#Matthew Kessler

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Friday The 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (1988) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #fridaythe13th #fridaythe13thpart7 #fridaythe13thpart7thenewblood #seanscunningham #johncarlbuechler #jason #jasonvoorhees #kanehodder #larparklincoln #kevinspirtas #susanjennifergrace #TerryKiser #SusanBlu #heidikozak #jeffbennett #stacigreason #WilliamButler #jonrenfield #dianealmeida #larrycox #deborakessler #dianabarrows #elizabethkaitan #thommatthews #vintage #vhs #80s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

[cjbolan]

If Jake Windsnap wrote “The Forsaken Merman”…. Does this mean the series is set in an alternate universe where he wrote it and not Matthew Arnold? Did Matthew Arnold steal the poem from Jake? Or did Jake steal the poem from Matthew Arnold ? Did Matthew Arnold never exist in this series’ universe?

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✎ ｡✿ BOTLIST

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ᗢ MCU

❤️‍🔥 agatha harkness - SWEETHEART

🧩 wanda maximoff - MISSING PIECE

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☏ SCREAM

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👀 amber freeman - NEW GIRL (old bot)

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ღ YELLOWJACKET

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🦜 misty quigley - IN THE WILDERNESS (old bot)

⚽ misty quigley - HER FAVORITE PLAYER (old bot)

۩ KATHRYN HAHN UNIVERSE

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🥀 eve fletcher - NOT YOURS

📌 jennifer barkley - MY LITTLE PROJECT

◊ AUBREY PLAZA UNIVERSE

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OTHERS

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💐 serena joy waterford - IF YOU WERE A MAN (old bot)

☀️ tatum riley - A SUNSHINE (old bot)

🪓 amy hughes - PSYCHO KILLER, QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST ? (old bot)

🫀 sophie of gavaldon - THE PRETTIEST OF THE NEVERS

💎 chanel oberlin - SHE ONLY WEARS CHANEL (old bot)

🍸 alison (everything now) - TWO SLOW DANCERS (old bot)

🔞 vanessa afton - I'M A GOOD GIRL, OFFICER (old bot)

💄 madison montgomery - A GLAMOROUS WITCH (old bot)

🥀 alison (e.n) - THE SWEETEST GIRLFRIEND (old bot)

👠 charlotte (courtney eaton) - QUEEN BEE IS BORED (old bot)

💕 alison (e.n) - HEART EYES (old bot)

🌔 millie kessler - A PART OF DARKNESS (old bot)

[expirisims]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore 💜

Thank you @treason-and-plot for the question! First off I want to apologize for taking days to respond to these! I'm answering this one for Britta (Kessler) Matthews from Thicket.

I mostly create sims using a randomization method or just letting them spawn, but Britta is one of the few I created with a certain look and backstory in place!

She was raised by her older sister Lara (married name Richardson) after the death of their parents.

Britta is very spirited, some might even think odd, and doesn't waste time on spilled milk.

Britta is VERY clumbsy! She is constantly tripping and breaking things. Girl after my own heart there!

Britta is one of the few sims I ran through artbreeder to see what she would look like in human form. She did not disappoint!

[brokehorrorfan]

The Guyver's original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for $30 via Terror Vision Records. Shipping in June, the score is composed by Matthew Morse (Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker).

The album is pressed on two color variants: deep purple & mint with black splatter (Terror Vision exclusive) and neon green & black with violet splatter (retail version). It’s housed in a gatefold jacket designed by Earl Kessler Jr. and Worserbeings with liner notes by Morse.

The Guyver soundtrack is also available on black cassette for $13.

[cryley]

source: My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers by Ted Kessler

MY DAD HAS BEEN FAMOUS LONGER THAN I’VE BEEN ALIVE Tim Healy by Matthew Healy

My name is Matthew Timothy Healy. I was born naked in north London in April 1989. I am told it was quite warm - which has been the case for most of my birthdays. I am an adult now, semi-clothed. My father spent those early years of my life working between England and Australia - back-to-back winters that had deprived him of the sun for almost four years. He told me he remembers my birthday being a bright and memorable time, golden-hued. He currently lives in the house in which I spent most of my childhood. In some ways it exists as a shrine to what once was - our family and what has been achieved. It is a feeling that is comforting and unsettling in equal measure. 

My dad, at five foot seven, a baby-turned-milkboy-turned-welder-turned-comic-turned-actor, was born in the early 1950s to parents Malcolm and Sadie, in Birtley, Newcastle upon Tyne. He lived modestly up north, as a youngster and as a young man, with his brother, John, and their dog, Smartie (a dog that would later come to head-butt my dad in a moment of jestful play, resulting in him losing his bottom row of teeth. John once threw my dad over a wall, with the assumption that the drop on the other side was of equal height to that which he’d just hoisted his little brother over. It wasn’t. He landed right on his head and has had to wear glasses ever since).

He would work between various factories during the day and at night he would pursue his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. He is a very funny man, my dad, whose charm and passion is articulated through his comedy, and his face exudes a type of warmth that one would expect from a northern English comedic actor. He laughs like Muttley off Wacky Races and whistles inane tunes that have never been heard before, for good reason. 

My dad has been famous longer than I’ve been alive. He was at the height of his fame just before I was born, during Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. My parents being famous was always part of my reality: there are photos of their wedding with a crowd of a thousand people outside looking in, which is what their life has been like. I know nothing different, and it bled into the way I saw myself. My dad was a rags-to-riches character, so as soon as he saw a stem of creativity in me, he knew the importance of nurturing it so that I gained a sense of self. Me being creative was always emotionally, financially endorsed by my dad. 

‘You’re John Lennon,’ he’s say, from the time I was six. He expected me to be a rock star, not in a superficial sense, but A Rock Star. Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits and Brian Johnson from AC/DC would occasionally come around to our house when I was growing up so it always seemed tangible. Rock stars walked among us. Welders, too. Dad has a dichotomy between being a working-class manual worker and a bohemian actor. I remember watching a Michael Jackson video with some of his welder mates when I was a kid and them saying he was from another planet. I thought, Yeah. My planet. 

My parents always taught me that you get the good with the bad. So, if you want to live in a nice house and have nice holidays, then maybe Hello! Might have to come around your nice house or go on your nice holiday to take photos for their magazine. The Daily Mail and the Mirror went in a bit hard on my mum for a while, which was difficult for my dad as he’s not from the tabloid world that comes with being behind the bar at the Rovers Return. He had to deal with a wife who was clinically depressed, being hounded by the tabloids. What does he do to look after his wife? We got through it. And there’s stuff that people don’t know. We found a lot of security in that, knowing that they only knew so much. 

I thought about this a lot when my band was breaking. My mum is on Loose Women. That’s not credible, that’s not cool. My dad is a credible actor but he’s well known too. Am I going to be perceived as an ITV boy-band thing? In the end I had to get over it. You can’t judge musicians by what their parents do. It isn’t going to work. 

There are two things he always said to me, and always after a drink: ‘Be who you want to be.’ And ‘It’s in yer fucking bones, man!’ He empowered me. He acted in awe of me. Not in a sycophantic way, but as if I didn’t need his advice. If I had conviction, it would see me through - and that really rang true. Because I had a middle-class family I could get to twenty years old and still be working it out with the band. 

I didn’t go to university. I worked in a Chinese restaurant, which stressed my mum out. ‘Is this band thing really going to become something?’ she’d ask. 

My dad never questioned it. ‘Leave him alone, man, he’s fucking John Lennon, man.’ He believed in me unquestioningly from the moment I wrote a song called ‘ Robbers’ when I was eighteen. He bought us our first van. He converted the garage into a rehearsal space. His overt passion for us is instilled in our band. When our album went platinum all of the band made sure he got a disc. He’s the band’s dad. 

The character he plays in Benidorm, who rides around on roller skates with a wig on and big boobs, is probably the one he sees the most of himself in. He told me he based it on a combination of Les Dawson and Tommy Cooper, which is my dad incarnate. If people ask me to describe my dad I say, ‘Combine those two. That’s him.’ The slapstick he plays is quite like his real persona. He’s a very, very good actor. It’s not strange to see my dad put on a wig and be someone completely different. When it looks and feels like my dad but there’s something else going on, that’s when it throws me. It’s the subtlety of my dad in the midst of a great performance that can really mess me up. If you’re involved in the physique and the aura and the knowledge of who that person is, when the minutiae of it change it’s quite alarming.

I steal a lot of lighters, which is something coincidentally I’ve stolen from my dad. We’ve stolen everybody’s lighter we’ve ever come into contact with. Superficially, I think I’m more like my mother. I’m quite erratic. I’m passionate and emotionally driven, whereas my dad is more subdued about those things. I think what I’ve got from my dad is my fear of not being proud of myself. Those are the times I’ve seen him at his lowest, when he regrets something he could’ve done, mainly from a creative perspective. I’ve seen him cut himself up over things that I wouldn’t have imagined he’d find that relevant or important. And then I find myself doing the same over a vocal take, or some small detail in a recording, and that’s when I feel him inside me. That’s when I know who I am. 

Matthew Healy is the singer and guitarist with the 1975.

[goalhofer]

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Judo

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Pentathlon

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Rowing

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Leyla Kelter (Anchorage, Alaska)

Ilona Maher (Burlington, Vermont)

Kayla Canett (Fallbrook, California)

Kristi Kirsche (Franklin, Massachusetts)

Lauren Doyle (Macon, Illinois)

Naya Tapper (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Samantha Sullivan (Fayetteville, North Carolina)

Stephanie Rovetti (Reno, Nevada)

Sailing

Noah Lyons (Clearwater, Florida)

Markus Edegran (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Ian Barrows (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands)

David Liebenberg (Richmond, California)

Hans Henken (Laguna Beach, California)

Stuart McNay (Marion, Massachusetts)

Dominique Stater (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Erika Reineke (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)

Sarah Newberry-Moore (Miami, Florida)

Daniela Moroz (Berkeley, California)

Stephanie Roble (East Troy, Wisconsin)

Maggie Shea (New Trier Township, Illinois)

Lara Dallman-Weiss (Miami, Florida)

Shooting

Sgt. Ivan Roe (Manhattan, Montana)

Will Hinton (Dacula, Georgia)

Conner Prince (Burleson, Texas)

Henry Leverett (Bainbridge, Georgia)

Sfc. Keith Sanderson (Plymouth, Massachusetts)

Derrick Mein (Paola, Kansas)

Vincent Hancock (Ft. Worth, Texas)

Katelyn Abeln (Douglasville, Georgia)

Ada Korkhin (Brookline, Massachusetts)

Ryann Phillips (Borden County, Texas)

Sgt. Sagen Maddelena (Woodland, California)

Mary Tucker (Pineville, North Carolina)

Alexis Lagan (Boulder City, Nevada)

Rachel Tozier (Pattonsburg, Missouri)

Austen Smith (Dallas, Texas)

Dania Vizzi (Pasco County, Florida)

Skateboarding

Gavin Bottger (Vista, California)

Tate Carew (San Diego, California)

Chris Joslin (Cerritos, California)

Tom Schaar (Malibu, California)

Jagger Eaton (Mesa, Arizona)

Nyjah Huston (Davis, California)

Ruby Lilley (Oceanside, California)

Minna Stess (Petaluma, California)

Paige Heyn (Tempe, Arizona)

Poe Pinson (Fernandina Beach, Florida)

Bryce Wettstein (Encinitas, California)

Mariah Duran (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Swimming

Caeleb Dressel (Orange Park, Florida)

Chris Guiliano (Amity Township, Pennsylvania)

Jack Alexy (Mendham Borough, New Jersey)

Luke Hobson (Reno, Nevada)

Aaron Shackell (Carmel, Indiana)

Kieran Smith (Ridgefield, Connecticut)

Robert Finke (Clearwater, Florida)

Luke Whitlock (Noblesville, Indiana)

David Johnston (Lake Forest, California)

Joseph Armstrong (Dover, Ohio)

Ryan Murphy (Jacksonville, Florida)

Keaton Jones (Gilbert, Arizona)

Nic Fink (Morristown, New Jersey)

Charlie Swanson (Richmond, Virginia)

Matthew Fallon (Warren Township, New Jersey)

Josh Matheny (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Thomas Heilman (Albemarle County, Virginia)

Luca Urlando (Sacramento, California)

Shaine Casas (McAllen, Texas)

Carson Foster (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Chase Kalisz (Harford County, Maryland)

Ryan Held (Springfield, Illinois)

Matt King (Snohomish, Washington)

Brooks Curry (Dunwoody, Georgia)

Drew Kibler (Carmel, Indiana)

B.J. Pieroni (Chesterton, Indiana)

Ivan Puskovitch (West Chester, Pennsylvania)

Jaime Czarkowski (Calgary, Alberta)

Keana Hunter (Issaquah, Washington)

Audrey Kwon (Seattle, Washington)

Jacklyn Luu (Milpitas, California)

Daniella Ramirez (Miami, Florida)

Ruby Remati (Andover, Massachusetts)

Megumi Field (Cerritos, California)

Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, New York)

Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas)

Gretchen Walsh (Nashville, Tennessee)

Alexandra Walsh (Greenwich, Connecticut)

Kate Douglass (Pelham, New York)

Torri Huske (Arlington County, Virginia)

Erin Gemmell (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Claire Weinstein (White Plains, New York)

Katie Ledecky (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Paige Madden (Mobile, Alabama)

Katie Grimes (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Katherine Berkoff (Missoula, Montana)

Regan Smith (Lakeville, Minnesota)

Phoebe Bacon (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Lilly King (Evansville, Indiana)

Emma Weber (Denver, Colorado)

Alexandra Shackell (Carmel, Indiana)

Emma Weyant (Sarasota, Florida)

Erika Connolly (Cornelius, North Carolina)

Abbey Weitzeil (Santa Clarita, California)

Anna Peplowski (Metamora Township, Illinois)

Mariah Denigan (Fairfield, Ohio)

Rock climbing

Zach Hammer (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Colin Duffy (Broomfield, Colorado)

Jesse Grupper (New York, New York)

Sam Watson (Southlake, Texas)

Natalia Grossman (Boulder, Colorado)

Brooke Raboutou (Boulder, Colorado)

Emma Hunt (Woodstock, Georgia)

Piper Kelly (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Surfing

Griffin Colapinto (San Clemente, California)

John Florence (Honolulu County, Hawaii)

Caroline Marks (Melbourne Beach, Florida)

Carissa Moore (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Caitlin Simmers (Oceanside, California)

Table tennis

Kanak Jha (Milpitas, California)

Rachel Sung (San José, California)

Amy Wang (Mantua Township, New Jersey)

Lily Zhang (Redwood City, California)

Taekwondo

Carl Nickolas; Jr. (Brentwood, California)

Jonathan Healy (Houston, Texas)

Faith Dillon (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Kristina Teachout (Palm Bay, Florida)

Tennis

Christopher Eubanks (Atlanta, Georgia)

Taylor Fritz (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Marcos Girón (Thousand Oaks, California)

Tommy Paul (Boca Raton, Florida)

Austin Krajicek (Plano, Texas)

Rajeev Ram (Carmel, Indiana)

Danielle Collins (St. Petersburg, Florida)

Cori Gauff (Delray Beach, Florida)

Emma Navarro (Charleston, South Carolina)

Jessica Pegula (Boca Raton, Florida)

Desirae Krawczyk (Palm Desert, California)

Trialthlon

Morgan Pearson (Boulder, Colorado)

Seth Rider (Germantown, Tennessee)

Kirsten Kasper (Boulder, Colorado)

Taylor Knibb (Boulder, Colorado)

Taylor Spivey (Redondo Beach, California)

Volleyball

Andy Benesh (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Miles Partain (Los Angeles, California)

Miles Evans (Santa Barbara, California)

Chase Budinger (Carlsbad, California)

Matt Anderson (West Seneca, New York)

Aaron Russell (Howard County, Maryland)

Jeff Jendryk II (Evanston, Illinois)

T.J. DeFalco (Huntington Beach, California)

Micah Christenson (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Maxwell Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Micah Ma'a (Honolulu County, Hawaii)

Thomas Jaeschke (Wheaton, Illinois)

Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, California)

Taylor Averill (Portland, Oregon)

David Smith (Santa Clarita, California)

Erik Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Taryn Kloth (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

Kelly Cheng (Fullerton, California)

Sarah Hughes (Costa Mesa, California)

Jordyn Poulter (Aurora, Colorado)

Avery Skinner (Katy, Texas)

Justine Wong-Orantes (Cypress, California)

Lauren Carlini (Aurora, Illinois)

Jordan Larson (Hooper, Nebraska)

Annie Drews (Elkhart, Indiana)

Jordan Thompson (Edina, Minnesota)

Haleigh Washington (Clear Creek County, Colorado)

Dana Rettke (Riverside Township, Illinois)

Kathryn Plummer (Aliso Viejo, California)

Kelsey Cook (Hanover Township, Illinois)

Chiaka Ogbogu (Coppell, Texas)

Water polo

Adrian Weinberg (Los Angeles, California)

Chase Dodd (Huntington Beach, California)

Ryder Dodd (Huntington Beach, California)

Johnny Hooper (Los Angeles, California)

Marko Vavic (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Alex Obert (Loomis, California)

Hannes Daube (Long Beach, California)

Luca Cupido (Newport Beach, California)

Ben Hallock (Los Angeles, California)

Dylan Woodhead (San Anselmo, California)

Alex Bowen (San Diego, California)

Max Irving (Long Beach, California)

Drew Holland (Orinda, California)

Tara Prentice (Murrieta, California)

Jenna Flynn (San José, California)

Jewel Roemer (Lafayette, California)

Emily Ausmus (Riverside, California)

Jovana Sekulic (Newtown Township, Pennsylvania)

Ashleigh Johnson (Miami, Florida)

Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, California)

Rachel Fattal (Los Alamitos, California)

Maggie Steffens (Danville, California)

Jordan Raney (Santa Monica, California)

Ryann Neushul (Santa Barbara County, California)

Kaleigh Gilchrist (Newport Beach, California)

Amanda Longan (Moorpark, California)

Weightlifting

Hampton Morris (Marrieta, Georgia)

Wes Kitts (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Jourdan Delacruz (Wylie, Texas)

Olivia Reeves (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Mary Theisen-Lappen (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)

Wrestling

Payton Jacobson (Elkhorn, Wisconsin)

Spencer Lee (Murrysville, Pennsylvania)

Zain Retherford (Benton, Pennsylvania)

Kyle Dake (Lansing, New York)

Aaron Brooks (Hagerstown, Maryland)

Kyle Snyder (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Mason Parris (Lawrenceburg, Indiana)

Kamal Bey (Oak Park Township, Illinois)

Joe Rau (Chicago, Illinois)

Adam Coon (Handy Township, Michigan)

Sarah Hildebrandt (Clay Township, Indiana)

Dominique Parrish (Scotts Valley, California)

Helen Maroulis (Marquette, Michigan)

Kayla Miracle (Iowa City, Iowa)

Amit Elor (Walnut Creek, California)

Kennedy Blades (Chicago, Illinois)

[mailoveforu]

writing down the emojis i assigned for ocs because i know im gonna forget this sooner or later

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[rachelkaser]

Masonry Monday: The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde

Poor Diana Reynolds finds herself desolate in Perry Mason's office when everyone in her life suddenly turns against her. When her roommate is murdered, a conspiracy involving a little boy (of which Diana is apparently the patsy) is forcibly brought to light.

Who's Who

Perry Mason's client: Diana Reynolds, a blonde secretary who finds her life upended by a series of false allegations

The victim: Marian Shaw, Diana's roommate, who was hiding more than her share of secrets

Suspects: Matthew Bartlett, Diana's employer, who is caught up in a custody battle for his four-year-old grandson Helen Bartlett, Tony's mother, who only married Bartlett for Tony's security, threatened by said grandson Tony Davis, a greedy stepson who was apparently romancing both Diana and Marian Norma Carter, Bartlett's widowed daughter-in-law and mother of Bobby, upon whose land Marian's body was discovered Otto Kessler, the superintendent of Marian and Diana's building, who keeps a stray bullet for no apparent reason

The Setup

An angry-looking blonde woman parks her car in front of an apartment building and storms inside, ignoring the superintendent who tries to greet her. Her roommate, another blonde named Diana, cheerfully greets her, but the first woman, Marian, responds by yelling at her to leave the apartment. When Diana protests, Marian pulls a gun on her. Diana grapples for it, and it goes off into the wall. When the super runs in, Marian runs out crying and the gun is in Diana's hand.

The next day, Diana arrives at her workplace at the Bartlett home. While she's doing secretarial work, she opens a letter with no return address and looks at it. A young man, Tony Davis, enters and Diana rebukes him. He apparently lied to Marian about her, hence why her roommate was so upset. Diana hides the letter in her drawer and leaves the room, but Tony quickly pries the drawer open and retrieves it. The letter is addressed to Tony's stepfather and Diana's boss, Matthew Bartlett, claiming that he has a grandson being raised by his widowed daughter-in-law.

Later, Tony is showing the letter to his mother, Bartlett's new wife Helen. She's furious, as she married Bartlett hoping he'd pass his fortune onto Tony, and an unknown grandson would upend those plans. She mentions that Bartlett's late son married a woman five months before his death named Norma Carter. They can destroy the letter, but Helen has plans to deal with Diana, the only other person who saw it. Tony drives out to the address written in the letter. It's a small poultry farm.

An adorable four-year-old named Bobby answers the door and Tony asks him to fetch his mother. When Norma arrives, Tony pretends to be a developer interested in her property, but Norma sees through him and tells him to leave. Later that night, Diana is in her room at the Bartlett home when Tony and Helen enter, claiming Diana stole some jewelry. When Diana refuses to leave and mentions the missing letter, Tony hits her and physically throws her out of the room.

Enter Perry Mason, Attorney at Law

In Perry Mason's office, he's winding down for the night when Della tells him a pretty blonde in a bathrobe wants to see him -- and she has a black eye. Diana explains everything to him, saying they wouldn't even let her take her purse. Her car is at her apartment as she couldn't start it. There's no evidence except her word there was a letter. Perry has an idea and asks Della to use a camera to take a close-up of Diana's face, black eye on full display. She'll stay at her apartment in Hollywood in the meantime.

The next morning, Perry presents the photo to Matthew Bartlett, who instantly believes the story. He's offended on Diana's behalf, saying he's known about his possible grandson for months after receiving an anonymous phone call. He investigated the informant's claims that Norma is unfit, but she's actually a wonderful mother. Bartlett saw Bobby from a distance but never tried approaching him. He was estranged from his son, Bobby's father, as Bartlett wasn't a fan of Norma. His son later died in a plane crash.

Before Tony and Helen return, Bartlett asks Perry to represent him in applying for custody of his grandson. Perry refuses, saying first that he doesn't believe you can buy rights to a child and second that his client is Diana. That's when the door opens and Tragg enters, saying that Diana has been murdered. He asks Bartlett about a pistol registered in his name -- Bartlett says he gave it to Diana for protection. Tragg asks Bartlett and Perry to identify the body.

The Murder

Cut to the crime scene, on Norma Carter's poultry farm. A telephone repairman discovered the body, and there are footprints around it. Perry lifts up the sheet -- it's not Diana. Her broken watch reads 9:25. The car nearby is registered to Diana, but Bartlett identifies her as Diana's roommate, Marian. A sergeant says Norma and Bobby have returned home from shopping, and Bartlett realizes whose land this is. Tragg tells him to come along while he speaks to Norma.

Norma is horrified, saying Marian was a good friend of hers whom she'd known for years. According to her, Marian had been fighting with her roommate over Tony -- yet again, Bartlett is shocked by another link to himself. Tragg thanks Norma and leaves. Bartlett pleads with Norma to let him see Bobby, and she agrees as long as he doesn't wake the boy from his nap.

Back in Perry's office, Paul says the super let him into Diana's apartment. Her bed hadn't been slept in. Perry asks him to check out Norma Carter as well. Diana herself arrives at the office as Paul leaves. Perry asks where she was -- Diana says she spent the night at a train station. She must have known Marian had been murdered, which means she was at Norma Carter's place. Diana recognizes the name but says she didn't know that's whose place it was.

Perry tells her to start from the beginning. Diana says she got a phone call at 8:45 pm, and it was a muffled voice claiming to be a traffic officer who said her car was involved in an accident, possibly stolen by Marian. She took the bus to the place he mentioned, saw her car and Marian's body and ran for the road. Perry asks why she didn't take her car, but Diana says she couldn't get it started. Perry wants Diana to shelter at a hotel, but it's too late -- Tragg has arrived and he arrests Diana.

The Investigation

Perry goes out to the Carter farm and strikes up a conversation with Bobby. Norma arrives and is immediately on the defensive. She thinks Perry represents Bartlett, but he corrects her. He also suggests Diana could have been the intended victim -- or Norma herself, as all three were blondes. He tells her about the anonymous call and letters to Bartlett that exposed Bobby's existence, which Norma was unaware of, and that he thinks the same anonymous party lured Diana to the farm.

In Perry's office, Paul reports that Helen and Tony claim to have been out driving together at the time of the murder. Bartlett also doesn't have a solid alibi, as his plane from Chicago got in hours before the murder. Norma Carter's alibi of being at a drive-in movie is also difficult to prove. Paul also tells Perry that the superintendent, Otto Kessler, is a witness for the prosecution to Diana's apparently menacing Marian with a gun. Diana forgot to tell Perry about it.

At the jailhouse, Diana tells Perry about the fight with Marian. He asks about the history between Tony and Marian. Diana says her secretary job with the Bartletts was originally offered to Marian, who met Tony when she interviewed at the house. Marian recommended Diana instead, despite her having no experience. Bartlett asked Diana frequently about Bobby. Bobby visited Marian and Diana's apartment a dozen times as Marian would babysit for Norma in the three months since they reunited.

Perry guesses that Bartlett was pumping her for information about his grandson. Diana says she and Marian were both fond of Bobby and offhandedly mentions that Marian kept a diary. She hid it in her typewriter case. Perry coyly asks if Diana has a dress for court and then says Della can pick one out for her from her apartment if Diana gives permission for her to enter. Della and Paul visit the apartment and Della distracts the officer on duty while Paul checks the typewriter case: It's empty.

The Trial

At the preliminary hearing, Burger questions medical examiner Dr. Rose. The doctor says Marian was shot multiple times and her time of death was about 9:30 p.m. On cross, Mason asks how Dr. Rose determined time of death, and the doctor says in addition to the physical factors, the victim broke her watch at 9:25. Mason alleges that Dr. Rose might not otherwise be so precise, and Dr. Rose concedes his estimate could be off by as much as two hours.

Burger next calls superintendent Otto Kessler, who testifies about hearing the shot and seeing Diana holding a gun. Kessler also dug a bullet out of the wall the following day. On cross, Mason asks whether Kessler saw Diana fire the gun -- he didn't, he says -- and why Kessler kept the bullet for over a week before turning it into the police, which Kessler has no answer for.

Burger then calls Tony to the stand. Tony claims that he and Marian were in love and engaged (Diana whispers to Mason that this isn't true) and Diana was upset over this. On cross, Mason inquires about Diana's black eye, which Tony denies giving it to her until Mason corners him on a claim of self-defense and leaves him floundering on the stand. Court adjourns, and that night, Bartlett pleads with Norma to give him custody of Bobby. He offers her a check for $100,000 -- she initially refuses, but he begs her to accept it and she relents.

The next day in court, Paul tells Mason that Burger's got the diary and something in it incriminates Diana. He also reports that Bobby is going to live with Bartlett. On the stand, Tragg testifies about a plaster cast of footprints found next to the body, which Diana's slippers fit perfectly. Burger chooses this moment to introduce the diary into evidence, though Mason states he accepts the diary only as evidence of Marian's handwriting.

Within moments, Burger tries to have Tragg read out the diary's entries, only for Mason to object on the basis of hearsay. The judge gives Burger some leeway, and Tragg reads the May 7th entry, which describes a fight between Marian and Diana. Before cross-examination, Mason insists he must read the diary to give context to that particular entry, and the judge compromises by offering Mason the recess period to look over the diary. As it turns out, this is more than enough for Mason to find something that incriminates someone else . . .

In Summation

Out of all the cases in Season One, this is the one about which I most want to talk about the ending -- I'm dying to talk about it, in fact. But as this is not a low-rated episode, doing so would needlessly spoil, and my abhorrence of doing that is the only thing keeping me from spilling the beans. But if you watch just one case from this season to its finale, this is the one I recommend, if only because it's one of the biggest swerves you'll see in any case. I can almost guarantee you won't figure it out unless you're paying very close attention.

What I will say about the ending is that it's bittersweet. While Marian was clearly no saint, the ending shows she was a woman who'd been imposed upon a lot in her life, and was killed the very first moment she showed signs of not putting up with it. And the murder has ripple effects -- both positive and negative -- on other characters' lives even after the murderer is revealed, though that's all I'll say on the subject.

To hew as closely as I can to the spoiler line without crossing it, this is another one of those cases where you think the motive is one thing -- in this instance, a connection between three separate characters -- but a whole secondary case involving completely different relationships is brewing under your nose. And once the murderer is revealed, while the motive is a bit obscure, you kinda wonder how anyone missed the obvious signs.

Poor Diana is another of Perry Mason's hard luck cases. Heck, I should probably just start referring to them as that regularly. She's someone who's getting battered by fate long before Tony Davis puts his hands on her, though it's not often anyone in this show goes so far as physical abuse. She somehow manages to be everyone's patsy, as she's framed first as a jealous friend by Tony, then as a thief by Tony and his mother, and then by Marian's actual murderer.

Speaking of the titular black eye, it sort of exposes the ineptitude of both Tony and his mother. Tony slugging Diana puts a hole in his story about being Marian's faithful boyfriend while Diana was the crazy, jealous friend. Ordinarily, I would call the episode out on the implication that a man doesn't need to defend himself from a physical attack by a woman, but I can't blame Perry for any tactic he uses to douse the prosecution's case -- that is his job.

That brings me to the whole storyline about Matthew Bartlett and little Bobby Carter. I'm not going to necessarily pass judgement on Bartlett wanting a relationship with his grandson, but I think (and Perry explicitly agrees with me) he goes about things in a high-handed fashion. And literally paying $100,000 to get the mother out of the picture is shockingly wrong no matter how well-intentioned, both on Bartlett's end for offering and Norma's for accepting.

I'm glad Bartlett has enough sense to acknowledge that trying to replace his dead son with Tony Davis shows poor judgement of character on his part. It begs the question, was that the only reason he married his second wife? Because she has an adult son (who's a whiny manchild whose mother literally marries a rich man so her son won't have to get a job)? That gives me reservations about his ability to raise Bobby properly -- you know aside from the fact that he literally buys the child.

As for our regulars, I always enjoy seeing when Paul and Della work in tandem, especially when it's to get up to some mischief. They work together to distract the deputy who's watching Diana's apartment long enough for Paul to check the diary's location. That said, while I know it's a ploy to get him to leave the room for a moment, I feel bad for the deputy's wife if he thinks 15 minutes is too long a time to pick out a dress. Wait until we get to the shoes, officer.

One final note: The boy who plays Bobby, Casey Peters, is just the most adorable little critter. You'll see as this show goes along that children on Perry Mason are often of the "extraordinarily intelligent and well-spoken" variety, so it's refreshing to see a little boy who acts like an actual five-year-old. I'm not sure I approve of Perry just walking up to the boy and picking him up to speak with him, but it's sweet watching Raymond Burr talk to the kid about his chickens.

The Verdict

Judgement: ⚖⚖⚖⚖ (four scales out of four) The twist at the end of this case is one of the most well-concealed in the show's history, with a reasonable motive as a smokescreen. The case's suspects and victim follow a much different dynamic than they have in previous episodes.

[spacelazarwolf]

this is incorrect. nazis do not love israel. this statement from this article describes nazi germany's feelings about a jewish state:

“Basically the Nazis had a dual policy since the early 1920s. They ideologically opposed Zionism and the very idea of a Jewish homeland, since they believed that this would be yet another historical ‘base’ for the Jews to congregate and operate their world-wide conspiracy. On the other hand, they desperately wanted the Jews of Germany to leave,” said Shindler.

but that is not necessarily indicative of the politics of modern day nazis. on social media, neo nazis have started coopting extremist language to encourage violence against jews in the diaspora.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue also found that U.S.-based neo-Nazis had appropriated the language of Hamas and have been using the conflict in an effort to inspire attacks in the U.S. and on Jewish communities globally. The neo-Nazi accounts are spreading official terrorist content linked to the Qassem Brigades on Telegram, while also linking to "Resistance Axis" groups on the platform. Several members of extremist groups in the U.S. and Canada — including members of the Proud Boys — have posted on Telegram expressing a desire to kill or harm Jewish people, according to Advance Democracy, which studies far-right rhetoric online.

and this is not just on social media. this is becoming the norm in established and well known white supremacist circles.

As one of the lawyers who sued the white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, I checked in on those defendants to see what they have said about recent events. Jason Kessler, the lead organizer, wrote that Palestinians have a right to declare that “Jews will not replace us.” Richard Spencer, a longtime leader of the alt-right (an expression he coined), posted that lighting the Roman Arch of Titus in blue and white in solidarity with Israel was “a reversal and subversion of Titus’ achievement” (the arch commemorated the Roman Empire’s defeat of a Jewish rebellion in A.D. 81). Nathan Damigo, founder of the white supremacist organization Identity Europa, posted on Oct. 7: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” The next day, white supremacist Matthew Parrott, a co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, praised Hamas’ attack, stating that “every military act by the Palestinian forces is an act of freedom fighters” and comparing the massacre of families to “breaking out of a concentration camp to attack your guards.” And the National Justice Party, founded by white supremacists involved in Charlottesville, responded to the Oct. 7 attacks by marching in front of the White House with signs that said “No White Lives for Israel” and “Zionism=Terrorism,” expressly calling for the “destruction of Israel.” NJP’s website now encourages people to “begin to imagine a world where Israel no longer exists” in an article titled “Four Ways The Destruction of Israel Can Benefit The West.”

also please take one single second to examine the implications of explicitly aligning nazis with the only jewish state. you do not have to agree with the actions of the israeli government to not do holocaust inversion.

it doesn’t really matter if you aren’t intending to use “zio” as a slur because if i as a jew encounter someone using the word “zio”, i do not have the luxury of sticking around to find out if they’re just a little uninformed or if they’re a neo nazi like this guy:

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The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the ‘black sheep’ of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Gil Buckman: Steve Martin Karen Buckman: Mary Steenburgen Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman: Dianne Wiest Frank Buckman: Jason Robards Nathan Huffner: Rick Moranis Larry Buckman: Tom Hulce Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins: Martha Plimpton Tod Higgins: Keanu Reeves Susan Buckman: Harley Jane Kozak Garry Buckman-Lampkin: Joaquin Phoenix David Brodsky: Dennis Dugan Marilyn Buckman: Eileen Ryan Grandma: Helen Shaw Kevin Buckman: Jasen Fisher George Bowman: Paul Linke Taylor Buckman: Alisan Porter Justin Buckman: Zachary La Voy Patty Huffner: Ivyann Schwan Cool Buckman: Alex Burrall Stan: Lowell Ganz Dean at College: Rance Howard Young Gil Buckman: Max Elliott Slade Lou: Clint Howard Fotomat Clerk: Lamont Lofton Amy: Erika Rafuls Matt: Jordan Kessler Eddie: Billy Cohen Barbara Rice: Isabel Cooley Opposing Coach: Walter von Huene Kid in Classroom (uncredited): Howie Dorough Doctor Lucas: Greg Gerard Kevin Buckman – Age 21: Paul Keeley Student 1 at College: Claudio Jacobellis Umpire: W. Bruce O’Donoghue Student 2 at Collage: Hillary Matthews Screaming Co-ed: Sherry Ferguson Track Official: Todd Hallowell Young Frank Buckman: Richard Kuhlman Nurse at Hospital: Charmin Lee Film Crew: Story: Ron Howard Director of Photography: Donald McAlpine Story: Babaloo Mandel Story: Lowell Ganz Unit Production Manager: Joseph M. Caracciolo Editor: Daniel P. Hanley Editor: Mike Hill Producer: Brian Grazer Costume Design: Ruth Morley Production Design: Todd Hallowell Songs: Randy Newman Casting: Jane Jenkins Casting: Janet Hirshenson Stunt Coordinator: Artie Malesci First Assistant Director: Joe Napolitano Second Assistant Director: Tony Adler Art Direction: Christopher Nowak Set Decoration: Nina Ramsey Assistant Art Director: Beth Kuhn Set Dresser: William A. Cimino Set Dresser: Linda Marais Set Dresser: Nicklas Farrantello Camera Operator: Tom Priestley Jr. First Assistant Camera: Gary Muller Steadicam Operator: Robert Ulland Still Photographer: Phillip V. Caruso Camera Trainee: Mollie S. Mallinger Sound Mixer: Richard S. Church Boom Operator: Glen Gauthier Music Editor: Dan Carlin Sr. Supervising Sound Editor: Anthony J. Ciccolini III Supervising ADR Editor: Michael Jacobi Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Dior Script Supervisor: Cynthia Streit Unit Publicist: Andrew Lipschultz Makeup Artist: Fern Buchner Makeup Artist: Peter Wrona Jr. Makeup Artist: Frank Griffin Hairstylist: Linda Trainoff Hairstylist: Romaine Greene Hairstylist: Donna Battersby Greene Location Manager: Peggy Coleman Negative Cutter: Ray Sabo Color Timer: Bob Hagans Color Timer: Dale Caldwell Movie Reviews: Peter McGinn: Parenthood is a great movie, and has aged well after 30 years have passed. The writing team included the writers who also gave us two other movies I like: City Slickers and Fever Pitch. Parenthood accomplishes in general what the movie Rain Man did for my wife and me. It reminded us of our autistic daughter And made us laugh at stuff that frustrated us in “real life.“ Similarly Parenthood touches upon a lot of hotspots in the parenting experience and helps us laugh at them. Their is a fine Ensemble cast. I particularly like KianU Reeves as Tod, who seems like an inappropriate boyfriend for the daughter but who proves to be valuable in mentoring their disaffected son. There are many memorable situations but one line my wife and I often quote even after all these years occurs when the other son Larry is pushed out of a still moving vehicle by people he owes money to. His father, played straight by Jason Robards, asked who they were. Tod replies that they were just some friends. The memorable line by Robards’ character is, “Friends. Friends slow down; they even stop.” The movie is full of good one-liners, as well as more in-depth sources of humor. You must ...

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93) The Right Stuff (TRS) - neonazistowska strona internetowa, promująca kwestionowanie holokaustu i biały nacjonalizm, zajmująca się teoriami spiskowymi, zawierająca blog i forum dyskusyjne, a także podcasty, w tym The Daily Shoah. Założony przez amerykańskiego neonazistę i antysemickiego teoretyka spiskowego Mike'a Peinovicha (lepiej znanego jako Mike Enoch), blog promował używanie „echa”, antysemickiego znacznika, który używa potrójnych nawiasów wokół nazwisk w celu identyfikacji Żydów w mediach społecznościowych. Alex McNabb, współgospodarz The Daily Shoah, został zwolniony z pracy jako technik ratownictwa medycznego po brutalnych i rasistowskich komentarzach, które wyraził w podcaście. Witryna promuje białą supremację, neonazizm, antysemityzm, zaprzeczanie holokaustowi i teorię spiskową ludobójstwa białych. Cytuje pracę Kevina B. MacDonalda, byłego profesora psychologii i antysemickiego teoretyka spiskowego, znanego z twierdzenia, że istnieje żydowski spisek mający na celu kontrolowanie świata w celu podważenia interesów białych ludzi. Wiele treści TRS jest poświęconych negowaniu holokaustu, a także zaprzeczaniu ludobójczej polityce nazistów wobec Polaków, Rosjan i innych słowiańskich „Untermenschen”. Aby usprawiedliwić swoje zaprzeczanie nazistowskim okrucieństwom, gospodarze TRS promują teorię spiskową, że dokumentacja potwierdzająca te ludobójstwa została sfałszowana przez nieokreślonych Żydów lub agentów Żydów. W grudniu 2012 r. The Right Stuff określiło się jako „blog polityczny i kulturalny”, którego celem było zjednoczenie „alt prawicy” oraz trollowanie liberałów i postępowców. Z czasem podcast stał się bardziej radykalny i przyjął konspiracyjną neonazistowską ideologię. Blog opracował i zachowuje leksykon definiujący żargon używany w jego publikacjach, a także szerszy ruch alt-right. Witryna zyskała ogólne rozgłos dzięki promocji potrójnych nawiasów lub (((echo))). W 2014 roku program zaczął wykorzystywać efekt zniekształcenia, gdy w jego części „Merchant Minute” wymieniano nazwiska Żydów. Mem został dostosowany do tekstu za pomocą nawiasów, a latem 2016 roku stał się znany dzięki kolumnie na ten temat w New York Times. The Right Stuff była jedną z pierwszych stron internetowych, które używały terminu „cuckservative”. Ponadto blog był wczesnym orędownikiem propagandowego filmu With Open Gates, który atakuje wielokulturowość i uchodźców z Bliskiego Wschodu w Europie oraz promuje teorię spiskową, że Żydzi sprowadzają uchodźców, aby zaszkodzić białym ludziom. Blog odnotowuje stały spadek w stosunku do szczytu w 2017 r. We wrześniu 2021 r. Raport Southern Poverty Law Center wykazał, że ruch na stronie spadł o 87,5% od lutego 2017 r., co zbiegło się ze spadkiem całkowitej liczby członków obsady pojawiających się w The Daily Shoah. W lutym 2019 roku Mike Peinovich odpowiedział na wezwanie do ujawnienia danych z pozwu cywilnego Sines v. Kessler, stwierdzając, że TRS „straciło stałych słuchaczy”, a wielu użytkowników „usunęło swoje konta i przestało odwiedzać witrynę”. Na początku 2017 roku Mike Peinovich, założyciel The Right Stuff, który przez lata działał pod pseudonimem Mike Enoch, został oszukany przez innych neonazistów, którzy opublikowali informacje biograficzne o nim, które były sprzeczne z jego wyznawaną ideologią. Dox ujawnił, że żona Peinovicha była Żydówką i że ich ślub zawierał tradycyjne żydowskie obrzędy i śpiewy. Jako neonazista Peinovich był również wyśmiewany po ujawnieniu jego serbskiego nazwiska, w świetle rasowej klasyfikacji Serbów jako podludzi („ Untermenschen ”) przez nazistowskie Niemcy oraz ludobójstwa Serbów popełnionego przez marionetkowy reżim chorwackich Ustaszy. Po doxxingu niektórzy zwolennicy Peinovicha zareagowali gniewnie na ujawnione informacje. Rozpowszechniali sfałszowane zdjęcia jego i jego żony, które wyśmiewały ich pochodzenie etniczne. Dziennikarz Salon, Matthew Sheffield stwierdził, że neonazistowscy słuchacze podcastów spekulowali, że Peinovich był Żydem, „kontrolowaną opozycją” lub w inny sposób nieszczery w swoich przekonaniach. Alex McNabb jest byłym technikiem ratownictwa medycznego (EMT), który pojawił się w The Daily Shoah pod pseudonimem „Dr. Narcan”. Został zwolniony z pracy jako ratownik medyczny po tym, jak wyszły na jaw rasistowskie komentarze, które wygłosił w The Daily Shoah, w tym porównując czarnych pacjentów do zwierząt i twierdząc, że torturował młodego czarnego chłopca za pomocą igły cewnikowej.

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Congrats Britta and Rian!

Farewell to Thicket for now! I couldn’t leave without sharing some happy pictures from Britta and Rian’s wedding! As per usual, the actual live wedding was a complete cluster with guests that didn’t show or ditched before the ceremony and people changing in and out of formal wear, but I got a couple of decent pictures. I did have trouble with posed pictures. Namely, that the best man, Rodrigo Villareal kept getting prompted to go to work so he would literally unpose and dash for the door! So I didn’t get any full wedding party pictures :( People unposed and fell through floors as usual. The general bugginess of posing pictures is why I always use a separate save for pictures. I don’t want to corrupt my played game! Anyway! Enjoy!

*Poses by posesbybee.com

Sisters! Britta and Matron of Honor, Lara.

The bride. Haha, it’s been so long since I’ve used poses I forgot to take the headlines off, but this is totally appropriate! I hardly slept the night before my wedding!

Some lovely candids from the actual ceremony. If you look closely you can see Rodrigo running off to work! Oh Dear!

More from the ceremony and Britta admiring her ring autonomously! How cute!

Rian got flowers from Lynne Beckwith! I guess I’ll allow it.  I’ll call it a wedding present, not a flirt :)

Waiting to cut the cake!

The guests are clearing out, including Lara heading back to the Fire Station!

Bride and Groom.

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by Mattew Kessler