#Kathleen Lynch

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Her Weirdness, Kathleen Lynch, the surreal go-go dancer who used to perform with the psychedelic/hardcore punk band The Butthole Surfers in the mid-’80s.

Also known as “The Shit Lady” or “Ta-Da” (from the time she used to take a dump at the end of her peep show performances while saying “Ta-daaah!”) and though not an official member of the band, she was a major contribution in their out-of-this-world pagan live gigs, performing topless or completely naked, urinating or even screwing around at the foot of the stage with lead singer Gibby Haynes.

…But then again, don’t forget it’s The Butthole Surfers we’re talking about…

(via, via & via)

[gotankgo]

Kathleen Lynch dancing with the Butthole Surfers

[last-tambourine]

the secrets of life are meant to be found

dug out

stumbled upon

not told

~ last tambourine

inspired by Kathleen Lynch, How to Build an Awl,

1.) Decide you must.

2.) Develop deep respect

for feather, bone, claw.

3.) Place your trembling thumb

where the heart will be:

for one hundred hours watch

so you will know

where to put the first feather.

4.) Stay awake forever.

When the bird takes shape

gently pry open its beak

and whisper into it: mouse.

5.) Let it go.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Nadia Zhabin/Tamar Kir-Bataar- Ruin and Rising/King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Lily Hu/Kathleen "Kath" Miller- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Thomas Lightwood/Alastair Carstairs- The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

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[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Road House (1989) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #actionadventure #roadhouse #patrickswayze #KellyLynch #SamElliott #BenGazzara #jeffhealey #kathleenwilhoite #KevinTighe #KeithDavid #joeunger #bluray #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest

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Blu-ray Review: Albert Pyun’s THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER - Entertaining ‘80s Fantasy

Lord of the B-movie, Albert Pyun’s The Sword and the Sorcerer is a delightfully cheesy slice of 1980s sword and sorcery cinema that embraces its low-budget roots with gusto. This 1982 fantasy romp delivers exactly what genre fans want – muscular heroes, evil villains, and plenty of sword-swinging action. Lee Horsley is Talon, a mercenary out for vengeance against the evil King Cromwell (Richard…

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Road House (1989) Review

James Dalton is a bouncer who was hired to clean up one of the worst bars in a small Missouri town, what he didn’t realise was that trying to do this would see the villianious local entrepreneur Brad Wesley to rebel against it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Road House (1989) Review

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April 3, 2024: Positivity, D.A. Powell

Positivity D.A. Powell

“Anyway, it isn’t forever,” Chris said, “eventually you’re dead.” And we laughed

Besides, everything is better now. Not us but implants, blenders, children, heart attacks. There’s never been a better time to be alive than when you are. If you are. Black-throated blue warbler says chewchewchewchewchewww drawing the last chew out like a sucking drainpipe to say he has mated and is satisfied. Say what you will about that. His joy is uncontainable

and yet it has a form, a measure, to make it clear he’s not upset or feeling anxious. And if he’s bragging, well, it’s no shame to brag that you’re happy.

Honeybees cavorting on the goldenrod are working toward a common goal they’ll never see achieved. They lay down the walls of their cathedral of honeycomb and will not cope the spire, busy in the present task, trusting that the work continues. I’d like to write a children’s book called everybody dies. Upbeat, of course, and pragmatic. You only got so many days. Don’t think about death; when you’re ready, death will think about you. Go out tonight with your friends, like Chris, who went out big or not at all. Have a ball. Plan ahead.

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Hear the poet read this aloud.

also by D.A. Powell (shared in year 1 of this project!): [this is what you love: more people. you remember]

More like this:

Overjoyed, Ada Limón

you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar

Today in:

2023: Picture This, Jiordan Castle 2022: Alba, Madeleine Cravens 2021: July, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz 2020: Poem Beginning With A Retweet, Maggie Smith 2019: Waiting for Happiness, Nomi Stone 2018: United, Naomi Shihab Nye 2017: If You Are Over Staying Woke, Morgan Parker 2016: High School Senior, Sharon Olds 2015: Dog in Bed, Joyce Sidman 2014: Persephone Writes to Her Mother, Tara Mae Mulroy 2013: Hook, James Wright 2012: How to Build an Owl, Kathleen Lynch 2011: Expecting, Kevin Young 2010: The Choir, Luke Kennard 2009: I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone, Stephen Dunn 2008: Visible World, Richard Siken 2007: Anywhere Else, Maggie Dietz 2006: After Work, Richard Jones 2005: The Sheep-Child, James Dickey

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Women are being diagnosed with ADHD at unprecedented rates. Here's why. (Kaelyn Lynch, National Geographic, Jan 16 2024)

"There are three types of ADHD: hyperactive, inattentive, and combined.

Girls and women tend to have the inattentive type, characterized by disorganization, forgetfulness, and struggles with starting and staying on task.

“They’re more likely to be seen as daydreamers, or lost in the clouds,” says Julia Schechter, co-director of Duke University’s Center for Women and Girls with ADHD.

Even hyperactive or combined-type girls often display their symptoms differently than boys—such as excessive talking, twirling their hair or constantly shaking their legs, and emotional reactivity.

“Their symptoms are just as impairing, but can fly under the radar,” Schechter says.

When clinical psychologist Kathleen Nadeau co-authored Understanding Girls with ADHD in 1999—one of the first real attempts to characterize how ADHD appeared in young girls—the research community still thought of ADHD almost exclusively as a “boy disorder.”

“We were laughed at during conferences,” says Nadeau, now recognized as an authority on women with ADHD.

“They said, ‘We’ve got these guys that are in the principal’s office three times a week, getting suspended and throwing spitballs. And you’ve got these quiet girls making honor roll grades and you think they have ADHD?’”

While that attitude has started to change, the overwhelming majority of research on ADHD has been done in boys and men, leading to the hyperactive, disruptive boy stereotype of ADHD.

Many girls with ADHD excel in school, though it comes at a price—they may get an A on a paper but stay up the night before writing it after being unable to focus for weeks.

“Girls work very hard to hide their problems. ‘I don’t want the teacher to be mad at me, I don’t want my parents to be mad at me,’” Nadeau says.

Experts call this masking, or how people socialized as female tend to find ways to compensate for their symptoms due to societal expectations.

“They have to put in at least twice the effort of other people if they’re determined to do well,” Nadeau says.

“You can’t let people know that you’re falling apart,” says Janna Moen, 31, a postdoctoral research scientist at Yale Center for Infection and Immunity with a PhD in neuroscience, who was diagnosed with ADHD in her late 20s.

Like many girls who go untreated, Moen scored top grades in school and went on to have a successful career, but years of masking her symptoms contributed to her developing mental health and self-esteem issues, and struggling in personal relationships.

Like Moen, who showed symptoms of ADHD from childhood, girls and women are more likely to have their symptoms mistaken for emotional or learning difficulties and are less likely to be referred for assessments.

Gender bias also may play a role: in two studies where teachers were presented with vignettes of children with ADHD, when the child’s names and pronouns were changed from female to male, they were more likely to be recommended for treatment and offered extra support.

All these misconceptions mean that girls with ADHD are being overlooked and untreated well into adulthood.

As David Goodman, the director of the Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Center of Maryland and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, points out, the ratio of boys to girls with ADHD in childhood is about three to one, while in adults, it’s about one to one, suggesting that ADHD prevalence is more equal across genders, with women being diagnosed later. (…)

Compared to their neurotypical peers, women with ADHD are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders.

They are also five times more likely to experience intimate partner violence, seven times more likely to have attempted suicide, and have higher rates of unplanned or early pregnancy.

One Danish study showed that the risk of premature death in women with ADHD was more than twice that of men with ADHD, potentially due to women being less likely to be diagnosed and receive treatment."

[fleshmess]

kathleen lynch, butthole surfers

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«Butthole Surfers, the Ritz, Austin, ca. 1987, by Eric Mark Lord. The thing I like the best is the perfect, balletic expressiveness of Kathleen Lynch (in between Jeff Pinkus and Paul Leary.»

live shows from the Butthole Surfers in 1987 were mind blowing! they were performing at the apex of their musical alchemy and seeing them in Chicago, April of 1987 remains my absolute favorite show of all time

[thatrickmcginnis]

BUTTHOLE SURFERS, TORONTO, 1987

One of the highlights of 2019 was the publication of What Does Regret Mean? - a thick coffee table book about the career of the Butthole Surfers, published by Melodic Virtue. It wasn't just that such a thing existed, but also that it contained two double-page spreads from my 1987 portrait shoot with the band when they came through Toronto to play RPM, a big dance club on the waterfront here (long since demolished). If you were around when the Buttholes were releasing their first records, the thought that they might have had the longevity or mainstream appeal necessary for such a souvenir record of their work would have been inconceivable. But here it is, in multiple hardcover and softcover editions.

Like almost everything I shot back then, the Butthole Surfers shoot was a fluke. I went down hoping to get a group photo, and discovered that the band were even more difficult to corral than their reputation had suggested. I got a handful of sloppy group shots and then pivoted to asking them to line up for individual portraits. I had to move fast, and shifted my only light - a flash bounced into an umbrella on a portable light stand - a few feet away from the back wall of the club and invited lead singer Gibby Haynes to be the first sitter. He stepped smartly into the frame and I did a fast light reading. Looking at my camera I realized I had just enough film to take precisely two photos of each band member.

Years later the Buttholes' drummer, Jeffrey "King" Coffey, saw my photos when I posted them on my old blog, and complimented me on being organized enough to not just keep them but find them again and post them online. He also recalled that the band were more likely than not tripping balls when I took these shots. Coffey and Haynes, along with guitarist Paul Leary, drummer Teresa Taylor (aka Teresa Nervosa), bassist Jeff Pinkus and the band's tour dancer Kathleen Lynch (aka Ta-Da the Shit Lady) all presented themselves for my camera and I took a pair of shots each, then packed up my gear to take home before heading back to shoot the show that night.

Shooting austere photos of such an over-the-top band might have looked like a contrary creative choice, but it wasn't. I was merely working at the limits of my competence at the time, which is what inspired me to revisit this shoot using some of the digital technology available to me today. If I could have shot the band in colour I probably would have. (I was frankly too poor and inexperienced to have been so bold nearly forty years ago.) So I've re-scanned these old negatives today and run them through Photoshop's suite of AI photo enhancement and colourizing filters to give them at least a hint of AI unreality that suits this shoot and this band more than most other work I did way back then. Sadly, drummer Teresa Taylor passed away this year after a battle with lung disease.

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The descriptions of the characters of the Extended Cut of Scream (2022) & Scream VI part 2

Hello everybody, if you have seen part 1 that I pulled, well here is part 2 of the characters of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise. But I haven't finished of it about an new friend group called The Fab Twelve who's now being friends with The Core Four in the Extended Cut of Scream VI when they're all survived the attack in Woodsboro in Scream (2022) & attending to Blackmore University in New York & their friend groups have expanded when they have new friends like Ethan Landry, Stanley Williams, Natasha Longwood, Rory's elder sister Alivia, Quinn Bailey, her older brother Quentin Bailey & his buddy Derek Shepherd including Derek's girlfriend Lillian "Lilly" Davis, Anika Kayoko & her Half-sisters Susie & Hannah Kayoko, Lincoln Jefferson, & Hayley & Holly McDaniel, the daughters of Hallie McDaniel, including Zackary & Caroline Feldman, the son & daughter of Derek Feldman, also Taylor Swanson & Maurice Thompson & new neighbors like Terry & Larry's nephew Anthony "Anton" Mercer, Lilly's Niece Riley Davis, Danny Brackett & his baby sister Danielle. Here's more descriptions of the characters of the franchise.

The Main Characters: The Fab Twelve: Part 2

Joshua Bassett as Connor "Cash" Conway, an Kind, Tough, & Friendly young man who's being friends with Terry & Larry as part of their friend group when they're called themselves The Fab Twelve which the members are Terry, Larry, Lexi, Wendy, Will, Fred, Carrie, Rebecca, Matthew, Lori, Miranda, & Cash.

Joey King as Yvonne Conway, an Beautiful, Funny, & Generous girl who's the older sister of Connor "Cash" Conway & the baby half-sister of the serial killer Jill Roberts. She's loves eating Dino-Shaped Chicken Nuggets & she's the friend of Tara Carpenter.

Supporting Characters:

Julia Rehwald as Katherine "Katie" Jones, an Beautiful, Tough, & Headstrong young woman who's being the girlfriend of Terrence William "Terry" Watkins & she's the cheerleader from Woodsboro High.

Kathryn Newton as Kathleen "Kathy" Williamson, an Funny, Charismatic, & Tough young woman who's isn't afraid to throw down. She's a part of the friend group with Terry & Larry.

Ross Lynch as Ronald "Rory" Williams, the brother of Elanie Williams & Alivia Williams & he's also a part of Terry & Larry's friend group.

Samantha Boscarino as Elaine Williams, the older sister of Roland "Rory" Williams, the younger sister of Alivia Williams, the girlfriend of Lawrence James "Larry" Watkins, & the best friend of Amber Freeman who's being the killer in Scream (2022). She's back in Scream VI to get revenge on Sam & Tara Carpenter who killed her.

Jade Pettyjohn as Graceland "Grace" Prescott, an Kind, Friendly, Loving, & Really Tough young woman who's being friends with Terry & Larry as part of the friend group. She's the granddaughter of Sidney Prescott & Mark Kincaid & the younger sister of Sam & Jenny Kincaid.

Emily Meade as Elena Connors, the girlfriend of Roland "Rory" Williams & she's a part of the friend group in the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise.

Sophia Lillis as Grace-Lynn "Gracie" Moore, an Smart, Intelligent & Kind young woman who's being friends with Terry & Larry Watkins when they're talking about horror movies.

More descriptions of the characters of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise are coming soon.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Kathleen Lynch

October Outings (From Lucky Witness)