#Jeffrey Ware

[tm-reads]

Twinkle, Twinkle, Dinosaur

by Jeffrey Burton

Illustrated by Zoe Waring

"Twinkle, twinkle, dinosaur, how I love to hear you roar."

This can be sung to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". We either read this or "Twinkle, Twinkle, Unicorn" as our last book before bed every night.

[blocky-tides]

monsters are born not made. they lurk in the corner of your eye, like a haunting. behold me as my flesh turns to bone as i transcend this plane for protection.

inspired by hermit canyon by @redorich

@mcytrecursive exchange treat for @sloth-sloth-sloth

dylan mcburney / unknown / joshua jennifer / jon ware / stephen king / jeffrey weinstock / mary shelley / donna tartt / waste isolation pilot plant warning / kirsty logan / margaret atwood / @ra3kiv

[cellsshapedlikestars]

What are some of your favorite novels?

oooh a tough question. I went through a pretentious phase in my early 20s where I read a lot of books I'm not actually sure I enjoyed?? Then I went through a non-fiction phase and have a bunch of non-fiction books I absolutely ADORE. Then I sort of stopped reading. So I honestly haven't read too many adult non-fantasy, non-mystery novels that I enjoyed?

I always have a stock answer, that my favorite novel is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I've honestly loved everything he's written. Second favorite is maybe the Ocean at the End of the Lane.

A lot of the books I absolutely adore are fantasy books I read as a kid. Tamora Pierce, Patricia C Wrede, Garth Nix, etc.

Adult fantasy/sci-fi: Patrick Rothsfuss (though I think he's gonna pull a GRRM and never finish the series), the City of Brass series by SA Chakraborty, the Bear & the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel

I also love mystery books, my favorite series being the Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French (the 2nd book especially. book 1 sort of inspired some of Mongrel Heart, so there's that lol). I also tend to like Ruth Ware's thrillers. I used to read a lot of Scandinavian detective novels, but honestly they're a little too depressing for me anymore. Same with the pretentious novels I used to read like Michael Chabon & all the random books I picked up while I worked at Barnes & Noble.

Looking at my bookcase, there's a book called Freddy & Fredericka by Mark Halpren that I remember really enjoying, though it's been YEARS. When I was much younger, I liked the book Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, though again, it's been years since I read it and I was a different person back them. I remember also liking a bunch of short story compilations in my pretentious phase that will take me too long to find & type here.

**gonna add an edit here to say one of the window guys just came to ask me about the Dresden Files books in my upstairs bookcase and I sadly had to tell him that while I liked the first few, I hated a decision that was made & stopped reading after that. Such wasted potential.

[yourdailyqueer-spreadsheet]

Changelog October 7-13

Jazmin Bean - Changed to genderless, added autism

Rita Baga - Added note about blackface

Jeffrey Klarik - Changed to Jewish

Jena Malone - Added polyamorous

Jenna Lyons - Changed to lesbian

Jennell Jaquays - Died in January

Jennifer Pritzker - Added note about NRA

Jinkx Monsoon - Changed real name to Hera, she/her, and transfeminine

Jess Glynne - Changed to queer

Jesse James Keitel - Changed to she/her, trans woman

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard - Updated disability list

Jessica Ware - Changed to bisexual

Jill Andrew - Added note about antisemitism

Jim McGreevey - Moved due to sexual harassment and endorsement of the IDF

Joanna Sternberg - Changed to Jewish, added autism and ADHD

Joanne Vannicola - Name changed to Jo

Johann Hari - Moved due to being an illegally bad journalist

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir - Added note about fucking over sex workers

Johannes Kahrs - Moved due to corruption and harassment

John Barrowman - Added note about sexual harassment (not moved and distinction made bc it was not targeted towards anyone directly)

John Cameron Mitchell - Changed to nonbinary

John Maynard Keynes - Moved due to Zionism

Jordan Gray - Added lesbian

Jordan Raskopoulos - Added ADHD

Ginger Minj - Changed to she/her and genderfluid

Yvie Oddley - Changed to she/he/they and genderqueer

Joy Oladokun - Changed to she/they and GNC

Jude Doyle - Changed to he/they

Julia Alfrida - Changed to nonbinary

Julia Kaye - Changed to Jewish

Jussie Smollett - Added note about fake hate crime

Justin Tranter - Changed to they/them and nonbinary

Karekin Yarian - Changed name to Katherine Magdalene Rose (and removed duplicate as they were previously posted as two different people) @yourdailyqueer

Karl Lagerfeld - Moved due to so much racism and rape apologism

Nicky Doll - Changed to he/she and nonbinary

Kate Moross - Changed name to Aries

Kate Siegel - Changed to Jewish

Katie Dey - Added autism

Katy O'Brian - Added Crohn's disease

Keiynan Lonsdale - Changed to gay

Kevin Fret - Moved due to CSEM production

Kia Labeija - Change to female (she describes herself as a cis woman?)

Kiersey Clemons - Added bipolar

Kim Boekbinder - Changed pronouns to they/he

Kimberly Peirce - Changed to Jewish

Hnilmik - Changed to demigirl and demisexual

Melovin - Moved due to Zionism

K Flay - Added deaf

Krzysztof Gonciarz - Moved due to domestic violence

Kyle Lukoff - Changed to Jewish

[writerwerxuniversity]

Here's what members have been reading at Sisters in Crime Atlanta! Become a member for workshops, articles, lectures, classes, write sprints, and more!

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Hunted in Hope Springs (D. J. Hicks) - https://amzn.to/4edoJdQ 

Last Girl Gone (J. G. Hetherton) - https://amzn.to/4ei5yj3

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Tower (Reed Farrel Coleman, Ken Bruen) - https://amzn.to/3XxqY69

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You Like It Darker (Stephen King) - https://amzn.to/3Zirar8

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[thebackgroundmusic]

August 2024 Reading Log

Penance by Eliza Clark

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Ithaca by Patrick Dillon 

Brutes by Dizz Tate

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci

Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson

Funny Story by Emily Henry 

Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

[irishfederalreconnaissance]

Homeland Security Committee on the Irish Republican Army (MI-6)

Chief Chamberlin: Mitch "Dragfield" McConnell.

Senator Supervising: Barack "Habeebi" Obama.

National Security Agency: Sandi "Khelkhet" MacDonald.

US Army Intelligence: Ben "B-Rock" Carl.

NKVD Vietnam: Dennis "Thresh" Fong.

British Navy: Silver "Stitches" Laventi.

Republic of Ireland: David "Chet" Charlebois.

Federal Bureau of Investigation: Alexandra "Miasma" Rhzanova.

Red Alert Team:

Persian Intelligence: Jeffrey "Dr. Leo" Lange.

Al-Qaeda: Amanda "Gemma" Schuck.

Chicago Poly Mercantile: Pat "Haggar" Ware.

NYPD: Momo "Kobun" Yubari.

Boston Gennero: Uma "The Bride" Thurman.

Harrison's Betting Parlor: Maureen "M" Charlebois.

Personal Bearing ("Chet", Republic of Ireland):

Target: Proctor and Gambol, police unions of dairy.

Jack Napier: Boy Scouts of America.

Edward Nygma: DC Comics.

Victor Fries: National Security Agency.

Jonathan Crane: Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.

The Joker: Homeland Security.

Bane: Committee for Security Services (KGB).

Oswald Cobblepot: Eros (North Korean MSS).

Digger Harkness: Sinn Fein.

Eric Needham: INTERPOL Taiwan.

[naturecoaster]

37th Annual Florida Manatee Festival

Located in the "Manatee Capital of the World", The Florida Manatee Festival is an annual event held every January in beautiful downtown Crystal River. Our festival boasts two days of live entertainment, discounted opportunities for guided manatee boat tours and kayak tours in Kings Bay, children's activities, delicious food, and hundreds of vendors selling their wares! Entry is only $10 for adults and children 12 and under are FREE! Look for the special coupon in the Citrus County Chronicle for $5 off SUNDAY ONLY on up to four adult admissions. The Florida Manatee Festival is consistently rated by attendees as one of the best outdoor events in Citrus County! Featuring a wide selection of delicious cuisine choices, the Florida Manatee Festival is pleased to offer a tasty selection of delectable delights at the food court right near the main stage in Kings Bay Park, and a second food court near the gazebo stage in Little Springs Park. Back this year, guided kayak tours will be offered at the festival for a nominal fee! Tour guides will take you on an immersive tour of the bay and Hunter Springs area giving a firsthand glance at the beauty of our Nature Coast! Also returning are manatee boat tours! Participating local guides with M.E.T.A. (Manatee Eco Tourism Association) will take you to their favorite manatee watch spots for a chance to see our favorite floating friends up close without getting in the water! Tickets for the boat tours can be purchased at the festival and are valid the day of purchase only. $15 – Adults | $10 – aged 6 -12 | Free – aged 5 and under. Free transportation and admission to Three Sisters Springs and the new Friends of the Crystal River Wildlife Refuge visitor’s center will also be included in your festival entry! Buses will be picking up and dropping off from the gate at 5th street from 9AM – 3:30PM both days. World-famous Three Sisters Springs is the perfect setting to view the majestic manatee in its natural environment without getting your feet wet! Hundreds of manatees flock to the springs every year during Manatee Season (November 15th – March 31st) as refuge from the cold, utilizing the springs’ consistent 72-degree waters to regulate their body temperature at a healthy level. Musical entertainment will be ongoing both days from four stages. The Main Stage at Kings Bay Park will feature music all weekend long opening Saturday with an outstanding Jimmy Buffet Tribute, The Caribbean Chillers from 10:30am - 1:30pm followed by headliner Six Gun from 2:30PM - 5PM. Also Saturday, look for Gypsy Sparrow from 10AM -1PM at the Pumphouse stage. Sunday, we are excited to welcome Barefoot Bob & The Hope from 10am - 1pm to the Mainstage followed by headliner, MoonFlower - The Spirit of Santana, from 2:30pm - 4pm. You will also find local flavor scattered amongst the additional stages including Jekyll & Hyde at Little Springs Parks from 1pm - 4pm, Reggie Stacey from 10am - 1pm in Heritage Village, and Jeffrey Ekhoff at the Pumphouse Stage from 10am -1pm. But that's not all! A full lineup with days and times can be found on our website, updates will be made as the entertainment is booked! Additionally, a vast array of fine art, craft, commercial, and non-profit vendors will line the streets alongside our resident businesses that fill in the charmingly picturesque setting that makes up the heart and soul of our beautiful downtown. For the cultural connoisseurs, “Art in the Park” will be held in Crystal River’s beautiful Town Square, offering the perfect setting to browse and purchase an original piece of art for your home, business or as a wearable piece of jewelry that will be a treasure of special meaning forever. New this year, we are excited to welcome the Twistid Arts Initiative as an interactive feature that will offer a creative outlet for attendees at the Pumphouse, adjacent to Art in the Park. For the kiddos, a Kids Zone and fun activities will span throughout the festival. Some of the activities the Florida Manatee festival has been known to host includes inflatables, face painting, a human catapult, human waterwheel, carnival food and more! For the adults, there will be more food, along with beer and wine gardens near the main music stage and throughout the festival. With something to please everyone, the 37th Annual Florida Manatee Festival is the place to go! For more information: www.GoManateeFest.com, www.facebook.com/FloridaManateeFestival, or 352-795-3149. --- What: 37th Annual Florida Manatee Festival When: Saturday, Jan. 13, 9 am – 5 pm; and Sunday, Jan. 14, 9 am – 4 pm Cost: $10 per person, age 12 and under free | SPECIAL: Get $5 off up to four entries on SUNDAY only with the Citrus County Chronicle coupon. Where: Downtown Crystal River, at the intersection of Citrus Avenue and U.S. 19, stretching up through the shops and restaurants of Heritage Village and surrounding areas, down to the waterside area along Kings Bay. Parking: Free parking is available at Crystal River High School with free shuttles to the festival gates. Parking downtown is strongly discouraged due to short supply and the safety of guests, staff, and volunteers walking the festival perimeter.   Read the full article

[thesinglesjukebox]

JESSIE WARE - "BEGIN AGAIN"

This! Is a Review! Of a Jukebox! Favourite!

[6.73]

Frank Falisi: I spent all of 2012 writing to Jessie Ware's Devotion. Music you write to can earn the unpleasant designation as a productive space; nothing inverses the promise of desire like Chill Beats Fall Morning Relaxing Sweet Piano Jazz Music in Bookstore Cafe Ambience to Studying. Nothing is less sexy than work. But Devotion had sex in it, that Sade-Dusty percolation, and if you could make brain space for it while trying to form sentences in a university library, it was because it approached a body from a different, minor vantage point. It was desire theoretical, something you could activate and prove someday somewhere else, if you wanted to. Ware has spent the interim years interrogating that initial chill (Tough Love), removing the remove and sending the pure pop bubbling up (Glasshouse), getting plasticine (What's Your Pleasure?), and now fucking a funk (That! Feels Good!), sending sending it up all the way up. "Begin Again" is both obvious and surprising in that motion, all forky horns and whip ride cymbal, a further push of the pop past the unremembered disco of other such chanteuses into the kind of deeply uncool exaltation that wouldn't be out of step soundtracking seventies spy cheese, covered in shag. Or maybe it's just about and for now, Ware sending her throaty falsetto through faux-insights like "why does all the purest love get filtered through machines? "To be clear, pop music at its best is a faux-insight machine: don't you prefer a beautiful and inane and useless pop? All the better to un-write to. [7]

Jeffrey Brister: A lush, deliriously beautiful swirl of drums and strings and horns and keys rolls across the track, with Ware's voice layered over top, all yearning and need and desire, a gust pushing forcefully through and ever upward. The lyrics beg for something real and beautiful. Am I actually trying to critique the song? No. I love this one too much for that. [9]

Kat Stevens: It's been ten years since I had a nice time seeing Jessie in the dance tent at Glastonbury. Jessie and I have diverged paths since then, but I'm happy with the way I went. I'm less happy about the way Jessie went. I might be too old and tired for Glasto, but at least I'm not at the blimmin' Hootenanny. [4]

Alfred Soto: No album disappointed me in 2023 more deeply than That! Feels Good! From the misplaced exclamation point to the star's pneumatic enthusiasm, the songs amounted to a collective willed euphoria. "Begin Again" and its massed vocals embody the problem. Jessie Ware sounds good -- she always sounds good. [4]

Michael Hong: That! Feels Good! isn't just a rehash of What's Your Pleasure? but a progression. It's a more varied take on that disco sound, with grand proclamations instead of seductive teases. Maybe "Begin Again" is the most tasteful example: her voice sounds fuller, brighter, and plenty more soulful; while the horns and strings add splashes of colour -- that descending Samba melody is particularly bewitching. But blame it on Ware's consistent streak, blame it on the subject matter, "Begin Again" feels more impressive than fun or sexy or really anything other than grand show. [6]

Nortey Dowuona: If there's no colonialism, sure. [6]

Leah Isobel: "Begin Again" plays like the cartoon version of What's Your Pleasure? - it blows up that record's rich, libidinal ambivalence into unsubtle fun. It's not bad, but it feels like a downgrade. [6]

John S. Quinn-Puerta: This is my kind of maximalism. The horn hits speak to my soul. The build is constant, with so much percussion that it just washes over me in the most beautiful way. It also wins my superlative for "most likely to make me dance in my office job" (a lot has happened since the Jukebox's last undeath y'all). [10]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Richly appointed, exquisitely wrought, fucking boring. [3]

Ian Mathers: I'm not going to dock this a point for the fact that I can't quite place what it's making me think of, and how sure I am that other blurbs here are going to have me smacking my forehead going "of course!" That one's on me! I am going to dock a point for how much the repeated "why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?" makes me grit my teeth. There are plenty of times I've enjoyed the salty/sweet combo of this kind of sonic ebullience and foreboding lyrics, but here it just doesn't land for me. Nice horns though. [8]

Katherine St Asaph: I too wish to be reborn as a pulsating satin gown. [9]

Dorian Sinclair: There's a streak of the cosmic in the lyrics for "Begin Again," with imagery that in some instances feels pulled straight from Hair's "Age of Aquarius." But the celestial language is here paired with a succession of musical figures that are all about descent, both vocal and instrumental lines consistently pulling downward (most obvious in the prechorus melody and in the lurching piano walkdown that mirrors it). That tension -- the upward pull and the downward stumble -- is the engine that powers the entire track, right up until Ware breaks through four minutes in, forsaking words altogether as she spirals up into the stratosphere. It's a moment of pure exhilaration, and if the track doesn't seem totally sure of how to wrap itself up afterward, there are worse failings. [7]

Josh Winters: This is my "Break My Soul." [9]

Kayla Beardslee: Extravagance not as guilty overconsumption, but as joyous liberation. [10]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: A devastatingly beautiful song that gets necessarily ruptured partway through via syncopated piano rhythms. I keep waiting for it to evolve even more, but "Begin Again" just keeps getting bigger, more extravagant, and doing more of the same thing isn't exactly reinvention. [5]

Peter Ryan: So much of That! Feels Good! gave me the aural equivalent of "Great gowns, beautiful gowns." As much as anything on the album, "Begin Again" distills the virtues and constraints of the approach -- Ware finding new ways to transmute into sonic opulence, band allowed to cook just a bit, arrangement immaculate, ornate, expensive, careful. The chorus deflates the little bit of momentum gathered in the verses, but the execution is gorgeous enough to avoid the slightly embalmed, tasteful disco-by-numbers quality I find in other parts of the album -- self-consciously retrograde, but it's alive. [5]

William John: I've been a card-carrying Warewolf for over twelve years, but the That! Feels Good! era has presented its challenges, chief among them a need to stomach the idea that on it, the considered joys of Ware's previous album What's Your Pleasure? were Mighty Hoopla-fied to the extreme. And while there's nothing necessarily shameful about such aims, hitherto Ware has traded in either steely sophistication or very subtle vulnerability, and I'm not certain she can entirely shake those comfort zones when, for example, attempting flippant, Countess Luann-like artifice on a song like "Shake The Bottle." The result is an album comprised of a kind of kitsch that isn't quite kitsch enough. "Begin Again" is its Brazilian-influenced centrepiece, gliding and unfurling in a mesmerising way; the reverie is not so much broken but punctuated by a piano that sounds like it's falling down an escalator, by a big note at the climax, and by a disarming line about technology's effect on romance. While these elements and its length might allow it to be scanned as a "kitchen sink" bit of art, the kind of thing the album demands, the overwhelming feeling that I get is that it's like "Spotlight" but with the dimmers on, only occasionally flickering to life. I'll take the latter any day with my caipirinha. [7]

Tara Hillegeist: Sleek and effortless, like Salsoul used to make it, and just as professionally smooth -- but unfortunately, unlike those Salsoul greats of old, the backing singers just aren't quite there in the mix, and the percussion definitely isn't... well, percussing near enough. Deeply unfortunate, as the bones of a standout arrangement are here, and nobody else besides Janelle Monae quite seems to have ever shared Jessie Ware's appreciation for, and interest in pursuing, the steely-throated zenith of disco divinity in a modern context. There are moments on "Begin Again" where she seems to ascend her perch like nothing so much as a perfectly-machined sculpture of song, reaching for that glory -- only to find herself alone in the yearning, un-buttressed by the rest of the clockwork mechanism that should be rising with her in turn -- and the whole edifice sighs back to earth instead. [7]

Oliver Maier: This! Sounds whatever! [4]

Anna Katrina Lockwood: As is often the case with Jessie Ware songs, "Begin Again" is quite good. Is there quite enough song here to justify the full near 5+ minute run time? Possibly not -- at certain points, it feels like Ware and her collaborators have swapped out song structure for layers of disco instrumentation creating dynamic range. It's nice -- it works, and it sounds good, but it's certainly not sublime in the way that, say, "Please" is. I'm absolutely nitpicking here, but this is all to say that the standard is high, and this song is just not quite at the tippy top of Jessie Ware's catalog. [7]

Jackie Powell: After a couple of bars of percussion, "Begin Again" is reminiscent of how "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" begins. While this is technically a show tune that was made for the rock musical Hair, these similarities are most apparent on the 1969 cover by The 5th Dimension. There's an echo in both songs that layers around a few different voices. Jessie Ware is one artist, but "Begin Again" creates an illusion that a whole band is actually behind her in this. Her co-writers join in the fun and provide backing vocals that give the track an extra edge. Ware's delivery reminds me of an Earth, Wind and Fire song and in particular the tracks where the late Maurice White would alternate lead vocals with the under appreciated Phil Bailey. The brass in "Begin Again" is bold but not too distracting and ostentatious. When the horns are at their most noticeable during and following the second chorus, they help guide the listener through what would have been a song too much like a track off Future Nostalgia; I wish Dua Lipa used more horns alongside her heavy reliance on string sections. Ware finds a way here. [7]

Brad Shoup: That piano line is tuff, man. This about as close to that Casablanca disco glamour as you could hope for: aching and endlessly ascending. The line about machines snapped the spell--it felt like something Win Butler or St. Vincent discarded -- but I talked myself into it. If smartphones or the threat of house music had existed in 1979, August Darnell probably would have written a (very good) song complaining about them. [8]

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[wqbytop100]

WQBY

Top 100 for the week ending June 23, 2023

Happy--------NF -15

Where You Are----John Summit, Hayla -1

Sweet Goodbye----Robin Schulz, *Svidden remix -4

Submarine----Seeb, BANNERS, SUPER-Hi -12

Pwdr Blu----Kx5 f/ Brother-14

If We Ever Broke Up---Mae Stephens -17

Borderline----Tove Lo -18

Rhyme Dust----MK & Dom Dolla -26

The Way----Manchester Orchestra -9

Jacare----Sofi Tukker -27

Sicky Sweet---Kenzie, *Alan Walker remix -23

Misbehave----Ship Wrek, Disco Lines -7

I Feel Love----Freya Ridings -10

One Time----Kyle Walker -5

Strangely Sentmental ----Anabel Englund -79

Pearls----Jessie Ware -22

Sparks----MEDUZA, DEL-30, Mali-Koa -3

Part Of Me----Cian Ducrot -21

Waffle House----Jonas Brothers -25

Dressed For A Funeral----Groupthink, Sunday Scaries -19

Upside Down-----MEDUZA, Poppy Baskcomb -16

Feels This Good-----Sigala, Mae Muller, Caity Baser, Stefflon Don -13

High Heels - Party Down Under-----Flo Rida, Walker Hayes -2

Waterfall---Michael Schulte, R3HAB -20

Crying On The Dancefloor----Sam Feldt, Jonas Blue, Endless Summer, Violet Days -11

Here We Go Again ----Oiliver Tree, David Guetta -37

Seasons----Bebe Rexha, Dolly Parton -6

Die For A Night----A R I Z O N A -29+

Miami----Lola Audreys f/ Nile Rodgers -24

Take Me Home----VAVO, Clara Mae -8

Stereo----SUM SUN, Sly Chance -31

Chemical---Post Malone -35

Something's Coming-----Cheat Codes, Lady A -33

Church Outfit-----Poppy -34

Gone (Da da Da)----Imanbek, Jay Sean -28

Hungry Heart----Steve Aoki, Galantis, Hayley Kiyoko -38

Reborn----SIDEPIECE, *Kyle Walker remix -32

Begin Again----Jessie Ware -40

No One Dies From Love----Tove Lo -36

Lost Souls----Jeffrey Sutorius, Jay Hardway -51

Broken----Isak Danielson, *Lost Frequencies cut/remix -52

This Is What Losing Someone Feels Like----JVKE -41

Hey Little Mama----Morgan Evans -43

Hooked-----Sam Short -44

Good Time----The Dare -45

Dancing In The Courthouse----Dominic Fike -46

Back To You----Bob Moses, *Amtrac remix -47

<>Toxic---AnnenMayKantereit -(re entry)

<>Kill For You----Gigi Perez -(re entry)

<>Miss Me The Same----Sara Kays, Anson Seabra -(re entry)

***Good Girl ERA----UPSAHL -(new)

<>Eyes Wide Shut----ILLENIUM, Avril Lavigne -(re entry)

Say Say Say----Kygo, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney -48

So Many Ways To Get Downtown-----Proxima Parada -42

Sweat----ESSEL -30

<>No One Knows We're Dancing----Everything But The Girl -(re entry)

Too Many Things----The Linda Lindas -53

Don't Give Up----Zoe Wees -54

Change----LAUREL -55

<>Trustfall----Pink - (re entry)

Back Around----Tiesto, AR/CO -75

Puppet On Your String----Abe Parker -61

Disco Ball Soul----Rebounder -68

***Flirt To Convert----Armand Van Helden, Brittles -(new)

The One----INJI -63

***A Thousand Knives----RY X. Enamour -(new)

No Sleep----Regard, Ella Henderson -78

***Sunset----Gus Dapperton -(new)

Over The Moon-----Eddie Benjamin -87

Tough (The Girls Song)----Will Linley -86

Bad----Young Bombs, Discrete, Alex Hosking -70

Tattoos & Therapy----Madilyn Bailey, Madilyn 89

Would You Even Know----Audien, William Black, Tia Tia -71

I'm Not Dead Yet---Mike Posner -92

A Year Ago---James Arthur -98

***Call My Name----BLOND;ISH -(new)

***Lucid Dream----Topic -(new)

***Lose My Mind-----AC Slater, NuBass, Kaleena Zanders -(new)

<>Lung Burn----Little Image -(re entry)

All For Love----Felix Jaehn, Sandro Cavazza -84

***Five4Three2One----Layto -(new)

Back To This----Matt Sassari, Soshy -83

***Moderation----Col3trane -(new)

***The Sound Of San Francisco----Global Deejays, *Progressive Album mix -(new)

***Wet White Tee Shirt----UPSAHL -(new)

On The Glamour----Aluna, Pabilo Vittar, MNEK, Eden Prince -90

***Upside----PL$&TY -(new)

River----Miley Cyrus -91

---Hot In Here-----Nelly -(re-current)

What The Hell Are We Dying For----Shawn Mendes -94

***Lost In The Rhythm----David Guetta, MORTEN -(new)

---Elastic Heart----Sia -(re-current)

Everything You Have Done----GENESI, MEDUZA -50

Just The Kinda Feelin----Yotto, Lost Boy -39

Psychos----Jenny Lewis -58

It's Euphoric-----Georgia -59

Something Like This----Chet Faker -60

Dancing All Alone----Morgan Page, TELYKAST -49

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MasterChef: The Professionals 2022 crowns Nikita Pathakji winner after tense final

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"A transcript of my own individuality": Elizabeth speaks in her own words

A colorized photograph of Elizabeth from one her books, I believe from this book.

Continuing from where we left off in the last article of this series, in 1864, Elizabeth (often called E.P.W. Packard) wrote a book telling her personal experience inside the Jacksonsville State Hospital titled The exposure on board the Atlantic & Pacific car of emancipation for the slaves of old Columbia, engineered by the lightning express; or, Christianity & Calvinism compared. With an appeal to the government to emancipate the slaves of the marriage union. Volume I. Ed. by a slave, now imprisoned in Jacksonville insane asylum, making the powerful claim she was enslaved by her marriage to Theophilus. I can't thank Stephany enough for sharing the excerpts from Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris's Women in the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls: 1840-1945. Originally I planned to reprint extracts of her book, but since its so long, its perhaps better to summarize it, to the best of my ability, in this post.

In the Dedication to this 1864 book, which is to her children, she first lays out some important genealogical information on her children:

Theophilus Packard, Jr., her first child, born on Mar 17, 1842

Issac Ware Packard, her second child, born Jun 24, 1844

Samuel Packard, her third child, born Nov 2, 1847

Elizabeth Ware Packard, her fourth child, born May 10, 1850

George Hastings Packard, her fifth child, born Jul 18, 1853

Arthur Dwight Packard, her sixth child, born Dec 18, 1858

As the dedication goes on, she ties in her Christian imagery, but also argues that she has been "deserted by my father, cast off by my husband, uncared for by my brothers" but says that these six children have stood by her, saying that their " tender, loving hearts have writhed in secret agony over your mother's sorrows." She especially thanks her son Theophilus, who, despite the fact he was "threatened with disinheritance from our family and home," whom visited her four times in prison, and the one secret visit of her son Isaac. She also notes that her cousin, Angeline S. Field, of Granville, Ill., visited her "once, and has written me once," a possible further connection to explore on this blog in the future.

When we get to the book's Preface, the importance of the book it clear. Not only does she "assume the entire responsibility of the statements and opinions it contains" but it is, as noted in the title of this post, "a transcript of my own individuality upon paper." She further says that while she is called "crazy, or insane" is because those who call her that cannot "see the reasonableness of the positions and opinions I assume to advocate and defend," and further says they have a lack of "Christian charity." She goes onto say that she has endured "a long and wearisome persecution and false imprisonment of three years for conscience sake," and that truth is her only "weapon...defense...[and] refuge" to make her argument. She further points out that her "benevolent regard for the insane party tempts me to give them some occasion for believing me insane by giving utterance to what, to them, will be insane opinions." She ends by saying that she will pack her "thoughts into the form of cannon balls to shoot Calvinism with...by giving my reasons for my opinions" and says that the book, is effectively, "God's work."

Then, we get to the Introduction (written in October 1862), which is a bit different from the preface. She argues that book will be 12 distinct parts, and she wants to get to her children, to her family, to go home, saying she is presenting this book at the suggestion of Dr. Andrew McFarland (a Universalist and Spiritualist) of the asylum. She adds that she has had to confront the asylum's trustees for falsely imprisoning her for  three years, condemns the "treacherous sister" of her husband, Sybil, the cousin of her husband, Sophia Porter Smith (calling her a "Calvin sycophant or parasite"), and her father, Rev. Samuel Ware ("defender of total depravity") while she praises the wife of her brother (Samuel) named Mary and her brother Austin Ware, whom she calls kind, but halting. Connected to this is the Birth of the Book section where she justifies the necessity for publishing this book. She also admits that Dr. McFarland did not keep his promise to lend her money to publish my book, but instead tried to prevent its publication! Yikes!

After that is the My Passport section, which is a sort of preface to her statement to the Trustees of the Jacksonville Insane Asylum, at their September meeting in 1862, through the kindness of Dr. McFarland. She notes how she pleaded her case to the trustees, with the support of Dr. McFarland, and the correspondence with Mrs. Maria Chapman, also confined in the same asylum "on the charge of insanity, based on her embracing Swedenborgian views, while her friends remain Presbyterians" but is in a different ward, so the letters between they are carried by Dr. Tenny the mail-carrier. In the Statement Before the Trustees, she argues that Christianity and Calvinism are antagonistic to each other, saying that Calvinism is treasonous,and making further religious arguments saying that Jesus and Calvin's ideas are in conflict. But then she makes her stronger arguments: her imprisonment and the attempt to chain her thoughts is "a crime against the constitution of this free government, and also a crime against civilization and human progress," that the law through which she is imprisoned, "is a Calvinistic law" and immoral, that the Calvinistic law of marriage "enslaves the wife" and only cured by emancipation, and that Calvinism is inherently wrong in and of itself. She finally makes the request that the trustees give her paper to write her thoughts down in print,that her husband is effectively abusing her and should be taken from his "position in society, his family, and from all his constitutional rights as an American citizen, and imprison[ed]...in this Insane Asylum, for life, or until I can remove his children out of the reach of his influence"!

With that, we get to the Correspondence with Mrs. [Maria] Chapman. In response to her statement, Chapman tells her that she is anxious to know of the success of her pleading of case, saying that Elizabeth has "been so brave in fighting your own battles" but hopes it "will not be in vain." In reply on Sept 8, Elizabeth, after making a religious argument, notes that she talked as fast as she could, but she spent 50 minutes making her case, with the trustees willing to do what she asked, and says that she prefers to "stand self-reliant and alone, depending upon my own intrinsic character, capacities, qualifications and deserts" for her own support. However, she does say that none of the trustees believe her to "be an insane person," arguing that the "tide has turned." Sadly, Elizabeth did not publish the reply by Maria, perhaps because it was personal in some way, although she did say that Elizabeth should have "spiritual freedom."

In another letter to Maria on Sept 12, Elizabeth noted the visit of her husband to the asylum, and in a way admitted her intelligence, although he still felt she was "insane," which she followed by calling him "not a man...but only a personified demon"! Some in the hospital, like Mrs. Grapes (superintendent of the sewing room), Ms. Mary Segal (the chambermaid of Dr. McFarland), and Ms. Haslet (a Manteno gentleman) seemed to agree with her assessment! She then goes on in her religious argument. Following this is yet another letter to Maria, undated, saying that she has lost confidence in her husband and father as her spiritual guides. She also notes how her father placed in the Worchester Asylum at age 18 to cure her of a "derangement which followed a severe brain fever, the result of malign medical treatment" as she puts it, remaining there for five weeks. She also says that she sees the trustees as her friends, that don't want to keep her imprisoned any longer. It is there that the letters end, with a P.S. note on the last letter, signed E.P.W.P. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard).

With that, we get to the next part of her book, titled Seeing Eye to Eye. In this section, she tells what can be considered a religious fable, basically saying that those of different religious sects within Christianity are working together, while arguing that practical Christians are alike, "not the creeds or sects." Following this is another section titled Analogy: Between the Rebellion in Our Family and In Our Country. She compares the marital division between her and her husband as analogous to the Civil War itself, writing about the "insolent, intolerent spirit of the South," and how she is not the one who should repent, but rather it should be her husband! She further argues that she has "suffered the most...having never retaliated an injury in my life," adding that the North "Are the greatest sufferers in the spiritual plane" because they are, in her viewpoint, "keenly alive to justice and humanity, and love of country and kindred," saying that the South are "hardened their sensibility by injustice and inhumanity so long." She goes on to make further comparisons between the Civil War and marital strife with her husband, basically saying that the latter is analogous to the South! There's so much in this section, I really can't summarize all 33 points, but each one is powerful in their own way.

After this is a chapter titled Transmigration of Souls. She starts to go into some spiritual beliefs ("souls do inhabit different bodies, at different periods of their existence, as really as vegetable and animal life exist in different forms or bodies"), says that everyone can be "traced" and makes generally religious arguments, and talks about "twenty-one years of her spirit martyrdom" she has suffered under marriage to the "great red dragon" which could be either the devil or her husband (or a combination of both). Its really hard to tell!

One of the books more interesting letters is a letter she sent Dorothea Dix, in the Letter to Miss Dix section, for which she never got a reply. She wrote to Dix, on Mar 4, 1860, that "insane asylums must be destroyed, to be constructed anew on a righteous basis," due to their cruelty and inhumane nature, along with her typical Christian religious arguments. What follows this is a sub-section titled "Defense of Miss Dix" which seems to be a defense, but also seems to say Dix is helping maintain the "present system of Insane Asylums"? This section is a bit confusing to say the least, and she seems to go with idea that Jews "persecuted Christ" (an antisemitic belief) when the historical record shows the opposite: that Christians persecuted Jews for centuries!

There are many other parts of her book, like chapters such as Not A Prison, A Record of Incidents, Questions for Dr. McFarland's Consideration, A Dream, With its Interpretation, December 1860, A Dream, Without An Interpretation, September, 1862, A Defense, A Note of Explanation, and The Great Trial of Mr.s Elizabeth Elizabeth P.W. Packard (full report by her attorney Stephen R. Moore). She also wrote a number of other books, including one in 1866 (also see here) with a possible update in 1860, 1868, 1871, 1873 (also see here and here), 1878-1879, and 1886. I think what has been mentioned is sufficient enough to explain Elizabeth's thoughts and her convictions, although the full book itself gives a complete account. And with that, I'm going to end this post. See you next crime!

Note: This was originally posted on Aug. 9, 2019 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

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