

Bracket 1:

Jim Hopper (Stranger Things) VS. James “Bucky” Barnes (Marvel)

James Bonde (Moriarty the Patriot) VS. James Bond (James Bond)

Jimmy Carter (Real Life) VS. James Byrd (@byrdsfly)

James Phryllas (Real Life) VS. Jimmy Z (Wild Kratts)

Bracket 2:

James Baxter (Adventure Time) VS. James Webb Telescope (Real Life)

Jim Henson (Real Life) VS. Jim Gordon (DC Comics)

James Henry Trotter (James and the Giant Peach) VS. Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron)

James McCloud (Star Fox) VS. James (Wii Sports)

Bracket 3:

James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean) VS. Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet)

James Flint (Black Sails) VS. Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who)

Dr. James Possible (Kim Possible) VS. James (Princess and the Frog)

Jim teacher (TikTok) VS. James Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Bracket 4:

James (Pokémon) VS. James P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2) VS. Private Jimmy (Red vs Blue)

James Rallison (Real Life) VS. Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)

Jimmy Novak (Supernatural) VS. Jem Carstairs (The Infernal Devices)

Bracket 5:

James Wilson (House MD) VS. Jim Lake Jr. (Trollhunters)

Jimmy (Scott Pilgrim) VS. James-Roman Grilfalinas (@artificialkids-2k23-official)

Jamie Winter (Midsomer Murders) VS. James Holden (The Expanse)

James Garrett (Zoey 101) VS. Jay Merrick (Marble Hornets)

Bracket 6:

James Maguire (Derry Girls) VS. James Black (Detective Conan)

James the Cat (James the Cat) VS. Jim Johnman (Monster Factory)

Jimmy (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) VS. James Diamond (Big Time Rush)

James West (The Wild Wild West) VS. James E. Negatus (Yonderland)

[lady-o-ren]

My Dearest Disaster

// Jamie Fraser finally meets the girl of his dreams … too bad anytime he gets near her disaster strikes and he ends up in the hospital //

Chapter One // Chapter Two // Chapter Three ao3 link (HERE)

Chapter Three

It's late November now in Edinburgh. The sky is thick with wooly gray clouds and the air carries the prickly promise of a winter chill.

Jamie's been spending the day with his sister as her own personal pack mule, shopping for the bairn to be. She's seven months along now and looks like she's carrying around a watermelon beneath her gray coat. An observation he thoughtlessly (stupidly!) shares with her and why he's now walking with a limp.

Big bellied she may be but Jenny was quick as a cat with nails twice as sharp and killer aim too.

Though at the moment she's sweeter than the hot cider she's sipping on, cheeks round and flushed as holly, but her eyes are searching every shop she passes, with a loving hand on her protruding belly.

“Hungry?” Jamie asks, with a helpful hand of support against her back as they walk up an incline. Jenny gives him a grateful smile.

"Always. The bairn has me eating everything from pickled pig trotters to curly wurlys. Sometimes I even get a hankering to eat them together.”

"Together?!"

She nods, chuckling at Jamie's grossed out expression, and tosses her empty cup into a street side bin.

"Ian has the same look whenever he catches me eating the trotters straight from the jar and sipping the brine. Says I'm marinating puir wee Jamie."

The elder Jamie shivers.

"Ye're giving birth to a monster, Jen. Ye ken that right?"

"I've been wondering the verra same," she says, rather untroubled, while rubbing her belly with glowing affection. "I asked Mam if she had any filthy cravings wi' us. She said nothing strange wi' me, just a strong need for crisps every hour of the day, but wi' you . . .

Jenny then goes on and on about what terrors Jamie inflicted on their poor mother's digestion and how she still gets a sick hankering for cold haggis with ketchup before stopping mid-sentence.

“Oh, did mam tell ye what her auld goat is doing?”

“Auld goat?”

“Murtagh, ye big numpty! Mam says he's been tinkering in his shed trying to make something special for the bairn.”

“Does she ken what?” Jamie smiles, imagining his grouch of a godfather covered head to toe in pastel paints, hammering away at something wee for the child.

Jenny shakes her head, hands diving into her pockets when a cool wind skirts over her.

“If she does she won't tell me. Only that he's good wi’ his hands so expect something bloody spectacular.”

“Aye, he's been a great help around Lallybroch lately. Loves it as much as we and mam do.”

Jenny stops walking and cocks her head to one side, keenly scrutinizing her younger brother.

“Ye ken I've always regretted putting ye in my pram when we were bairns, Jamie. Never did I think ye'd bounce right out to the pavement heid first. Now here we are and ye’re still no better than a half-wit. ”

Jamie narrows his eyes at her.

“What are ye on about, Jenny?”

She snorts. “Ye ken ye’re just proving my point. Now come here and let me see if ye've still got that massive dent in yer skull.”

Jenny then tugs him by the lapel of his jacket down to her level (though she still has to tiptoe to reach him).

"Be still, Ruadh!"

“Ye wee flea! I haven'a got anything wrong wi' m’heid!” protests Jamie, as he squirms beneath his sister's surprisingly iron-strong grasp as passerbys give the Fraser siblings odd looks. Something they both are accustomed to and have long stopped caring about.

“Ha! I was right!” She grins, ruffling his ginger locks before letting him loose. “Still flatter than a bannock and hard as a damn rock.”

“And ye’re still the wee she-devil I've always kent ye for,” he growls, trying to smooth his hair one handed while balancing her bags with his other.

Jenny throws her head back and cackles like the wicked thing she is and locks her arm around Jamie's.

"Til my last breath, m'lad."

As they walk, the street lights begin to flicker on like fireflies, reflecting their dewy glare in the windows of the shops they pass. One in particular catches Jenny's eye that the bairn kicks their feet too.

// EYE OF THE THAI-GER //

“That's it!” Jenny points with the excitement of a child.

Jamie eyes the restaurant up ahead warily.

“Drowning my wee namesake in chilis now?”

She snorts. “I'll spoil my bairn however I like, especially when their uncle is paying. Now come on before I get a taste for trotters again and drown ye in the brine.”

Jenny skips on ahead with a surprising light foot, long straight hair flying behind her, and all Jamie can do is puff his cheeks out with a sigh as he follows her.

It's not that he didn't like Thai food. He loved it. But just smelling the basil spiced aroma waft under his nose was enough to remind him of that one dinner where he flirted with disaster.

He could even feel his tongue start to swell.

In fact . . .

Jamie began to feel a familiar warning itch across the back of his neck spreading like a rash and frantically looked every which way knowing what that meant.

Who was drawing near.

But he needn't look far.

There, walking out of the restaurant, was Claire Beauchamp.

"Shite," chokes Jamie, and grabs his sister's arm, steering her away. "Let's go somewhere else, Jen. Anywhere else. Wherever yer wretched heart pleases. Just -"

Jenny plants her feet and twists her wrist, yanking Jamie to a stop.

"I'm not going anywhere until ye tell me what's got into ye."

Jamie's eyes dash over her head where Claire for the moment is too distracted to notice him as she waves goodbye to the friends she'd been dining with.

Jenny follows his gaze and instantly puts it together.

"Oh, that's her, isn't it? The sassenach."

"Aye. Now unless ye want to see me splayed on the street with my skull cracked open, ye'll take pity on yer only brother and start moving yer big yeti feet."

Hearing the desperate pleading in Jamie's voice, Jenny for once does as she's told (taking note to kick her brother black and blue with her" big yeti feet" later). "A'right, bràthair. Let's get a move on."

They cross the street but Jamie in his hurry drops a wee fluffy lamb from one of the bags he carries and wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for a curly haired lass calling for his attention.

He turns around and feels his heart cease to beat, not because of who he sees but because of the car barreling down the street.

There's a flash of blinding headlights and scraping tires.

A whirlwind of curls and gaelic shouts as Jamie throws himself over the lass he always knew would be his wreck and doom.

And then the world goes black.

//

A/N:

Please keep in mind this is meant to be easy breezy reading (and writing). I'm not about the details in this fic. This was really just written on a whim.

*Eye of the Thai-Ger is a real restaurant somewhere but I borrowed it since I'm bad at puns. I also thought it was a great name considering our leonine eyed lass was walking out of it.

*The marinating your insides line is what my Grams told my mom when she was little when she caught her drinking pickle juice straight from the jar as a kid lol (I also have accidently eaten one! it looked like a funyun!!)

*I got a few questions last time about Murtaugh and Ellen and it was just something that happened. When I was writing the last chapter Jenny just kept talking and out it came and I kept it for Jamie's reaction really. But it does make me feel awful for Brian. Unless Jenny is making something out of nothing . . .

[citylightsbooks]

Pages for Picket Lines: A Labor History Reading List

By James Tracy

Since 2013, the labor movement has been coming off the ropes and landing punches. The Economic Policy Institute reported that over 900,000 workers participated in strikes or work stoppages from 2018-2019. The upsurge of the past seven years have included workers at microbreweries, telecommunications firms, big-box stores, schools, and fast food restaurants. Labor’s story is one of the most inspiring, terrifying and dynamic histories to be told. The ways that we understand the history of working-class resistance ultimately shapes what we think of as possible today.

The foundation of Labor History was built by groundbreaking historians grappling ways to tell a history from below. The upsurge of worker rebellions has been accompanied by an upsurge of powerful books! City Lights asked me to put together a reading list that shows the dynamic books out there, a starting point to come to terms with this history.

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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter, Jr. (University of California Press)

Trotter illustrates how Black workers have always been central to the story of labor in the United States.

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe (Bold Type Books)

Jaffe proves that the quest to emancipate labor is bigger than any collective bargaining contract. This may be the future of labor scholarship!

Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide by Lane Windham (University of North Carolina Press)

Fantastic read challenging the notion that labor’s decline was due to lack of organizing in the 1970s. Written by a labor organizer turned academic, and notable for its attention to gender and race.

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley (University of North Carolina Press)

Kelley, possibly the finest historian in the game today, will make you forget everything you think you know about sharecroppers, the Great Depression, Black organizing, and communists!

Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Miriam Frank (Temple University Press)

This book is a needed corrective to labor history often presented through a heterosexual lens.

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis (The New Press)

Loomis’ strength is the way he tells labor’s story in an accessible way. Ideal for readers new to labor history and politics.

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, edited by Tithi Bhattacharya (Pluto Press)

Possibly one of the most important recent labor anthologies. By updating Social Reproduction Theory, invisible labor is made visible therefore opening up new possibilities for change.

Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice by Michael Beyea Reagan (AK Press)

Reagan puts to bed the myth that class politics must ignore race and gender in this extremely accessible book.

An African-American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz (Beacon Press)

Everyone contemplating what a “Green New Deal” might look like should read Ortiz’s treatment of the Forgotten Workers of America to build a real deal that leaves no worker behind.

Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick (University of North Carolina Press)

Remarkable book on many levels, McConnell-Sidorick shines when exploring working class culture role in organizing.

Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century by Daniel Sidorick (ILR Press)

A go-to book to help understand capital’s project to find cheap and controllable labor.

"They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions by Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Beacon Press)

Concise defense of unions that applies a wrecking ball to anti-labor talking points.

Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books)

McCallum’s near-perfect defense of the need for workers to have “more time” as well as more money.

Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole (PM Press)

Cole has unearthed the history of Ben Fletcher, a radical black wobbly whose story echoes many of today’s controversies.

Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, edited by Keri Leigh Merritt and Matthew Hild (University Press of Florida)

Anyone who dismisses the South as permanently conservative needs to read this powerful corrective to the historical record.

From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by Fred Glass (University of California Press)

This book could alternatively be called “A People’s History of California,” made all the more relevant today as the Golden State becomes the 5th largest economy in the world.

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James Tracy is the Chair of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-founder of the Howard Zinn Book Fair and the Books to the Barricades podcast. Tracy co-authored No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements with Hilary Moore.

[kwebtv]

Sweet Magnolias -  Netflix  -  May 19, 2020 - Present

Romantic Drama (10 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Maddie Townsend

Brooke Elliott as Dana Sue Sullivan

Heather Headley as Helen Decatur

Logan Allen as Kyle Townsend

Anneliese Judge as Annie Sullivan

Carson Rowland as Tyler "Ty" Townsend

Justin Bruening as Cal Maddox

Chris Klein as Bill Townsend

Jamie Lynn Spears as Noreen Fitzgibbons

Recurring

Dion Johnstone as Erik Whitleyc

Chris Medlin as Isaac Downey

Bianca Berry Tarantino as Katie Townsend

Frank Oakley III as Harlan Bixby

Allison Gabriel as Mary Vaughn Lewis

Brittany L. Smith as Peggy Martin

Tracey Bonner as Pastor June Wilkes

Charles Lawlor as Collins Littlefield

Harlan Drum as CeCe Matney

Sam Ashby as Jackson Lewis

Hunter Burke as Trotter Vidhyarkorn

Al-Jaleel Knox as Gabe Weatherspoon

Michael Shenefelt as Ryan Wingate

Michael May as Simon Spry