#Mike Dorsey

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Mike Dorsey

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mike dorsey by bob mizer

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Credits belongs to , Holly Homan , Jim McClear , Bradford Timeline , Brisbane City Hall , Steve Cornforth , Janice Waltzer , Jan Tonnesen and DJ

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mood 41 “sigh...”

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Some music superstars of the previous decades changed in the 90's by getting a different name for that time in order to be heard. David Bowie did something in this vein a few times during the 90's, if I'm not mistaken. For instance, he released the original version of the tune on the link without his name on the single and the latter became successful in clubs. He later covered his own piece under the name Tao Jones Index, which was him and his backing band at the time. Sadly, he only worked as Tao Jones on a couple of gigs, because the song does show this could've evolved into a dance project for Bowie. However, would this have gone the way of Tin Machine? Look, I get 90's Bowie is cherished now, but things weren't like this at that time, so …

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David Bowie: Reality

Music On Vinyl/ISO/Columbia MOVLP875, 2014

Album originally released: September 2003

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Bad movie I have Hard Luck 2006

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there are two executions scheduled next month

michael smith is scheduled to be executed by the state of oklahoma on april 4th, and brian dorsey in missouri on april 9th. of the time i'm writing this, willie pye was just killed last night by the state of georgia. none of these men should have been eligible for the death penalty: both mr. pye and mr. smith had/have intellectual disabilities and mr. dorsey was incapable of deliberation during the time of his crime which should have changed the nature of his murder charge.

read more about michael smith and brian dorsey and sign petitions asking for clemency below:

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Unethical Executions in April

Micheal Smith is being executed in Alabama despite having an intellectual disability that would disqualify him from the death penalty in any other state. The only reason he is still being executed is because of a few confusing technicalities in Oklahoma law.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns for oklahoma residents here:

Missouri is slated to execute Brian Dorsey despite his claims of ineffective counsel and the fact that he is picture of remorse and rehabilitation: he turned himself over to the police and pled guilty, has had a flawless prison record, currently resides in the honor ward while working as a prison barber (a highly coveted job only given to trust worthy inmates), and has about 60 prison staff members advocating for the commutation of his sentence.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns and other actions for Missouri Residents here:

https://www.archstl.org/missouri-bishops-others-request-clemency-for-brian-dorsey-first-inmate-to-be-executed-this-year-9478

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As fame and the pressure of life on the road hit us, Brian's behaviour became a liability.

At Clearwater, I slept late on 6 May, then joined the others at the poolside along with my girl. Then my girl's friend who had slept with Brian arrived, looking battered and bruised and said Brian had beaten her up. We were disgusted by this. Mike Dorsey promptly disappeared into the motel in search of Brian. When they met, blows were exchanged and Brian suffered two cracked ribs, to the satisfaction of everyone.

Within a couple of days, news of the punch-up had trickled out to the press. We concocted a story. I gave an interview to New Musical Express by phone, saying: "We had a gorgeous pool here in Clearwater and we were doing karate beside it. Brian fell heavily and the next day, a lump came up on his chest. The doctor told him he had cracked two ribs. He wears an elastic belt, which we call his 'corset.' He's recovering rapidly, I'm glad to say." Lies!

excerpt from Bill Wyman's memoir, Stone Alone

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Mike Dorsey Uncensored series (7 photos)

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my notes on week three! :p

something fun about stephen king books that that sometimes they’re technically kind of first person. in the very first chapter the narrator tells us:

and then throughout the book we get instances like the beginning of chapter six:

like this feels like narration to me, rather than prose, especially given the collection of newspapers following it, like someone had organized and filed them that way. presumably, mike hanlon is the narrator in these sections, but if that’s true he’s also detailing things he couldn’t have known (the exact details of georgie and eddie corcoran’s deaths). it’s just an interesting thing to me that sometimes a narrator will mention themselves when it’s never explicit who that narrator is. of course it’s could just be king himself, telling us the story (happens in a lot of his other books, like under the dome), but i like to think this one is mike hanlon, especially since it tends to happen in his chapters.

anyways, onto chapter four! i love the newspapers, the day to day lives of the other people in derry, the interviews, the characterization of the corcoran family from just these clippings. the stepfather is especially interesting to me— at this point in the story we know that pennywise and the town are feeding on each other malevolently, that pennywise’s presence does have a negative effect on the mentality of the citizens, but eddie and dorsey’s father doesn’t come off as someone inexplicably violent and having otherworldly influences…. he’s the guy on your local news. he’s the father everyone knows beats his kids. the matter gets brought to the attention of teachers, principals, nothing happens. is this otherworldly influence like mike hanlon suspects? probably, given the wild amount of death and missing children in derry compared to other towns (thank you mike hanlon’s random assistant)…. but is this really out of the ordinary? do you not know at least a few people exactly like eddie corcoran’s stepfather, shown in the news or whispered about locally? what’s scary about this book to me is that pennywise isn’t just feeding on these people, he’s a literal manifestation of the violence and apathy of small town life. it’s a very interesting idea to me especially that this manifestation can take any form but in the end all it wants to do it eat you whole.

anyways, another thing i enjoyed about chapter six was this final section which once again emphasizes the horror of reality and imagination:

and because it’s easier to mention now, i’ll compare this to a section from eddie kaspbrak’s persoective in chapter seven:

the willingness to believe that this thing is real kept eddie kaspbrak alive while eddie corcoran died looking for the costume zipper.

up next we get mike hanlon! i absolutely love the relationship he has with his parents, especially his father who he really looks up to. i like that the reason mike stays in derry, while the others all end up leaving, is because his family has (literal) roots in derry. will hanlon’s farm is important, it’s the culmination of years of hardship for will and jessica. i also like how much his father is invested in derry and its history, and passes that on to his son by way of sending mike on little field trips. one of the parts that popped out to me was this section where they visit the courthouse:

and if you guys remember from chapter two this was the same chair mike wanted to put in the history of derry museum (tragically vetoed). still, i like that the lesson was obviously not lost on mike, and the memory stayed with him into adulthood.

chapter seven!

love eddie driving through boston, it really is like that guys. i also like how the memories are slowly coming back, how eddie feels like they’re ‘poisoning’ him (kinda like how ben feels like his are eating him alive), nearly wishing that he could blame it on some sickness.

this chapter mostly focuses on building up the beginning of the friendships between ben, bill, eddie, stan, and richie, which is really fun. i also liked eddie thinking about how building the dam is a form of power, an idea that will come up again! an especially fun theme, as kids are often without power or agency and are forced to create their own.

this chapter also ends on bill, ben, and eddie sharing their experiences with pennywise, with richie outwardly disbelieving ben and eddie but unwilling to do the same to bill.

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Mick with tour manager Mike Dorsey

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10 years post-Ferguson, advocates seek prosecutor accountability

Advocates say there’s been little effort by prosecutors to free wrongfully convicted St. Louisans

A coalition of racial justice advocacy groups in St. Louis has quietly issued the first in a series of “Prosecutor Watch” reports on the role and powers of the prosecutor and its function in the local criminal legal system. Prosecutors, the coalition contends, have staggering authority to enact violence on communities. The groups say prosecutors’ offices are structured to prize convictions over truth, and in their pursuit of convictions, “prosecutors regularly abuse their power.” The introductory report gleans insights from more than three years of collective focus by the Prosecutor Organizing Table, which is made up of local decarceration leaders who spend the bulk of their working lives trying to free Black and poor people from the clutches of the carceral state: Action St. Louis, ArchCity Defenders, Forward through Ferguson, Freedom Community Center, MacArthur Justice Center, and Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty. Advocates told Prism there’s been little prosecutorial fervor to free wrongfully convicted St. Louisans, even innocence cases. Children, however, continue to be charged as adults, and poor people are still landing in jail for 200 days or more because they can’t afford cash bail. This human misery has been happening under the watch of “progressive prosecutors” carried to office with a reform mandate on the national wave after the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, Missouri.  To better understand these dynamics, reports evaluating the individual prosecutors’ offices are slated to follow. The next report will focus on Wesley Bell’s office in St. Louis County and the office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabriel Gore. Specially appointed by Missouri’s governor, Gore assumed office on May 30, 2023, replacing Kim Gardner, who’d resigned under extreme pressure from state Republicans. Assessments of Bell’s and Gore’s offices will be based on five key metrics fleshed out in the report: transparency, charging decisions, pretrial detention, conviction and sentencing, and commitment to community-based alternatives.  Mike Milton leads Freedom Community Center, which advocates for transformative justice shaped, in part, by survivors of the criminal legal system like himself.  He told Prism convening the Prosecutor Organizing Table in 2020 and publishing the reports in 2024 are fruits of a long-term strategy born in the period between Gardner’s election as St. Louis circuit attorney in 2016 and Bell’s as St. Louis county prosecutor in 2018. “It was a long strategy of ‘how do we fight mass incarceration’ as we came out of the hopes of Ferguson. Ferguson told us there has to be a different way of dealing with incarceration,” Milton said. By the time the Prosecutor Organizing Table began convening, it was clear to Milton that regime changes alone would not move the needle. “We were trying to reach out to him several times. [Bell] just would not respond to us,” Milton said. “He was taking credit for the jail population decrease, but it was actually The Bail Project, my [former] organization, that was posting bail and dropping the jail population, like 200 people a month.” Milton became concerned his work was being undermined. “Bell was still recommending cash bail at that time, and he knew better,” he said. Michelle Smith, the co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty (MADP), said her organization has barely recovered from the emotional upheaval of the April 9 execution of Brian Dorsey, and the state is already set to kill another Missouri man, David Hosier, on June 11.  Smith rejects any notion of disposable people.  “Right now, I know several people who are wrongfully convicted, not necessarily on death row, but who have strong innocence cases out of St. Louis County,” Smith said. But when family members ask about progress, they’re given pat answers: “‘We’re looking into that, we’ll let you know,’” she said, parroting them.

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We must stress some musicians follow their unintentionally perfect finales later on. For instance, Bowie's Reality might be an example of such a finish asc we know he returned. Moreover, Reality might be in the top tier of his albums, yet nothing on the record screams the end. Sure, there are some hints on him dealing with his advanced age, but the entire LP seems like a breezier affair than the predecessor. However, him taking a long time to get to The Next Day caused many to see the disc as his finale and I have to admit we could've been pleased with the way Bowie finished his career despite Reality not being beholden to such a task. Of course, I still ask myself – how much did the final two discs lower the rank of Reality on the list of Bowie's platters?