#Jim H Madison

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𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕣 ~ 𝔻𝕣𝕖𝕨 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕪

“ I’m (y/n) (l/n) and we’re the cast of Outer Banks and today, we’re going to test how well we know each other.” You smiled looking between the camera and the group to your left. Carlacia raised her hand as she motioned between you and Drew, “Drew shouldn’t be allowed to answer any of these because none of us will even have a chance.”

Everyone let out sounds of agreement as you shook your head, reading the first question, “I don’t know. These are questions that made me think about my answer.”

“Okay, oo. This is a good one. What movie animal is my dog named after?”

“I don’t think you’ve ever mentioned this.” Drew told you but you shook your head in disagreement, “I’ve mentioned it before but I think it was when you guys first met him.”

“The adventures of Milo and Otis?” Chase asked and Madison agreed but you shook your head. Both Austin and Drew leaned forward to try and read the car but you quickly pulled away, tucking the card against your chest, “Cheaters!”

“What movie has a dog named Milo in it?”

“Oh! The mask! His dogs name is Milo!” Rudy answered and you flipped your card, showing ‘The Mask’, “I’m a huge Jim Carrey fan and since Milo is also a jack russell, it was fate.”

“Oo, you guys are never going to get this one,” you laughed, reading the card, “it literally took me so long to even think about this one. When I was 5, I jumped off the banister and had to get stitches. Where were the stitches?”

Everyone looked over at Drew, who would be the only one to remotely know the answer but he just tilted his head at you in thought.

“Your head?” Madelyn asked but you shook your head, “Nope. My sister did though. Cracked her head open.”

“How are you and your sister still alive?” Austin asked, looking at you in surprise as you shrugged before writing your answer on the card.

“Your legs?” JD asked, snapping his fingers at you

“Nope. Not even close.”

Drew clapped his hands once as he looked over at you, “Your tongue. You bit through your tongue and had to get 6 stitches.”

“Your tongue?!?” Madison asked, looking over at you in shock as you flipped your card, showing the answer, “Yes. I smacked my chin on the arm of the couch and bit right through my tongue. My tongue was stuck and I had to get stitches.”

“You just need to live in a bubble at this point, girl.” Carlacia laughed as everyone agreed with her.

“What do I think is the grossest thing a person can do?”

“THROWING UP!” Drew and JD shouted at the same time as they high fived. You cringed as you showed your card that read ‘throwing up’ as the answer.

“I hate throwing up. I hate the way I feel before, during, and after. It’s just so gross and gives me the ick.” You shuddered as Austin patted your leg, “The first time she threw up in front of us, she cried because of how grossed out she was.”

“That was traumatizing for all of us,” Rudy explained, “we were out on a boat and she just went very pale and threw up. Everywhere. We had no idea what had happened and then she just started bawling her eyes out. We all started panicking, thinking something was wrong but then she said how she hated throwing up and it just…it killed the whole vibe.”

You chucked the marker cap at Rudy, who ducked but went to retrieve it, “Sorry that being seasick killed the vibe, dillhole.”

Letting out a laugh at the nest question, you looked over at Drew and shook your head, “you’re not allowed to answer this one. You’ll get the answer right away.”

“I’ve known all of these, baby,” he winked and your face went red as you hid it behind the card, “just trying to give them a chance.”

“You guys gross me out.” Madelyn teased, looking between you two

“What is my favorite show to binge?” You asked, but you wrote down two possible answers.

“That 70s show is one.” Chase answered, “I always hear the theme song in your trailer and you quote it constantly.”

“You also watch the walking dead a lot too.” JD added, pointing to Chase, “you yell at your laptop a lot.”

“Dude, you have no idea how long it took me to get used to her yelling at the tv.” Drew told him, “the first time she did it, I thought she was pissed at me for no reason but she was just watching the walking dead.”

Everyone started talking about how into your shows you get, causing you to hold up your hands in protest, “Okay, okay! There’s nothing wrong with being passionate about movie and tv shows. But yes, that 70s show and the walking dead are my go to.”

“Two complete opposite shows, by the way.” Madison pointed out

“Oo, how many tattoos do I have?”

Everyone went quiet as they stared at you, no doubt picturing the tattoos that laid under your clothes. You had been purposely asked to wear a long sleeve top and pants to not let them get the answer so easily.

“I wanna say…12?” Carlacia asked, tilting her head at you, “Most of them are on your right arm but I know you have a few on your left. You have the fairy wings on your back…”

“I know you have a dinosaur on your leg because I drew a hat on it last week.” Austin answered, causing you to look up from writing your answer, furrowing your eyebrows at him, “you drew a hat on Terrance?”

“You named the dinosaur Terrance?” JD laughed as you nodded, “Terrance the triceratops.”

“Terry, for short.” Drew added, pointing at you as you nodded

“I wanna say 10 or 15.” Madison said, leaning forward, “I know you got P4L after season 2 came out.”

“You only had like 2 when the show started.”

“There’s a few you guys don’t know about cause they’re always covered.” You told them, going over your answer. Drew didn’t even miss a beat with his response, “Well, they don’t. But I do.”

“Okay! Who’s next?!”

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Introduction and (future) Masterpost!

Hello! My name is Rayx and I decided to revamp a dead sideblog to be something I wanted to try! Here you will find writing but it'll be from requests (either sent in the inbox or DMs)! I will have anon on in but it will be turned off if y'all don't behave.

What I will write, what fandoms I write for, and what I won't write for is under the cut!

Brief DNI: TERFs, H//rry P//tter fans, bigots, prosh//ppers,

Fandoms I'll write for:

Star Wars (The Clone Wars TV show, The OG trilogy, and the recent movies mostly. I have yet to watch the prequels and haven't finished other media.)

Sherlock (Doyle's, Elementary and BBC's mostly.)

Hitman 2016

Hannibal

Fablehaven

Lockwood & CO

Heavy Rain

Red Dead Redemption

Undertale (and any AUs that aren't NSFW)

Supernatural (I haven't watched the finale so please don't spoil anything)

Ace Attorney

Detroit Become Human

Venom (I haven't watched the second movie yet)

Legend of Zelda (I haven't played/watched Tears of the Kingdom)

My Hero Academia (I didn't watch all of it but I watched enough to get an understanding of characters)

Markiplier and Jacksepticeye Egos (is that still the term?)

AFK Arena

More to be added

Fandoms I might write for:

Danganronpa (I've only watched gameplay of THH though)

Attack on Titan

Death Note

Gravity Falls (I'm on the last season but haven't finished)

Rick and Morty

Scooby Doo

Love, Nikki

Slashers (it's under a 'maybe' because I'm not too confident in writing the slashers well but willing to try!)

Cookie Run

What I can write:

Character x Character

Character x Reader

Character Headcanons

Ship Headcanons

X Reader Headcanons

Hurt/Comfort

Fluff

Angst

AUs

Specific Tropes (enemies to lovers, "there's only one bed", etc)

What I won't write:

NSFW (I have a sideblog [ @detective4sideblog ] where I share my NSFW writing and do take requests. This is going to be a SFW blog.)

Inc//stous Pairings (*looks at SWs Clones in specific)

Adult Character x Underage Character

V//re

Over-the-top violence

Anything relating to self harm

Abusive Relationships (even if it's on par for the pairing, I do not feel comfortable writing that)

Ships I Will Write:

Note: Feel free to ask about any I did not list!

Star Wars:

Codywan (Obi Wan/Cody)

Rexwalker (Anakin/Rex)

Padtine (Satine/Padmé)

Obitine (Satine/Obi Wan)

Anakin/Rex/Padmé

Obi Wan/Satine/Cody

Ploit (Plo Koon/Kit Fisto)

Skysolo (Han Solo/Luke Skywalker)

Finpoe (Poe/Finn)

Poe/Rey/Finn

Most other ships you can think of from SWs, feel free to shoot an ask to make sure!

Sherlock:

Mormor (Sebastian Moran/Jim Moriarty)

Johniarty (John Watson/Jim Moriarty)

Johnastian (John Watson/Sebastian Moran)

Mollrene (Irene Adler/Molly Hooper)

Hooperan (Sebastian Moran/Molly Hooper)

Specifically Victorian Johnlock (John Watson/Sherlock Holmes)

I think that covers everything, though there's others but regardless.

Hitman:

Dianseven (Agent 47/Diana Burnwood)

Hannibal:

Hannigram (Hannibal Lector/Will Graham)

I don't know any other Hannibal ships but feel free to inform me, I'll gladly write for 'em :)

Lockwood & CO:

Locklyle (Anthony Lockwood/Lucy Carlyle)

George/Lucy/Lockwood (is this a ship? Either way, listing it)

Heavy Rain

Jars (Norman Jayden/Ethan Mars)

I might write for Norman/Blake if I like the prompt enough but they aren't my cup of tea. Same goes for Ethan/Madison.

Ethan/Grace (*shrugs*)

RDR

Vandermatthews (Dutch Van Der Linde/Hosea Matthews)

Arthur Morgan/Kiran Duffy (I can't remember their ship name atm)

Charles/Arthur Morgan (I can't remember the shipname again)

Most other pairings you can think of that don't break my "won't write" list :)

Undertale

Sansby (Sans/Grillby)

Burger Guy/Nice Cream Guy

Papyton (Papyrus/Mettaton)

Undyne/Alphys

Soriel (Sans/Toriel)

SPN

Destiel (Castiel/Dean Winchester)

Sabriel (Gabriel/Sam Winchester)

Bobby/Crowley

Like I said, I haven't watched the finale...or much past season 5 or 6 so...yeah.

Ace Attorney

Wrightworth (Phoenix Wright/Miles Edgeworth)

Detective Gumshoe/Phoenix Wright

Maya Fey/Franziska von Karma

Larry Butz/Phoenix Wright

DBH

Reed900 (Gavin Reed/RK-900)

Hankcon (Hank Anderson/Connor)

Markus/Simon

North/Markus

North/Markus/Simon

Venom

The obvious canon Venom/Eddie Brock

LoZ

Zelink (Zelda/Link)

Sidlink (Prince Sidon/Link)

Mipha/Link

Mipha/Zelda

Link/Sheik

Midlink (Midna/Link)

Midna/Zelda

MHA

Honestly anything BUT Midoriya/Bakugo.

Egos

Darkstache (Wilford Warfstache/Darkiplier)

Antiaverage (Antisepticeye/Chase Brody)

Anti/Marvin the Magnificent

Chase Brody/Marvin

Schneeplbro (Doctor Schneeplestein/Chase Brody)

Googleplier/Chase Brody

There's more but I'm forgetting them 😭

AFK Arena

Thane/Baden

Treznor/Nevanthi

Idk any other ships so feel free to request

Masterpost:

Will be updated in the future :)

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'Have A Little Heart' - Leslie Mendelson from The Extended Play Sessions on Vimeo.

The Extended Play Sessions - October 5, 2024

Leslie Mendelson performs the song "Have A Little Heart" on The Extended Play Sessions. A Grammy Award-nominated artist, Mendelson returns this summer with her fourth studio album, After The Party. For this latest effort, she collaborates with not one, but three producers: the legendary Peter Asher (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt), the young, in-demand Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Sara Bareilles, Sara Watkins) and her longtime songwriting partner, three-time Grammy Award-winner, Steve McEwan. Recorded at Jackson Browne’s studio Grove Masters in Santa Monica, CA, she was joined by an ace band featuring guitarists Waddy Wachtel and John Jorgenson, bassists Leland Sklar and Derrick Anderson, and drummers Jim Keltner and Abe Rounds.

The Band Leslie Mendelson - guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano Steve McEwan - guitar, backing vocals

Production Staff Maribeth Arena - Camera 2 Bill Hurley - Boom Camera Joanne Craig - Camera 3 H Nat Stevens - Cam 1 Remote Connor Quigley - Sound Engineer, Livestream Producer Eric Nordstrom - Front Of House Photographer - Dan Busler Connor Quigley - Post Audio Mix Engineer

The Fallout Shelter is an all ages 100-seat performance venue and state-of-the-art broadcast and recording studio, offering one of the most unique live music experiences in New England. Located in Norwood, MA, just 15 miles from Boston, The Fallout Shelter is run under the auspices of the Grass Roots Cultural and Performing Arts Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting and advocating for traditional American Roots music.

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Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Preston Tucker: Jeff Bridges Vera: Joan Allen Abe: Martin Landau Eddie: Frederic Forrest Jimmy: Mako Howard Hughes: Dean Stockwell Junior: Christian Slater Marilyn Lee: Nina Siemaszko Frank: Marshall Bell Kerner: Peter Donat Alex: Elias Koteas Kirby: Jay O. Sanders Noble: Corin Nemec Stan: Don Novello Johnny: Anders Johnson Bennington: Dean Goodman Ferguson’s Agent: John X. Heart Millie: Patti Austin Stan’s Assistant: Sandy Bull Judge: Joe Miksak Floyd Cerf: Scott Beach Oscar Beasley: Roland Scrivner Narrator (voice): Bob Safford Doc: Larry Menkin Fritz: Ron Close Dutch: Joe Flood Gas Station Owner: Leonard Gardner Garage Owner: Bill Bonham Ferguson’s Secretary #1: Abigail van Alyn Ferguson’s Secretary #2: Taylor Gilbert Woman on Steps: David Booth Newscaster (voice): Al Hart Security Guard: Cab Covay Man in Audience: James Cranna Board Member: Bill Reddick Mayor: Ed Loerke Head Engineer: Jay Jacobus Bennington’s Secretary: Anne Lawder Singing Girl #1: Jeanette Lana Sartain Singing Girl #2: Mary Buffett Singing Girl #3: Annie Stocking Recording Engineer: Michael McShane Tucker’s Secretary #1: Hope Alexander-Willis Tucker’s Secretary #2: Taylor Young Police Sergeant: Jim Giovanni Reporter at Trial: Joe Lerer Ingram: Morgan Upton SEC Agent: Ken Grantham Blue: Mark Anger Jury Foreman: Al Nalbandian Senator Homer Ferguson (uncredited): Lloyd Bridges Girl at Mellon Publicity Event (uncredited): Sofia Coppola Film Crew: Executive Producer: George Lucas Director: Francis Ford Coppola Producer: Fred Roos Additional Music: Carmine Coppola Director of Photography: Vittorio Storaro Production Design: Dean Tavoularis Editor: Priscilla Nedd-Friendly Casting: Janet Hirshenson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Richard Beggs Producer: Fred Fuchs Casting: Jane Jenkins Music Editor: Mark Adler Supervising Sound Editor: Gloria S. Borders Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Johnson Set Decoration: Armin Ganz Costume Designer: Milena Canonero Unit Production Manager: Ian Bryce Foley Artist: Dennie Thorpe Sound Effects Editor: Tim Holland Leadman: Doug von Koss Second Unit Director: Buddy Joe Hooker Assistant Costume Designer: Judianna Makovsky Assistant Makeup Artist: Karen Bradley Set Designer: Jim Pohl Camera Operator: Jamie Anderson Foley Editor: Sandina Bailo-Lape Stunts: Jimmy Nickerson Screenplay: Arnold Schulman Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Randy Thom ADR Editor: Louise Rubacky Original Music Composer: Joe Jackson Researcher: Anahid Nazarian Assistant Sound Designer: Mildred Iatrou Location Casting: Aleta Chappelle Stunts: Gary McLarty Screenplay: David Seidler First Assistant Director: H. Gordon Boos Stunts: Dick Ziker Makeup Artist: Richard Dean ADR Editor: Tom Bellfort Art Direction: Alex Tavoularis Assistant Hairstylist: Terry Baliel Technical Advisor: Enrico Umetelli Property Master: Douglas E. Madison Script Supervisor: Wilma Garscadden-Gahret Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr. Stunts: Steve M. Davison Sound Effects Editor: Robert Shoup Stunts: Tim A. Davison Assistant Sound Editor: Martha Pike Hairstylist: Lyndell Quiyou Costume Supervisor: Winnie D. Brown Assistant Sound Editor: Michele Perrone Foley Editor: Diana Pellegrini First Assistant Camera: Billy Clevenger Assistant Property Master: Douglas T. Madison Construction Coordinator: John J. Rutchland Jr. Unit Publicist: Susan Landau Finch Second Assistant Director: L. Dean Jones Jr. Production Sound Mixer: Michael Evje Assistant Sound Editor: Clare C. Freeman Assistant Sound Editor: Paige Sartorius Location Manager: Rory Enke Second Assistant Director: Daniel R. Suhart Gaffer: Pat Fitzsimmons Dialogue Editor: Melissa Dietz Associate Producer: Teri Fettis-D’Ovidio Boom Operator: D. G. Fisher Special Effects Supervisor: David Pier Production Accountant: Joe Murphy Negative Cutter: Donah Bassett Second Assistant C...

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Jim H Madison

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Jim Gordon comes to Wayne manor to discuss an issue with Bruce Wayne. Definitely not Jason Todd sitting next to Bruce on his phone

Jim: “mr. Wayne, thank you for letting me stop by on such short notice” *locks eyes with Jason* “... umm... this matter may be sensitive-“

Bruce: “forgive me this is... my secretary... Todd Madison”

Jason: “h-“

Bruce: “-who doesn’t speak English”

Jason:”... hola”

Jim: *squinting then glaring at Bruce* “Todd Madison. Right.”

Bruce: “correct”

Jim: “ok well, recently we found fingerprints at a crime scene matching that of your deceased son, Jason. *stares at Jason* “I wanted to ask you some questions”

Todd: *stares innocently at Bruce*

Bruce: *internal screaming* “Well, as a father I would wish for my Jay to still be here, but he’s not. I swear there are days I can hear his voice. Hell, sometimes I swear he’s right next to me”

Jim: *closing eyes* “how long are you going to keep this up?”

Todd: “papi, creo que está sobre nosotros”

Todd: “dígales que si quieren arrestar a Jason Todd, tendrán que desenterrarlo. pero asegúrate de que no me descubran porque sería muy incómodo”

Jim: “Hablo español con fluidez, Jason”

Jason: “shit, I’m out” *runs full speed out the room*

Bruce: “what are the crimes?”

Jim: “someone broke into the library and stole the entire Hobbit collection”

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How Many Have You Read?

1 The Red and the Black - Stendhal 2 Penguin Island - Anatole France 3 Main Street - Sinclair Lewis 4 Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis 5 Absalom, Absalom! - Wm. Faulkner 6 As I Lay Dying - Wm. Faulkner 7 The Sound and the Fury - Wm. Faulkner 8 The Divine Comedy - Dante 9 The Aeneid - Virgil 10 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11 We -  Yevgeny Zamyatin 12 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 13 1984 - George Orwell 14 Mother Night -  Kurt Vonnegut 15 Fearless -  Eric Blehm 16 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 17 The Idiot -  Fyodor Dostoyevsky 18 The Brothers Karamazov-  Fyodor Dostoyevsky 19 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 20 The Bible - God 21 Dead Souls - Gogol 22 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 23 East of Eden - John Steinbeck 24 Canterbury Tales - Chaucer 25 The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 26 Plague Dogs - Richard Adams 27 Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens 28 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 29 The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper 30 The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper 31 Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham 32 Black Beauty -  Anna Sewell 33 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin 34 The City of God - Augustine 35 The Gulag Archipelago -  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 36 Don Quixote -  Miguel de Cervantes 37 Bonhoeffer -  Eric Metaxas 38 The Federalist Papers -  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 39 Common Sense - Thomas Payne 40 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Wm. L. Shirer 41 Macbeth - Shakespeare 42 Hamlet - Shakespeare 43 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 44 The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 45 The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells 46 The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells 47 The Time Machine - H. G. Wells 48 Lenore, or the Raven by E. A. Poe 49  The Fall of the House of Usher - E. A. Poe 50 A Descent into the Maelström - E. A. Poe 51 The Masque of the Red Death - E. A. Poe 52 Giants in the Earth -  Ole Edvart Rolvaag 53 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 54 Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson 55 Paradise Lost - John Milton 56 Faust - Goethe 57 The Red badge of Courage - Stephen Crane 58 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane 59 The Jungle - Upton Sinclair 60  Germinal by Emile Zola 61 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 62 The Book of the Just by Eric Silver 63 The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang 64 The Wave by Todd Strasser 65 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 66 The Republic of Plato 67 Rolling Pennies in the Dark by MacKinnon 68 Witness by Whitaker Chambers 69 Foxe Voices of the Martyrs 70 The Ugly American by Lederer and Burdick 71 In His Steps by Charles Sheldon 72 The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley 73 Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville 74 Aesop’s Fables 75 The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffeert 76 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 77 The Call of the Wild by Jack London 78  Moby Dick by Herman Melville 79 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 80 The Iliad by Homer 81 The Odyssey by Homer 82 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 83 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 84 You can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe 85 The Red Badge of Courage  by Stephen Crane 86 The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet 87 The Diary of a Madman by Gogol 88 The Crucible by Arthur Miller 89 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 90 The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller by Henry James 91 Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff and Hall 92 War and Peace by Tolstoy 93 The Octopus by Frank Norris 94 All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque 95 Animal Farm by George Orwell 96 To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 97 Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox by Alexander McKee 98 The Ox Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark 99 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 100 A journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 101 The Year of the Rat - by Mladin Zarubica

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Various WWF, WCW and ECW Wrestlers x Fem Reader- "Worth It"

You've had sex with a LOT of men, and 70% of those men you've had sex with were famous professional wrestlers.

You've arguably had more wrestlers inside of you than Madison Square Garden and Wrestlemania.

But looking back at all the male professional wrestlers you've had sex with, was it worth having sex with some of them?

It definitely was worth it having sex with Jeff Hardy, Christian Cage before he cut his hair, late 90's and early 2000's Shawn Michaels, 90's Triple H/Hunter Hearst Helmlsey (and Triple H in late 2002 and throughout 2003, as well as early 2004), Rob Van Dam, Scott Hall/Razor Ramon, Chris Jericho, Nova from ECW, Jim Powers from WCW, Michael Shane (Shawn Michaels' cousin) and Brian Kendrick.

Even though Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall and Hunter Hearst Helmlsey/Triple H were assholes sometimes, they were sexy AF, and they eventually regretted doing some of the terrible things they've done.

Although, Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Triple H in the 1990's had a bit of a pinchface, but he was still sexy AF.

Then there are the ones you're skeptical about whether or not if you should've had sex with them or not.

Like Val Venis.

Val actually was pretty sexy in the late 1990's, even if he might have a rather big nose.

Billy Gunn was the hot one in the New Age Outlaws,  but was it worth it to have him in those gangbangs you had with him?

You wanted your gangbangs to be perfect and have only hot guys fucking you in your gangbangs to be perfect.

Though, Billy is pretty handsome.

He's the one in the New Age Outlaws you always stare at, not Road Dogg.

Test was pretty sexy before he cut his hair, though you wonder what he'd look like without facial hair.

Raven from ECW and WCW was pretty damn sexy, even if he was a jerk in real life sometimes, although you unfortunately didn't get to have much sex with him when he looked his best in the 1990's, which was his heyday.

However, you did it with Raven at the end of the year 2000 after he shaved that hideous handlebar moustache, as well as fucked him in 2002 when he had those blond braids.

Even though Raven's looks improved when he shaved his handlebar moustache off and had those braids and kilts in 2002, he still didn't look as good as he looked in the 1990's.

One wrestler you find rather attractive that others don't is Brian Pillman when he started playing the manic madman in ECW and the WWF.

Even though Brian looked like crap sometimes in 1997 when his hair was wet, he was kind of hot, even when he played a psychotic lunatic.

Spike Dudley was one of the only Dudley Boyz/Brothers you think is cute, in fact, Spike is probably the best looking Dudley Boy/Brother, especially in the early 2000's when he didn't have facial hair.

Thurman Plugg/Bob Holly might have a huge overbite, but he was kind of handsome.

Even Torrie Wilson in 2002 said Bob Holly is a hunk.

Leif Cassidy---not to be confused with 70's teen heartthrobs Leif Garrett and David and Shaun Cassidy--was pretty cute before he grew that pointless, unnecessary handlebar moustache despite that he was still playing some dorky goofball obsessed with 70's bubblegum pop music or a 70's teen idol.

Although, even before Leif Cassidy grew that handlebar moustache, he had some really tacky hair sometimes.

Leif Cassidy would eventually become Al Snow---yeah, THAT Al Snow who carried a mannequin head---and at the end of the year 2000, Al shaved his handlebar moustache off, and he looked vastly better without it.

Did you fuck him at the end of the year 2000 after he shaved that moustache? Oh yeah.

Do you regret it? Nope, not at all.

Marty Jannetty was pretty cute sometimes despite that he had some tacky hair.

Speaking of tacky hair, you've also done it with 80's wrestler Tommy Rogers--both when he had a mullet and when he didn't have one.

Tommy was a lot cuter in the 1980's, though he was kind of fuckable in the late 1990's and early 2000's, although in the 90's he had this outdated mullet that ruined his looks.

Mike Awesome got much better looking when he ditched that hideous mullet he had in the 1990's.

Brian Christopher is much more handsome than his father Jerry Lawler.

Scott Taylor was pretty cute in 1997 and early 1998 before he cut his hair, though some could argue he was still cute when he had short hair.

Scott Putski was definitely pretty hot and sexy with a great body.

You actually wish you could've fucked WCW's the Renegade in 1996, that was when he looked his best.

Lenny Lane is kind of handsome, though he looks like a less attractive Chris Jericho.

Lex Luger was pretty sexy in the late 1990's during his WCW days, especially his body.

However, just because someone has a great physique doesn't mean you'll fuck that person.

Before Billy Kidman cut his hair, in some moments and angles Billy Kidman looks good, but in other moments he has this pointy Gonzo the Muppet face.

You actually have had sex with Kane before he shaved his head, you've even done it with Kane wearing his mask.

Though, was it worth it?

That mask, especially in the late 1990's, was rather ugly.

And speaking of Kane, in 1999 you had sex a few times with Ministry Undertaker.

That was when he looked his best and sexiest.

Steven/William Regal got so much sexier as he got older and grew his hair out longer, but you were married by the time he grew his hair longer and didn't have sex with him while you were married because that's cheating.

Despite that Steven got better looking as his hair grew longer and as he got older, he was still pretty cute in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Bart Gunn got much more handsome in 1998 when his hair grew longer.

You've even done it with a few non professional wrestlers, 2 of which are Eric Bischoff and Don Callis/Cyrus.

Eric Bischoff was definitely pretty handsome in the late 1990's and early 2000's, he looked like John Stamos/Uncle Jesse from "Full House".

Don Callis/Cyrus/Jackyl looks like a better looking Howard Stern and Geddy Lee from Rush, though you're unsure whether or not if it was worth it to have sex with him.

Mikey Whipwreck was a little cute during the early 2000's when he had that cherry red hair, though he was chubby and fat.

At least Mikey Whipwreck is better looking than say...the Nasty Boyz and Hulk Hogan.

Bret Hart was handsome during the 1990's, though he looked glum sometimes and when his wet hair looked curly, it was a turnoff for you.

Davey Boy Smith might've had short hair during your time in the WWF, but he was still fuckable.

Stevie Richards looked cute AF when he joined the World Wrestling Federation at the end of 1999, and when he joined the WWF, he finally shaved off that facial hair that ruined his looks.

Shannon Moore was cute AF in the early 2000's before he cut his hair.

Frank Kazarian had a few matches in the WWF/E in the early 2000's and he was pretty damn sexy.

Lodi from WCW was pretty cute, so was Scotty Riggs in 1997.

Hurricane Helms looked better when he had that superhero mask around his eyes.

Joe Gomez from WCW was like Billy Kidman---in some moments and angles he looks good, but in others he has this peanut-like head.

Although, you didn't really have sex with that much Scotty Riggs and Joe Gomez.

In the early 2000's, Damien Sandow called himself Aaron Stevens and had a few matches in the WWE.

Did you do it with him? Yeah.

Do you regret it? Not really.

There's also these Hispanic wrestlers like Hector Garza, Cibernetico and Latin Lover who are some pretty hot, sexy Papis.

Dale Tolborg was definitely more handsome without that KISS makeup and that makeup he wore when he had that baseball player gimmick.

Remember that episode of "The Simpsons" where Melanie Griffith guest starred as a tour guide where she said "This room's nice, this one's nice too, this room's nice, this room's nice too".

That's how you feel about some of these male wrestlers.

While you haven't had sex with him, Van Hammer is a wrestler you can't decide if he's sexy or not.

He's like Billy Kidman---in some angles and moments he looks good, but in others, he's hideous and weird looking!

Van Hammer is like that girl from "Seinfeld", where she looks good in certain lighting.

Scott Vick--who played Sick Boy in WCW in the late 1990's--got much better looking in the early 2000's, though you're still unsure whether or not if it's worth it to have sex with him.

Here's a really controversial figure in pro wrestling you've had sex with---Chris Benoit.

Granted, you did have sex with him years before he murdered his wife and 7 year old son, luckily.

Chris was really cute during the 1990's and he was still pretty handsome in the early 2000's, though he looked better in the 90's.

In WCW, there was a wrestling duo in WCW known as High Voltage who had a member named Kenny Kaos, who looked like Kurt Cobain on steroids.

Kenny was pretty damn hot and sexy.

Most of these aforementioned wrestlers you don't regret having sex with, like Leif Cassidy as well as Al Snow at the end of the year 2000, Shannon Moore, and Bret Hart, you don't even regret having sex with Val Venis, Billy Gunn, Raven, and Test.

You even wish you could've fucked William Regal in the early 2010's when his hair grew longer.

Was it worth it having sex with all of these men?

You don't care about the size of their penis or how good they are in bed, they're sexy, that's why you're fucking them.

You're not completely shallow, because even though the Dynamite Kid was pretty cute in the 1980's, he was a horrific human being.

[uwlmvac]

Thanks to Jim Theler for this week’s post –

THE NASACK ELK ANTLERS

In the spring of 2001, Rick Nasack was fishing on the Mississippi River near Winona, Minnesota. When he pulled up his anchor, he thought it had caught on some tree roots, but looking more closely, he saw a set of elk antlers still attached to the top of the skull. The antlers were covered with invasive zebra mussels. The age of the antlers is unknown, but they are almost certainly those of the now extinct eastern elk subspecies, last recorded living in the Wisconsin-Minnesota region about 1870. Antler finds and early historic sightings indicate that elk or “wapiti” were once widespread in Wisconsin (Jackson 1961:410, Map 75). Fragments of elk bones and antlers are found at many Native American archaeological sites in western Wisconsin, but there is no reason to think that these particular antlers are associated with human activity, either ancient or historic. Elk, deer, and bison commonly “went through the ice” and drowned while trying to cross rivers in the winter, and that might be how these antlers ended up in the Mississippi. Presumably they became buried in river sediment and emerged during an erosion episode. The eastern elk subspecies differs from the western Rocky Mountain elk (Thomas and Toweill 1982) that has now been introduced into portions of Wisconsin. Thanks to Rick Nasack’s recognition of their importance, the antlers were saved for others to appreciate. Cleaned of zebra mussels, they are now housed at the Mississippi Valley Archeology Center (MVAC) on the UW-La Crosse campus. They have been displayed yearly at the MVAC annual Artifact Show held in March at the Valley View Mall in La Crosse.  

Hartley H. T. Jackson 1961 Mammals of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

Thomas, Jack Ward and Dale E. Toweill 1982 Elk of North America: Ecology and Management. Wildlife Management Institute, published by Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA.

[algebraicvarietyshow]

The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of Ansel Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Luis Walter Alvarez, Susan B. Anthony, Hannah Arendt, Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Crispus Attucks, John James Audubon, Lauren Bacall, Clara Barton, Todd Beamer, Alexander Graham Bell, Roy Benavidez, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Boone, Norman Borlaug, William Bradford, Herb Brooks, Kobe Bryant, William F. Buckley, Jr., Sitting Bull, Frank Capra, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Carroll, John Carroll, George Washington Carver, Johnny Cash, Joshua Chamberlain, Whittaker Chambers, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Gordon Chung-Hoon, William Clark, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Roberto Clemente, Grover Cleveland, Red Cloud, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Nat King Cole, Samuel Colt, Christopher Columbus, Calvin Coolidge, James Fenimore Cooper, Davy Crockett, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Miles Davis, Dorothy Day, Joseph H. De Castro, Emily Dickinson, Walt Disney, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Jimmy Doolittle, Desmond Doss, Frederick Douglass, Herbert Henry Dow, Katharine Drexel, Peter Drucker, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, the Marquis de La Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Friedman, Robert Frost, Gabby Gabreski, Bernardo de Gálvez, Lou Gehrig, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Cass Gilbert, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Samuel Gompers, Alexander Goode, Carl Gorman, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, Nellie Gray, Nathanael Greene, Woody Guthrie, Nathan Hale, William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Ira Hayes, Hans Christian Heg, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Johns Hopkins, Grace Hopper, Sam Houston, Whitney Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Hubble, Daniel Inouye, Andrew Jackson, Robert H. Jackson, Mary Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Steve Jobs, Katherine Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Chief Joseph, Elia Kazan, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Francis Scott Key, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Russell Kirk, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Knox, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Harper Lee, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Vince Lombardi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, William Mayo, Christa McAuliffe, William McKinley, Louise McManus, Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, George P. Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, William “Billy” Mitchell, Samuel Morse, Lucretia Mott, John Muir, Audie Murphy, Edward Murrow, John Neumann, Annie Oakley, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, George S. Patton, Jr., Charles Willson Peale, William Penn, Oliver Hazard Perry, John J. Pershing, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Poling, John Russell Pope, Elvis Presley, Jeannette Rankin, Ronald Reagan, Walter Reed, William Rehnquist, Paul Revere, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hyman Rickover, Sally Ride, Matthew Ridgway, Jackie Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Caesar Rodney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Ruth, Sacagawea, Jonas Salk, John Singer Sargent, Antonin Scalia, Norman Schwarzkopf, Junípero Serra, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Gould Shaw, Fulton Sheen, Alan Shepard, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Chase Smith, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan, William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh, Kateri Tekakwitha, Shirley Temple, Nikola Tesla, Jefferson Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Thorpe, Augustus Tolton, Alex Trebek, Harry S. Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vaughan, C. T. Vivian, John von Neumann, Thomas Ustick Walter, Sam Walton, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, John Washington, John Wayne, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Williams, John Winthrop, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Alvin C. York, Cy Young, and Lorenzo de Zavala.”

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[ultrabobsmith42word]

Full List of 172 Republicans Who Opposed the Violence Against Women Act

1. Robert Aderholt (AL) 2. Rick Allen (GA) 3. Mark Amodei (NV) 4. Kelly Armstrong (ND) 5. Jodey Arrington (TX) 6. Brian Babin (TX) 7. Don Bacon (NE) 8. James Baird (IN) 9. Jim Banks (IN) 10. Andy Barr (KY) 11. Cliff Bentz (OR). 12. Jack Bergman (MI) 13. Andy Biggs (AZ) 14. Gus Bilirakis (FL) 15. Dan Bishop (NC) 16. Lauren Boebert (CO) 17. Mo Brooks (AL) 18. Vern Buchanan (FL) 19. Ken Buck (CO) 20. Larry Buschon (IN) 21. Ted Budd (NC) 22. Tim Burchett (TN) 23. Michael Burgess (TX) 24. Ken Calvert (CA) 25. Kat Cammack (FL). 26. Jerry Carl (AL) 27. Madison Cawthorn (NC) 28. Steve Chabot (OH) 29. Liz Cheney (WY) 30. Ben Cline (VA) 31. Michael Cloud (TX) 32. Andrew Clyde (GA) 33. James Comer (KY) 34. Eric Crawford (AR) 35. John Curtis (UT) 36. Warren Davidson (OH) 37. Scott DesJarlais (TN) 38. Byron Donalds (FL) 39. Jeff Duncan (SC) 40. Neal Dunn (FL) 41. Tom Emmer (MN) 42. Ron Estes (KS) 43. Pat Fallon (TX) 44. Randy Feenstra (IA) 45. A. Drew Ferguson (GA) 46. Michelle Fischbach (MN) 47. Scott Fitzgerald (WI) 48. Charles Fleischmann (TN) 49. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) 50. Virginia Foxx (NC) 51. Scott Franklin (FL) 52. Russ Fulcher (ID) 53. Matt Gaetz (FL) 54. Mike Gallagher (WI) 55. Andrew Garbarino (NY) 56. Mike Garcia (CA) 57. Bob Gibbs (OH) 58. Louie Gohmert (TX) 59. Tony Gonzales (TX) 60. Bob Good (VA) 61. Lance Gooden (TX) 62. Paul Gosar (AZ) 63. Kay Granger (TX) 64. Garret Graves (LA) 65. Sam Graves (MO) 66. Mark Green (TN) 67. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) 68. H. Morgan Griffith (VA) 69. Glenn Grothman (WI) 70. Brett Guthrie (KY) 71. Jim Hagedorn (MN) 72. Andy Harris (MD) 73. Diana Harshbarger (TN) 74. Vicky Hartzler (MO) 75. Kevin Hern (OK) 76. Yvette Herrell (NM) 77. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA) 78. Jody Hice (GA) 79. Clay Higgins (LA) 80. J. Hill (AR) 81. Ashley Hinson (IA) 82. Trey Hollingsworth (IN) 83. Richard Hudson (NC) 84. Bill Huizenga (MI) 85. Ronny Jackson (TX) 86. Mike Johnson (LA) 87. Bill Johnson (OH) 88. Dusty Johnson (SD) 89. Jim Jordan (OH) 90. John Joyce (PA) 91. Fred Keller (PA) 92. Trent Kelly (MS) 93. Mike Kelly (PA) 94. David Kustoff (TN) 95. Darin LaHood (IL) 96. Doug LaMalfa (CA) 97. Doug Lamborn (CO) 98. Robert Latta (OH) 99. Jake LaTurner (KS) 100. Debbie Lesko (AZ) 101. Billy Long (MO) 102. Frank Lucas (OK) 103. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) 104. Nancy Mace (SC) 105. Tracey Mann (KS) 106. Thomas Massie (KY) 107. Brain Mast (FL) 108. Kevin McCarthy (CA) 109. Lisa McClain (MI) 110. Tom McClintock (CA) 111. Patrick McHenry (NC) 112. David McKinley (WV) 113. Daniel Meuser (PA) 114. Mary Miller (IL) 115. Carol Miller (WV) 116. John Moolenaar (MI) 117. Alexander Mooney (WV) 118. Barry Moore (AL) 119. Blake Moore (UT) 120. Gregory Murphy (NC) 121. Troy Nehls (TX) 122. Dan Newhouse (WA) 123. Ralph Norman (SC) 124. Devin Nunes (CA) 125. Jay Obernolte (CA) 126. Burgess Owens (UT) 127. Steven Palazzo (MS) 128. Gary Palmer (AL) 129. Greg Pence (IN) 130. Scott Perry (PA) 131. August Pfluger (TX) 132. Bill Posey (FL) 133. Guy Reschenthaler (PA) 134. Tom Rice (SC) 135. Cathy Rodgers (WA) 136. Mike Rogers (AL) 137. Harold Rogers (KY) 138. John Rose (TN) 139. David Rouzer (NC) 140. Chip Roy (TX) 141. John Rutherford (FL) 142. Steve Scalise (LA) 143. David Schweikert (AZ) 144. Austin Scott (GA) 145. Pete Sessions (TX) 146. Jason Smith (MO) 147. Adrian Smith (NE) 148. Christopher Smith (NJ) 149. Lloyd Smucker (PA) 150. Victoria Spartz (IN) 151. Michelle Steel (CA) 152. Elise Stefanik (NY) 153. W. Gregory Steube (FL) 154. Chris Stewart (UT) 155. Van Taylor (TX) 156. Claudia Tenney (NY) 157. Glenn Thompson (PA) 158. Thomas Tiffany (WI) 159. William Timmons (SC) 160. Michael Turner (OH) 161. Beth Van Duyne (TX) 162. Ann Wagner (MO) 163. Tim Walberg (MI) 164. Jackie Walorski (IN) 165. Michael Waltz (FL) 166. Randy Weber Sr. (TX) 167. Daniel Webster (FL) 168. Bruce Westerman (AR) 169. Roger Williams (TX) 170. Robert Wittman (VA) 171. Steve Womack (AR) 172. Lee Zeldin (NY)

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-172-republicans-opposed-violence-against-women-act-1577029

[meddows-taylor]

Just a couple of Bohemian Rhapsody things I caught on my third and fourth viewing….

When showing the Live Aid backstage in the first sequence of the movie, the Red Special is introduced with a panning shot that has such reverence you don’t even need Brian’s name as one of the producers because that alone is a testament of his involvement.

When performing with the band for the first time, Freddie wears the same black and yellow/gold shirt his Mum wears in the first scene when Freddie goes out to see Smile. I loved that

Brian being a little shit pestering John when he is fixing the van’s tire and John’s annoyed response. “Oh IS IT???”. You can tell he began writing Back Chat in that very same moment.

Roger. dumbass. Taylor. Has the nerve to get up, walk over Freddie’s sister and flirt with her when he already brought a date to dinner. I got the thot energy when I saw the movie for the first time and the rascal had the nerve to go all “what are you doing after this?” in front of her family but somehow I didn’t notice he is basically there with another girl. I tell you,   t h o t  dumbass

Marlene Dietrich photo: We know Freddie loved her and took inspiration from a photo of hers on the set of Shangai Express for the pose for the Queen II album cover and Bohemian Rhapsody video. We see the photo when the movie first starts, at Garden lodge. We see it again when Freddie shows the house to Roger for the first time. But a smaller one is also seen in his apartment when he comes out to Mary

In one of Queen’s first big performances we see the empty stage and the lights match the color scheme for the movie - black, purple and yellow

When pitching A Night at the Opera to Ray Foster, Freddie shares the most knowing looks with John, a really nice non-verbal touch that speaks plenty about their relationship. They are both holding back laughter when Freddie plays the opera record in a way that feels so close and personal. Kudos to Rami and Joe for taking something that’s supposed to be comedic relief and turning it into a nice reference to Freddie’s and John’s camaraderie. I also love that John is the one to say “no one knows what Queen is because it doesn’t mean one thing”.

Does Roger know how to button his shirt??? This is a business meeting, for crying out loud. Bless him for that. Please never learn what buttons are.

Also the Mum Energy™ of Brian standing there with his arms crossed is so strong a woman from Belgium complained.

At the sound of the last gong, Brian pats Roger proudly on the back when they are listening to Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. Cuteness overload. (I will also refuse to discuss the amount of times Brian and Roger engage in unnecessary touching throughout the whole movie. Brian, you have to separate Roger and Freddie from fighting in the studio, no need to leave your hand on Rog’s chest for that long, pal)

We don’t talk enough about Lucy Boynton performance. She is so expressive, so restrained yet commands a scene with such ferocity, has the ability to break my heart with her monologue about being told “I love you, but….” And saying “You are loved. By me, Brian, Roger, Deaky. That’s enough”. Thanks, I love sobbing in a movie theatre four weekends in a row. 50/10 give her the praise she deserves. Also she is so beautiful I had to take a deep breath when she walked in.

When Reid and Prenter are talking scheming backstage at Madison Square Garden, you can see Roger chatting with two girls and Deaky comes by with an 8 ball or something like that looking pissed, and they begging arguing, the girls completely forgotten by now. You gotta love that dumb energy that felt very true. Also first of many John Looks So Hot underrated outfits in the whole movie. YEs  to the leather jacket, you funky disco man

Freddie calls Good Old Miami when he is double crossed by Prenter the snake…. He just calls him and Miami knows it’s him ???? And he says “Freddie?” So soft and paternal. That whole scene?????? AND THEN FREDDIE SAYS “Thank You….JIM” and let me tell you, I didn’t think by the third viewing I would be crying over a scene of Freddie and their manager but there I was, wanting to give each of them a 45 minute hug. Protect Miami at all costs please. (also we won’t talk about Freddie saying “we are a family and families fight” because I’m gonna cry right here again)

The contrast of Roger telling Freddie “you need us” when he says he signed a contract and Freddie saying “I don’t need anyone” and then him saying “I NEED YOU” and pointing out what he lacked by not having the band by his side IS POETIC CINEMA. I don’t make the rules, sorry

I know I’m messing up the chronological order, but the Another One Bites the Dust scene would grant it’s own essay. Roger and Brian being little shits to poor Disco Deaky? Checked. Band tension with Freddie? Checked. Roger consumed by hubris thinking his noodle arms can measure up against former boxer Freddie? Checked. John shutting up everyone by playing one of the coolest riffs in the history of music? Checked. The four of them looking the hottest they’ve looked (don’t get me started on Roger drumming with a cigarette in his mouth and Freddie wearing leather)? Checked. The editing of the bar scenes and the rehearsal with that soft red light? Checked and archived as A R T.

This was pointed out by my mum, and I think I saw someone else also saying it online, but I don’t care if in reality Freddie learnt about his diagnostic much later than Live Aid, and subsequently told the band after 1985, we all cried with that beautiful scene (for me, one of the best ones in acting and composition - it stars with that beautiful pipe organ and you get a churchy, revered vibe instantly. Also the looks between Freddie and Miami before he tells the band. And Deaky’s tears when he laughs and says “Actually Wembley doesn’t have a roof”. Ugh, I can’t shut up about this scene).

What my mum pointed out was the Impact that scene had in the sense that all three of them just went up there and hugged Freddie without a second thought. In a time when people knew very little about AIDS and how it was transmitted, when there was a lot of prejudice and misinformation being passed around, the meaning of four friends, four brothers embracing is enough to turn anyone into a puddle of tears.

On a lighter note, Brian rehearsing in white shorts and socks is peak “is this Gwilym Lee or Brian May documental footage??”. Yet another John Looks So Hot underrated outfit, the tank top with the sleeves cut out so deep you can actually see his ribcage???? The shorts???? This is an emotional scene, I shouldn’t be lusting over Joe Mazzello yet here I am

[sciencespies]

Five New Nonfiction Books to Read While You're Stuck at Home

https://sciencespies.com/history/five-new-nonfiction-books-to-read-while-youre-stuck-at-home/

Five New Nonfiction Books to Read While You're Stuck at Home

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

For Ruby Laura Madison Wilson, her family’s ties to President James Madison had long been a point of pride.

“Always remember—you’re a Madison,” she told her daughter, author Bettye Kearse. “You come from African slaves and a president.”

Kearse, however, felt differently. She was unable to separate her DNA from the “humiliation, uncertainty, and physical and emotional harm” experienced by her enslaved ancestor, a woman named Coreen who was, in fact, the Founding Father’s half-sister. According to family tradition, as passed down by generations of griot oral historians, Madison raped Coreen, who gave birth to a son, Jim, around 1792. Jim’s son, Emanuel Madison, was Kearse’s great-great-grandfather.

The Other Madisons marks the culmination of Kearse’s 30-year investigation into not only her own family history, but that of other enslaved and free African Americans whose voices have been silenced over the centuries. Though she lacks conclusive DNA or documentary evidence linking her to Madison, Kearse hasn’t let this upend her sense of identity.

As the retired pediatrician writes on her website, “[H]ow could I prove my family’s story if slaves … were not included as people in the history that mattered to those who created and maintained the records? The problem is not DNA, I realized; the problem is the Constitution.”

#History

[96thdayofrage]

Four hundred years ago on Aug. 20, 1619, the English warship White Lion docked at Port Comfort (now Fort Monroe), Virginia. It carried “20 and odd” Angolans who had been prisoners on a Spanish ship that was captured by the White Lion’s crew.

That day is universally recognized by historians as the beginning of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in which millions of Africans were enslaved and sold to do labor in America and elsewhere.

The slave trade is the first modern American business model, and must be recognized for its impact on the world, said Lonnie Bunch III, the first African-American Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“The slave trade helped many parts of Europe become Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, so in a way it helped create modern Europe, and it obviously helped begin a long, slow decline that really continues to affect both Africa and the United States,” Bunch said.

This year is “a time to commemorate and to remember that there are people on whose shoulders we are standing, whose labor and whose belief in a country that ultimately didn’t believe in them ultimately made America live up to its stated ideals,” Bunch said.

But, for many, commemoration is not the same as celebration.

“You are not going to see me jumping up and down with joy over this,” said historian Charles L. Blockson, for whom the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University is named.

“We have a statue of a phony prize-fighter at the steps of the art museum. So what? Where is the statue of the Black architect who was responsible for designing the Art Museum? But this is the way it has been for African Americans during those 400 years. Slaves. Indentured servants. Jim Crow. Segregation. And now look at the racist, Donald Trump, that we have in the White House on the heels of the first Black president in more than 200 years. What is there to celebrate? We are history. But we would be foolish to celebrate the racism of this country.”

Ironically, it was Trump who in 2017, signed the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act, establishing a 15-member commission to coordinate the 400th “anniversary” of the arrival of those enslaved Africans in the English colonies. Bunch is a member of the commission, which has had events across the country to mark the occasion, including symposiums, films, exhibits, festivals, lectures and poetry readings.

Efforts marking the commemoration also have been initiated in Africa. Ghana last year launched a year-long marketing and reunification initiative aimed at boosting tourism and further strengthening ties with people of African ancestry in the United States, South America and the Caribbean. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently went to Ghana for some of its events.

Debate about the date

Some historians note Africans had a presence in the Americas before 1619, and those are the dates that should be recognized.

The first African to arrive in America, Juan Garrido, came here as a free man, according to an article on The Root by Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. Born in West Africa, Garrido moved to Spain where he met Juan Ponce de Leon. They sailed together to Cuba and Puerto Rico, and in 1513, while sailing with de Leon in search of the Fountain of Youth, he arrived in what would later be called Florida. He continued on to Mexico and later died in what is now Mexico City.

Estevanico, a Moroccan slave owned by Spanish explorer Andres Dorantes de Carranza, was part of an expedition to colonize Florida and the Gulf Coast in 1527. Estevancio, Dorantes and two other Spanish explorers were captured and enslaved by Native Americans who lived on the Louisiana Gulf Islands. After they escaped in 1534, they headed west and helped chart parts of what is now known as Arizona. When others fell ill, Estevancio continued alone into what is now New Mexico. Some historians believe Estevancio was killed by Native Americans in New Mexico; others believe the Native Americans helped him fake his death and he continued to live in the West.

It is believed that some Africans accompanied English explorer Sir Francis Drake on his North American expeditions in the 1570s and 1580s.

But the key differences between the Africans who came to America in the 1500s and the “20 and odd” who arrived in 1619 is some of the “20 and odd” were sold into slavery or indentured servitude and stayed in America.

“In essence, from the beginning of what became America, there were Africans involved in shaping a nation,” Bunch said.

“This gives us an opportunity to say this is not an ancillary story. This is an opportunity to think as Americans how issues of race and culture have really shaped this country and continue to be a part of what we celebrate, but also a part of the ongoing struggle to help America live up to its ideals.”

Shaping the nation

The African population remained fairly small in the years that followed. A muster from 1620 showed 32 Africans living in Virginia and a muster from 1625 counted 23, according to The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. Hundreds and thousands more would follow.

The Southern enslaved population exploded after Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin. Data from Weber State University show the number of enslaved people in the South was 654,121 in 1790, had increased by almost 68% to more than 1.1 million by 1810, and reached 3.9 million by 1860.

Historians estimate that as many as 12 million enslaved Africans were dragged across the Atlantic Ocean and exchanged for goods via the triangular route between Europe, Africa and the New World (North and South America and the Caribbean). America’s involvement in the brutal system lasted until 1866.

Field slaves mostly harvested cotton, tobacco and sugar cane, and performed manual labor. House slaves generally worked in the master’s quarters and lived easier lives.

According to James H. Sweet, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, slave resistance began in British North America “almost as soon as the first enslaved Africans arrived in the early 17th century. This took the form of slowed work production and even theft by the enslaved.”

At least nine insurrections occurred between 1691 and 1865, the most famous being Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion in Southampton, Virginia that left 60 whites dead and resulted in the deaths of 100 enslaved by combat or retribution.

So divisive was the issue of slavery that it led to the bloodiest war in American history, the Civil War. Slavery’s aftermath produced a potholed history that gave rise to domestic terror groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, which lynched thousands of African Americans; resulted in the denial of constitutional rights such as voting; created separate and unequal schools; and led to the denial of basic human rights such as African Americans being unable to drink from the same water fountains as whites.

Even today vestiges of slavery hang over the nation, from the debate over whether the descendants of slaves should receive reparations, to the stubborn racial wealth gap between Blacks and whites, to the over-representation of African Americans ensnared in the criminal justice system.

“We have many unhealed wounds as a people,” Blockson said.

“I think about everything we had to sort of overcome as a people to get to this point,” said Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist and Policy Center at American University and author of the National Book Award-winning “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.”

“So I stand in appreciation of our ancestors to be able to survive and thrive so that we could all be here at this historic moment.”

Kendi said now is a time to honor our ancestors for the “strength they exhibited” to survive slavery and all of the residual pain associated with being “in a country that has rejected Black people whenever possible for centuries.”

“If you were to ask me the word that describes African Americans in this country, one of the main words would be resilient,” Kendi said. “I think you just don’t survive upwards of 250 years of enslavement, another 100 years of a second trauma of enslavement through Jim Crow, and another 50 years of mass incarceration and hyper segregation and police violence without being extraordinarily resilient.”

[frozen-sea]

Books Read 2018

Well I didn’t get through as many as last year, but I came close. And considering I’m no longer allowed to read at my job, I think I did pretty damn good. Here’s my 2018 year in books...

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Laugh It Up!: Embrace Freedom and Experience Defiant Joy by Candace Payne

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

The Dog Days of Arthur Cane by T. Ernesto Bethancourt

Rule of Law by Randy Singer

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Moo by Jane Smiley

Lobster Boy: The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr. by Fred Rosen

Two Girls in New York by Carli Lacklin

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Rober M. Pirsig

Warriors: A Vision of Shadows: River of Fire by Erin Hunter

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Failure is an Option by H. Jon Benjamin

Romancing the Stone by Catherine Lanigan

Going Bovine by Libby Bray

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells

It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Feast of the Jackals by Aldo Lucchesi

Room by Emma Donoghue

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk

Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work by Andrea S. Kramer & Alton B. Harris

Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks

180 Ways to Walk the Customer Service Talk by Eric Harvey

Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard

SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld

The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Blue Heron by Avi

Warriors: Crowfeather's Trial by Erin Hunter

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

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