#Jim McArdle

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Veckans serier nr 42/1943

Veckans serier (1942-43) utkom under endast drygt ett år. Tidningen utkom med totalt 56 nummer, och nr 42/1943 var sista numret.

Veckans serier (1942-43) från Förlag AB Alga, var en serietidning som utkom under endast drygt ett år. Utgivningen varade bara från slutet av september 1942 till mitten av oktober 1943. Tidningen utkom med totalt 56 nummer, och nr 42/1943 var sista numret. Ett urval källor Första sidan ur Veckans serier nr 42/1943. ©Alga/Bulls Veckans Serier var den enda renodlade serietidningen i Sverige…

[tomoleary]

Jim McArdle - Dale Evans Comics 15-24

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Ella Enchanted 2004

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.5

Beer Birthdays

William G. Jung (1886)

Rob Widmer (1956)

Alastair Hook (1963)

Greg Hall (1965)

Craig Purser (1966)

Kim Sturdavant (1979)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Berger; artist, critic (1926)

Eugene Debs; labor organizer (1855)

Will Durant; historian (1885)

Sam Rockwell; actor (1968)

Jim Steranko; comic book artist (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Bryan Adams; Canadian rock singer (1959)

Washington Allston; artist (1779)

Peter Emmerich; animator, illustrator (1973)

Myron Floren; accordionist (1919)

Mo Gaffney; comedian, actor (1958)

Art Garfunkel; pop singer (1941)

Famke Janssen; Dutch actor (1965)

Vivian Leigh; actor (1913)

Andrea McArdle; singer, actor (1963)

Joel McCrea; actor (1905)

Corin Nemec; actor (1971)

Peter Noone; English rock singer (1947)

Tatum O'Neal; actor (1963)

Gram Parsons; rock guitarist, singer (1946)

Robert Patrick; actor (1958)

William Daniel Phillips; physicist (1948)

Roy Rogers; actor, singer (1911)

Natalie Schafer; actor (1900)

Sam Shephard; actor, playwright (1943)

Elke Sommer; actor (1940)

Walter Stanley; Green Bay Packers WR (1962)

Tilda Swinton; singer (1960)

Ida Tarbell; writer (1857)

Chef Tell; actually Friedman Paul Erhardt, celebrity chef (1943)

Ike Turner; singer, pianist (1931)

Bill Walton; L.A. Clippers C (1952)

Fred Lawrence Whipple; astronomer (1906)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox; poet (1919)

Christopher Wood; writer (1935)

[nicklloydnow]

“Donald trump should have seen it coming. He arrived on May 25th at the Libertarian Party’s national convention in Washington, DC, hoping to expand his support, but the crowd mostly responded with boos. Attendees lacked enthusiasm for a protectionist who added $8.4trn to America’s national debt. They also spent the weekend squabbling among themselves. After losing presidential races for more than half a century, the Libertarian Party is facing an identity crisis.

(…)

The most intense divisions are about strategy. The hardline Mises Caucus (named after Ludwig von Mises, a pro-market Austrian economist) has dominated the party’s leadership since 2022 and adopted populist rhetoric. The group was responsible for inviting Mr Trump, as well as Robert F. Kennedy junior, an independent candidate, to speak at the convention. The debate about whether to invite the outside candidates at times seemed more heated than the Libertarians’ own presidential-nomination fight. On May 24th, the convention’s first day, one attendee yelled into the microphone, “I would like to propose that we go tell Donald Trump to go fuck himself!�� The crowd cheered.

“I would rather us focus on the Libertarian candidates,” said Jim Fulner, from the Radical Caucus. “I’m fearful that come later this summer, when I’m working the county fair, someone will say, ‘Oh, Libertarians, you guys are the Donald Trump people.’” Nick Apostolopoulos, from California, welcomed the attention Mr Trump’s speech brought—and said his presence proved “this party matters, and that they have to try and appeal to this voting bloc.”

Few believed that Mr Trump won much support. He promised to appoint a Libertarian to his cabinet and commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving life in prison after founding the dark-web equivalent of Amazon for illegal drugs. The crowd responded positively to Mr Trump’s nod to a Libertarian cause célèbre, but booed after he asked them to choose him as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee. Mr Trump hit back, “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years.”

Mr Kennedy was more disciplined, tailoring his speech to the crowd by highlighting his opposition to covid lockdowns. Even so he received a cool reception. Libertarians want a candidate who will promise to abolish, not reform, government agencies.

The reality is that Libertarians are more interested in positions than personalities. The exception may be the broad admiration for Ron Paul, a retired Republican congressman whom many cite as their lodestar. But at 88 Mr Paul has achieved the difficult feat of being considered too old to plausibly run for president.

(…)

But the party is far from unified. Given the choice between Mr Oliver and “none of the above”, more than a third of the delegates preferred no one. It remains uncertain whether the party’s candidate will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, as several previous nominees have. If the Libertarian candidate has any influence on the presidential election this year, it will be as a spoiler in a close-run swing state.

Mr Oliver’s victory marked a rare defeat for the Mises Caucus. But the re-election of Angela McArdle, a Mises Caucus member, as the national party chairperson is perhaps more important to the future of the movement. Ms McArdle faced criticism for her decision to invite outside candidates to speak. Controversy over the Mises Caucus had led several state delegations to split, and much of the convention’s floor time was eaten up over fights about whom to recognise. The rise of the Mises wing of the party has led more pragmatically minded members to largely give up on the project of advancing libertarian ideas by building a political party.

The party struggles on big stages, such as in presidential, gubernatorial or Senate contests. Yet it occasionally wins municipal elections, leaving some to wonder whether national activism is pointless or even counter-productive. Why would Libertarians invest time in a hopeless race for president when they could direct their energy to fighting a local sales tax or antiquated laws restricting alcohol sales?

(…)

The party faithful believe that national and local activism are not mutually exclusive. Elijah Gizzarelli won fewer than 3,000 votes when he ran for governor of Rhode Island as a Libertarian two years ago, but he argues that the party has a long record of success—so long as the definition of success expands beyond winning elections. He says the party succeeds by shifting the “Overton window”, or the spectrum of political ideas that are generally considered acceptable.”

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Title: Ella Enchanted

Rating: PG

Director: Tommy O'Haver

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Vivica A. Fox, Joanna Lumley, Jimi Mistry, Steve Coogan, Aidan McArdle, Heidi Klum, Jim Carter, Jennifer Higham, Parminder Nagra, Lucy Punch, Minnie Driver, Patrick Bergin, Eric Idle, Alvaro Lucchesi, Donna Dent

Release year: 2004

Genres: comedy, fantasy, romance

Blurb: At the moment of their birth, each child is given a virtuous gift from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite literally cannot disobey. Determined to gain control of her life and decisions, Ella sets off on a journey to find her fairy godmother, whom she hopes will lift the curse. The path isn't easy - Ella must outwit a slew of unpleasant obstacles, including ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, elves, and Prince Charmont's evil uncle, who wants to take over the crown and rule the kingdom.

[demurely1]

Drama Log 2022

This log is constructed according to ABF rules: I’ve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2022 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actors…. or some degree of separation ….  or not….

The Witcher (2) -  Eamon Farren, Anya Chalotra, Shaun Dooley

Alex Rider (2) -  Otto Farrant, Vicky McClure, Nyasha Hatendi, Ace Bhatti, Stephen Dillane, Ronke Adekoluejo, Toby Stephens

Hidden Assets -

Trigger Point -  Vicky McClure, Cal MacAninch

This is Going to Hurt  - Alex Jennings

Peaky Blinders - Sophie Rundle

The Witchfinder - John Hollingworth, Michael Culkin, Ricky Tomlinson

Holding - Charlene McKenna

The Last Kingdom (5) - Mark Rowley, Millie Brady

Hidden (3)

Killing Eve (4) - Adeel Akhtar

The Ipcress File - Nora-Jane Noone

Gentleman Jack (2) - Sophie Rundle, Joe Armstrong, Shaun Dooley, Lucy Briers, John Hollingworth

The Favourite - Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, James Melville

45 Years - Charlotte Rampling

No Time To Die - Priyanga Burford

Derry Girls (3)

Yesterday -  Ellise Chappell, Meera Syal, Joel Fry

Sherwood -  Adeel Aktar, Ace Bhatti, Alun Armstrong, Lesley Manville, Lorraine Ashbourne, Joanne Froggatt, Sunetra Sarkar, David Morrissey, Lindsay Duncan

Shetland (7)

Bloodlands (2) - Charlene McKenna 

Ridley - Aidan McArdle

Industry (2) - Sarah Parish, Freya Mavor

This England - Neil Stuke

Ghosts (4) - Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton

Strike: Troubled Blood - Kerr Logan, Ian Redford, Ben Crompton

The English -Stephen Rea, Toby Jones 

Detectorists -Toby Jones

[contemplatingoutlander]

Yes, there are some real trolls on The Washington Post opinion pages like Marc Thiessen, Jim Geraghty, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ruy Teixeira, Megan McArdle, and sometimes George Will, along with others whose names escape me at the moment. I usually avoid their columns. If I do click on one, I usually go almost straight to the comments section. In fact, it is the comments sections of WaPo articles that is the saving grace of that paper. To my knowledge, the WaPo is one of the only newspapers of record that allows comments on nearly every post. And some of the regular people who comment are brilliant.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

[goalhofer]

2023 World Baseball Classic Australia Roster

Pitchers

#11 Daniel McGrath (Melbourne Aces/Melbourne)

#20 Josh Guyer (Sydney Blue Sox/Tamworth)

#21 Todd Van Steensel (Gastonia Honey Hunters/Sydney)

#22 Mitch Neunborn (Adelaide Giants/Perth)

#23 Tim Kennedy (Perth Heat/Perth)

#25 Steven Kent (Canberra Cavalry/Canberra)

#26 Luke Wilkins (Sydney Blue Sox/Sydney)

#30 Warwick Saupold (free agent/Perth)

#37 Tim Atherton (Brisbane Bandits/Kempsey)

#39 Blake Townsend (Melbourne Aces/Traralgon)

#40 Samuel Holland (Brisbane Bandits/Brisbane)

#54 Liam Doolan (Sydney Blue Sox/Blacktown)

#55 Jon Kennedy (Tochigi No Yūsha/Melbourne)

#56 Will Sherriff (Perth Heat/East Bullsbrook)

#59 Jack O’Loughlin (Adelaide Giants/Adelaide)

#61 Kyle Glogoski (Louisville Bats/Auckland, New Zealand)

Catchers

#9 Robbie Perkins (Canberra Cavalry/Canberra)

#10 Alex Hall (Perth Heat/Perth)

#24 Ryan Battaglia (Brisbane Bandits/Brisbane)

#48 Jordan McArdle (Adelaide Giants/Adelaide)

Infielders

#4 Logan Wade (Brisbane Bandits/Brisbane)

#6 Robbie Glendinning (Kansas City Royals/Perth)

#7 Darryl George (Melbourne Aces/Melbourne)

#15 Liam Spence (Adelaide Giants/Geelong)

#43 Jarryd Dale (Melbourne Aces/Melbourne)

#52 Rixon Wingrove (Adelaide Giants/Newcastle)

#58 Jake Bowey (Perth Heat/Perth)

Outfielders

#2 Aaron Whitefield (Los Angeles Angels/Brisbane)

#17 Andrew Campbell (Mannheim Tornados/Ipswich)

#60 Ulrich Bojarski (Perth Heat/East London, South Africa)

Coaches

Manager David Nilsson (Lake Country DockHounds/Brisbane)

Bench coach Shayne Watson (Brisbane Bandits/Ipswich)

Hitting coach Chris Adamson (Australia Baseball/Sydney)

Assistant hitting coach Will Bradley (Australia Baseball/Canberra)

Pitching coach Jim Bennett (Lake Country DockHounds/Brisbane)

Bullpen coach Graeme Lloyd (Melbourne Aces/Geelong)

1B coach Michael Collins (Houston Astros/Canberra)

3B coach Andrew Graham (Lakeland Flying Tigers/Sydney)

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The Singularity - Squarespace from Aoife McArdle on Vimeo.

Superbowl x Squarespace x Adam Drivers

Director: Aoife McArdle @aoifemmcardle Production company: Smuggler @smugglersite Executive Producers: Patrick Milling-Smith @patrickmillingsmith, Brian Carmody @bcarmo, Drew Santarsiero @ugotdrew Managing Director: Sue Yeon Ahn @ahn_off Head of Production: Alex Hughes Producer: Brian Quinlan @iambq Production Supervisors: Chad “Frenchie” Alburtis, Logan Luchsinger Commercial Coordinators: Sydney Tracey / Julie Guez 1st AD: Anthony Dimino Director of Photography: Khalid Mohtaseb @khalidmohtaseb Production Designer: Kelly McGehee @itsmekellymcgee Casting Director: Jodi Sonnenberg of Sonnenberg Casting Stylist / Dresser: Julian Arango

CLIENT: Squarespace Chief Creative Officer: David Lee @dmklee VP, Creative: Ben Hughes @benhughestv Creative Director: Mathieu Zarbatany @mathieuzarbatany Staff Art Director: Alex Thompson @alexmichaelthompson Staff Copywriter: Pepe Hernandez Senior Producers: Wes Falik @wesfalik, Sion Prys Head of Production: Erica Kung @lookupica Staff Producer: Marisa Wasser Head of Business Affairs: Kiersten Bergstrom-Pavlik Senior Business Affairs Manager: Michelle Crane Design Director: Satu Pelkonen Design Lead: Albert Chang Senior Designers: Ryan Carrel, Zoonzin Lee Designer: Wan Kang Staff Photographer: Craig Reynolds Associate Photographer: Spencer Blake Senior Retouchers: Sara Barr, Derek Kalisher Editor: Sarah Harvey Production Designer: Alex Tutelian Motion Designers: Christina Lu, Videl Torres Developer: Siman Li

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN: Q Department @qdepartmentstudios

EDITORIAL: Final Cut @finalcutedit Managing Director: Justin Brukman Executive Producer: Sarah Roebuck Head of Production: Penny Ensley Senior Producer: Jennifer Tremaglio Editor: Dan Sherwen @dansherwen NYC Assistant Editor: Hannah Wederquist-Keller UK Assistant Editor: Thomas Brigden

VFX / COLOR / FINISHING: Black Kite @blackkitestudios VFX Supervisor: Adam Crocker VFX Lead: Jonny Freeman, Guillaume Weiss, George Brunt VFX Artists: Warren Gebhardt, Venu Prasath, David Birkill 3D Lead: Fin Crowther 3D Artists: Jim Cullen, Joel Paulin, Pawel Luszczak, Sandra Guarda, Florian Mounie, Ola Madsen, Lino Khay, Ronen Tanchum, Ravikumar M.S, James Bown Colourist: George Kyriacou Executive Producer: Amy Richardson Producer: Olivia Donovan

AUDIO POST: Heard City @heardcity Managing Partner: Gloria Pitagorsky Sound Designer & Mixers: Mike Vitacco, Evan Mangiamele Executive Producer: Jackie James Senior Producers: Liana Rosenberg, B Muñoz Producer: Nick Duvarney Assistant Producer: Dylan Stetson Assistant Mixers: Seth Brogdon, Virginia Wright, Zoltan Monori, Chenoa Tarin, Oddy Litlabo

[dirtyriver]

Dale Evans #23, May-June 1952, cover by Jim McArdle

[3garcons]

Jim Mcardle at 110 Grill Guilderland April 2021

[mistikfir]

Ella Enchanted (2004) - about the shooting location and Jim Carter

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.5

Beer Birthdays

William G. Jung (1886)

Rob Widmer (1956)

Alastair Hook (1963)

Greg Hall (1965)

Craig Purser (1966)

Kim Sturdavant (1979)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Berger; artist, critic (1926)

Eugene Debs; labor organizer (1855)

Will Durant; historian (1885)

Sam Rockwell; actor (1968)

Jim Steranko; comic book artist (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Bryan Adams; Canadian rock singer (1959)

Washington Allston; artist (1779)

Peter Emmerich; animator, illustrator (1973)

Myron Floren; accordionist (1919)

Mo Gaffney; comedian, actor (1958)

Art Garfunkel; pop singer (1941)

Famke Janssen; Dutch actor (1965)

Vivian Leigh; actor (1913)

Andrea McArdle; singer, actor (1963)

Joel McCrea; actor (1905)

Corin Nemec; actor (1971)

Peter Noone; English rock singer (1947)

Tatum O'Neal; actor (1963)

Gram Parsons; rock guitarist, singer (1946)

Robert Patrick; actor (1958)

William Daniel Phillips; physicist (1948)

Roy Rogers; actor, singer (1911)

Natalie Schafer; actor (1900)

Sam Shephard; actor, playwright (1943)

Elke Sommer; actor (1940)

Walter Stanley; Green Bay Packers WR (1962)

Tilda Swinton; singer (1960)

Ida Tarbell; writer (1857)

Chef Tell; actually Friedman Paul Erhardt, celebrity chef (1943)

Ike Turner; singer, pianist (1931)

Bill Walton; L.A. Clippers C (1952)

Fred Lawrence Whipple; astronomer (1906)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox; poet (1919)

Christopher Wood; writer (1935)

[mandoreviews]

📽 Ella Enchanted (2004)

This is another movie that I was basically raised on. I can pretty much quote the whole thing, but it literally never gets old. I always thought Anne Hathaway was so cool in it, the dumb step sister always made me laugh, and... I may have had a crush on Hugh Dancy 🙈 But my favorite part of the entire movie is the giant wedding. Watch this movie; you won’t regret it.

Language: 2/10

Violence: 3/10

Sex/nudity: 2/10

Overall rating: 10/10

[tachyonpub]

Readers will enjoy Peter S. Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH

Photo: Rina Weisman

For LIBRARY JOURNAL, Megan M. McArdle praises Peter S. Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH.

In this latest collection from Beagle, readers will enjoy 13 stories, mostly reprints, including two pieces featuring Schmendrick, the magician from his most famous novel, The Last Unicorn. 

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For fantasy fans, Beagle should be a staple, and while the anthology Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle gathers many of the stories of his early career, this volume proves he is still creating plenty of great short fiction.

On the B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG, Jim Killen includes the collection among The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of November 2017.

This collection of short stories from the legendary author of The Last Unicorn spans the world, reminding readers that magic, and magical creatures, are not always mere objects of wonder—they can be dangerous. In these stories, a traveler discovers a way to enter the shadow universe of the Overneath, an inventor hears mysterious voices on his first-ever wireless sound transmitter, and a team of government agents conduct a raid on a drug operation deep in the woods and discover the criminals are using dragons as security. These 13 stories explore universal themes of love and adventure, with the trademark wry humor and heartfelt emotion that Beagle is known for.

Artur Nowrot at WYSZNUPANE enjoys the book.

Unicorns are a recurring motif for Beagle (they feature, in very different versions, in three stories in this collection), so it seems fitting that one appears at the very end. Olfert Dapper’s Day starts as a story (a very good one, although a big part of that might be my predisposition to like stories about conmen) – and then, at some point, with the appearance of the unicorn, the story seems to transform into a tale of a man who, if not exactly bad, was never particularly good, and who suddenly has to use his one true talent – lying – not to serve himself but to save another person. In the end, he loses something, gains something, and I felt that he will never be the same again, although it would be hard to define how exactly was he changed.

This is one of the stories that demonstrate what I love about Beagle best: his characters are often weak and failing, yet all the more heroic when, through chance or grace, they manage to rise to the trials that stand before them. At his best, he opens your heart up and, through his writing, makes you want to speak in poetry. And that’s exactly what happens when you read THE OVERNEATH.

TOR.COM reprints “The Story of Kao Yu.”

We’re pleased to reprint “The Story of Kao Yu”, a fantasy short story by the legendary Peter S. Beagle which tells of an aging judge traveling through rural China and of a criminal he encounters. Originally published on Tor.com in December 2016, “The Story of Kao Yu” is now collected in Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH, available November 14th from Tachyon Publications.

Of the story, Beagle says it “comes out of a lifelong fascination with Asian legendry—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian—all drawn from cultures where storytelling, in one form of another, remains a living art. As a young writer I loved everything from Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries to Lafcadio Hearn’s translations of Japanese fairytales and many lesser-known fantasies. Like my story ‘The Tale of Junko and Sayuri,’ ‘The Story of Kao Yu’ is a respectful imitation of an ancient style, and never pretends to be anything else. But I wrote it with great care and love, and I’m still proud of it.”

Art: Alyssa Winans

There was a judge once in south China, a long time ago—during the reign of the Emperor Yao, it was—named Kao Yu. He was stern in his rulings, but fair and patient, and all but legendary for his honesty; it would have been a foolish criminal—or, yes, even a misguided Emperor—who attempted to bribe or coerce Kao Yu. Of early middle years, he was stocky and wideshouldered, if a little plump, and the features of his face were strong and striking, even if his hairline was retreating just a trifle. He was respected by all, and feared by those who should have feared him—what more can one ask from a judge even now? But this is a story about a case in which he came to feel—rightly or no—that he was the one on trial.

Kao Yu’s own wisdom and long experience generally governed his considerations in court, and his eventual rulings. But he was uniquely different from all other judges in all of China, in that when a problem came down to a matter of good versus evil—in a murder case, most often, or arson, or rape (which Kao Yu particularly despised), he would often submit that problem to the judgment of a unicorn.

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story