#Kevin Middleton

[willstafford]

Stars and Strips

GYPSY Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Sunday 12th May 2024 They’re an ambitious lot at the Crescent.  I’ll say that in their favour from the off.  Now they’re tackling this mammoth of a musical, which brings its own challenges: the many locations, the large cast of characters, and the musical numbers. Ostensibly the origin story of burlesque star, Gypsy Rose Lee, it’s really the story of her…

[alshaverpressbox]

Physical, fast hockey game…what was it like watching that overtime? vancouver canucks @ minnesota wild postgame, 3 december 2024

[atopcat]

The King of the United Kingdom ladies and gentlemen, he’ll show solidarity with rapists before he’ll defend his own son and grandchildren.

[ladylooch]

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World’s Finest

Art by...

1) Alex Maleev

2) Alex Nino

3) Joshua Middleton

4) Bruce Timm

5) Mike Allred

6) Kevin Wada

7) Jae Lee

8) Steve Rude

9) Alex Ross

10) Bill Sienkiewicz

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[mikyapixie]

7 years ago today Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ended on Nickelodeon!!!

Out of all the TMNT I think this one was the best!!!😁😁😁

[highdefinitions]

i see a guy wearing 21 and instantly i’m completely enthralled. i need to know more about them immediately it’s just my way

[roosterjournal]

Larry Nance Jr. Reflects on Kobe's Enduring Impact in Conversation with Kevin O'Connor

On the latest episode of ‘The Kevin O’Connor Show,’ NBA player Larry Nance Jr. made a special appearance to pay tribute to his late former teammate, Kobe Bryant. As the fifth anniversary of Bryant’s tragic passing approaches, both Nance and O’Connor reflected on the profound impact the basketball icon had on their lives and the sport as a whole. Nance shared heartfelt memories of Kobe, recalling…

[kenttsterling]

Anthony Richardson not among three Colts problems to solve! Pacers free agent targets - and those to avoid!

[saintmeghanmarkle]

A Year in Review: All the times Meghan Markle been publicly called out in 2023. Highlights and favorite #MarkleMoment from last year? 📌Part 2 of 2

These are her humiliating moments over past year that she’s been publicly called out for in some way. All with proof, all archived from media reports around the world. Get cozy, save this post, and as always, appreciate the upvotes so it doesn't get targeted for downvotes! Posting it now as many of us will be celebrating Christmas with our loved ones. Although we are a diverse bunch, this unites us all :)

Here’s some from 2022 to inspire you:

Harry and Megan of “overseas”

the Funeral candle

no Jubilee balcony

voetsek Megan

I love the part where…(YouTube comments on their Netflix trailer)

Marriott Meg

12% Rotten Tomatoes rating for Netflix flopumentary, with her cutesy (mocking) curtesy

What was your favourite from 2023?

Meg inexplicably marching with the Invictus vets, at the front, while Harry is literally on the sidelines. https://archive.ph/wip/VG5SP

Meg wears a JCrew sweater to the Games. Her fans claim the Meghan effect crashed the site. JCrew comes out faster than Dior to clarify it was a confirmed outage for a website update.https://archive.ph/wufbS

Archetypes trademark abandoned. So much for the other platforms manifested clamouring for it. https://archive.ph/wip/yhziu

Embarrassing video at the fundraiser with Kevin Costner where she assumes she’s going to be given the mic by virtue of her being there, reached for it, and is very intentionally avoided and not given it. https://archive.ph/yeZDN

Despite the NDA attempts, information on how the NY Bench faux Royal visit does not let anyone speak negatively about her visit. Ever. She also demanded a new carpet. https://archive.ph/qAhnb

Snubbed by the Beckhams on their far more popular Netflix documentary. “Humiliated” by the snub from the Clooneys at their New York Foundation for Justice event.https://archive.ph/wip/GsB7j

Snubbed by Kim K birthday party, despite earlier pics with Doria and days before floating PR that Meg may do a cameo on KUWTK. Compounded by Kylie’s ‘boyfriend’ Chalomet talking about the Worldwide Privacy Tour earlier in the week. https://archive.ph/wip/BGvVP

Mocked on Family Guy for Netflix contract getting paid for nothing/ spon con Insta for Del Taco. Del Taco joins in and tweets about it. https://archive.ph/wip/Sm56V

Meg manifests a deal with Audible. Audible spokesperson shuts that down. https://archive.ph/KTLnP

William lands in Singapore for Earthshot to lit up architecture, Union Jack waving crowds, and an official tree planting at the airport. Meg and H attempt to compete by releasing a ‘candid’ pic of them at Katy Perry’s Las Vegas show (implying the standing people, phones were for them and not Celine Dion who walked in behind them). Cameron Diaz was also there, but didn’t get pics sold the same way. None of the other celebs present interact with them on camera. https://archive.ph/gnpjA

Dior signs Meg. No, not that Meg, but Meg the actress who plays Kate Middleton on the Crown. https://archive.ph/wip/lH6dY

Harry and Meg highly publicize their birthday call to Charles. The Palace discretely responds with detailed full itinerary of Charles’s busy day and evening, plus the press runs the fact that Charles doesn’t have a cell phone. Sussexes double down and pivot to it somehow being a prerecorded message sent (to where?) with Archie and Lili singing happy birthday. The world laughs or ignores them. https://archive.ph/i0uz8

Move along Meg on TikTok, after the video of her refusing to leave her basking on the press carpet at the Variety awards. Bonus is the real celebs inside clearly refused any pictures with her. The next day it’s confirmed she wasn’t even on the Guest List, which explains the Table 12 seating in no star names social Siberia. https://archive.ph/uC4Y8

Harry and Meg graciously are open to an invite for Christmas. Palace guest list leaks a day later, NFI. https://archive.ph/wip/0dEoi

Endgame is published. Omid claims to not be a friend of Meghan. Two Royal racist names are leaked to the Dutch publication based on Meg’s letter to Charles post Megxit. Omid blames the translator. No one publicly appears to believe them. There is not one single positive review of Endgame in major world newspapers. Omid later in the week acknowledges the names were in the Dutch manuscript. https://archive.ph/wip/Lr8XR

Hollywood Reporter lists Harry and Meghan as one of the biggest losers of 2023. https://archive.ph/E4hUt

Kitson’s Holiday Hypocrisy celeb window display in LA features Harry and Meg. Tik Tok notices. https://archive.ph/7yA3F

Ranker poll has both Meghan (#2) and Harry (#6) in the Top 10 list for Most Disliked Celebrities of 2023. Oprah, Hilary Baldwin,Ellen, Amber Heard (#1), and Bill Cosby also make the list. Update: They've recently become #1 and #4. https://archive.ph/OpKH5

Archewell 2022-2023 Impact Report highlighting ‘Restoring Trust in Information’, including ethical journalism, drops the same day Harry is fined $60K in court for providing misleading information - where he’s suing a newspaper. Court documents call it “ironic” given the “Duke of Sussex is responsible for misleading the court.” https://archive.ph/wip/1YtSe

Archewell’s 2022 financials reveal they only raised $2 mil (two anonymous $1 mil donations) vs $13 mill (also two anonymous donations) in 2021. Press brand it a “failure.” Notice they literally had only 4 donations in two years. https://archive.ph/wip/LqnuL

Not invited to any parties for Art Basel in Miami. Back in 2014, Markus organized a Soho party, invited Meg, and sat her next to Misha Nonoo. Context shows Meg has even less clout now than her pre Royal days.https://archive.ph/wip/aKYPL

Christmas card released. Largely ignored by world media. The response from other media: where are the kids? Called out for its embarrassing corporate look. https://archive.ph/fldEw

WME is "horrified" by Meghan Markle's sinking brand and association with Endgame, and may drop her in 2024. https://archive.ph/mye6j

(Honorable mentions to specific Harry’s moments: with Charles too busy to met, not going to France and hiking in Transylvania, and “in the realms of total speculation”. Harry pitches a Spotify show interviewing Putin, Zuckerberg, the Pope, etc on their shared bond of childhood trauma, Spare the most dumped holiday book of 2023. “Peace talks” between KCIII and Harry since he’s nearby in Germany for Invictus shut down less than 24h later. Persona non grata).

​Which ones did you not know or forget about?

It's been quite the year! To quote the Sussexes, thanks for all the support in 2023!

post link: A Year in Review: All the times Meghan Markle been publicly called out in 2023. Highlights and favorite #MarkleMoment from last year? : SaintMeghanMarkle (reddit.com)

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submitted: December 17, 2023 at 02:25PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[willstafford]

No Woman is an Island

SHEILA’S ISLAND Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 26th October 2024 Writer Tim Firth has rehashed his play from 1994, Neville’s Island, by giving all the characters a gender swap – but it’s little more than a find-and-replace job for names and pronouns, with the odd mention of the menopause chucked in.  The women in this retread behave exactly as their male counterparts do in the…

[houseofbrat]

Timeline of events, Part 1

22 DECEMBER 2023: Rebecca English and Camilla Tominey & Hannah Furness post stories regarding Will & Kate making an official visit to Italy but won’t visit the Pope.

25 DECEMBER 2023: Kate attends the Christmas Day service in Sandringham with the BRF, including George, Charlotte, & Louis.

28 DECEMBER 2023: Convoy spotted heading in the direction of King Edward VII's hospital at 20:30 on twitter.

29 DECEMBER 2023: Kensington Palace posts 2023 montage on instagram and twitter.

09 JANUARY 2024: Buckingham Palace posts tweet wishing Kate a Happy Birthday.

William uses Kensington Palace twitter to acknowledge the passing of JPR Williams.

10 JANUARY 2024: Russell Myers has an “exclusive” regarding Will & Kate’s military trip to Europe in February 2024.

11 JANUARY 2024: William travels to hand out CBEs to Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield.

16 JANUARY 2024: Kate is (allegedly) admitted to The London Clinic on this day.

17 JANUARY 2024: KP announces Kate had successful “planned abdominal surgery” the day prior.

Buckingham Palace announces King Charles will be treated for a “benign prostate condition.”

18 JANUARY 2024: William is photographed leaving The London Clinic.

20 JANUARY 2024: Spanish journalist Concha Calleja says that Kate was hospitalized on 28 December 2023.

Roya Nikkhah reported that Kate’s 30 charities & patronages were not notified until one week before her surgery regarding future engagements.

24 JANUARY 2024: People magazine: “Within their broader circle of family friends, there had been no indication that anything was wrong, and the carefully guarded news about Kate’s situation came as a surprise even to those who work closely with the royal family, PEOPLE understands.”

The Mirror published a story saying “The Princess of Wales "could be your best friend one minute” and “your worst enemy” the next, according to a royal expert.“

Later changed to be a story about Prince Harry.

25 JANUARY 2024: Matt Wilkinson & Harry Goodwin of The Sun report that William has visited Kate in the hospital every day while George, Charlotte, & Louis see their mom, Kate, via FaceTime.

26 JANUARY 2024: King Charles visited Kate while she was in The London Clinic after he was admitted for his BPH procedure. Queen Camilla visits The King in the hospital.

27 JANUARY 2024: Queen Camilla photographed visiting King Charles at The London Clinic.

28 JANUARY 2024: Queen Camilla photographed visiting King Charles at The London Clinic.

Spanish journalist Concha Calleja says Kate is in a coma.

29 JANUARY 2024: Kate leaves The London Clinic but is not photographed leaving. William is not photographed at The London Clinic. Kate’s personal assistant is photographed driving away from The London Clinic with a large bouquet in the passenger’s seat.

Statement issued by Kensington Palace.

King Charles is discharged from The London Clinic.

01 FEBRUARY 2024: Kate Mansey & Simon Hunter of The Times report that an unnamed Kensington Palace spokesperson deny Concha Calleja’s claim that Kate is in a coma.

02 FEBRUARY 2024: Concha Calleja stands by her "coma” story.

05 FEBRUARY 2024: Buckingham Palace announces that King Charles has cancer, the specific diagnosis has not been revealed as of today.

James Sweetnam & Matt Jackson of Express quote an “expert” that says Kate could take up to nine months to recover.

06 FEBRUARY 2024: King Charles & Queen Camilla photographed leaving Clarence House.

07 FEBRUARY 2024: Prince Harry flies to UK to see King Charles.

James Middleton shares a video of his family in the Alps on instagram.

Prince William does his first engagement, an investiture, since Kate’s announced hospitalization.

William attends the London Air Ambulance Charity gala with Tom Cruise. “I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you, also, for the kind messages of support for Catherine and for my father, especially in recent days. It means a great deal to us all.”

09 FEBRUARY 2024: Richard Eden reports Will & Kate and kids travel to Anmer Hall in Sandringham for half-term break.

10 FEBRUARY 2024: Buckingham Palace posts a thank-you message from King Charles.

11 FEBRUARY 2024: King Charles & Queen Camilla are photographed attending church in Sandringham. No photos of Will, Kate, or their children attending church.

13 FEBRUARY 2024: Photos of Pippa (Middleton) Matthews vacationing with her husband, James, and children in St. Barts hit the Daily Mail.

King Charles & Queen Camilla arrive back in London at Clarence House.

16 FEBRUARY 2024: Writer Gareth Russell posts on Facebook that Kate has been seen outside at Sandringham, and no one took a picture.

17 FEBRUARY 2024: Richard Eden on twitter regarding school visit by Will & Kate with George.

18 FEBRUARY 2024: King Charles & Queen Camilla attend church in Sandringham.

Prince William attends the BAFTAs.

19 FEBRUARY 2024: School begins again at Lambrook for George, Charlotte, and Louis.

20 FEBRUARY 2024: William, The Prince of Wales, releases a statement regarding Gaza and the Middle East.

21 FEBRUARY 2024: King Charles meets with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Buckingham Palace.

Photo exclusive of Pippa and her children in St Barts for the Daily Mail.

23 FEBRUARY 2024: Video of King Charles reading get-well cards from well wishers released.

27 FEBRUARY 2024: William pulls out of King Constantine II of Greece’s service of thanksgiving at Windsor.

Buckingham Palace announces the death of Thomas Kingston, husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor. William’s absence was not related.

28 FEBRUARY 2024: A Kensington Palace spokesperson addresses the “wild conspiracy theories” about Kate in a statement to The Sun: “We were very clear from the outset that the Princess of Wales was out until after Easter and Kensington Palace would only be providing updates when something was significant.”

29 FEBRUARY 2024: Page Six: Kate Middleton’s team is speaking out in light of the conspiracy theories swirling about the Princess of Wales’ whereabouts following her abdominal surgery in January.

“Kensington Palace made it clear in January the timelines of the princess’ recovery and we’d only be providing significant updates,” her rep tells Page Six exclusively. “That guidance stands.”

The flak reiterates that Middleton, 42, is “doing well.”

ET Online: Earlier this week when it was revealed William would be missing his godfather’s memorial service, the Palace told ET that Kate, who underwent abdominal surgery in January, continues to be “doing well.” But with the speculation only intensifying, the Palace released another statement to ET on Thursday.  

“We gave guidance two days ago that the Princess of Wales continues to be doing well,” the statement reads. “As we have been clear since our initial statement in January, we shall not be providing a running commentary or providing daily updates.”

Tom Sykes of The Daily Beast: A former royal staffer who still has friends and contacts inside the palace said, “Anyone who expects the palace to suddenly start giving lengthy updates on Kate will be disappointed. The principal aim of her being sequestered is to guard her privacy. I’m sure the press hate it because it is working. There is a really, really small bubble of people who know exactly what is going on.”

Prince William visited a central London synagogue, where Kate had been scheduled to visit on Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 Jan 2024).

Jan Moir on Prince William: One day soon he will be the head of the nation, a focus for national identity, unity and pride. So maybe he should stop behaving like a celebrity flake and reign in that impervious attitude along with his indulgent fondness for obsessive secrecy. If this is a sign of what is to come when he ascends the throne, it is very worrying one.

Tom Bower says Kate’s condition is more serious than has been reported previously.

(update from previous timeline here)

[lilygoat]

Kevin Middleton

[ladylooch]

How 2024 is already coming to a close, I couldn't tell you. But here we are for another year of Writer Wrapped! We had a heavy AU year and honestly, it breathed so much life into my creative soul. I needed this year as it was, to disappear into a world we created that may have been fiction, but was also deeply human.

Thank you all for being here to create such a wonderful space.

I'm looking forward to another fun year in 2025! But first... let's look back.

Top 3 Fics of 2024:

Odds were against us - John Marino (WAIT WHAT, NOT NICO!?)

Love & Fairness - Nico Hischier

A Slice of Heaven- Nico Hischier

Writer’s Favorites from 2024 ( in no particular order):

Strictly Pleasure - Timo Meier

Lio's Spiral - Part 4 - Lio x Savannah

Bones - Part 5 - Mack x David

The 3 times Connor almost kissed Lucie and the 3 times he did

A Visit to Manchester - Lucie x Connor

Blog Highlights:

The way we all fell for more toothless men (Jake Middleton fan account fr.)

Never surrendering my hatred of Kevin's mustache despite impossible pressure.

A full summer of long AU fics!

Making new connections and moots!

What fic were you most surprised succeeded? 

20 Weeks - Miles Wood - I loved it, but didn't think it would reach the audience that it did. I am still so giddy about it!

Any fics you wished had received more attention?

 Connor's Birth - Miles Wood

Birthday Kisses - Kevin Fiala

Heaven with a Devil - Lio x Savannah

Breaking All My Rules - Timo Meier

Favorite lines you wrote this year:

"Hi baby." IYKYK 🥹

“You should stay with us.” Connor says softly. “We want you here.” 

“You’re gonna be someone’s dad in 4 months. But more importantly than that, right now you’re someone’s husband. I depend on you to show up when you say you will. Don’t make me learn how to do this without you because I fucking will.”

What ship gave you brain rot this year?

Hands down Mack and David. I am always thinking of them.

What are you most excited to work on in 2024? 

In January, I am hoping to shift my focus into more one shots! I love the AUs but have been itching to write about some new players. I'm hopeful the turn of the new year will allow that opportunity!

[dustedmagazine]

Andrew Forell’s Dusted Year End 2024

Mukqs, Photo by Brett Naucke

Well, that was a clusterfuck of a year. I barely have the words and frankly enough has been said about not just 2024 but the augurs for the next four years and beyond. So, to the music. It was a strange one. I felt like I could barely keep up with the amount coming out and after a while I stopped trying and slowly learnt to let go of FOMO and concentrate on what came my way and the serendipitous finds from the occasional rabbit hole excursion. Below are my favorite records of the year and a bunch of others I’ve enjoyed and recommended to anyone who asked (and a few who didn’t).

Mukqs — Eye Frame (Orange Milk)

Apart from the technical aspect of his live sample-based improvisation, Mukqs’ Eye Frame is like an aural version of Fantastic Voyage. It feels like you are travelling through the sounds of your own mind and body sometimes in reverie and sometimes into the eddies of anxiety at its core. As I said in my review “Mukqs moves his music seamlessly between light and shade, combining waves of sound with microscopic detail, using staticky glitch to enhance natural sound and recognizable new age tropes to ameliorate the unfamiliar.” Each subsequent listen has revealed further dimensions in Eye Frame and I’ve found myself returning to it more than other record this year.

Francesco Leali — Let Us Descend (Until Riots)

Francesco Leali and his collaborators create a disquiet world on Let Us Descend. Fascinated by the ideas of coercive control and psychological manipulation as the heart of modern society, Leali holds a scratched and tarnished mirror to our gaslit world. Using a minimal palette of electronics, percussion, and strings, this is some of the darkest and most distressed music of the year. An appropriate, and ironically, consoling response to the events of these too dread times. Leali creates moments of great beauty on tracks like “Catatonic Blue” and “Hexed” that provide glimmers of hope amongst the terrible mess. 

Arab Strap — I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍 (Rock Action)

It’s always a pleasure to hear Aidan Moffat’s exasperated, heartfelt poetry. Taking stock of the deleterious effects of social media has been a staple of the last few years but Moffat’s ability to combine scathing satire and emotionally resonant turns of phrase can stop you in your tracks. Behind him Malcolm Middleton moves from big beat to gruff Pet Shop Boys to lush Bacharach inspired orchestration to delicate acoustic guitar and string arrangements. Whether wielding scalpel or bludgeon, Moffat is at his windmill tilting best. A lovely rollicking ride this. 

Iceboy Violet, Nueen — You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through the Fire (Hyperdub)

Barcelona-based producer Nueen provides grainy washes and granular details that frame Manchester artist Iceboy Violet’s dissection of a lost relationship. The music slips from interstitial space, mercurial, shapeshifting. The voices weave though, now submerged in smoke and murk, now crystal close, expanding the liminal spaces between grief, loss, and lust. Violet processes their pain and regret in language that moves between poetic abstraction and breathtakingly specific detail. An album of real beauty and pain.  

KMR/KMRU — Disconnect (Phantom Limb)

On two lengthy tracks “Differences” and “Arkives”, Nigerian sound artist Joseph Kamaru AKA KMRU discusses colonial power, history, and identity over Kevin Richard Martin’s ambient dubscapes. On the first, more abstract piece, Martin layers KMRU’s voice so that it echoes like the oral histories so vital to the transmission of culture in his homeland. “Arkives” is an explicit and telling condemnation of the colonial obsessions with suppressing language and fetishizing the collection of artefacts. The pair then perform haunted deconstructions on both tracks. “Difference”, Differ”, “Ark” and “Arcs” work as shadow miniatures, reducing the words and music to ritual abstraction that work on a psychogeographical level as hypnotic invocations of knowledge and being. 

Sinaïve — Pop Moderne (ANTIMATIER)

French trio Sinaïve bring the cool. Looking like Warholian foundlings, all sharp edges, mod clobber, sunglasses after dark and an effortless way with a beat or a riff especially when they’ve copped it from a song you didn’t even know you loved. “Providence”, which sounds like Brigitte Fontaine over the tidal swell (and decelerated riff) of “Taillights Fade” and a rickety drum machine is a magnificent undulating slab of melodic sludge. “Dasein (Oder nie sein)” careens along the open road, all motorik drums, squalling guitar, and a thrumming bass riff. Pop Moderne never fails to provide an electric jolt. 

Some others:

Angry Blackmen — The Legend of ABM (Deathbomb Arc)

Being Dead — EELS (Bayonet)

Alan Braufman — Infinite Love, Infinite Tears (Valley of Search)

The Bug — Machine (Relapse)

Burial — Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (XL Recordings)

Camera Obscura — Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)

Fin — Cleats (Hausu Mountain)

Damaged — Ghost Dubs (Pressure)

Daryl Groetsch — Above the Shore (self-released)

Drahla — angeltape (Captured Tracks)

Font — Strange Burden (Acrophase)

France Jobin + Yamil Rezc — Un diá en México (LINE)

Geotic  — The Anchorite (Basement’s Basement)

HAPTIC — Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (LINE)

Kim Gordon — The Collective (Matador)

KMRU — Natur (Touch)

Marwan Allam — Bab Bhar (self-released)

Mick Harvey — Five Ways to Say Goodbye (Mute)

Neutrals — New Town Dream (Slumberland)

Nexcyia — Exodus (Haunter)

Patrick Higgins — Versus (Other People)

Reunion Island  — Night Words (Tall Corn)

Sandwell District — Where Next? (Point of Departure)

Skee Mask — D (self-released)

Umbrellas — Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)

Yosa Peit — Gutbuster (Fire)