#Rick Carr

[elceeu2morrow]

Louis' tour crew went to NASA today, 7.9.22

[sunshineandlyrics]

🇸🇮 Rick Carr (Louis' tour crew) posted their concert schedule on his IG story (FITFWT Ljubljana, 14 September 2023) x

[maxinstoresnow-remaking]

Consider reading Tom Peyer's Hourman. There's a weird dog.

[elitehanitje]

NO Collision SPOILER ONLY BTS RECAP

I won't say anything about the episode or spoil it; however, I want to talk about the behind-the-scenes moments before/during/after the episode, which I found interesting.

Everyone knows Dynamite and Collision were taped in Cardiff, Wales. The crowds and fans were great, and the arena was at full capacity.

After Dynamite, Bryan Danielson signed some posters, took some selfies, and chatted with some of the fans near the ramp. He stood on the stage and started the Yes chant. Meanwhile, we could hear Tony Schiavone ask a crew for something. He then asked his name and thanked him. He's such a sweet guy 🥰.

Bobby Cruise walked out and informed the audience that right now they were going to tape Collision and asked everyone not to go home. Saw many audiences walking around hurriedly, so I don't think they went home but were going to the restrooms. The audience drank a lot of beers, so obviously they needed to go to the toilets.

Arkady Aura came out and greeted the crowds and asked whether they had fun. Tony Khan (with black framed glasses, whooo hooo!) then walked out and the fans cheered. He gave a speech about how special this has been to have the first shows of Dynamite and Collision in Cardiff. He thanked everyone and seemed to be moved that everyone was cheering and chanting his name. It was nice to see him looking very happy 🤩.

We could hear Nigel McGuinness frantically looking for his notes, asking where they were. There were some paper shuffles while Schiavone helped him or something, it wasn't that clear. But Nigel was polite about it, although a bit panicky. Schiavone informed him that his own notes haven't been brought as well, so I guess that is what he was asking before.

Arkady introduced Bryce Remsburg and the crowd cheered. They finally started the match with The Conglomeration and The Undisputed Kingdom. Orange Cassidy was funny during the match, it was enjoyable.

After the match, Aubrey Edwards came out. She waved to the audience, and everyone waved back. She then posed flirty and then wiggled her butt along with Arkady. They danced and laughed together. I thought they were so cute and funny. The Ring Crew Chief Birdman cleaned the ring with the crews/roadies. He wiped the posts and the ropes while Aubrey and Arkady danced. The crowd chanted Aubrey's name.

During intermission, Schiavone said that Lexy Nair was waiting in the back to interview someone. However, because the segment was taped, they didn't go to her. Instead, we could hear him chatting with Nigel. By the way, Nigel was HILARIOUS in this episode.

Schiavone then said "Welcome back" but he flubbed his line and cursed. "Shit, can I start over again?" So, he started again which I found super interesting because I didn't expect it would be like that. What would happen if the show was LIVE? But he then managed to recover and smoothly said the thing he had to say.

Arkady came out again, still entertaining the crowd and asking how everyone was doing to kill some time while the roadies and crews set things up for the next segment. I thoroughly enjoy this behind-the-scenes stuff, it's like watching how a movie is made.

The camera movements were pretty nice, especially the ones with the tracking shot and the crane shot so we could see the size of the audience and feel the energy. The crowd was great and really hyped.

Americans probably gonna hate this, but the Cardiff crowd was against a popular face wrestler and rooting for a heel, but it was a really good vibe and it's nice to see the crowd was super into it. Personally, I think the heel deserved the appraisal.

Birdman was in the ring and started to run to each post and the crowd loved it. During a match, the crowd sang and chanted a lot - it was obvious they were enjoying the match, which is kinda ironic because if this was in the USA, the crowd probably was gonna be meh (vibe-wise) because of the wrestlers or who performed.

Referee Rick Knox came out and everyone was so happy to see him. He was also a gentleman as he opened up the ropes so Arkady could climbed into the ring. She complimented the crowd for being awesome. I do notice that the front row seats were a bit far from the railings, so some of the audience stood there behind the railings, obstructing the views from other audience, but it seemed they didn't mind and were generally pretty chilled.

At the end of the episode, everyone was chanting "All-In!"

Arkady thanked the audience and the crowd for coming and told them to go home safely. Everyone clapped their hands and still buzzed with excitement.

[wanderingmind867]

I think the Avengers were better than the Justice League, and I blame Stan Lee. Stan Lee was just an objectively better writer, and he gave his characters more interesting personalities. I read Stan Lee's first 10-20 Avengers comics a long time ago, and recently I read some of the first Justice League comics. It's no contest, honestly.

Thor has more interesting powers and speech patterns (plus a backstory involving him being a physician with a limp), Iron Man is just as rich as Batman, but he's far more tragic and sympathetic (the man's always on the brink of death because of his weak heart), Rick Jones feels more like a fully fleshed out character than Snapper Carr (although i like seeing Gardner Fox constantly trying to use 60s teen slang whenever he writes Snapper), etc.

And let's not touch on Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Hank Pym, etc. All of those characters displayed more personality than Gardner Fox displays within his first 5-6 JLA Issues. This isn't to say the characters or the stories are awful, it's just me pointing out a potential flaw of some 60s DC comics: a lack of characterization.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andra Watkins at How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life:

Here’s a list of every listed Project 2025 author who worked in 45’s administration. 26 of 36 total authors. (72%) Jonathan Berry - US Department of Justice Adam Candeub - Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Associate Attorney General Brendan Carr - Senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD - Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Ken Cuccinelli - Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services; Acting Deputy Secretary for the US Department of Homeland Security

Rick Dearborn - Deputy Chief of Staff Diana Furchtgott-Roth - Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Transportation Thomas F. Gilman - Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Chief Financial Officer at the US Department of Commerce Mandy M. Gunasekara - Chief of Staff at the Environmental Protection Agency Gene Hamilton - Counselor to the Attorney General at the US Department of Justice Jennifer Hazelton - senior strategic consultant for the Department of Defense Dennis Dean Kirk - senior positions at the Office of Personnel Management

Christopher Miller - several positions during the 45 administration in areas of defense Mora Namdar - Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Peter Navarro - Director of 45’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; also went to jail William Perry Pendley - led the Bureau of Land Management for 45** Max Primorac - acting Chief Operating Officer and Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, US Agency for International Development Roger Severino - Director of Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services Kiron K. Skinner - Director of Policy Planning and Senior Advisor at the US Department of State

Brooks D Tucker - Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs and Acting Chief of Staff Hans A von Spakovsky - former member of 45’s Advisory Committee on Election Integrity Russ Vought - Director of the Office of Management and Budget William L. Walton - member of 45’s transition team Paul Winfree - member of 45’s transition team Paul Dans - Chief of Staff at the US Office of Personnel Management and senior advisor at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Steven Groves - Assistant Special Counsel, the Mueller investigation If 25 of the 36 listed authors of Project 2025 worked in my former administration, there’s NO WAY I wouldn’t know about it.

Andra Watkins has a list of the Project 2025 authors who worked for Donald Trump.

[thrakaboom]

rick Jones is transgender but not autistic and snapper carr is autistic but not transgender hope this helps

[webshootersandwingdings]

No universe is big enough for Rick Jones AND Snapper Carr …

JLA / Avengers #4

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Reference: Topographical Elements

Ideas for Naming your Fictional Places

Buildings and stones brough, burton, caster, church, cross, kirk, mill, minster, stain, stone, wark ⚜ Examples: Crossthwaite, Felixkirk, Newminster, Staines, Whitchurch

Coastline features ey, holme, hulme, hythe, naze, ness, port, sea ⚜ Examples: Bardsey, Greenhithe, Sheerness, Southport, Southsea

Dwellings and farms barton, berwick, biggin, bold, by, cote, ham, hampstead, hamton, house, scale, sett, stall, thorpe, toft, ton, wick ⚜ Examples: Fishwick, Newham, Potterton, Westby, Woodthorpe

Fields and clearings combe, croft, den, ergh, field, ham, haugh, hay, ing, land, lease, lock, meadow, rick, ridding, rode, shot, side, thwaite, wardine, worth, worthy ⚜ Examples: Applethwaite, Cowden, Smallworthy, Southworth, Wethersfield

General locations and routes bridge, ford, gate, ing, mark, path, stead, stoke, stow, street, sty, way ⚜ Examples: Epping, Horsepath, Longford, Ridgeway, Stonebridge, Streetly

Hills and slopes bank, barrow, borough, breck, cam, cliff, crook, down, edge, head, hill, how, hurst, ley, ling, lith, mond, over, pen, ridge, side, tor ⚜ Examples: Barrow, Blackdown, Longridge, Redcliff, Thornborough, Windhill

Rivers and streams batch, beck, brook, burn, ey, fleet, font, ford, keld, lade, lake, latch, marsh, mere, mouth, ore, pool, rith, wade, water, well ⚜ Examples: Broadwater, Fishlake, Mersey, Rushbrooke, Saltburn

Woods and groves bear, carr, derry, fen, frith, greave, grove, heath, holt, lea, moor, oak, rise, scough, shaw, tree, well, with, wold, wood ⚜ Examples: Blackheath, Hazlewood, Oakley, Southwold, Staplegrove

Valleys and hollows bottom, clough, combe, dale, den, ditch, glen, grave, hole, hope, slade ⚜ Examples: Cowdale, Denton, Greenslade, Hoole, Longbottom, Thorncombe

NOTE

These elements are all found in many different spellings. Old English beorg ‘hill, mound’, for example, turns up as bar-, berg-, -ber, -berry, -borough, and -burgh. Only one form is given above (Thornborough).

Several items have the same form, but differ in meaning because they come from different words in Old English. For example, -ey has developed in different ways from the two words ea ‘river’ and eg ‘island’. It is not always easy deciding which is the relevant meaning in a given place name.

This resource does not distinguish between forms which appear in different parts of a place name. Old English leah ‘forest, glade’, for example, sometimes appears at the beginning of a name (Lee- or Leigh-), sometimes at the end (-leigh, -ley), and sometimes alone (Leigh) (K. Cameron, 1961).

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Notes & References ⚜ Worldbuilding

[janiehellion]

smut ⁀➴ 「☆」 ⋮ fluff ⁀➴ 「♡」 ⋮ angst ⁀➴ 「☾」 ⋮ wip ⁀➴ 「ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁」

DARYL DIXON X READER

Rising From Embers ⋮ ☆

Close Quarters ⋮ ☆

Wildflower Woes ⋮ ☆

Under The Radar ⋮ ☆

Healing Touch ⋮ ☆

Breaking Through ⋮ ☆ ⋮ ☾

Troublemaker ⋮ ☆

Falling Deep ⋮ ☆

Lorsque La Lumière S'éteint ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

Beneath The Ice ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

Breaking The Law ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

Fragments Of Thee ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

RICK GRIMES X READER

Fragments Of Thee ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

NEGAN X READER

Requiem Æternam ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

RICK GRIMES X READER

Chains Of Command—PROLOGUE OUT NOW!

DARYL DIXON X READER

Among The Ruins—CHAPTER 8 OUT NOW!

Through The Flames ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

Beyond The Ashes ⋮ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

NORMAN REEDUS

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ⋮ DEREK LORD ⋮ 1

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ⋮ DEREK LORD ⋮ 2

Beat ⋮ LUCIEN CARR ⋮ 1

Beat ⋮ LUCIEN CARR ⋮ 2

DARYL DIXON

S2E8: Olive Oyl & Dulcinea

LUCIEN CARR

Beat: Video Clip of Norman Reedus & Courtney Love

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Of Curves & Seraphim ⋮ ☆ ⋮ ☾

After Hours Duty ⋮ ☆

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✮ Requests ✮

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✮ Fandom Facts ✮

How long I've been in the TWD fandom: Right from the start, though I initially missed the pilot episode, but I've been hooked ever since 2010.

Favorite character: Daryl Dixon. I can relate to Daryl on a personal level due to similar experiences. And I also relate to Carol for the same reasons.

Favorite ship: Rick and Michonne! Richonne is my OTP!

Least favorite character: Andrea. She didn't live up to her comic counterpart for me and that was a letdown.

✮ Writing Preferences ✮

What I write: Series, Mini-Series, Oneshots.

Preferred genres: Smut. But I also love to write fluff and angst.

Writing style: Second person POV and typically in past tense for fanfiction. Please note that English isn’t my first language; grammatical errors might occur!

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Favorite band: W.A.S.P.

Favorite shows: TWD, Lucifer, The Rookie, Fallout, Star Trek, Z Nation, FTWD.

Favorite video games: Fallout series, Dead Space trilogy, GTA series, Metro trilogy, Far Cry series, Borderlands trilogy, The Walking Dead series.

Favorite countries that I've visited: The Netherlands and Italy.

The website/app I use for writing drafts: ELLIPSUS

✮ Additional Notes ✮

Wattpad: @JanieHellion

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Might Add More Stuff... and thangs, soon!

[wanderingmind867]

Snapper Carr is the Rick Jones of the DC Universe. And their stories start similarly. Gardner Fox made Snapper Carr and Stan Lee made Rick Jones, and both men used their young teenage characters as aids to teams like the Justice League and The Avengers. But then we have to talk about the two missourians. Marvel had Roy Thomas succeed Stan Lee in most things, and DC had Denny O'Neil succeed Gardner Fox. And while Roy Thomas largely kept Rick Jones around by making him sidekick to Captain Mar-Vell, Denny O'Neil came in and took a baseball bat to everything good Gardner Fox did. No Martian Manhunter! No Snapper Carr! No nothing!

I won't forgive Denny O'Neil! Not for this, and not for his atorcious Green Lantern and Green Arrow stories. Sure, he had a few hits (like his superman and wonder woman stuff seems okay), but his Justice League was a net loss for DC. And then he was editor when Jason Todd was killed. He was the idiot responsible for getting Frank Miller a job with Daredevil (which would lead to Frank Miller's edginess and darkness also moving to characters like Batman later). Denny O'Neil was a menace, and every good thing he did is compensated by something awful he also did.

I just genuinely love the concept of Snapper Carr. He's just this completely normal teenager who--because they practically meet in his backyard I guess, and because he helped on one of their first adventures--is a junior member of the Justice League. He's fully accepted, he hangs out with them, he goes with them on JLA Work, and he's just NORMAL.

It's audience surrogacy in its purest form, but it's so much to think about. Just...

You're a teenager from a small town in Rhode Island. You have no special abilities, no special traumas, you're just some kid. And yet, on a regular basis, you head over to the mountain (if it can be called that) outside of town, and attend meetings of the Justice League of America.

You walk in complaining about your homework and Superman starts helping with the English essay. You have girl problems and the Flash sits you down and starts giving relationship advice. Batman asks you about music because he's trying to find a good birthday present for Robin and he knows you've got a wide range of music knowledge. Green Lantern tells stories about space and Wonder Woman borrows your history books. You and Aquaman bond over being the two New Englanders in the group. You think you might be the only person in the world who knows what Martian teenagers did in their spare time.

You've been on trips by superspeed and human flight and invisible jet. You've listened to Green Arrow and Green Lantern argue politics in the other room and rolled your eyes with the Flash. You know Superman's favorite books and you've thrown a blanket over Wonder Woman when she collapsed on the couch after a long fight. You've been at those long fights yourself, seen Batman taken by surprise and Martian Manhunter stare into the face of his greatest fears and griefs. The Atom helped you with your college applications and you paid him back in donuts. You exchange music recommendations with Robin long-distance. You have Ralph Dibny's phone number.

You've had your life threatened, and had it saved. You've saved a few people yourself.

You're abducted by the Joker and some other villains, once, because they want to brainwash you: when the heroes find you, you're so mixed up you only sort of know who you are, let alone who they are to you. But they remind you. They will always remind you, between the late nights and the afternoon meetings and the field trips and the gossip and the world-saving.

You're just a guy, it's true. Just a normal guy (as the poisonous whispers told you, before they found you again), surrounded by the extraordinary, and the famous, and the legendary. Overshadowed by them, even.

And that's okay. Because at the end of the day, those tall and shining figures the villains wanted you to feel dwarfed by, to bristle against and resent?

They're your friends.

No more.

No less.

[luckypluckychair]

Death Becomes Her | 1992

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Production designer: Rick Carter / Set decorator: Jackie Carr, Max E. Brehme, Steven Jarrard, Scott W. Leslie, Bruce Fuselier, William Kemper Wright, Lauren E. Polizzi, Elizabeth Lapp, Masako Masuda and John Berger

[wanderingmind867]

Snapper Carr saved the Justice League! He really pulled his weight here, which is nice. He's an underappreciated star, just like Martian Manhunter. They were written out, but they deserved so much better. (Justice League of America #8):

[ausetkmt]

It’s Mardi Gras. Welcome to The King Cake Drive-Thru.

A tire shop parking lot has become a popular destination for those craving the beloved treat. The only problem: Which variety to choose?

By Rick Rojas

Reporting from Metairie, La., and the kitchen of Joyce’s Sweets in Ponchatoula, where he sampled a praline-filled cake fresh from the oven.

Of course Mardi Gras is about boundless revelry: the weeks of balls and the parades that shower the streets of New Orleans with beads. But beneath all that, it is also a period of metamorphosis.

A midwinter Tuesday transforms from the most mundane of days into a festival of frivolity and vice. People shed the cocoons of their regular lives and emerge plumed in feathers and sequins.

And this year, just outside New Orleans, a tire shop that for as long as anyone can remember sold only car parts has become a bustling marketplace offering king cakes, the delicacy of the Carnival season, in just about any conceivable flavor.

All you have to do is drive up.

“Any idea of what you want?” Tiffany Langlinais asked a customer who pulled up on a Friday afternoon.

It is a daunting question at the King Cake Drive-Thru. Flaky or fluffy? Filled with cream cheese? What about strawberries, ice cream, even crawfish — or nothing more than the traditional plastic baby? Cakes from more than a dozen bakeries are on offer.

Others have had the idea to sell king cakes culled from various local bakeries, at one location, like King Cake Hub in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. But the innovation of the King Cake Drive-Thru, which Ms. Langlinais opened in January with her fiancé, Mike Graves, is the added convenience of accessing that bounty of options without even needing to get out of the car.

The drive-through has drawn nurses headed to morning hospital shifts, parents with cars full of children, tourists on road trips and people with limited mobility or weakened immune systems keeping them from easily browsing bakeries. Even the food writer for the city’s main newspaper, The Times-Picayune, passed through.

“I’m surprised nobody thought of it before you, Mike,” David Scripter told Mr. Graves as he dropped off an order of dozens of cakes from Bittersweet Confections, a bakery started by his wife.

“Sometimes,” Mr. Graves said, “the best ideas are right in front of you.”

The drive-through, which takes over the parking lot of Duckworth Tires in the suburb of Metairie three days a week, often has a line of cars waiting when it opens at 7 a.m., and has sold out its inventory well before 7 p.m., its listed closing time.

King cakes have always been a staple of the Carnival season along the Gulf Coast, a crown of pastry served during a burst of gluttony and good times before the austerity and fish fries of Lent. (King cake season begins on Jan. 6 — known as Twelfth Night, Epiphany or Three Kings Day — and ends with Fat Tuesday, or Feb. 13 this year.)

A king cake, in what many consider its purest form, is a ring of brioche-like dough with a dash of vanilla, a crunchy coating of purple, green and gold sugar and a small trinket known as a fève — usually a plastic baby — baked inside.

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“It’s almost blasphemous to get cream cheese in it,” Pam Carr said the other day as she placed an order a staunch traditionalist never would: a pair of cream cheese and chocolate cakes to share with her co-workers at a warehouse store. “Those are the ones I like!”

King cakes are another front in a familiar New Orleans divide. There are those who believe that adhering to tradition means refusing to budge from how things have always been done, and those who maintain that experimentation and interpretation are not an insult to the past, but a tribute.

“Anyone can put anything in a king cake now,” Bridgett Saylor Meinke said as she surveyed the drive-through’s selection.

She grew up on old-school king cake but has been cautiously open to trying some newfangled varieties, like the bananas foster from Brennan’s (“Absolutely delicious,” was her take) and the strawberry cream cheese from Joe’s Cafe.

“That’s the one I’m on the hunt for today,” she said.

The drive-through’s menu varies some week to week, written on a white board by Ms. Langlinais. The couple buys the cakes from bakeries at a wholesale rate and sells them at a markup, with prices ranging from $17 to about $50 per cake. (They come in a range of sizes, too.)

On a recent weekend, there were plenty of traditional options, as well as the Bavarian cream from Caluda’s, an almond cake from District Donuts, boudin or crawfish varieties from Clesi’s Seafood, and lemon curd and vanilla bean cakes from Paw Paw’s Donuts.

The one with Vietnamese coffee filling from Dough Nguyener’s Bakery sold out quickly, as did the cinnamon cream cheese option from Tartine.

Ms. Langlinais wanted to lure customers with their favorite offerings from well-known spots but also nudge them toward cakes they may not know. Those from Joyce’s Sweets, a bakery in Ponchatoula, almost an hour away, are a prime example.

Joyce Galmon is known for her pralines, but she has made king cakes for 25 years, stuffing them with a filling made from broken pralines she could not sell.

“Miss Joyce has no social media,” Ms. Langlinais said. “You can only call her. She has no website.”

In past years, Ms. Galmon would sell as many as 90 cakes in a season. With the King Cake Drive-Thru, she has sold more than that in a single weekend.

Hers is a labor-intensive process, teasing out the dough, lathering on the praline filling, and then letting the cakes rest and rise for several hours. The result: a gooey, crunchy eruption of cinnamon and sugar.

“It’s got me on my toes,” Ms. Galmon said after delivering a fresh batch to the tire lot. “It was a hobby for me, but they’ve made it bigger.”

For all the excitement the drive-through has caused, it is a simple operation. From the street, it almost looks like a Covid testing site.

“No frills, as you can see,” Ms. Langlinais said, “with our tent and tables and Mike’s van.” She was referring to a raggedy but reliable 2007 Kia Sedona missing its middle seat.

Jimmy Duckworth, the owner of Duckworth Tires, gave them a pretty good deal on rent: a king cake a week. Last week, he got his favorite, the cinnamon cream cheese kind from Tartine.

“I’ve been very lucky in life,” he said. “Give them a break — why not?”

He nodded at Mr. Graves, who was busy helping customers.

“Look at him,” Mr. Duckworth said. “He’s all happy.”

A few years ago, Mr. Graves, 35, had been a lawyer in Manhattan, working in finance. Then he moved to New Orleans and started a novelty ice cream business called Bof Bars. He had no ties to New Orleans — he grew up in Chicago — but now he cannot imagine leaving. He and Ms. Langlinais are planning to get married in March.

Ms. Langlinais, who also owns a marketing business, grew up in a shrimping family in Biloxi, Miss., immersed in the elaborate world of Mardi Gras.

She became something of a king cake connoisseur. She has tried more than 100 varieties. She keeps a spreadsheet with detailed notes. (“Enjoyed the light filling but would want x3 for me to be truly happy,” she wrote of one encounter.)

“I know that it’s not a super refined operation,” Ms. Langlinais, 33, said, “but we want it to feel like us.”

There have been setbacks. One day last month, Mr. Graves woke up at 3 a.m. to find someone had busted a window on the minivan and stolen 100 cakes.

The whole endeavor has been exhausting: The excruciatingly early mornings hustling to collect the cakes at bakeries or rendezvous points in random parking lots. The 12-hour days on their feet at the drive-through. And there have been the urgent after-hours calls and texts.

“My kid didn’t tell me she got the baby!” said one friend desperate for a last-minute cake. (According to tradition, the one who finds the baby is responsible for supplying the next cake.)

The drive-through is usually open on Fridays through Sundays, but customers have asked if the couple would be selling cakes on Fat Tuesday.

Not a chance.

Duckworth Tires will be a tire shop again.

“I’ll be partying,” Mr. Graves said.

[icedbatik]

Gold-medal music

For those looking to know what Olympic athletes listen to when they're warming up for that life-changing moment ...

(condensed from the Associated Press, which apparently created the appropriate Spotify playlist)

(AP also has an all-occasions Olympics playlist.)

SUNNY CHOI, USA Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" "Étouffée" by Vince Staples Nas' "Hate Me Now" featuring Puff Daddy

JAYDON HIBBERT, JAMAICA Drake's "Uuugly," "Controlla" and "Redemption"

MILES CHAMLEY-WATSON, USA BossMan Dlow's "Get In With Me" Songs from Future and Drake along with British rapper Central Cee, who known for songs such as "Sprinter" and "Did It First" with Ice Spice.

MARCELL JACOBS, ITALY Italian rapper Baby Gang, Travis Scott, King Von and the late Pop Smoke.

BRITTANY BROWN, USA Beyoncé's "American Requiem" and Stevie Wonder's "As." JULIEN ALFRED, SAINT LUCIA Caribbean music: dancehall, soca and calypso Gospel, including Cody Carnes' "Firm Foundation (He Won't)" with Maverick City Music with Chandler Moore, "You Will Win" by Jekalyn Carr and Josh Baldwin's "Evidence"

ANDRE DE GRASSE, CANADA Songs from Canadian artists from The Weeknd and Drake to Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.

RAI BENJAMIN, USA Drake and G Herbo, along with film scores including "Interstellar" and "The King."

REBECCA MCGOWAN, UK Panic! At The Disco's "High Hopes" during warmups "Can't Stop" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers as she walks out

LOGAN EDRA, USA Malcolm McLaren's "World's Famous" from 1983

BRADLY SINDEN, UK Kanye West's "Stronger"

VERONICA FRALEY, USA Afrobeat melodies are her vibe, but ... she turns on rap music like Future's "March Madness" before stepping in the circle.

FERNANDO DAYAN JORGE, REFUGEE OLYMPIC TEAM "Legendary" by blues rock band Welshly Arms.

MCKENZIE COAN, USA Britney Spears, particularly "Circus" and "Womanizer" Coan, 28, has a Spotify playlist that features artists such as Spears and Rihanna.

RACHEL GLENN, USA Y.G.'s "Perfect Timing" with Mozzy and Blxst. Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Lil Vada and Tommy the Clown.

JAYDIN BLACKWELL, USA The inspirational intro to Madden NFL 13, which features two-time Super Bowl champion Ray Lewis. He also listens to David Goggins, an ultramarathon runner.

DANIEL ROBERTS, USA Old-school R&B such as the 1979 classic "Use to Be My Girl" by The O'Jays.

CORDELL TINCH, USA "God Did" by DJ Khaled featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, John Legend and Fridayy. "A healthy dose" of Broadway songs. Rod Wave's "Yungen" is another favorite.

SAMANTHA BOSCO, USA Pink's "I Am Here" the gospel-inflected "Chant" by rapper Macklemore and Australian singer Tones and I.

[berlinini]

FITFWT 2023 Production Team and Vendors

Information from PLSN's article Louis Tomlinson ‘Faith in the Future’ World Tour 202

Production Team

Tour Manager: Tom Allen

Production Manager: Craig Sherwood

Production Design, Programmer & Director: Tom Taylor & Francis Clegg, TANCK

Lighting Programmer: James Washer

Lighting Crew Chief: James Box

Lighting Techs: Rick Carr, Amy Barnett

Stage Manager: Torin Arnold

Technical Manager: Sam Kenyon

Video Crew Chief: Dave Mallandain

Video Programmer: Jack Fone

Video Techs: Tim Curwen, Braden Pettigrew

Camera Operators: Mark Lawrence, Braden Pettigrew, Tim Curwen

Rigger: Mark Lawrence

Vendors

Lighting/Video/Rigging: Colour Sound Experiment/Acc. Rep. Haydn Cruishank

LED Trim: LED Creative

Custom Light Housings: OX Event House

Set Construction: Hangman UK

Video Content: Two Suns Creative, Boxcat Studio, TANCK

SFX: BPM SFX