#Lenny language is all consuming

[gayhenrycreel]

not okay.... not okay at all. a while back i had a fling with Hvitserk and then his brother, Sigurd, married Henry who is my dad, so now Hvitserk is technically my uncle -Eddie

[rafi420]

Subverting the traditional growth model: What has Duolingo done right with its DAU soaring?

Growth is an eternal theme for any business.Regardless of whether it is a start-up company or a mature large enterprise, after experiencing a period of rapid development, it will hit a stage ceiling. Whether a company HE Tuber can continue to innovate and maintain growth is the key to greatness or mediocrity.

Duolingo is a magical existence. As a language learning platform,

 DAU is soaring all the way

 on a less hot track . In Q4 of 2022, Duolingo's MAU reached 60.7 million, compared with only 42.4 million in the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 43%, and DAU increased by 62% year-on-year to 16.3 million.

From 2018 to 2022, "Duolingo" DAU increased by 450%｜Image source: Lenny's Newsletter

In 2022, when it is difficult for major leading platforms to expand their user base and increase revenue, how will Duolingo achieve rapid growth? 

The answer is to subvert the traditional AARRR model and adopt a more detailed user stratification and data model to find growth levers.

Today we will take Duolingo as an example to discuss how we can learn from its successful experience, apply it flexibly and break through growth difficulties.

Without further ado, let’s go directly to the main text, Enjoy:

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Traditional AARRR Model

When it comes to user operations and growth, the AARRR growth model is a framework well known in the industry, also known as the pirate model, which is similar to what pirates do, to achieve predatory growth, and is a five-level funnel model. It contains the following steps:

(Picture source: Drawn by myself)

Acquisition: A way to acquire new users, attract their attention and let them know about the product.

Activation: Convert new users into active users, generate interest in products or services, and maintain a good first impression.

Retention: Ensure that acquired users continue to use and return, improving user retention rate.

Revenue: Convert users into paying customers and achieve business goals through purchases.

Self-propagation (Refer): Let users recognize the product and spread it spontaneously, bringing more new users.

The beauty of the AARRR growth model 

is that it provides a simple and methodical way to evaluate user operations and growth strategies.

Simple and easy to understand: 

Divide the user life cycle into 5 stages to facilitate us to find the corresponding strategy at each stage.

Easy to implement: 

It is an accepted standard so most companies can quickly understand and implement it.

Easy to track: Since the goals of each phase are very clear, its progress can be tracked through specific metrics.

However, the AARRR model also has its shortcomings:

Oversimplification: only involves 5 stages, but in real life, user situations are often very complex and may require more specific operational strategies.

Lack of focus: Not distinguishing which users are more important, so too many resources may be consumed to meet user needs that are not necessary.

Lack of guidance: Lack of specific guidance, and it is often necessary to combine other models or data when implementing operational strategies.

this type of model is too simplistic , each step depends on the success of the previous step, which may result in the model not being applicable to certain products or services in some cases.

Therefore, when Duolingo encountered a growth bottleneck in 2018, it decided to explore a new growth model from

[bnbc]

OC Profile 2

I decided to make one for Rachel too :3

General

Name: Rachel Jade Vogelman

Alias(es): Corpo-fixer (derogatory), Reptile

Gender: Female

Age: 29 (as of the events of CP 2077)

Birthdate: 24 of August 2048

Place of birth: New York, moved to NC at 2044

Spoken languages: English (native), Hebrew (non-fluent)

Sexual preference: Lesbian

Occupation: Arasaka’s employee (till 2076), fixer (2079-present)

Appearance

Eye colour: black sclera and white irises, naturally green

Hair colour: brown, party bleached

Height: 5′9″ / 176 cm

Scars: none (all the scars she had were cured surgically)

Favourite

Colour: deep red

Hair colour: blond

Song: Everybody Wants To Rule The World <3

Food: seafood

Drink: ni-cola

Have They...

Passed university: yes, she studied network and communication

Had sex: yes

Had sex in public: no

Gotten pregnant: no

Kissed a boy: yes

Kissed a girl: yes

Gotten tattoos: no

Gotten piercings: has multiple piercings in each ear and decorative elements implanted at her cheeks

Been in love: yes

Stayed up for more than 24 hours: yes, and ugh… that’s a habit

Are They...

A virgin: no

A cuddler: no

A kisser: yes

Scared easily: no

Jealous easily: yes

Dominant/Submissive: she’s a switch, but mostly takes a submissive role in her current relationship

In love: yes

Single: no

Random Questions (TW: Self harm/suicide mention)

Have they harmed themselves: not directly, but she has some self-damaging habits, as using stimulators and consuming an insane amount of sugar

Thought of suicide: no

Attempted suicide: no

Wanted to kill someone: yes

Have/had a job: been working for Arasaka

Have any fears: she’s afraid of being controlled, and also of becoming a person like her mother. She's also araid of faliure and of being not good enough ine the eyes of people who matter to her.

Family

Sibling(s): Lenny (Leonard Jr), elder brother, a music critic. They didn’t like each other while growing up, but now they’re biggest allies in the family matters

Parent(s): father — Leonard Vogelman, owner of shares in several media corps, a pretty chill guy. Mother — Esther Vogelman, famous artist, a control freak. Rachel literally moved to West Coast to escape her influence, the joke is — she failed xD Both parents are alive, and basically, they are loving, tho a bit unhealthy family

Children: will have two daughters with her wife

Significant other: Meredith Stout

Pet(s): Kou none

[canaryrecords]

“Under the mask of humor, our society allows infinite agressions, by everyone and against everyone. In the culminating laugh by the listener or observer - whose position is often really that of the victim or butt - the teller of the joke betrays his hidden hostility and signals his victory by being, theoretically at least, the one person present who does not laugh. […] Erotic humor is far & away the most popular of all types, and an extremely large percentage of jokes authentically in oral circulation, in this and apparently all centuries and cultures, is concerned with the humor - often unwilling, unpleasant, and even purposely macabre - of this sexual impulse. The humor of scatology must be assimilated into this, if only because both operate under the same psychological and verbal taboos. […] The editor is very conscious that in presenting [...] a collection of what this culture calls frankly and appreciatively ‘dirty jokes,’ he himself is falling into every kind of aggression in the book, and is almost certain to cause every reader, without exception, some sort of uneasiness in one chapter or another.” - Gershon Legman, introduction to Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (Grove Press, 1968)

THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES DISCRIMINATORY AND OFFENSIVE MATERIAL INTENDED ONLY FOR ADULTS. However, unlike the anthologizing work of the great folklorist Gershon Legman, I have made two significant censorial choices. I have purposefully omitted broad racial and ethnic stereotypes (although I have retained regionalistic stereotyping) and material that is specifically centered around sexual violence (although I have retained passing references to assaults). My feeling is that this collection will be understood as entertainment, despite its historicizing context, and that presenting some of the available material here would be itself an act of perpetuation of misogyny, racism, and the ongoing systemic violence that is prevalent among the material that I’ve drawn from in making this collection. The axiom "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke," is as reasonable and helpful a rule if the "they" is clearly understood. My intention is not to obfuscate the hostility that was on display on these old discs but to offer some of these recordings in a way that will not cause undo pain to contemporary adult listeners.

Anyone who has physically handled enough 78rpm discs in the U.S. has encountered the “blue” humor material that was on offer in the post WWII period. Typically anonymous, bearing little more than a title on their labels, they were most often documents of cabaret and burlesque performers, examples of dirty jokes inherited from stage routines but unreleaseable under inherited codes of propriety, filled either with double meanings or else explosions of expletives. Some were the pornographic audio equivalents of “stag” films. In any case, they were a use of the home audio format as a release of repression and sublimation of sexual and other taboo language in the U.S. Between the Supreme Court’s decision on Joyce’s Ulysses and the trials of Lenny Bruce, they were sold clandestinely by men to other men as home-listening smut or "party records" to replicate the bawdy atmosphere of nightclubs at home.

Many were stock bits, recorded repeatedly by various uncredited stage and radio performers. Some were subsequently rerecorded on LPs in the 1970s by Black performers like Skillet & Leroy and Rudy Ray Moore. Parodies of risque material performed by Black entertainers in the 20s and 30s was rerecorded by white performers in stereotyped dialect, a form of audio blackface (which we have omitted on this collection). Queer culture songs and routines were disseminated and consumed through a similar process, even as homophobic sentiments arise periodically. And, of course, ethic humor - a baseline of early 20th century American stage acts - was broadened to include overt sexual ideas of various groups. (Some ethnic groups, particularly Poles in Chicago, produced LPs of "hot" and "sexy" material during the LP era, which is a subject for another discussion.)

For what it’s worth, a significant number of these types of recordings circulate online now, particularly on YouTube, but many also don't. No wide-scale release of the "blue" comedic discs of the 40s and 50s has been undertaken and for good reason. They remain largely in the “naughty” piles of collectors, who are generally reluctant to share them widely because of the shame involved in perpetuating these often distinctly unsavory or sub-artistic bits of American life. The culture of 78rpm record collecting continues to include many individuals who take the contents of the recordings as totemic of a wished-for past, an anachronistic world that is racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. Those reprehensible impulses would be too easy to project on this cross-section of audio cultural detritus, so it may be useful to present some of those recordings here in a spirit of joyfulness.

Henri Bergson wrote that, "If there exists a madness that is laughable, it can only be compatible with the general health of the mind - a sane type of madness." The best way to hear these things is understand them as a form of collective madness. The joke, certainly, is on you and me, but it's only because we're all crazy together.

[debbiechanclub]

Best Two Out of Three, Part 15

Alright friends. Shit’s about to get real.

Some notes/warnings before this part. @what-does-mine-say and I have decided to lean into everything going on with Hangman in AEW right now, because frankly, it works perfectly with our plot - and I go pretty hard into here. Also, this part marks the start of a slippery slope for Alex and she probably won’t make the best decisions. But she’s in a really tough spot, okay? *cries*

Enjoy...?

Best Two Out of Three

Part: 15/26

Pairing: Kenny Omega x OFC x Cash Wheeler and Adam Page x OFC

Warnings: ANGST, some language

Word Count: 4k

Catch up on previous parts here.

“Is that a hickey?”

Alex slapped a hand to her neck, her entire face burning bright red at the wide-eyed look on Britt’s face. “Jesus, Britt,” she glared as she stood from her seat in hair and makeup. “Just put me on blast.”

“Um, it’s right there for everyone to see,” she returned. “What, you didn’t want them to cover it up?”

Alex just gave her a look as she pulled her hair over to the left side of her neck, concealing the love bite from view. To be honest, she’d forgotten it was there. When she’d told Cash to make her his last night, he’d taken it a bit literally. Not that she’d minded; he’d left his mark elsewhere, too. Britt just couldn’t see it.

“Leave her alone,” Callie defended as she sat for her makeup. “Alex and Cash are in looooveee.”

Alex froze at her sing-song teasing. “Stop,” she muttered as she leaned against the wall and looked down at her phone, busying herself with Twitter. The last thing she wanted to think about right now was the “L” word.

“What?” Callie innocently asked. “I’m happy for you! I miss the days when Adam and I couldn’t keep our hands off each other.”

“Uh oh. Trouble in paradise?” Britt asked.

Alex and Callie both shot her a look for that one. “No,” Callie returned. “He’s just been… I don’t know. Distracted the last few weeks.”

“Well that fight last night between his tag partner and his new BFF probably didn’t help,” Britt remarked. “I can’t wait to see how he and Kenny manage to defend their titles after that.”

Alex and Callie exchanged a silent glance. Somehow, word had gotten around about Kenny and Cash’s fist fight at the hotel bar the night before; and Alex just knew everyone assumed it was about her. She’d felt it in the judgmental eyes and whispers that had followed her all day. It was enough to send a person into hiding.

“They’ll be fine,” Callie insisted with a roll of her eyes. But it seemed like she was trying to convince herself more than Britt. She nudged her chin at Alex in effort to change the subject. “Don’t Best Friends have a match tonight?”

“Yeah,” Alex confirmed. “Them and Jurassic Express versus the Inner Circle. Actually, I should probably head up to Gorilla; we’re on first.”

She pushed herself from the wall; but she didn’t go anywhere. Her eyes had connected with Matt Jackson’s as he rounded the corner—and he was making a beeline right for her.

“Can I talk you?” he asked. No, not asked—told. It caught Alex completely off-guard.

“Yeah…” she hesitantly returned. “Sure.”

He didn’t even wait for her to finish speaking before he turned and marched back down the hall from where he’d come, giving her no choice but to follow. She shot Callie an annoyed look before hurrying after him. There was only one reason Matt would want to talk to her, and his named rhymed with “Lenny.”

He led her around another corner and down a deserted hallway, making sure they were well out of earshot of anyone. He didn’t waste any time. “Alright, I’m just gonna cut to the chase,” he said as he whirled around to face her. “You need to put Kenny out of his misery.”

Alex’s brow lowered. “Excuse me?”

Matt let out a huff and ran a frustrated hand through his hair. It seemed like he’d decided to have this confrontation on a whim and didn’t really have his thoughts in order. “He’s in love with you, Alex,” he said. “I know you know that; he told me and Nick about what happened last week. And after what happened last night, I’m sure you also know that he’s still holding onto hope that you two have a chance. So please… just tell him it’s over so he can move on.”

Alex stood there in front of him like a deer in headlights. She hadn’t expected him to say that; not any of it. And she certainly hadn’t expected the hollow way it made her feel.

“Oh my God,” Matt let out another breath as he ran a hand over his face. “Is there still a chance?”

“What?” she returned. “I’m with Cash, Matt.”

“Are you sure? Because you didn’t look sure a second ago.”

Alex bit down on her jaw. She didn’t need this from Matt Jackson, of all people. “Well, thanks for this little judgment detour, but I have a match I need to get to.”

She turned to leave—but then Matt said something that made her stop. “He was planning on making it up to you, you know.”

She looked back at him, more confused than anything. “What?”

Matt put his hands on his hips. It almost looked like he regretted opening his mouth, but it was too late now. He had to tell her. “Kenny felt terrible about that night he didn’t get back to the hotel room until one in the morning,” he said. “And then on top of it he was busy that entire weekend… he told me he could barely talk to you because he was so upset with himself. So he planned out a whole night to make it up to you the next week. He made reservations at some fancy restaurant; I think he bought you something, I don’t know. He wanted it to be a surprise. But then the very day he was gonna do all that, you told him you had feelings for Cash.”

With every word that came out of Matt’s mouth, Alex’s heart sunk deeper and deeper into the pit of her stomach. She felt sick. If what Matt said was true, then it cast that weekend nearly two months ago in a whole new terrible light. While she’d been cuddling in front of a fire with Cash, telling him she didn’t know what she and Kenny were, asking him to share a bed with her, Kenny had been thinking only of her. She’d thought he’d just been too busy to make time for her, when in reality he’d been planning to prove to her how much he cared; how much he wanted to change for her, just like he’d said. And she hadn’t given him a chance to prove it. She’d shot his chance dead in the water. She was absolutely disgusted with herself.

Matt’s voice cut through her thoughts. “I’m sorry. But I had to tell you because I know Kenny won’t.”

Alex didn’t say anything in response. She didn’t even look at Matt before she turned on her heel and left, walking swiftly through the halls to Gorilla, in a daze. Everyone else booked for the tag match was already there when she arrived, milling around, waiting for the show to get underway. Trent spotted her the same time she did him. “There you are,” he said. “Did you get lo—”

He didn’t finish his sentence. Alex had walked right up to him, wrapped her arms around his middle, and hugged herself tight against his chest.

Everyone around turned to look. Trent went stiff, unsure what to do. “Okay, Alex,” he said. “I’m a little confused, but I’m not gonna stop it if this is what you want.”

“Trent,” she breathed. “Please. I just need a hug from my friend right now.”

He must have heard the emotion in her voice, because she felt him relax after she said that. He wrapped his arms around her. “Do you want to talk about it?”

“No,” she said.

There was a thoughtful pause. “Are you good to come out there with us?”

She didn’t answer right away. “I think so,” she decided.

“What the hell is this?” Alex suddenly heard Chuck proclaim. “I know you’re not leaving me out of a Best Friends hug right now.”

She felt Trent pick up one of his arms and make a motion as if he was cutting his hand across his throat, signaling to Chuck that now wasn’t the time for jokes. There was another pause. And then Chuck asked, “Are you okay, Alex?”

No, she thought. But she said, “I just need a minute.”

Trent rested his chin on top of her head. And then she heard James say, “Who do we have to murder?”

Me, Alex thought. But before she could say anything, Best Friends’ music started up.

Trent pulled back and looked down at her. “Are you sure you’re good?”

She nodded. “Yeah.”

“Okay.” He squeezed her shoulders and nodded toward the entrance to the babyface tunnel. “Well let’s go, then. We have some Inner Circle ass to beat.”

They all made their way to the tunnel. Chuck wrapped an arm around Alex’s shoulders as they walked. “Would it make you feel better if I held Sammy down so you could hit him?”

She let out a small laugh. “Probably.”

He nodded. “Well then one knuckle sandwich coming right up.”

They disappeared into the tunnel. Alex took a deep breath and followed Trent, Orange, and Chuck out onto the stage, plastering on her game face. She didn’t have to worry about crying. She was far too numb.

* * * * * * * * * *

The silence that filled The Elite’s dressing room was almost physically painful. Kenny sat at one end and Adam the other, both dressed and ready for their tag team title defense against Dark Order. Neither of them had said so much as two words to each other since the night before, when they’d had a verbal altercation of their own not long after Kenny’s physical one with Cash.

Callie had tried to tell Adam to just leave Kenny alone to cool off, but he couldn’t. He felt responsible for the fight. He’d been the one to call Kenny over like a drunken idiot. He’d been the one to drive Alex to Cash, unwittingly breaking Kenny’s heart and putting Alex between them. And so even though he hadn’t swung a single punch that night, he felt like he’d stabbed Kenny in the back, repeatedly—and that was ten times worse.

So he’d marched down to Kenny’s hotel room, just a few doors away, still in his suit and tie. Still buzzing from the alcohol he’d consumed all night. He’d knocked on the door before he could think better of it. When Kenny answered, he looked disappointed. Like he was hoping it had been someone—anyone—else knocking at his door.

“What do you want?” he sighed.

Adam frowned. He didn’t blame Kenny for not wanting to talk to him. “I wanted to come see if you were alright,” he said. He glanced at his left eye. There was already a welt underneath it. “Cash got you pretty good.”

“And I returned the favor,” Kenny clipped.

Adam looked away, running a hand through his already mussed hair. He hadn’t come prepared with anything to say, so he just said the first thing that came to mind. “I didn’t know Cash would act like that when I called you over. And I wasn’t trying to rub tonight in your face, I swear.”

Kenny laughed wryly to himself. “Okay, Adam.”

His brow lowered. “I wasn’t,” he firmly returned. “Do you seriously think I would do that?”

“Actually yeah, I do,” Kenny nodded. “And you wanna know why? Because you knew exactly what you were doing when you invited FTR to that cookout with Alex. It wasn’t just about getting her to be friends with Callie. Admit it.”

Guilt rose up Adam’s throat like bile. He’d done far more than just invite FTR to the same cookout as Alex. But couldn’t admit to the things he’d said to her. He just couldn’t. “I’m sorry,” he said. “But I didn’t know you loved her, man.”

“What difference does that make?” Kenny shot. “You shouldn’t have done it regardless!”

“Well I thought I was doing what was best for her, alright?” Adam yelled back.

Kenny stared back at him, a mixture of shock and hurt in his eyes. But it was gone as soon as it arrived. He let out another laugh. “You know what? Fuck you, Adam. You’re not sorry. You’re just drunk and guilty.”

And with that he’d slammed the door in Adam’s face, leaving him standing alone in the hall. Now they sat across the locker room from each other, an invisible gulf between them.

Eventually, Adam had to say something. “Look, let’s just put last night behind us for this match, alright? We need to be on the same page if we’re gonna beat Dark Order.”

Kenny cast him a look. “When have we ever been on the same page?”

Adam bit down on his jaw. In a different tone of voice, that could have been a joke. But Kenny clearly wasn’t joking. “Kenny, I’m willing to work with you tonight so we don’t lose our championships. Are you?”

Kenny abruptly stood from his seat and grabbed his AEW World Tag Team Championship. “Yeah, I am. Because this?” he held up the title. “This is just business. Nothing else.” And he walked out the door, making it crystal clear to Adam exactly where he stood.

* * * * * * * * * *

“I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve had a fantastic two days,” Cash announced as Alex walked with him and Dax toward Gorilla for their Dark match against Brandon Cutler and Peter Avalon. “I wined and dined my girl; my best friend and I officially signed our AEW contracts, with guarantees for tag ropes and Tag Team Appreciate Night; and now we get to go kick some ass.”

“Everything’s coming up FTR,” Dax said.

“Everything is coming up FTR,” Cash agreed.

Alex did her best to smile at Cash as he squeezed her hand, her fingers interlaced with his. He’d been in a good mood all day; it was like he’d already forgotten about the fight with Kenny. She wished she could say the same.

They arrived at Gorilla, but instead of walking toward the ring entrance with Dax, Cash slowed to a stop. He pulled Alex against him. “Are you gonna watch back here?”

She nodded. “Yeah. I feel like if I went out there it would just take away from you guys. You know… because of last night.”

He frowned at her. Not a sad frown, but an apologetic one. “I know, sweetheart. I know everyone knows about the fight. I’m sorry.”

Alex shook her head. She reached up and gently brushed her fingertips through his hair. “You apologized last night,” she said. “Let’s move forward.”

Cash smiled at her, true and warm, and Alex’s stomach fluttered. His smile always made her melt.

Suddenly, someone nearby shouted that they were on in sixty seconds. Cash glanced toward Gorilla. “Shit—I gotta go.” He gave her a kiss, quick and hard. “I’ll see you after.”

Alex watched as he hurried off. She missed him almost as soon as he was gone, but she turned and started down the hall to watch FTR’s match with Callie in the lounge. At least, she thought she’d been going to the lounge. It wasn’t until she saw The Elite’s locker room that she realized she’d gone in the complete opposite direction.

She stood there, staring at the door. Her conversation with Matt earlier in the day replayed in her head. Her legs carried her forward; and the next thing she knew, she was knocking.

A voice called from inside. “Yeah?” Alex’s pulse raced. That was Kenny’s voice. Before she could think about it, she pushed open the door and walked in. Kenny froze when he saw her. He’d obviously just gotten out of the shower. Heat rose in Alex’s cheeks as she watched tiny water droplets drip from his damp curls and roll down his bare chest. Thank God he was wearing shorts.

“Hey,” he said.

She had to swallow a lump in her throat before she could speak. “Hi.” Now that she was in front him, she didn’t know what the hell to do. She hadn’t intended to come in here; it had just happened, like her subconscious had taken her there of its own accord. And then her tongue took over. “Um, I know this is probably a bad time. But… can we talk?”

He seemed surprised at the request. But he nodded. “Yeah. It’s not a bad a time.”

Alex chewed her lip as he dug out a tank top from his suitcase and pulled it over his head. She crossed the room and sat down in a chair, far too nervous to stand. Her legs were literally shaking. Kenny sat down next to her; the familiar scent of his body wash filled her nose. Her stomach fluttered.

“What’s up?” he asked.

The genuineness of his tone killed her. She looked back at him, and her gaze couldn’t help but drift to the purple bruise underneath his left eye. “I’m sorry about last night,” she said.

He shook his head. “It’s not your fault.”

She looked down at her hands, wringing them in her lap. “I still feel responsible.”

“Don’t,” he insisted. “Really. I let Cash get to me and I shouldn’t have.”

“He shouldn’t have acted the way he did,” she returned, almost underneath her breath.

A corner of Kenny’s mouth quirked up. “Well, I’m not blaming you for him acting like an asshole.”

Alex stole a glance at him. His eyes were so sincere that she had to look away again. She’d get lost in those blue pools if she didn’t. “I feel terrible about the way he acted,” she admitted. And then she added, before she could stop herself, “And I feel even more worse about it now that I know you planned a night just like that for me.”

She looked at him again—she had to see his reaction. His expression was one of realization. “Did Matt tell you?”

She nodded. And then it all came out. “He asked to talk to me before the show started. He told me that after that night you didn’t come back to the hotel room until one in the morning you planned a night to make it up to me. But it never happened because I’m a fucking asshole who didn’t give you a chance.”

Emotion surged up through her and her eyes welled with tears, falling and rolling silently down her cheeks as she stared back at him. And then she realized: it was her guilt that had brought her in here. It had carried her away like a riptide, and she was just fighting to breathe.

Kenny frowned at her. “Alex, please don’t cry. I hate seeing you cry.”

He dared to reach out and brushed her tears away with his thumb. She didn’t pull away. Instead, she leaned into his touch. “Why didn’t you tell me about it?” she asked.

“Because I was too shocked by what you’d said,” he gently explained. “It felt like you’d already made up your mind. It felt like there was nothing I could do that would make a difference.”

Alex’s heart broke all over again when she heard that. “It would have made a difference,” she said, her voice breaking. “We could still be together, Kenny.”

Kenny anticipated what was coming, and he didn’t think twice before pulling her into him. Alex buried her face in his neck, clinging to his shirt as her shoulders shook and he held her tight. She’d wondered for weeks, deep in the back of her mind, if she and Kenny would still be together if only she hadn’t been so quick to put up her walls. And now that he’d said that, it all but confirmed her worst fears.

“I wish I could go back in time and re-do that day,” Kenny said. “But I can’t. The only thing I can do is try to fix it now.”

He pulled back and looked deep into her eyes. Alex’s breath hitched in her throat as he reached up and wiped her tears away again, cupping her face in his hand, still holding her close. The air was magnetic between them. If he was going to kiss her, she wasn’t sure she would stop it.

“Do you remember when we were in Daytona Beach for Fyter Fest last year and we went down to the boardwalk?” he asked.

Alex gave him a watery smile. That had been one of their first “dates” after they’d first gotten involved. It was one of her favorite memories. But it felt bittersweet now. “Yeah. We went to that arcade and you kicked my ass at absolutely everything. Even air hockey.”

“You were so mad,” he smirked.

“I’m competitive.”

His grin grew wider. “And then we went in that photobooth, and you didn’t even want to smile you were so annoyed with me. But then I kissed you.”

Her heart skipped a beat. “And then I didn’t want to stop kissing you.”

He brushed another tear away as it fell. “I still have those pictures,” he said. “And after that night I didn’t come back to the hotel room until late, I went home and dug them out. And as I was looking at them… that’s when I realized I loved you.”

He sat back and stood up. Alex watched as he walked across the room back to his suitcase and unzipped the interior pocket. He pulled out a small white box and walked back over to her, retaking his seat. He looked down at the box in his hands. Alex watched him.

“I was planning on giving this to you at dinner on that night Matt told you about. I had this whole spiel prepared about how I knew I’d messed up and hurt you, but I was committed to you now. And I was scared shitless about it but… I was going to tell you I loved you. That I would do everything I could to make sure you knew that and never doubted it. But then that night never happened. I’ve been carrying this around with me ever since,” he said with a gesture of the box. “I just never bothered to take it out of my suitcase; I didn’t want to even think about it after you got together with Cash. But I want you to have it.”

He held out the box to her. Alex’s hands trembled as she took it. She worked open the lid. A round, antique gold-colored locket on a long chain sat on a cotton cushion inside. She picked it up and pulled it open. Her heart swelled in her chest and she brought a hand to her mouth. Inside was the picture of them kissing in the photobooth that day at the boardwalk arcade.

She looked back up at Kenny, tears freely falling again. There was love in his eyes as he gazed back at her. Deep. Real. “I don’t know what happens from here,” he said. “You could still choose him, and I’ll just have to live with it. But I love you, Alex. And I promise—”

He didn’t get to finish his sentence—Alex pulled him forward and crashed her lips against his. Kenny didn’t hesitate for a second; he wrapped his arms around her and tilted her head back, deepening the kiss. Craving her, claiming her as their mouths moved together—and, in that moment, Alex wanted him to.

But then there were voices in the hall. She returned to her senses and abruptly pulled away from him, her eyes wide with guilt. “Shit.” She looked back at Kenny, shocked at what they’d just done. But Kenny didn’t look shocked at all. His eyes shone with something else entirely.

“Alex,” he breathed, his voice heady with desire. It told Alex she needed to leave before they did anything more.

“I’m sorry,” she said, and she stood and hurried out the door, the locket still in her hand.

[grotesquegabby]

I Know You

A story involving @post-itpennys Maggie the Clown 

My clowns Alexander Calamity

Billy the Bumbling Clown 

and a his room full of worshipers who don’t actually mean anything.

It was a busy day with many long meetings. These ones only involving those who knew of Billy otherwise known as the top dogs in the business. His worshipers....

Suggesting bringing in new blood from the lower ranks who didn’t know of Billy’s abilitites

some with hiring and firing

Others bringing up business with other companies

Maggie was with Billy through all this, even noticing Billy wasn’t entirely there for the meetings. He was lost in thought, his recent venture with an oddball clown wearing out of fashion clothing from the 90s consumed his thoughts. Why did the man seem so familiar.

“Sir what do you think?” 

Billy looked up, “hmm? oh...” He gave a deep exasperated sigh, “I suppose if it can’t be helped we should try going forward with it.” Everyone agreed and the man doing the presentation seemed to relax a little. Maggie leaned over and whispered, “you doing alright Billy?” “ Of course, why do you ask?” He gave her a questioning look. Maggie pursed her lip, “Well...you seem, distracted.” Billy ran his hand through his hair, “A little yes.” “Do you want to talk about it?” She asked hopeful it wasn’t anything serious. “Oh, um...sure but maybe later. Let’s try and get through these meetings first. How many more do we have on the agenda today?” He peeked over at the clipboard she had and she gave a nervous smile, “Weeell....” “Well?” He asked now turning to face her. Maggie looked down, “Well....we have five...more...meetings.” She gave him a smile, “But if we hurry up we can get through them all before um....” Billy frowned, it’s not Maggies fault he has meetings. “It’s alright dear we’ll figure something out...” He mumbled going back to his thoughts. 

Now where had he seen that clown before.

After a short break which even then Billy wasn’t all there for, they started on the next meeting. Which involved bringing up some new blood into the mix, people wanting promotions. And at least three candidates were up for coming to the top floors of the company building they all resided in. When the woman up front presented the three on screen that’s when Billy remembered. 

It started with a twitch. Maggie noticed it, “Billy? You alri...” She didn’t get to finish when suddenly Billy stood up abruptly slamming his hands on the table and shouted, “That Son of a BITCH!!” Everyone went dead silent and Maggie was in shock, “um...w-who are..” But once again Billy did something before she could finish asking. He walked out the room in a hurry, hands balled into fists. Maggie quickly hurried after him, “Wait Billy!” Leaving the staff in the meeting room to wonder who the hell incurred the Bosses wrath.

Maggie chased after Billy, following him into the elevator where he still wouldn’t answer her. Just grumbled and growled to himself in that old language he and Lennie spoke to each other. She followed him out the building and down the street. “Where are you going Billy?” She called out to him. Billy shouted about that son of a bitch again but that wasn’t much help to her question. So she just hurried along, she was used to his dramatics by now but this was something new. 

Soon they came upon a nightclub, the new one Billy had partnered up with the owner. Maggie only remembered Billy saying he was an odd guy with old fashion sense. Too many colors for Billys taste. Billy tried the door but it was locked. Maggie sighed, “Billy what’s going on, please nobodies in there right now. We can come back later let’s talk about this.” That’s when Billy growled and kicked the door in, causing Maggie to squeak in shock. That was also new. Billy walked in Maggie following nervously behind. Billy stopped and pointed, “You!....You...” Alexander was chilling on a sofa, sipping a capri sun, “Oh hey Mr. Blueblood~” he chuckled, as if he knew a joke they didn’t. “Fancy seeing you here at one of my clubs. You know we’re closed right?” The grin never left his face. “You Son of A Bitch!” Billy shouted, “I know you!” Maggie was just lost and mouthed a sorry about your door to the guy. Alexander laughed and stood up, throwing his capri sun elsewhere. When he did, it sounded like something shattered but no evidence could say otherwise, “You remember! Finally!!” 

Alexander walked over and pulled Billy into a hug right along with Maggie. She wasn’t expecting that. “Remember? You know each other?” asked Maggie. Billys face started to turn grayish with his blush and Alexander smirked, “Oh~ You could say that Red?” Maggie turned red herself seeing the looks on their faces, “o-oh!” Alexander dropped the two of them but still had his arm around Billy, “Me and this guy used to party together and one night, well~. One thing led to another didn’t it William~” It was more a statement than a question. Billy shoved Alexander off him, “Why didn’t you tell me!” “Tell you what that we used to be real good ‘pals’” Alexander did air quotes and laughed, “That’s no fun I wanted you to remember on your own dude.” Billy grumbled. Maggie watched the two of them and then found Alex looking at her with a grin. He lowered his sunglasses and smirked, “You know Red~, It’s clear to see you two are together but if you do ever want some more f̸̨̖̮̳̱̤̈̆̒ủ̸̢̢̢̡͙̩͎̯̠̻̠̩̦͓́̑̕n̸̨̢̛͓̫͙̖͍̣͈̫͓̈̀̽̓̎̒̔́̑̾̐̒̚̕ ~ let me know.” Maggie was as red as a tomato at this point, “I.....um...you...uuhhh.” Alexander chuckled and wrapped his arms round the two of them, “Well my offer will be available whenever. But for now I want you two gone, also Billy buddy~” Billy groaned, “Oh gods I remember that nickname....”

“Yeah you do~

Billy Buddy

dear~

you owe me a new door.”

[avneeshkgupta]

Bad Website List 2021

It's far no mystery that websites are the spine of every commercial enterprise. in case you need your commercial enterprise to flourish on this COVID-19 generation, you’ve were given to have a properly-designed and appealing internet site. because of social distancing and the lockdown, increasingly more inherent clients are looking for products and services on line through the employer’s internet site and portals.

A well-made internet site or an internet web page allow you to establish your commercial enterprise because flawless design creates a top notch affect on your ability customers induces them to take the desired action-sensible versa due to a terrible web site design. commonplace web design or website development mistakes can fast derail your business potentialities even if you installed your first-class efforts. web sites are like a 2d home for a commercial enterprise. A internet site works as your on-line photo and is judged harshly by means of your customers. this is the reason that creating a superb design on your internet site could be very vital. And while you pay attention plenty approximately what to do while designing your internet site. however do you realize what no longer to do? As we are speak me approximately bad website designs, we have to have a have a look at what capabilities make a internet site a bad one:

Not following tendencies

Be unresponsive

Confuse cellular-friendliness

not noted usability

Ditched accessibility

No longer optimized for search engine optimization

Overlooked safety

And now, to present you an idea, we've got mentioned forty bad website design examples that harm many companies. keep away from them while designing your internet site, and also you should have extra achievement in changing leads into your dependable clients.

Here's a list of forty terrible website designs in order to make you pull your hair:

PETER’S BASILICA – VATICAN:

This website has illogical and inappropriate studying areas which makes the readability and accessibility ratio pretty low. also, the UI is poorly designed, making it a bad website design inside the eyes of the crawlers as well as visitors. it's also no longer very responsive, which will increase the browsing time of the customers with out gaining any more records to their necessities. And ready is the maximum disturbing thing when it comes to user experience.

The Glove Club:

This internet site looks ok however with regards to internet design, cinematographic elements are a steeply-priced affair. unfortunately, the abundance of 86f68e4d402306ad3cd330d005134dac pix slows down the loading, and users have to wait to see the content material of the web page. gradual down load pace is a purpose why customers often refuse from browsing similarly. So it turns out that the usage of expressive cinematographic elements doesn’t actually assist, another example of bad web site design.

Adjust:

This website may have a cutting-edge design, first rate user revel in, and nicely-thought-out usability, however the smallest bugs will spoil the whole thing. modify is a case in point. The internet site is top notch and it appears true. however, what does make it a awful web site design is a massive panel that informs about the cookies. It does no longer go away. It sticks all the time, destroying the entire impression and enjoy of the user. it's miles like a sore thumb that keeps hanging in your nerves and distracts interest from the primary purpose of this website.

Hagia Sophia:

The website is ordinary in appears but the hassle is a pop-up. The massive pop-up at the first actual page hides the number one information at the internet site. The website is designed for travelers and may be surfed in more than one languages, however the internet site isn't always properly based, which makes it difficult for customers to navigate. This consumes quite a few time of the users in addition to the crawlers, which in turn will increase your crawling budget giving an extra load in your wallet.

Patimex:

Test the website of the Polish family gasoline producer. The layout and usefulness are quite disturbing. So a touch Satan grilling a sausage is to the factor right here. A navigation menu at the pinnacle and any other one below a bizarre image, three links of different colorations, and even an animated emblem doesn’t really store this internet site. basic, this UI is poorly designed with a purpose to genuinely aggravate a user due to the above bugs, some other instance of horrific web site design.

IBI:

IBI’s authentic internet site could be very close to being called a terrible internet site. but, a few matters maintain it far from being the high-quality. First and essential, it is a video inside the header. although it instantly grabs interest due to its glitch effect, but, this impact ruins the whole lot. It does not undergo any statistics. it's far just a flowery distraction. Secondly, there is no information hierarchy. To push customers down the marketing funnel, you need to lead them. but, right here users are left to themselves. there is no data onwhere to appearance next and wherein to go subsequent?

MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

This awful internet site is brightly colourful and informational, which makes it look shiny to the eyes of the users. The stay replace animation on the website hampers the usability and user revel in of the site visitors, making them divert to other structures for the identical information. If that is optimized in an amazing way, the internet site is quite informative and can paintings wonders for website traffic.

Arvanitakis:

This horrific website was already redesigned. over again, this didn’t enhance its looks and value. It has no facts about the services or organisation and nothing about the blessings and traits of its products. best its creators can probable recognize what is the factor of displaying a menu with a stock picture, highlighting popular tags, and developing an additional catalog without a right footer and header. we are able to move forward with out the looks but usability right here makes the difference.

Regal Capital Lenders:

Even though this website is not from 2013, because the above-said Tavern. It feels out of date and a bit lame. Even vivid illustrations and animation do no longer make it better. firstly, the header is just too cartoonish and really a whole lot outdated. even though it features a incredibly meaningful animation, it is nevertheless not convincing. Secondly, the web web page’s subject and surroundings do now not align with the company’s services and brand photograph. It looks as if this terrible internet site is for youngsters, no longer for folks that need a loan. Else, there are issues with the cell model, accessibility, usability, and overall performance as nicely.

Grace Fellowship:

Grace fellowship is a small one-page website based totally on the assignment of assisting the community of their motivational genes. The bad website has decreased content material as compared to other web sites but has too much white space, which gives it a scattered and unprofessional look. The typography of the website may be very terrible in comparison to the general construction of the website. the dearth of records on the page increases the soar-back price and for this reason, users will look for other options.

Toronto Cupcake:

What do you anticipate to look on a webpage that sells cupcakes? usually, such web sites are full of great pics, shining hues, and staggering design factors that trap users into shopping for a few more goodies. but, the owners of this terrible internet site have determined to forget the opportunity to draw new customers thru their net resources. the principle page of Toronto Cupcake is too pale and easy. It doesn’t comprise any useful statistics about the company or the logo. The text inside the footer is just too small to examine and similarly to that, there is a large blank area at the bottom of the page. users will honestly be irritated with the navigation of the internet site and the terrible pleasant of pics. If Toronto Cupcake wants to make its internet site definitely powerful, it should virtually improve its layout and usefulness.

Tavern:

one of the predominant motives why on line homes end up bad web sites is that they stay in the past, like this authentic webpage of a Colorado-primarily based eating place that is still living in 2013. The layout is quiteoutdated. although it has some attractive functions just like the bold, charismatic typeface and a few brutal textures, stillit produces an unfriendly influence. It does now not build believe and credibility, that is a deal-breaker. any other essential flaw is that the internet site isn't always responsive nor cellular-pleasant. it can seem that this fixed boxy format seems desirable on cellphonesbut it isn't always. The enterprise loses a giant proportion of the market simply because of the above motives.

Blue Heaven Cosmetics:

The consumer interface of the internet site is smooth and exciting. on-line users may be impressed by means of its appears. The best purpose which brings this bad internet site here inside the list is the long list of bread crumbs at the pinnacle of the page. It is right to offer beneficial statistics, but it is also really useful to reduce it quick into one of a kind sections, so that you can make it smooth for the users to navigate. It has a name to action button at every level, which makes it appear to be a bit selling type of internet site instead of a simple e-commerce one.

Dom Perignon:

This iconic logo of luxury champagne also hasa lot of flaws. To be more specific, not the product itself but the website that promotes the antique liquids Dom Perignon. This web useful resource has a stylish and fashionable layout, but the principle web page only tells us approximately the face and creative director of the business enterprise, Lenny Kravitz. to check the records about antique wines, users have to indicate their age and region. A key mistake is a form that gives get right of entry to to a part of terrible internet site content material. the overall information about the champagne is available without the age affirmation, but it's miles impossible that once mastering approximately the logo, users will return to the main web page to fill the required shape that gives get entry to to merchandise. This immensely complicates the person path.

Lingscars:

After touchdown on such a horrific website, it's far tough to apprehend whether its layout become chosen deliberately or this is nothing however a fiasco. the colours, textures, animations, and fonts are overly discordant. users are overwhelmed with numerous banners, movies, and links both inside the sidebar and at the page itself. there's certainly no common sense behind the region of not unusual elements just like the icons of social media are within the middle of the principle page, there is a lot of empty space among the content material and footer, while the header is overloaded with photo and textual statistics.

Adam and Everywhere DDB:

Content material-loaded websites are complicated to control. You need to strike a stability among being informative and being organized. As a commonplace mistake, human beings forget this. recall Adam and anywhere DDB and their awful website with visual overload. despite the fact that the net layout is higher, it nonetheless overwhelms. there is an entire bunch of colourful pictures in which each one instructions interest, causing a consistent shift in awareness. Cells are too small that the the front web page appears dense and heavy. additionally, no longer all of them are working. The masonry format may be a life-saver, but it still calls for reducing and sharpening.

Travelocity:

it's far a very exquisite internet site, offering journey tips and applications to the clients who plan to travel around the sector within the most inexpensive feasible ways. The purpose behind the internet site is ideal but is destroyed by means of the development, looks, and layout of the website. the decision to motion menu occupies the entire front web page space of this awful website, hiding the opposite applicable statistics. The icons used are too huge and occupy most of the location for irrelevant information. This wishes to be corrected as a way to make a fulfilling website.

The world’s Worst website:

the arena’s Worst website – that’s the name of a puppy venture of designers who decided to factor out the main layout mistakes to internet site owners and creators round the arena. glaringly, everything is exaggerated right here, and you received’t come upon comparable websites. This horrific web web page collects all possible and not possible mistakes in a single location that's definitely beneficial. The combination of conflicting shades, incompatible fonts, unformatted and unstructured content, underlined links – this isn’t the overall list of things that make this website the worst within the international. no longer to say a navigation menu within the center of the page and primitive animations of various sizes blinking all around the web page! this is the pleasant example of functions no longer to position into your internet site.

The Congress Movie:

The congress film made our list of poorly designed websites due to a whole lot of mistakes. despite the fact that WordPress proudly powers it, it still lacks so much to be called an awesome website. First and predominant, the website became created to get excessive ranks in search engines like google seeing that we can see some unhidden seo text right within the header. Secondly, the layout is lame. there may be no individual, style, or subject matter. 0.33, there is not sufficient content. sooner or later, it does now not have right navigation or seek. In nutshell, the internet site was created not for humans however for search engines like google and yahoo. Google considers such projects as bad websites, so will we.

My US:

This bad internet site has major white spacing problems which carry it to this very list of awful websites. it is full of information but isn't segregated well, which makes it appearance all cluttered and nasty. The typography used at the internet site varies in size and shapes at every degree, makings it confusing for the crawlers while indexing the crucial content material. it's miles advisable to apply heading tags at every stage to assist the bots to move slowly and index your internet site for ranking functions.

The Big Ugly website:

Designers deliberately created the massive unsightly internet site to show all the horrors of out of date design and negative usability. this is a exquisite example for those who consider that the relaxation of net assets aren’t unsightly and inconvenient enough to be blanketed on this evaluate. you'll in no way find the navigation here whereas huge and beneficial animations, unappealing fonts, underlined textual content, and banners are everywhere. To reduce an extended story brief, this website is only a mess.

GAO:

That is any other government website in our collection. This time we are going to consciousness on the legitimate website of the U.S. government accountability workplace. It positions itself as a information portal. at the same time as the internet site works for laptop customers, with regards to mobile and pill visitors, it fails for the reason that group has forgotten to make it mobile-pleasant. extra often, it is not even responsive since the two-column structure remains the same irrespective of the screen length. As a result, it's miles a actual nightmare to browse this awful website to your mobile phone. As for accessibility, there are missing opportunity texts, empty hyperlinks, low evaluation, and even suspicious hyperlinks.

Federal Trade Commission:

Apptivation is one of the web agencies that are developing packages for clients. The opposition on this industry is hard therefore, you may’t have enough money to look vintage. but, this is not the case of Apptivation since it seems that the team does no longer observe the trends in any respect. The design is clearly outdated. however, it is fully unacceptable to apply tool mockups that are dated back to 2014 to promote your services. the first impression is ruined, so does the overall one. Ignoring cutting-edge developments can turn any online portfolio into a horrific internet site.

Gates And Fences:

Gates and Fences have been constructed via an over-enthusiastic man or woman who wanted to infuse all the statistics of the world below one roof. it is a website that provides gate constructing and fence constructing services for homes and workplaces. It does now not have a special menu or web page bread crumbs to help the users navigate on the internet site without problems.the main purpose for it being here at the horrific websites list is the immoderate content material on the internet site. The touch information are displayed proper on the top, which hides the call of the website.

Hipmunk:

Hipmunk is a brief one-web page website. it's miles a luxurious journey and logistics business enterprise, providing deals for the excellent hotel, flights, and motors all through travel sessions. The layout is not at par with the others within the marketplace because it showcases the decision to movement form, as soon because the consumer enters the internet site, leaving no space for discovery and expertise the organisation and its services in a real sense. additionally, it has a testimonial phase inside the center of the website, which once more makes it appear like the website is simply specializing in conversion and not on providing relevant data to the customers.

Studiomix:

StudioMix is a medium-sized health club workout website with a uniqueness in San Francisco. What brings it right here in the listing of terrible web sites is the bulky name to movement as well as the tangled footer of the internet site. The design adjustments the whole cause of the internet site as in preference to showcasing it as a fitness know-how-driven platform; it's miles entirely portrayed as an commercial platform. also, regulate to Alt Tags, the content is displayed within the written form below the web page bread crumbs, which makes it appearance awkward in addition to takes away space for essential records.

Stack change:

Stack alternate has an awful start. It states the question and answers of the network on the top of the homepage, which must really be in the understanding or distinctiveness section beneath the web page bread crumbs or menu. As quickly as we scroll down, we see an entirely separate a part of FAQS that long till the cease of the internet site. This awful internet site has a slow loading velocity compared to other web sites, which makes the internet site get better price very excessive.

Sports LED Panels:

The official internet site of the agency that sells sport LED panels appears fairly updated. but, nevertheless, it can’t be referred to as a super website for some actual motives. firstly, there is an excessive amount of interactivity. each detail is rotating, shifting, and flipping. There are even sounds and, the parallax is overly completed. The interface reminds a flash website generation that became popular 10 years in the past. Secondly, the links do now not paintings immediately. now and again you need to click twice or thrice to set off them. Thirdly, there are irregularities within the format. despite the fact that the website appears and works well on small monitors, some flaws make it a awful internet site.

MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies Special Collection:

web sites of universities and governments are notoriously well-known for being outdated or the use of design solutions that nobody uses. The respectable website of the MIT middle is a consultant instance horrific web sites. although a few eccentric people may find it amazing because of offbeat answers, nonetheless, in relation to the normal crowd with a quick attention span and choice to find information as speedy as feasible, it is able to become a actual challenge. the primary flaw of this awful website lies in overdoing parallax. The latter is a powerful device in terms of creating an attractive person experience. but, with super strength comes first rate responsibility. And whilst you overdo it, you may grow to be with a bad website and bad user experience.

Industrial Painter:

even though Joomla-stimulated interfaces had been popular a decade ago, nowadays, they are mauvais ton. The actual deal is, this outdated structure makes it difficult to paintings with web sites now not simplest on huge computer systems but also on small monitors which includes mobile phones and drugs. The format stays the same all of the time. The font length isn't always adjusted to small screens, and the evaluation ratio is minimum. even though you may locate facts, nevertheless this isn't the best you expect from a present day internet site.

MGBD Parts and Services:

even though this horrific website seems like a large development to the previous one, the reality is, it’s not. it's miles the same horrible internet site as featured before. pix hurt the eyes. not simplest do they overwhelm right off the bat, however in addition they destroy readability making navigation difficult. Coloring is simply too severe. As for assessment, most people of essential factors like navigation and hyperlinks lack it. To make matters worse, running animation makes it hard to concentrate at the content material.

PNWX:

PNWX is an reliable website with a present day catalog of Pacific Northwest X-Ray Inc. it's miles a real internet site, and it is quite tons alive. even though it is dated returned to 1997, that could be a quite stable age, however it does not summon any appreciate. The deal is when you have a awful internet site, nobody can shop your popularity, even you have the nice builders in the global. even though the homepage functions a search input, classes, navigation, and some beneficial hyperlinks, it still scares away customers rather than luring them in. The most effective way out is to make a complete makeover and enhance consumer enjoy, search engine optimization, and performance.

Gulla’s Arrestling:

With the sector going loopy over police brutalities in certain countries, this bad internet site attracts in brutality in web site design. It looks and feels a long way from expert, and the content material is really below general. it is glaring that besides for the fashion designer, all people knows the importance of a “title” tag in seo. The worst issue is that the registration form for the imminent conference is a PDF. so that you can't edit it online. You want to download it and mail it. And the website does now not have an incorporated charge pathway, because of this you need to make the credit score card bills over a name or the usage of your phone.

University of Advancing Technology:

the moment you pay attention Advancing and era together, you anticipate a website as a way to inspire awe. nicely, some distance from awe, this inspired worry considering the graduates so that it will be made from the college. if you are having access to it from IE then it’s easy to question your internet connection pace. however in reality, it's miles quite ugly. you can hardly ever find any data you are searching out on this horrific website and do no longer be amazed if the home page takes approximately five seconds to start loading.

Paradise with A View:

The pix on their domestic web page are of diverse sizes, and the fonts end up regularly smaller as you scroll down the page. The rainbow colours in each level of the content material do now not assist a great deal either. Flashing texts in peculiar fonts, non-responsive templates and squat navigation alternatives located within the center of the home web page will actually make you rethink what Paradise is meant to look like. while you are about to ebook a vacation your body and mind are crying for some a great deal-wanted peace. however a unmarried visit to the bad website is enough to rob you of your last bit of calmness.

Ugly Tub:

well, as a minimum the call of this internet site sums our views efficiently approximately their format. It’s provokingly random and stressful distribution of statistics will make you believe that a kindergarten kid can absolutely layout a bad website like this. So abnormal and newbie improvement can lead to disasters.

Bolen Report:

there may be a manner right here so as to learn the way antique newspapers have been edited. Or higher yet, what layout designs the information international beginners could have had rejected. Going black and white is also an art, despite the fact that black and white are not taken into consideration as colours. it is the antique Bolen document website constructed on Microsoft FrontPage. as it seems a few human beings genuinely don’t research from their old mistakes.

Rudgwick Steam show:

This you possibly can cross down the course fabric of pinnacle snap shots and net building institutes as a case look at on what significantly must no longer be executed. It’s an acute case of a language barrier, with the least amount of heed paid to all that meets the attention. similar to we have no concept what we're doing on their bad website, they don't have any concept what they may be doing on the internet both.

Cloud9 Walkers:

The worst instance of creativity block may be visible proper on this terrible internet site. including a history picture with a cloudy sky for a website known as cloud nine is certainly terrific. If in any respect including one had been extremely important, because it appears, a smarter, pleasanter image would have changed the sport for the better. Or not, like they say, lots goes into constructing a structure and nearly not anything into breaking one. And this one’s been long broken.

Great Dreams:

This one comes bearing as lousy a layout as you can still imagine, simplest worse. It’s possible they experimented with thoughts whilst growing the website after which left all the ones experiments- like a unmarried photo of a painting, then a small collage of snap shots and paintings, followed with the aid of a massive college of ghastly pics, ending in a sequence of solo photos- once they got bored and dumped the idea on the net for humans to waste their time on when they couldn’t take again theirs.

In nutshell, after going through all of the above mistakes, allow us to take a look at what functions a great website have to have:

Properly Designed and Purposeful

Your web page reflects your enterprise, your products, your offerings, and ultimately your logo

Well Designed and Functional

Your site reflects your company, your products, your services, and ultimately your brand

Easy to Use

Optimized for Mobile

Fresh, Original, Quality Content

Readily accessible contact information and location

Clear calls to action

Optimized for SEO and the Social Web.

[glitterymusicduck]

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Predictions for 2019: Wine-Inspired Royal Baby Name; #WineBeerEmoji Campaign | Unfiltered | News & Features - Wine Spectator

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Predictions for 2019: Wine-Inspired Royal Baby Name; #WineBeerEmoji Campaign | Unfiltered | News & Features - Wine Spectator

What’s on the horizon for wine moods in 2019? Unfiltered bets on baby names, LeBron James, a Mariah Carey cult-wine movement, and the drama and thrills of direct-to-consumer wine shipping comes to the big screen

Now that all the New Year’s poppers have popped, Champagne has been drunk, and novelty party glasses manufacturers finally stopped puzzling over how the hell to fit lenses into the numerals “2019,” it’s time for Unfiltered to take on our own annual challenge: Predicting the year in wine and pop culture to come.

At this time in 2018, we thought we had it all figured out, but now, one year older and wiser, we can see we only had most of it figured out. We predicted that like all other movies, wine movies would only be made in trilogies, and Somm 3 saw to it. We thought 2018 would be the year the wine robots learned to feel love, and for a time they did, happily mixing drinks and cracking jokes for their human caretakers—until we pushed them too far. And finally, we called it that chef José Andrés would win the Nobel Prize, vanquishing longtime rival Bobby Flay in a harrowing test of culinary ingenuity, ingredient artistry and human empathy. (OK, so far we only know Andrés has been nominated for the prize.)

What do we divine for two-zero-one-nine? Read on, and hold us to it! Get the Unfiltered newsletter delivered straight to your inbox on alternating Fridays—all the latest scoop on drinks in sports, movies, music, politics, art, crime and more!

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Bestow Wine-Inspired Name Upon Their Royal Baby

There’s nothing that could top the excitement, the intrigue and the gossip that marked last year’s Royal Wedding … except, that is, this year’s Royal Baby! The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced in October that they are expecting their first child together, and the world is already cooing over the little Lady or Lord—and placing bets on what the bundle of joy will be named. Among the Victorias and Alberts and other royal-sounding suggestions floating around, Unfiltered is offering another possibility: Considering the wine-centric craze surrounding the couple’s nuptials, Harry and Meghan will surely name their child after a wine, grape or region!

The question is, what will it be? Perhaps Eden or Olivier, after one of the wines rumored to be at their wedding reception. Or maybe there will be a little baby Tig (short for “Tignanello”) to pay homage to Meg’s favorite super Tuscan. Start your betting now!

Unfiltered to Demand #WineBeerEmoji

In 2018, the cool teens of Kendall-Jackson, Flora Springs and a handful of other wineries got together to write up a proposal for the creation of a #WhiteWineEmoji. Without the white wine emoji, wrote the authors to the Unicode Consortium (the keepers of phone glyphs), how were emoji users to convey “glass of white wine”? “The image of a ‘red wine glass’ + ‘white box’ does not clearly translate the meaning of ‘white wine’ in human language,” they noted. Too true, of course, but in 2019, we’re counterproposing that the proposal does not go far enough.

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“Today, wine is ubiquitous worldwide and evokes strong personal and emotional connections and opinions,” the winery petitioners argued in 2018. “In its simplest form, it boils down to, ‘Are you a red or a white wine drinker?'”

With all due respect, this is antiquated thinking. It’s 2019, and more and more people are identifying as pink wine drinkers, blue wine drinkers, green wine drinkers and other libational expressions that don’t fit into a pat red/white wine binary. Their voices need to be emojed too, which is why in 2019, we’re advocating for a #WineBeerEmoji. We submit that the image of a ‘red wine glass’ + ‘clinking beer mugs’ does not clearly translate the meaning of ‘winebeer’ in human language. As more and more people embrace their alcohol fluidity in 2019, we should have an emoji to celebrate our love of winebeer in our &#x1F3E0, &#x1F9FA, &#x1F3DD or &#x1F6A1.

Millennials to Ruin Wine, Music with Cult Cab Reboots of Mediocre ’90s Jams

Last year, we predicted (more or less) that the Millennials’ nostalgia for remakes would ruin movies, and we weren’t wrong—we just weren’t thinking big enough. In fact, everywhere you looked in pop culture, the hits, hot trends and heartthrobs from the Y2K-era Millennial middle-school years were cool again in 2018: Mission Impossible, Super Mario Smash, Panic! At the Disco, Dick Cheney, daring your friends to eat detergent …

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Mariah Carey may be the Songbird Supreme, but she prefers Caymus to Screaming Eagle.

We thought 2018 would be all about wine movie reboots, but it was the musicians who scored the soundtrack to the late ’90s and early ’00s who made a splash on the wine scene: 50 Cent and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon released bottles full of bub’, Pearl Jam poured Washington wine, Lenny Kravitz tasted the stars at Dom Pérignon and Kelly Clarkson took aim at wine haters on Twitter.

But only the Songbird Supreme, Mariah Carey, combined new tunes with retro-hip wine vibes in 2018: On the first song on her new album, “GTFO,” Carey laments she “could’ve sworn you loved me harder / Might as well down this Caymus bottle” in a nod to the heady heyday of cult Napa Cabernet that coincided with the diva’s own reign atop the charts.

In 2019, expect to see more faves from your Clinton-era Napster playlists and burned CD-Rs remix their hits with Dad’s favorite Cabs: Jay Z‘s “’99 Harlans,” Korn thrasher “Freak on Stag’s Leap,” Marcy Playground‘s whimsical low-fi groove “Sex and Kapcsandy,” the infamous Los Del Rió earworm that will have you belting out “Ehhhyy Montelena!” Eminem smash “The Real Kapcsandy,” Joan Osborne‘s plaintive “What If God Was Joseph Phelps?”, the Verve‘s one-hit masterpiece “Bitter Sweet Kapcsandy,” the Offspring‘s irreverent “Pretty Fly (for a White Wine)” … As the memorable reworked lines of Chumbawamba will put it: “He drinks an Eisele drink, he drinks a Melka drink, he drinks a Schrader drink, he drinks a Carter drink.”

Or Kid Rock, as usual, will capture the moment best, kicking off the alt-rock fest DallaVallepalooza 2019 with an exuberant, “Bawitdaba da bang a dang Kapcsandy!”

’81 Wine Consumers’ the Movie Tells Dark Post-Apocalyptic Tale of the 2019 Wine-Shipping Bans

In late 2018, the organization Wine Freedom (operated by the National Association of Wine Retailers) set up a GoFundMe campaign for a key Supreme Court case called Tennessee Retailers v. Zackary Blair, which, if ruled broadly, could have drastic consequences for wine lovers’ ability to order their wines online and have them shipped right to them. The $26,120 raised in the campaign resulted in an amicus brief titled “81 Wine Consumers.” Word is out it will be adapted to the silver screen (or iTunes). Spoilers ahead.

*Epic movie trailer voice* In a world where the Supreme Court of the United States cares more about states’ rights and temperance than the unfettered flow of alcohol products across state lines, a landmark decision led to bans on the little out-of-state retailer shipping that was left in 2019, reducing wine lovers nationwide to have to leave their house, get in their car, and drive 5 minutes to their local wine store to get a bottle of #BarefootOrNothing [a real hashtag in 2019].

81 Wine Consumers tells the stories of every #WineFreedomWarrior who attached their name to the brief, following them along in 81 poignant if brief vignettes, as they come to terms with the annihilation of their wine rights.

Consumer Ashley Brandt (played by Elisabeth Moss) was part of a thriving tasting group in 2018, but after the fateful Supreme Court ruling, it became impossible to find any wines worth comparing and contrasting. The group was forced to disband. And then there’s Katherine Granger (Sandra Bullock), who had ordered a case of prized wine just before the shipping ban came into effect, but it arrived too late and was quarantined at a UPS location. She sets out to find her precious Wine Box, which she does blindfolded for some reason that you’ll only find out if you just watch the damn movie already.

Advance praise for 81 Wine Consumers: “A masterpiece. We cried the whole way through.”—The National Association of Wine Retailers “Whoever thought up this plot has a chillingly dark mind … wait this is a true story?!”—The writers of Black Mirror

Unfiltered Hires Special NBA Correspondent LeBron James

You might be surprised to learn that Unfiltered isn’t just one pop-culture obsessed wine writer who spends all day trolling Twitter for story leads and watching late-night talk shows for wine references, but instead a collection of linguistically gifted enophiles with varying vinous interests and specialties. But once you recover from the initial shock of this revelation, think about the endless possibilities of whom we could recruit for our team in 2019 ….

While Emmanuel Macron would be a strong addition to the wine-meets-politics beat, and there’s perhaps no one better than chef José Andrés to cover the intersection of food and humanitarianism, the one job application Unfiltered is anxiously awaiting is that of basketball superstar LeBron James.

The three-time NBA champion deserves an award for the number of times he’s appeared in Unfiltered for his wine-soaked escapades on social media—and considering the surging popularity of wine among athletes (including fellow basketball players, hockey stars, footballers and more), it seems only right that Unfiltered would have someone cover the booming wine-and-sports beat from the inside.

LeBron, if you’re reading this: With your birthday, your injury and probably some basketball stuff on your plate, we’re sure you’ve already got plenty to keep you busy, but if you ever feel the urge to write about, say, Sassicaia (one of our favorites too!), DM us!

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‘The Walking Dead’: Carol and Daryl, A Match Made in Hell?

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Carol and Daryl on ‘The Walking Dead’ are soulmates, but does that mean they’ll go canon?

The Walking Dead puts it’s characters and by extension the fandom through the ringer. Season seven started off on a particularly devastating note, and throughout the first eight episodes, things looked beyond bleak for our faves.

There’s certainly an argument for the gratuitousness of all the pain and suffering endured throughout just about any season. But the thing is, it’s all a bit more manageable when Team Family is all together. Since season four, the show has relied on separating our faves and taking them through emotional journeys that generally lead to major character development. In the season seven midseason finale, hope was restored to the group when they were reunited at Hilltop.

In fact, most of the undertaking of separating different characters from the larger group comes from how earned the reunions feel later. Who could forget the feelings of relief when Michonne (Danai Gurira) followed the tracks to the house where Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Carl (Chandler Riggs) were recuperating or when Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) found each other in season four?

The Walking Dead is at it’s best when it’s bringing characters together and there is almost nothing that compares to what we got with Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl’s (Norman Reedus) reunion in “New Best Friends” (S7Ee10).

Considering the deep bond Carol and Daryl share, the episode gave us a lot to discuss. With characters as popular as Daryl and Carol, it’s no surprise that not everyone interprets the Caryl bond in the same way. So I’ve brought my colleague Erin Qualey (go read her The Walking Dead recaps!) here to assist in another discussion!

What’s the possibility of seeing Caryl go canon like other romantic couples we’ve seen on the show?

Julie: So, for me “New Best Friends” is essentially my new favorite episode. It’s only rival at this point is “No Sanctuary” (S5E1). The obvious similarities are the Daryl and Carol reunions but I fell in love with that relationship in season two, when he brings her the Cherokee Rose. I can admit my bias but given everything we know about Daryl and Carol’s past, I think the show made a pretty airtight argument that Daryl and Carol love each other on a very deep, very emotional, very romantic level that goes beyond the physicality that might be necessary to consider a ship canon. I guess what I’m wondering, is what’s missing for you in that bond?

Julie: They’re definitely soulmates. And I like your transcendent interpretation. I’d even agree with it except for one thing. Daryl isn’t a touchy-feely kind of guy and he is almost always touching Carol and there is almost never anything entirely chaste or innocuous about those moments. Daryl might be an oblivious flirt but he gravitates toward her like no one else. I mean look how far we’ve come from season two after Daryl fails to save Sophia. He yells at Carol and tells her “Just go, I don’t want you here” and four seasons later he’s at her door and his voice breaks when he asks her, “Why’d you go?” (Ugh, it’ll be a long time before that line stops giving me chills and making me tear up. A+ acting on Norman’s part!) I just can’t imagine a scenario where Daryl is as comfortable with a woman as he is with Carol. It stands to reason that the emotional intimacy between them will eventually translate to physical intimacy.

Erin: But isn’t Daryl kind of in the friend zone at this point? It’s been awhile, and the two have had plenty of opportunity to make it official. Yes, Daryl gets kidnapped a lot, and Carol has been trying to run away for ages, but they’ve had opportunities along the way. Carol even propositioned Daryl back when they were settling into the prison, and he brushed her advance away like a joke. So I guess I’m just left wondering if Daryl is truly just that awkward or if he doesn’t actually want to be with Carol after all. And Carol hasn’t made a move since then either, so she seems just fine with the status quo. I guess to me, at this point, they seem like family members, and that makes the idea of adding sex into the mix somewhat off putting.

Ultimately, I think that both Daryl and Carol can find sexual release elsewhere while still maintaining their deep connection. It’s the apocalypse. They transcend traditional labels because they can.

Julie: The friend zone is a myth invented by “nice guys” who think they should be repaid in sexual favors every time they do something nice for a girl they find attractive. I don’t hug my friends or family the way Daryl and Carol hug each other. Daryl is the most eligible bachelor in the apocalypse, if he wasn’t that awkward why wouldn’t he be out and about screwing with the wrong people? And we’ve seen Carol try and use a relationship to hide her feelings. The whole point when Carol was with Tobin is that it felt completely disingenuous to the characters. It could never quite work because Carol is only truly herself with Daryl. It backfired spectacularly and precipitated her leaving her home (a noteworthy point that she still referred to Alexandria as home).

Erin: I think Carol and Daryl do transcend traditional labels as a romantic relationship. Okay, sure there are three men in Carol’s life. But two of which absolutely already fulfill the platonic male/female relationship. She’s clearly not interested. Carol told Morgan (Lennie James) to tell Rick and Co. that she was gone and she literally shut the door on Ezekiel only to open it a moment later to Daryl, whose presence completely took her breath away. What makes those options so much more compelling?

Erin: Hmm, I might disagree with you on your friend zone theory. I think that it’s natural for a pair of friends to pass a point where it would become difficult for them to become romantically involved. But even if we set the friend zone thing aside for a second, I still believe that Daryl isn’t necessarily the best person for Carol to end up with in a romantic sense.

Here’s where I open the floodgates and admit that I’m definitely an Ezecarol (Carekiel?) shipper. Yes, he won’t leave her alone, and that might be perceived as wrong, but he only continues to bug her because he’s honestly and truly concerned for her safety. If the Saviors found Carol, it’s very likely that she wouldn’t be able to protect herself, even with all of her battle prowess.

Ultimately, I think that Carol and Daryl are too alike for a relationship to succeed long term. Ezekiel pushes the boundaries with Carol because he knows she has walls up, and he actively wants to help her tear them down. Sure, that’s not his job, but he’s fully willing to challenge Carol in order to help her be her best self. Conversely, Daryl rarely, if ever, pushes Carol to deal with anything because he hasn’t even dealt with his own stuff. Since they’re both introverted survivors of trauma, their continued special relationship gives them implicit permission to keep everything bottled up instead of actively working through their issues. The Caryl friendship is a beautiful one but, if we look at it through a different lens, it’s actually an unhealthy co-dependent relationship that prevents either one of them from moving on from their respective traumatic pasts.

Julie: Ah ha! Now this is a quality discussion! Cherokee Roses will win over pomegranates in my book any day. But Ezekiel has a vested interest in keeping Carol safe because she knows his secret. If Carol wanted to, she could bring down the Kingdom. But when he let his act go, he tells her not to run away from whatever she’s running from: life, love. They barely know each other at that point, he’s not speaking about himself, yes he’s trying to get her to open up but it’s the same thing Morgan tells Daryl about finding something/someone to hold onto.

Erin: It’s interesting you would characterize Carol and Daryl as unhealthy (it’s probably a little co-dependent but like they established they literally can’t live in a world where the other doesn’t exist, is there a more romantic trope?) when it’s the healthiest, kindest relationship these two have ever known. And Carol didn’t look like she was bottling anything up when we finally caught up with her in front of the fire (but like seriously Gimple I need to know what happened in the hours between it went from afternoon to night in the house).

In fact, that whole moment when she talks about about fighting the Saviors if the family needed her was a callback to “Consumed.” Complete with fire imagery and the “burned away” line. With the biggest difference being that this time she was feeling it. She was crying. So much that to make it better Daryl makes her laugh and smile despite the tears. Daryl did that. And he’s the only one who ever has. When have we ever heard Daryl or Carol be humorous except with each other? Daryl even makes a joke about Ezekiel’s advances and Carol tells him to “shut up,” which is eerily similar to every other time she’s flirted with him. Can’t be too far from the romance novel Carol was reading right before her husband came back from war. Nevermind the undeniable body language in that second hug where he kisses her shoulder and she runs her fingers through his hair!

They’ve been trying to sort themselves out (i.e. Daryl taking the book on child abuse). Carol has isolated herself because she feels like she’s losing herself. In fact the brief but significant tearful conversation before their candlelight dinner is a blatant attempt to protect Carol from the devastating truth. If he wanted to push her, why wouldn’t he tell her? Daryl was also completely isolated from the group after the immediate aftermath of Negan’s (Jeffery Dean Morgan) line-up. Why wouldn’t he use the opportunity to sit and mourn with her? Except that it wasn’t about Negan or the Saviors of the loss of Abe and Glenn. It was about Daryl and Carol finally getting a respite from the constant assault that their lives have been. And the episode indicated that they’re finally ready to admit they’re what each other is holding onto, they’re what’s worth the fight to survive.

Erin: I can see what you’re saying, and I agree that perhaps “unhealthy” wasn’t the best choice of phrasing earlier. However, I maintain my argument that there’s not a ton of open discussion between Carol and Daryl about the traumas they’ve experienced in the past. They both have certainly made progress due to the support they feel from one another but, as regulated by them, the healing process is quite slow. Case in point, when Carol saw Daryl with the book on child abuse back in Atlanta, she didn’t say a word. She didn’t really support him or encourage him to talk about the issue, mostly because she didn’t want to talk about her own stuff. The mutual and unspoken understanding is there, but with that understanding, they lose the follow through necessary for true healing.

There’s no denying that Daryl and Carol’s relationship is one of the most genuine and unique relationships on TV. Like I mentioned before, I wouldn’t be upset if they ended up together, but I do think that they each may be better served by finding mates that aren’t concerned with protecting the secrets that haunt their lives. And even if their relationship never becomes sexual, they’ll still always have a place in my heart as two of the best soulmates on TV.

Julie: We know we’re not going to change the others mind. I would be disappointed not to see Caryl go canon. It just feels really earned at this point but I do appreciate the alternative perspective because like I mentioned, I know I’m beyond biased at this point. My final thought on the subject is that there’s this basic continuity editing rule. It’s often employed in film and operates on the idea that if it’s significant in scene five it should show up again in scene 15. It works in a more longer-form capacity for TV but we’ve had a lot of Daryl and Carol moments repeated back that always deepens their development. Except the one scene they have yet to recreate in a new way is the two sharing space on the bunk bed in “Consumed.” Don’t for one second think that isn’t deliberate.

http://hiddenremote.com/2017/02/21/walking-dead-carol-and-daryl-match-made-in-hell/

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Top 10 Theater of the Decade.

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  People who engaged with the arts frequently had a 31 percent lower risk of dying, according to a new study from the British Medical Journal. This was independent of demographic, socioeconomic, health related, behavioral, and social factors. Even those who were infrequent consumers of culture had 14 percent lower risk of dying than shoe who never engaged.

The Journal’s editors observe:”The data show that the very people who have the most to gain from participating in cultural activities are least likely to do so. More than 40% of patients with lung disease, depression, or loneliness reported never engaging with the arts despite robust evidence of the potential benefits. Over 40% of participants in the least wealthy group also reported that they never accessed cultural activities. Work must now be done to ensure that the health benefits of these activities are accessible to those who would benefit most.”

The Week in NY Theater Previews and Reviews

The Sorceress The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin), the first work of Yiddish theatre ever presented in America, is back on stage in New York 136 years after its U.S. premiere. In my article for TDF Stages, Yiddish Culture Is Alive and Well and Playing in New York, I talk to Motl and Mikhl, the director of the play and the star, who portrays the wicked witch, Bobe Yakhne, in drag. Though Babe is the villain, she is the title character.

The Sorceress, by the same company that put together the acclaimed “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish, is just one of three events this month that demonstrate a resurgence in interest in Yiddish language and culture.

Luke Kirby as stationmaster Thomas Hudetz in “Judgment Day” at the Park Avenue Armory

Judgment Day with Luke Kirby Luke Kirby, who portrayed a movie star hired to play “Hamlet” in the cult TV comedy “Slings & Arrows” 16 years ago, is now on stage for real, as Thomas Hudetz, a murderer in Ödön von Horváth’s 1937 drama “Judgement Day” at the Park Avenue Armory.

Kirby has lived in New York for some two decades now, but has only appeared in a handful of plays, spending most of his time in television — currently as the real-life comic Lenny Bruce in Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” for which he won an Emmy earlier this year, and as closeted civil servant Gene Goldman on HBO’s “The Deuce.” Why so few stage roles…and why this one now?

Those are the questions I put to him in an interview for TDF Stages.

Ian McKellen as Gus the Theatre Cat in “Cats,” co-written and directed by Tom Hooper.

Cats the movie – pics and reviews Cats” isn’t for everyone – much of it is a cheesy, B-grade affair seemingly crafted solely to take over midnight-movie slots from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Those with an open mind, though, as well as little kids and the T-Swift posse, might find it somewhat pawesome.” Brian Truitt writes in USA Today, in the most positive review I could find. He’s enchanted by Taylor Swift, but turned off by the “nightmare fuel…when human faces are put on tiny mice and Rockette-esque cockroaches.”

More typical is Manohla Dargis in the New York Times: “It is tough to pinpoint when the kitschapalooza called “Cats” reaches its zenith or its nadir, which are one and the same. The choices are legion…

Sing Street

“Sing Street” is a stage musical based on the sweet, funny “happy-sad” 2016 Irish movie by writer/director John Carney about a teenager named Conor growing up in Dublin during the economically depressed but musically vibrant 1980s, who forms a band to impress a girl name Raphina. The musical has its pleasures, especially for those nostalgic for the era of made-for-MTV, New Wave synthesized tunes. A talented group of young adult actor-musicians, ages 16 to 25, perform mostly original pastiche songs by Carney and Scottish singer-songwriter Gary Clark, who was part of the 80s scene and continues his hit-making now. But “Sing Street” the stage musical is likely to disappoint anybody who has seen “Sing Street” the movie (which is currently available for viewing online, through IMDB TV, for free.)

  The Week in New York Theater News

The opening of West Side Story has been pushed from from February 6 to February 20 due to a knee injury that left the show’s star Isaac Powell unable to perform. The show began preview peformancs on December 10

.@mockingbirdbway will be the first-ever Broadway show to perform at @TheGarden on February 26, 2020, in front of some 18,000 New York City public school students. Here’s playwright Aaron Sorkin and the new cast posing at the arena. pic.twitter.com/txrecILSJm

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 18, 2019

..@TheCrownNetflix stars Claire Foy and Matt Smith will perform in @SleeveNotes‘ “Lungs” at @BAM_Brooklyn March 25-April 19 2020. The play is about a couple wrestling with the morality of having kids in an overpopulated planet. pic.twitter.com/96r9elP5hB

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) December 18, 2019

View of the Shed from The Highline

The Shed’s Second Season

Claudia Rankine, “Help”

Arinzé Kene, “Misty”

Tomas Saraceno, “Particular Matter (s)”

Meet at the Shed, January 11,2020

A free, daylong, building-wide takeover with exhibitions, performances, food

  Help March 10 – April 5,2020

An inquiry into white male privilege by Claudia Rankine

Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s) May 6 – August 9, 2020;

A visual art installation that is intended to be neither seen nor heard, but felt.

Misty September 24 – October 24

Fusing live music, spoken word, and absurdist comedy, Misty is a journey through the dark alleyways of a city in flux and a genre-defying excavation of the pressures and expectations that come with being an artist in our time

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.reached an agreement with the Justice Department to resolve government concerns that the company violated a 2010 antitrust settlement that allowed it to merge with Ticketmaster, according to the Wall Street Journal. Under the original agreement, known as a consent decree, the companies were allowed to combine but had to agree to conditions designed to help preserve competition in the live-events industry.

Dear Evan Hansen

Kerry Butler (Mrs. George), Erika Henningsen (Cady Heron)

Scene from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theater in London.

Isabelle McCalla and Caitlin Kinnunen as high school girlfriends in The Prom

(l-r) Nicholas L. Ashe, Jonathan Burke, J. Quinton Johnson, Jeremy Pope, Caleb Eberhardt, John Clay III, Gerald Caesar

The problem with teen musicals on Broadway by critic Christian Lewis in American Theatre Magazine.

When it comes to teenagers and Broadway, 2016’s Dear Evan Hansen changed the game. The Tony-winning Pasek and Paul musical was certainly not the first Broadway show about—or beloved by—teens. That credit might go to Spring Awakening (2006) or 13 (2008) or Runaways (1978), or much further back to Babes in Arms (1937), considered the first musical with an entire cast of teenage characters. In the wake of Dear Evan Hansen’s success, Broadway quickly saw a sweep of major productions with teenage protagonists: Mean Girls (2018), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2018), The Prom (2018), Choir Boy (2019), Be More Chill (2019), and the latest installation, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2019).

….The genre deserves a larger critique, but not the one critics are making. Yes, Young Adult Theatre can seem angsty, the pop score/lyrics can feel basic and the plots contrived. But the central problem with Dear Evan Hansen, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Be More Chill, and The Lightning Thief is that they’re all about straight, white, cisgender teenage boys. The supporting casts are often diverse, but the main characters don’t deviate from this norm. Not only are these protagonists about as privileged as they come; worse, each of these pieces is about its hero’s search for his identity. Compared to a person of color, a queer person, a transgender person (let alone any intersection of these), how much do Evan, Harry, Jeremy, or Percy have to figure out about themselves?….We need more shows like The Prom or Choir Boy:

The movie is a wreck, the musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have ‘Cats’?

By Charles McNulty (who doesn’t really answer the question posed in the headline)

“Cats,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster spun from the light verse of T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” is a paradox and a puzzle illustrating the disconnect between theatrical success and respect. The fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, it is the consummate tourist musical. (“Broadway’s first show for the tired Japanese businessman,” according to Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik’s indispensable “Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time.”)

Theater people resent “Cats” not just because it made Broadway uncool until “Hamilton” finally rescued it from the pop cultural stocks. What really infuriates buffs is that “Cats” ushered in an era of grandiose spectacle, the vacuous parade of shows from the 1980s and early ’90s that made it seem as if a musical had to have a helicopter or a crashing chandelier to be worth the rapidly rising ticket price.

Ed Harris and Kyle Scatliffe, center, in “To Kill A Mockingbird”

Q and A about To Kill A Mockingbird with Aaron Sorkin and Ed Harris, its new Atticus

Aaron Sorkin: How did Harper Lee get away with having a protagonist who doesn’t change? Because Atticus isn’t the protagonist in the book or the movie; Scout is—her flaw is that she’s young, and the change is that she loses some of her innocence. While I wanted to explore Scout, I absolutely wanted Atticus to be a traditional protagonist, so he needed to change and have a flaw … It turned out that Harper Lee had [already] given him one; it’s just that when we all learned the book, it was taught as a virtue. It’s that Atticus believes that goodness can be found in everyone….

Ed Harris: I love the film. I think Peck’s portrayal in terms of that story and that script is just indelible. There are little things that happen on the stage even now, just a head move or something, that feels like Gregory Peck! But the inner life of this man I’m playing is so different [from Peck’s character]. He’s trying to hold on to a belief that’s being eroded slowly but surely. It’s really interesting to play.

The Trojan Women’s Project at La MaMa: The artists discuss

I got asked for an end-of-the-decade quote on “emerging trends” and the editors rejected it, so here it is so that it doesn’t go to waste. Happy holidays! pic.twitter.com/b5YBglbJBL

— Young Jean Lee (@YoungJean_Lee) December 24, 2019

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I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you’ve had a busy week, between getting used to having your kids in school or planning what to do on this long holiday weekend.

Sorry for the folks in “sunny Florida” with plans ruined while dealing with Tropical Storm Gordon. (But you’re welcome for this souvenir to help you remember the occasion.)

I’ve been doing a lot of reading, besides taking my Google IT Support Professional Certificate class on Coursera, so I haven’t been able to share them on this blog like I should. I say “should” because they follow-up on issues I’ve raised here and you deserve a resolution to what you read here. Often, I put information on social media (my Twitter feed @feedbaylenny is on this page), or in the comments section of blog posts, but it’s only right to follow through in the format you saw it, and update the original. Unfortunately, most media don’t do so.

There may be a lot but it’ll go by quickly.

COMING UP: Watch John Oliver’s show that had fans shut down the FCC’s website. Examples of Trump vs. the media this week. See how NBC and Google called him out in separate incidents. Plus, the bill Bernie Sanders plans to introduce this Labor Day week forcing some huge companies I’m sure you’ve spent money on to cover the cost of government assistance programs their workers rely on.

And please, don’t miss out. If you like what you read here, subscribe to CohenConnect.com with either your email address or WordPress account, and get a notice whenever I publish. I’m also available for writing/web contract work.

Ajit Pai (Wikipedia)

I’ll start with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai being cleared by his agency’s own inspector general. Reuters reported the Donald Trump appointee was under investigation to determine whether he was unfairly biased in favor of the Sinclair Broadcast Group–Tribune Media merger. Just weeks before the deal was announced, Pai raised suspicion by bringing back a rule – the UHF discount – that would’ve helped the largest U.S. television broadcast group stay within national ownership limits. But the inspector general said in his report there was

“no evidence, nor even the suggestion, of impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism toward Sinclair, or lack of impartiality related to the proposed Sinclair-Tribune merger.”

Of course, the deal never happened since the FCC eventually questioned Sinclair’s candor over necessary sale of some stations. Tribune backed out and sued Sinclair for $1 billion for alleged breach of contract. According to Reuters, Tribune said Sinclair

 “mishandled efforts to get the transaction approved by taking too long and being too aggressive in its dealings with regulators.”

Now, Sinclair is countersuing.

“In Delaware Court of Chancery, Sinclair rejected Tribune’s allegations and suggested the companies had been very close to winning U.S. Department of Justice approval.”

It accused Tribune of pursuing a

“deliberate effort to exploit and capitalize on an unfavorable and unexpected reaction from the FCC to capture a windfall.” Tribune called Sinclair’s counterclaim “entirely meritless” and “an attempt to distract from its own significant legal exposure.”

Do you have access to the internet? Of course you do, since you’re reading this. (OK, maybe you’re reading a friend’s printout of this post.) Regardless, in December, the FCC under Ajit Pai repealed many net neutrality rules passed in 2015 during the Obama administration. Think of it as price up or speed down. Those internet service providers (ISPs) you love to hate, according to Variety, had been banned from

“blocking or throttling traffic, or from selling ‘fast lanes’ so websites and other types of content can gain speedier access to consumers.”

But luckily, denying all Americans equal access to a free and open internet got very controversial. Friday, California lawmakers passed a bill what Variety called “the strongest government-mandated protections in the country” and it’s now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Brown hasn’t said whether he’ll sign it. But the FCC ’s repeal forbids states from passing their own net neutrality rules. If Gov. Brown signs California’s bill, this could go to court. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer (think Fios), claims net neutrality stifled investment and burdened ISPs with regulation. Since June, ISPs have been able to make changes as long as they’re disclosed. So far, Reuters reports major providers have made no changes in internet access.

Here’s more controversy from the FCC, and something I hadn’t written about before. This time, the agency is accused of lying to its watchdog, Congress, and it involves a TV comedian. More than a year ago, during the height of the net neutrality debate, the FCC claimed its “comment filing system was subjected to a cyberattack,” according to The Verge. On May 7, 2017, our old friend John Oliver, who I’ve shown on this blog several times, asked Last Week Tonight “viewers to leave pro-net neutrality comments on the commission’s ‘Restoring Internet Freedom’ proceeding.” Oliver encouraged them

“to flood the FCC’s website with the use of memorable links like gofccyourself.com and justtellmeifimrelatedtoanazi.com. That night, the FCC’s filing system crashed.”

LANGUAGE: Viewer discretion advised.

The next morning, senior officials concluded, according to emails uncovered by the inspector general, “some external folks attempted to send high traffic in an attempt to tie-up the server.” Of course, the site was shut down by a surge of valid complaints. Several people disputed the unsubstantiated fabricated traffic claim in emails, but the DDoS theory was passed on to commissioners, like Pai, who told members of Congress (Fake News Alert!) what happened that evening was “classified as a non-traditional DDoS attack.” Now, the agency’s inspector general is reporting

“there was no distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and this relaying of false information to Congress prompted a deeper investigation into whether senior officials at the FCC had broken the law.”

Turns out, an Oliver producer gave the FCC a “heads up” days before running the episode but it never responded, and the commission knew Oliver’s show had the power to move enough viewers to crash their system! According to that busy inspector general’s report, “We learned very quickly there was no analysis supporting the conclusion” that it was a DDoS attack. That’s when FCC officials started being investigated for allegedly breaking the law by providing false information to Congress. But the Justice Department decided not to prosecute.

We knew Facebook has been on the hot seat with Americans angry about how it handled 50 million users’ people’s data, as far back as March, but President Trump was more concerned about Amazon. Then, days later, I reported, “‘Vice President Mike Pence is concerned about Facebook and Google,’ according to a source. He argues those companies are dangerously powerful, and is worried about their influence on media coverage, as well as their control of the advertising industry and users’ personal info.” It looks like the Pence position is winning. Trump spent the week tweeting about fake news and according to Axios, attacked Google “for allegedly silencing conservative voices.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034456273306243076

Ars Technica reported that on Wednesday, Trump tweeted this

“video that claimed, incorrectly, that Google did not feature his first speech to Congress as president.”

(Hit the play button.)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034907478566359041

It also reported Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote a formal letter to the Federal Trade Commission, released Thursday, asking it to “reconsider the competitive effects of Google’s conduct in search and digital advertising.” But it wasn’t just Google for Trump.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035209068095434752

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035117507839967232

Politico quoted him as saying,

“I think what Google and what others are doing, if you look at what is going on with Twitter and if you look at what’s going on in Facebook, they better be careful because you can’t do that to people. …I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035120511259500544

And as you just read, the president also claimed NBC Nightly News anchor “Lester Holt got caught fudging” his tape on Russia, but the peacock network fought back and posted the video of Trump’s extended, unedited interview with Holt last year.

No wonder he hates the media!

Of course, I won’t completely defend the news media from allegations of dumbing down and doing anything for profit in too many cases. But I’d love to see some of these disagreements fought out in open court. I don’t care who sues who. I just want the evidence presented so the truth becomes obvious to everyone.

Wikipedia: Cohen at King’s Garden, Odense, Denmark, Aug. 17, 2013

Also, I want to know why all Lenny Cohen searches show Leonard Cohen the musician instead of me!

As for the big tech companies, Yahoo! Finance reports,

“Wednesday morning, the Senate Intelligence Committee will question Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on their responses to foreign disinformation campaigns. The committee also invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai, but he declined to testify — another Google representative will testify in his place.

“Wednesday afternoon, the House Energy & Commerce Committee will quiz Dorsey on Twitter’s ‘algorithms and content monitoring.’”

NBC News has reported Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the platform’s news feed product since the data issue March, with “more posts from friends and family” and “less public content, including videos and other posts from publishers or businesses.” Now, NBC continues,

“The goal was to make Facebook more social with fewer commercial and product posts. Publishers ranging from big businesses to mommy bloggers are forced to post more content that they create personally, rather than sharing products or affiliate links.

“With these changes, some small publishers claim to see a massive downside.”

What I want to know is why in July, Zuckerberg decided Facebook would not ban Holocaust deniers! Fortune reported,

“Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said he found Holocaust deniers ‘deeply offensive.’ Then he said, ‘but at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong—I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong. It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.’”

So Holocaust deniers are simply uninformed? Are you kidding me, Mark? I would’ve hoped Sandberg, who grew up in North Miami Beach, whose brother David was my high school class valedictorian, would’ve set him straight. The Times of Israel reports Sandberg “said in an interview last year that, as a tech company, Facebook hires engineers — not reporters and journalists.” Personally, I find this would be one fight losing my job over. There has to be a line somewhere. Go far enough and you’re “just following orders” and we know what made that phrase so well known.

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1019619640996171776

Zuckerberg later clarified in an email,

“I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.” Then, he “reiterated a distinction he tried to draw in the interview: Posts that advocate violence will be taken down, but those that peddle misinformation will stay but ‘would lose the vast majority of its distribution in News Feed.’”

Sounds like he has lost the vast majority of his mind!

Also coming up this shortened Labor Day week, Morning Brew reports Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will “introduce a bill requiring major employers—like Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald’s—to cover the cost of government assistance programs its workers rely on…programs like food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, and more.” For years, there has been criticism years about the way Amazon pays and treats workers at its warehouses. According to The Washington Post, the Democratic Socialist said his goal

“is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb about $150 billion in taxpayer dollars that go to funding federal assistance programs for low-wage workers each year. The bill … would impose a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at companies with 500 or more employees. For example, if an Amazon employee receives $300 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $300.”

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Keep in mind, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos (another who spent years in Miami) also owns The Washington Post!

Two last things: The cemetery near Detroit finally fixed my grandfather’s grave. In June, it took hours to find the marker since it was buried under inches of dirt. Now, it has been raised and leveled.

And this weekend is the 3?th anniversary of my bar mitzvah. The party had an animal theme, of course, and all the kids got t-shirts like this. (Yes, I’m keeping the specific year as evergreen as the narrator says on that Philadelphia show The Goldbergs on purpose, even though there are readers who were there!)

So that’s about it. All the original pages I found have been updated.

Before I go, I also have to thank every one of you for more than 16,800 page views on this site! The numbers have risen exponentially recently, and I wonder why. Please let me know if there’s anything I should be doing more here.

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NYC Web Fest Announces 2017 Jury

The 4th Annual NYC Web Fest (NYCWF) has announced its Jury members today – a diverse group of entertainers and producers from film, television, stage and the digital space. They’ve also revealed a new programming department, with Program Director Austen Jaye and Programming Consultant Liz Spaulding, a former marketing director for Tribeca Film. The festival will take place November 9th-11th in Manhattan, location to be determined.

NYCWF is open for submissions following its biggest edition yet, and have added a pilot competition this year, for first episodes of new web series’. More creators than ever before attended in 2016, guests came in from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and all across the United States. Backstage Magazine named them ‘One of Six Great New Media Festivals,’ and new streaming service Seeka TV signed 12 shows directly from the festival.

“The NYC Web Fest was a great venue for someone like me to interact with the best filmmakers in the web series world.” Said George Reese, Seeka’s Vice-President of Programming.

Other 2016 highlights included the premiere of India’s first same-sex series The Other Love Story and the introduction of the Audience Choice Award. That was won by Haunted or Hoax, starring Natasha Negovanlis. Multi-nominee Situationships has since been signed signed a distribution deal with media company Blavity.

NYCWF also hosted the world premiere of Best Drama winner Trap Plane from Houston Texas.  “When Trap Plane became an official selection for 2016 NYC Web Fest, I was excited to premiere in the Big Apple. When our name was called for Best Drama it was incredible!  After being at the festival, and feeling the energy I really wanted the award.”  Said writer/director Juan C Vazquez.

Another new member of the team is Sarah Grieco, Director of Sales and Marketing, who has managed multiple events in NYC for the past 5 years. With NYCWF growing so quickly, the goal is to integrate more brands into the event.  

Submissions are open until August 14th - already entries have increased by 65% from this time last year. For more information see www.nycwebfest.com More information on this year's jurors can also be found below.

Natasha S. Alford is a journalist, host, producer and writer.  Her work covers a wide range of issues relating to politics, race, gender, education, as well as entertainment and pop culture.  Natasha is Deputy Editor of theGrio.com and hosts the original web series True Story with Natasha Alford.  She has also been a contributor to Salon.com, Sirius XM’s Sway In the Morning, WDKX and WBEZ radio.  She is a winner of the CBS Meredith-Cronkite Fellowship and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), as well as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Natasha was recently awarded the 2017 Rising Leader Award at the 20th Annual Harvard Women’s Leadership Awards.  She resides in New York City.

Ashley C. Ford lives in Brooklyn NY by way of Indiana. She is (mostly) a writer, editor, and public speaker. She is currently writing a memoir, and working as a senior features writer at Refinery29.  Ford has written or guest-edited for The Guardian, ELLE, BuzzFeed, Slate, Teen Vogue, I-D, Lenny Letter, and various other web and print publications. She's spoken at SXSW, Earlham College, Hippocamp Nonfiction Writing Conference, and various other events and universities. She also taught writing at The New School and Catapult.Co.  Ford previously worked as a development executive for Matter Studios, where she focused on web series and documentaries, and was also the host of the first season of Audible.Com's interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine's 2017 30 Under 30 in Media, and Brooklyn Magazine's 2016 Brooklyn 100.

Austen Jaye is a native Californian, Austen grew up in Los Angeles and attended Mira Costa High School. While studying sign language at El Camino College, he took an acting class and immediately realized his true passion for the arts. Studying at the Stellar Adler Theatre and later, The Beverly Hills Playhouse, Austen refocused his drive of becoming a professional actor. Theatre credits include the Solo Show BELAFONTE UNAUTHORIZED: A SHARED HUMANITY, the West Coast premier of THE GOOD NEGRO and BLACK WOMEN STATE OF THE UNION. Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS), Back in the Game(ABC), Angie Tribeca (TBS), Roomie Lover Friends (BET) and Hello Cupid (BET).

Neil Mossberg initially started his career in the fashion world as an assistant buyer with The Doneger Group.  A leading analyst of global trends and merchandising strategies for the retail and fashion industry, he became a men’s buyer for the Urban Outfitters Group. Neil left Urban Outfitters to become Creative Director of the national retailer County Seat, where he successfully managed all brand acquisition, product planning and marketing for County Seat’s 600 stores nationwide generating sales in excess of $500 million.  Neil has worked with NBC and the Bravo Network on products for reality TV shows, partnered with Mead Johnson Bristol Myers and Served as fashion editor for Urban Latino magazine.  Today Neil is a partner in a portfolio of brands and companies such as World Marketing, FRANK151, Steve Harvey Collection, colossal brands  and more .  Neil also sits on the board of advisory board exClone.

Drew Phillips is a transgender genre filmmaker and graphic designer from Indiana whose films Beautiful and Digital Syntax have garnered international acclaim. She currently works in the graphics department at REVRY, the only global LGBTQ+ streaming platform.

Sherrod Small started performing stand up at New York’s Comic Strip Live in 1998.  Six months later, he was performing at the Comedy Cellar as well.  Sherrod was a regular on VH1's The Best Week Ever and serves as a guest, occasional ombudsman, and stand-in host of Fox News's late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.  He has appeared onTough Crowd, Premium Blend, and The Chris Rock Show.  He can also be seen with John Mayer on the parody cover of Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" and on the G4's International Sexy Ladies.

From 2012 to 2014, Sherrod was an infrequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show and took a more regular role on its successor, Opie with Jim Norton.  For the past 5 years he’s hosted the RaceWars Podcast with Kurt Metzger.  Guests have included Tracy Morgan, Colin Quinn, Ann Coulter, Tony Rock, and more.  In 2016, he won the Special Guest Star award at NYC Web Fest for his work on the series Long Island Divas which spoofs the Real Housewives franchise.

Liz Spaulding is a seasoned marketing & communications executive with over 10 years in the media & entertainment industry. She is currently working on a Marketing contract for Citibank’s Global Consumer Bank division on Customer Experience and Digital Engagement. Prior to Citibank, Liz was named the first ever New York Director for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and previously managed the $4M+ annual incentive: The “Made in NY” Marketing credit while at the NYC Mayor’s Office. Liz also worked in the private sector of the entertainment industry, as Marketing Coordinator for Tribeca Film, the newly launched distribution arm of the Tribeca Film Festival. She managed the promotional assets, marketing strategy and release windows for over 15 feature films per year, marketing independent titles to a wide audience in a new distribution model.

Sasha Stone has been writing about film and the entertainment industry for going on twenty years. She began her website Oscarwatch.com in 1999, was sued by the Academy and was forced to change the name to AwardsDaily.com. She graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and briefly attended Columbia Graduate Film School. Although she mostly covers the Oscar race, her writing extends to diversity in the industry and awards race, and freelances for Women’s Media Center. She has a daughter in college, a dog and two cats and lives in Burbank, California.

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CHAOS PROGRESSES TO A BINARY STATE

'The last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled, was a trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field'. Dylan 78.

 (Woke up some weeks ago in England because I was saying the title of this piece in a loud voice...have never read this anywhere and have NO idea what it means or if it is true...or who I was in the dream...)  Anyway... onwards and downwards...

 Hello everybody, or as Donald Trump would say if he were ever honest, 'Seig Heil'.

A man with his head in the sand has only one other orifice with which to communicate with the world. Hopefully only a thousand hour long Reich... Bet he knows the words to Tomorrow Belongs To Me... Alternative fact...If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed'. (Adolf H).

 Breitbart AKA Steve Bannon and his minions of Death with the foul ghoul Kellyanne Conway in charge of the PR for Duck Fart the Golden One. Makes sense...Like attracts like - energy finds its own devil...er level, sorry. I read that his father had a keen interest in species of new human according to a perfected DNA. All together again.. 'Creation is not yet complete.' Ten points if you know who said this in a famous speech in the Thirties. That's right. Him above, now below.

 I have not willingly heard any news, nor read any for about seven weeks... a transformation began...something like a horrifying happiness...certainly fewer instances of anger and stress. No Trump, no Brexit, no Daesh, no Putin. Wonderful. That said, I was told that the British PM has done a deal with Erdogan the Evil (among other deeply criminal regimes). Knew this would happen...a desperate island needing to whore itself for cash...no foreplay, no love, no passion no orgasms for her, just stick it in dry. Disgusting. The Dis-United Kingdom will take it like a wimp.

 The collective unconsciousness of a country creates its spiritual identity...this can change over time, depending on what happens there. England has been dying for decades...it is VERY clear each time I return. When OUT of your birth country, perspective changes. There is still MAGIC there in the land...but the hearts of the people are very dulled and weak now. But we have the best music and comedy:-))

 Glimpsed....Serbia and Kosovo getting to the bad places again...and you can be damn sure they are being encouraged to do so by dark forces. The nameless howling one, wanderer of the wastelands...fills in the void with an unhappy chaos.

 'The angel of apocalypse who raises a hand to the heavens saying;

'There shall be no more time'.'

 And Kim Wrong Un in North Korea...it is time for the gas for you my brother..Have fun sleeping every night.

 This January (2017) I used Google to look up the names of ten friends I knew from High School, college and the early nineties. Ones I had lost touch with for various reasons but still had very fond memories of. Deeply sad to find my first girlfriend (a year older than me) died in December of cancer. I know what follows might seem a pathetic statement, but; It doesn't seem fair or right. I don't believe in karma and she was a happy, smart, light hearted girl. Too young....(another dumb comment, babies and children die...but you feel what I mean and why I am writing it.)

 Other school friends have become serious, respected lawyers for child abuse/broken marriages/miscarriages of justice, writers of blogs about their countryside walks, or health food shop managers and Martin C, the last of the Great British musicians. The rest seem to have no electronic footprint in the sands of time. (Ahem). Joseph R, you saved my mental health twice, hope you re-appear one day. Some seem to have SOLD OUT entirely but as long as they are happy and evolving eh? Can't say I'm proud of staying the course and following what I love the most, but perhaps I am, regardless of health problems and vanishing money. I CHOSE.

 'It is the disguise of panic that makes us live in ugliness'

 Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death. He also said the fear of death is what gives birth to creativity. Perhaps for some...but I have always believed in making creation for the Love, the joy of doing it.

 'For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is in every way perfect.' A.C

 Thank you Aleister, nice when the The Great Beast himself agrees with you eh?

Love under Will...or Bobby, Lenny or Dave:-) The wizard needs more whizz...but oxygen, coffee and love will have to suffice. Do not ask for whom the Siren calls. She calls for THEE. E.

 Music is the best...started playing and writing again this February, (which usually seems to see an early rejuvenation of ideas... but this time it took a bloody two years.)  An average of 4 hours sleep a night for the last five weeks... occasionally thoughts get too interestingly positive to want to lie down. And life too fascinating to stay asleep. The only people who love music more than me are in mental hospitals. Moonchildren in Bedlam.... my remaining utter hatred at the rich who used to pay to go and poke fun at the mentally ill as if in a zoo, the type of snob voyeurs which persist today. Old school/class war.

 'The truth is found more often in music than in books of philosophy'.

Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

 People/friends/lovers... same as synapses...Fire together - wire together.

The angel messengers... perhaps some/all of us just have amnesia, caused by the planet's magnetic field causing an hypnosis. Just an honest idea.

 Look out of the window of a tram ...Yesterday in a park in Prague, opposite the church where the noble assassins of the foul Heidrich made a last stand, I saw a circle of 11 perform Tai Chi while being watched by 2 Jehovahs' Witnesses, their information in five languages. The week before on the corner behind them, two hospital crutches, an empty box of wine and a bag of clothes in the gutter. Looking into people's eyes as I walk, watching how they see others. Looking around them for an imprint reading. Fear and sadness mostly, perhaps just a mirror reflection.

 Jaki Leibezeit, RIP, one of the finest white drummers in the history of this planet. So happy I saw him live, spellbinding. Yoo Doo Right. Yes, we CAN.

 Stone sober and straight one evening last week mid February... Musick to Play in the Dark...AND THE UNIVERSE OPENS... this is a pan-dimensional masterpiece. What Dali and Picasso would have made had they had access to a studio. A thousand coloured lights burning cold up and down my spine and a brain shining, close to actual orgasm. Gasping breaths... Almost insane with the ecstasy of sound listening to COIL.  Painting colours on the darkness...11 minutes in, here it comes...breathe deep before it starts, oxygenate the blood,  try to be ready. THIS...all chakras opening, third eye across the universe, heart radiating like a lighthouse...everything possible, realities revealed.... partners dancing on the astral....

 Mother forgive me for taking this long for finding this band of human angels, true magick. And AIL, blessed be forever, our art is in Heaven. There are reasons for connections... Magic does not work without inspiration's SPARK. And inspiration does not appear without magic already within it...A cyclic relay of energy...also known as Love. A Divine unholy madness.

 'The guilty are claiming to be innocents, only Love seems to make any sense'. DW

 Everything is energy...thoughts included... waves...too much NEED can push the desire/thing/event/money/opportunity away. Fish do not come to a noisy fisher. Imagine standing up to your chest in a swimming pool...all around you are possibilities of what you want, floating on the surface. Making strong movements when reaching out to grab, or moving from that position to take what you want will result in the things moving away on the wave you have created. Standing still allows the surface of the water to calm and with you a centre of gravity, the things float TO you...for you to gracefully pick from the water:-) 'Magic' is real.

 It is us... and what we do and how we become.

 ...A question of passion, the animal and the human, the glorious loss of control.

A yearning which consumes the mind until, praise the Goddess, all thought is destroyed. Raising each other to the highest... a yin yang whirlwind of human and spirit revolving faster until melted as one and OUT...Animal souls of a higher light...

 Gnostic pathways (now there's an idea for a TV documentary) from ancient Sumeria and the Scarlet High Priestess, the secret Star Fire rituals of the menstrual grail to the modern day become transformed to mundane slang...the 'whore' was always holy...

Funny peculiar that women used to be called 'Mysteries'...as in 'Who's the mystery?'. Now females are described as 'Strange'. 'I'm gonna hit the club and find me some strange'.  In another seventy years will men just grunt  'I. ..Need...Weird!' ? Or will testosterone have burned itself out by then, thanks to various chemical experiments being conducted by certain groups? The womb man...

 Everything is crossing my mind at the same time, spinning plates and multitasking with too many dimensions at once, an emotional rollercoaster between the 3D and the astral, zig zagging on the rainbow chessboard. Etc. Refusing to be in L**e but not believing myself at all. Right now I would start a world war just to distract me from my attempts to contain the rising energy. There is a spinning vortex on the other side of a parallel universe to which my heart is being pulled at colossal speed. I can actually feel my mind burning with white light and keeping me awake. This is what happens when I stop Drinking and it happens to be Spring...(and COIL)... and.... Lost. Gone forever again. What AILs thee brother? Calling Sister Midnight again... what can I do about my dreams? Don't mention the Pink Butterfly...the comedown will be brutal. But until then, beauty creates beauty.

 'The evolution of the human spirit which, torn from an entire past of beliefs and mysteries which it surmounts and overcomes, passes through pantheism and attains to a joyous and intoxicated affirmation of its liberty and its unity with the universe'     Scriabin.

 The Times They are Deranging...'The Hour of Solomon'. Drugs...shortcuts into the forest can lead you to wolves and horror...Once a door of perception has been kicked down, it cannot be more opened. Neither can it be closed. Once your eye has been chained to the universe, that is what it will see forever. Drugs as a recreation eventually become only tranquillisers of spirit but humans get seduced by the idea of ingesting paradise. Temporary transcendence is but a set of stepping stones across the river – and some are missing:-)...IN joy while you can but Flow in stillness. Bliss.

 There is no one alive who knows the absolute truth. DW

 Resist the things you can find everywhere.   COIL

 'The only kingdom that makes a man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any meaning is the power to better the world'.

 'See a cliff, jump off'.   Yeeessss.....  Unless it IS an actual cliff.  And if you wish to walk through a wall, you must first find a door:-))) Harken to THE WISDOM OF ORPHEUS...Minds must be warmed up before such exercises but it is very hard sometimes, when you are seized by an IDEA and an energy you NEED to follow to the end. Most of us will crack up under these conditions..and return... or not. People with glass minds shouldn't get stoned. Drink from the Grail divine...

 The map is NOT the territory.

 Everything works if you ALLOW it to, but once again with feeling..You get what you are... is the universal Law. You cannot take more than you are ready for, however passionate the desire. Releasing is necessary but getting and being ready is a discipline, VERY few have it. Including me, full time. Shortcuts lead to burn out. Everything is energy and always eat your greens, especially broccoli:-) Watching the river...different streams, undercurrents pulling in other ways, but part of the whole and the same eventual destination....the scent of sunlight on a green leaf in the forest. Drugs are sexy yes. But opening to your own nature and the universe around and within is sexier and deeper and longer, holy and fucking beautiful.

 Many people care about you - but kindness starts at home, so love yourself too,

just a bit more...you know what you are, keep remembering.

Turn within, face yourself...smile.... and RISE.

 The rites of Springtime and chaos progresses to a binary state....Love.

 (March 18th 2017....GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT.)