#Robert Carlin

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Victor Hugo. Haruki Murakami. Zadie Smith. Emma Goldman. Margaret Atwood. Wang Wei. Milan Kundera. Madeleine Thien. Henry David Thoreau. George Carlin. Alexandre Dumas. Robert Frank.

[politicaldilfs]

Kansas Governor DILFs

Bill Graves, Frank Carlson, Jeff Colyer, Frank L. Hagaman, Robert Docking, George Docking, Andrew Frank Schoeppel, Edward F. Arn, John W. Carlin, John McCuish, Fred Hall, John Anderson Jr., Mark Parkinson, Alf Landon, Mike Hayden, Sam Brownback, Payne Ratner, William H. Avery

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was taken from time along with other historical figures by the time travelers Bill and Ted. The historical figures Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Genghis Kahn, and Abraham Lincoln were taken to 1988 to spend the day in San Dimas, CA. (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Flm)

[nevada-b-1780]

Timeless re-rewatch - s1e02 (because I have no willpower)

Th Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: so a lot of the US eras/events that Timeless visited, I didn't know much about, being a Brit. However, I did know a fair bit about Abraham Lincoln's end which helped in this ep.

As someone with a keen interest in historical fashion and an occasional costume maker, I love that we get to see Jiya helping Lucy into her 1860s undergarments 👍

Paperweights - you think Connor? 😆

I do love the Timeless intro with the date travelled to each ep featured. Simple but effective.

I like the plotline with Rufus (or Denzel Washington 😁) and the soldiers of colour.

First sighting of Karl, yay! Followed by the the world's worst Irish accent and the world's worst game of Operation 😆

Lucy goes tovthe train station and gets a date for the evening, but there's still more chemistry in the following scene with Flynn, even when they are yelling at each other 😁

Love that dress on Lucy, really want to make a cosplay of that one day 😍

I was unaware of the plot to kill Grant and Seward alongside Lincoln, so that was interesting to learn on first viewing.

The show is certainly not afraid of making Flynn the definitive bad guy at this point, making him kill Abraham Lincoln sermed a bold move! I love that Lucy managed to foil his attempts to change the timeline by killing , even though she's about half his size! The looks on both of their faces when he bursts in though 😱

"I wish I could have saved your father" "There was nothing you could have done" Guilt trip!

The paperweights seem to be working well 😁

I love the looks at the revised histories that they do in most eps and how members of the timeteam sometimes appear in them.

Double bombshell for Lucy at the end 😱😱 She deals with having a sudden fiance she's never met before way better than I would have done!

Starting to get bad vibes about Carol Preston there too 😒

[duranduratulsa]

[tracyorama]

[seoul-bros]

What lies ahead

Magnate posted photos of Jimin's basic training graduation on Instagram in which Jimin received the Division Commander Commendation. He and Jungkook worked hard and made a positive impression on their trainers and fellow trainees in the last five weeks.

"Hello, I'm ZM-illennial (メグナット) Did everyone bring an umbrella? Like it's going to rain soon It's cloudy, so for those who have been waiting for news of rain, we hope you have a moist day with our condolences to those who are worried.

If it's long, it's long, and if it's short, it's short. It's over, thanks to your support and constant interest and love, 1 year and 5 months is a long time, but it can also be a short time. ARMY was a great help Thank you from the bottom of my heart"

It's an inflection point in their military life and now the hard slog of soldier's duties begins. They will reportedly be assigned to one of the units of the artillery brigade.

It makes me nervous knowing that they and their fellow graduates are serving in the military at such a dangerous moment. It was chilling to read this news posted on the BBC website yesterday.

In a report published last week for 38 North, a US-based organisation with a focus on North Korea, former State Department official Robert Carlin and nuclear scientist Siegfried S Hecker said they saw the situation on the Korean Peninsula as "more dangerous than it has ever been" since the start of the Korean War in 1950.

"That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war," it said.

"We do not know when or how Kim plans to pull the trigger, but the danger is already far beyond the routine warnings in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo about Pyongyang's 'provocations'."

No one will benefit from a fresh outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula and BTS members are now on the front line of any aggression. Although it is difficult to see at the moment, I hope there is a way back from the brinkmanship that currently characterizes North-South relations.

Post Date: 18/01/2024

[deadpresidents]

Could you recommend books on North Korea?

Sure, here are a few about North Korea and the Kim Dynasty that I have read and would definitely suggest:

•The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin (BOOK | KINDLE) This book is a history of the entire Korean Peninsula since World War II, and it's excellent.

•Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha (BOOK | KINDLE)

•See You Again In Pyongyang: A Journey Into Kim Jong Un's North Korea by Travis Jeppesen (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin (BOOK | KINDLE) In my opinion, this is probably the best book about North Korea that I've read, but it was published in 2006 when Kim Jong Il was still alive and in charge, so it could use an updated edition.

•The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un by Chung Min Lee (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) This is the best book written so far about North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un. Also, the dust jacket design is top-notch.

•Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) The thrilling and vastly overlooked story of the USS Pueblo, a U.S. Navy ship that was attacked and captured by North Korea in 1968 while it was spying...I mean, "conducting research"...off the coast of North Korea. The North Koreans held over 80 American sailors as POWs and tortured many of them for nearly a year until the United States finally admitted violating North Korean territorial waters and apologized in return for their release. The United States immediately retracted the admission of wrongdoing and apology as soon as the POWs were released by North Korea. The USS Pueblo is still in North Korea's possession and moored as a museum ship and propaganda tool in Pyongyang.

Here are two really good books on the Korean War that are also worth checking out:

•The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) The last book written by the legendary David Halberstam.

•On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir -- the Greatest Battle of the Korean War by Hampton Sides (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Every book that Hampton Sides has ever written is impossible to put down, so this could be about anything and probably still be incredible. The fact that On Desperate Ground is about one of the most grueling battles in American military history just takes things to another level.

[mariacallous]

This past January, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, both experienced Korea-watchers, caught many by surprise when they wrote that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is preparing for war. That may be an exaggeration, but the concern is not misplaced. I have worked on the Korea nuclear problem in and out of government over the past three decades, and the Korean Peninsula seems more dangerous and volatile than at any time since 1950.

Since 2019, there have been three interrelated strategic shifts around the North Korean nuclear problem that have invalidated the core assumptions guiding United States and South Korean diplomacy since 1992. First, following the failed 2019 summit in Hanoi between Kim and former U.S. President Donald Trump, Kim revealed a five-year plan in 2021 for a major nuclear and missile buildup, including solid-fuel ICBMs, miniaturized warheads, tactical nuclear weapons, and hypersonic missiles. North Korea’s investment in its nuclear-industrial complex, along with Kim’s emphatic statements that it will not give up its nukes (which is embodied in its constitution and preemptive nuclear doctrine) underscore the strategic shift in posture.

These new capabilities and stated intentions have changed the strategic balance in Northeast Asia, posed new credibility questions about the United States’ extended deterrence, and fueled South Korea’s desire to obtain its own nuclear weapons.

Then there’s Pyongyang’s geopolitical repositioning. It began with Kim discarding the long-term North Korean goal of normalizing ties to the United States, aimed at balancing major powers. This underpinned the logic of three decades of nuclear diplomacy.

At the same time, Pyongyang bolstered ties with China, which had become tense after Beijing backed tough United Nations economic sanctions after North Korea’s nuclear tests in 2016 and 2017. Kim visited Beijing in January 2019, and Chinese President Xi Jinping followed with an exchange visit to Pyongyang that June. China, along with Russia, has since blocked U.S. efforts to impose new sanctions for North Korea’s ICBM tests.

The geopolitical shift intensified as Russia formed its new security partnership with North Korea after the Ukraine invasion, trading economic and military aid for ammunition and missiles. This move made China uncomfortable, as conveyed in private discussions with Chinese officials and thinktank experts. They fear Russian President Vladimir Putin is displacing Beijing’s leverage and creating a situation much like the 1950s and ’60s, when Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, played the two communist powers against each other.

The third shift is no less profound: In January, Kim abandoned a 70-year-old policy of reunification of what both North and South Korea defined as one familial nation divided by history, and declared South Korea as a “principal enemy.” He called for a change to North Korea’s constitution—erasing a commitment to reunification—dismantled agencies that handled North-South reconciliation, and tore down a reunification monument in Pyongyang that his father built.

Recent events reinforce these changes. For Kim, U.S. election cycles are often fun messaging opportunities. In September, Pyongyang launched a barrage of short-range ballistic missile tests, Kim vowed to make his nuclear force ready for combat with the United States, and then, for good measure, he published a rare photo of himself strolling through a top-secret uranium enrichment plant and pledged to build more nuclear weapons. But this is just a sneak preview of what we can expect.

Why does all this matter? For now, at least, Kim has taken both denuclearization and North-South reunification off the table—regardless of the fact that those remain the policy goals of the United States and South Korea, respectively.

The Korea problem is now embedded in zero-sum, great-power competition. The trend is toward two opposing blocs in Northeast Asia: There’s China, Russia, and North Korea, and then there’s the United States, South Korea, and Japan. The shared concerns about nuclear proliferation that enabled China and Russia to cooperate in the Six Party Talks (involving the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea) are no more. Kim is now emboldened as never before by his evolving nuclear and missile arsenal, support from Putin, and, at worst, indifference from China.

But don’t take my word for it. A 2023 report from the National Intelligence Council on North Korea outlined the new risk environment. Its judgment:

North Korea most likely will continue to use its nuclear weapons status to support coercive diplomacy, and almost certainly will consider increasingly risky coercive actions as the quality and quantity of its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenal grows.

While the report assessed that Kim will not use nuclear weapons unless he “believes the regime is in peril,” it hinted at the specter of miscalculation by stating, “He may be willing to take greater conventional military risks, believing that nuclear weapons will deter an unacceptably strong US or South Korean response.”

While the report said “an offensive strategy that seeks to seize territory and achieve political dominance over the Peninsula” by force is “less likely than the strategy of coercion,” it makes an important caveat that I suspect the council might revise in hindsight:

An offensive strategy would become more likely if Kim believed he could overmatch South Korea’s military while deterring US intervention and maintaining China’s support, or if he concluded that a domestic or international crisis presented a last chance to accomplish revisionist goals.

What scenarios might result from such a strategy? One flashpoint that could escalate is the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the maritime border between North and South Korea. The NLL was delineated by the U.N. Command around the time of the armistice in 1953, but it is disputed by North Korea and is the source of long-standing grievances and episodic military clashes. In 2010, Pyongyang fired on Yeonpyeong, one of the five islands that the NLL defines as South Korean. The attack killed two Republic of Korea (ROK) Marines and also sunk a South Korean ship. North Korea also fired artillery shells near the island earlier this year.

In the same January speech where Kim called for the constitution to be changed and declared South Korea as his “principal enemy,” he also alluded to revising NLL border claims at a future Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) meeting: “As the southern border of our country has been clearly drawn, the illegal ‘northern limit line’ and any other boundary can never be tolerated, and if the ROK violates even 0.001 mm of our territorial land, air and waters, it will be considered a war provocation.” Kim has scheduled an SPA meeting for Oct. 7.

The risks arising from these realities on the Korean Peninsula and the geopolitical predicament in Northeast Asia suggest some dangerous, but plausible scenarios. First, there is the nuclear shadow scenario foreshadowed in the National Intelligence Council report and by South Korean analysts:

After denouncing a US-ROK military exercise, Pyongyang begins what appear live fire drills near two of the islands, then fires a barrage of artillery shells at them followed by troops landing on Yeonpyeong island. US efforts to restrain South Korea fail, and Seoul sends air and naval forces to the area, firing on North Korean ships and lands Marines on the island. As fighting ensues, Pyongyang fires a tactical nuclear weapon on a nearby uninhabited island.

Would the United States or South Korea respond militarily and risk escalation? Would China veto a U.N. Security Council resolution in the face of the first nuclear use since Hiroshima—or work with the United States to contain the situation? At a time when both the United States and South Korea lack reliable diplomatic or military channels of communication with Pyongyang, it could easily spin out of control.

A still more alarming scenario is a two-front war in Asia involving simultaneous Korean and Taiwan crises. In an in-depth 2023 report based on wargaming, interviews with officials, and workshops, Markus Garlauskas, former national intelligence officer for North Korea, detailed how deterrence could fail, and the logic and dynamics that could, for example, lead Kim to attack South Korea if China invaded Taiwan and the United States intervened militarily, diverting focus and resources. Or, conversely, the possibility of coordinated simultaneous offensives, where both China and North Korea launch attacks on Taiwan and South Korea.

Three nuclear weapon states in conflict (and one might speculate how Putin would act) may sound fantastical or, as some fear, sleepwalking toward Armageddon. While such worst-case scenarios are unlikely to occur anytime soon, North Korea’s geopolitical repositioning has raised the possibility of a dramatic move by Pyongyang in the next six to 18 months.

Both the United States and China lack a sense of urgency around the Korean Peninsula. Beijing, as Chinese officials tell me, sees Pyongyang’s actions as the fault of U.S. sanctions—not their problem. With conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East raging, and zero-sum competition with China high on the agenda, North Korea is and will likely continue to be on the back burner. But Kim Jong Un may have something to say about that.

[patientlibrarian]

Friday August 23

shades: pics of the day:

From Voyage fan site on YouTube

I confess I did/do have quite a thing for the actor playing Robert Todd Lincoln (Neal Bledsoe) in this episode and I think quite a lot is said in the scene (from 1.44) where he walks directly to Lucy to say that his father is dead. Her reaction and reaching for his hand rather hint to some feelings that have been addressed well in fan fiction. I love all their scenes together.

And now with us, Chapter 26 of TRLT!!!!!

The Road Less Traveled

Chapter 26: Quite The Team

Word count = 14,799

Lucy looks forward to returning to the safe house to finally reunite with her sister, but she and Garcia run into some complications on the way.

The Road Less Traveled - Chapter 26 - BattleshipGarcy - Timeless (TV 2016) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org|Organization for Transformative Works

Notes:

It's been since last November since a new chapter was published. If you'd like to read a "Previously on TRLT" recap, click here.

As always, kudos are wonderful, and comments bring me so much joy. I thank you in advance, and will reply to your comments on AO3 as soon as I can 😊

I keep the tentative "publish to AO3" dates up-to-date on TRLT's AO3 page, on battleshipgarcy.com, as well as in this pinned post on Tumblr. The plan is to publish a new chapter in October, November, and December. Then (🤞) one chapter every couple of weeks starting in February 2025 until the story's final chapter.

All remaining chapters are written, and only need to go through the editing process. And I so cannot wait to bring them to you ❤

#battleshipgarcy#trlt#trlt new chapter#timeless#garcy#garcia flynn#lucy preston#carol preston#maria thompkins flynn#amy preston#karl#jiya marri#rufus carlin#stanley fisher#noah#garcy fanfic#timeless fanfic#fanfic#goran višnjić#goran visnjic#tree huggers#abigail spencer

Hello everyone, everywhere, it's a bit cooler here in my part of the UK today and a welcome relief. Hope your day goes as you would wish it to.

[certifiedputinfree]

MBTI types as Epic Rap Battles of History (just for fun)

INTJ: Thanos vs. J. Robert Oppenheimer

ENTJ: Julius Caesar vs. Shaka Zulu

INFJ: Eastern Philosophy vs. Western Philosophy

ENFJ: Wonder Woman vs. Stevie Wonder

INTP: Bill Nye vs. Sir Isaac Newton

ENTP: Ghostbusters vs. Mythbusters

INFP: George R. R. Martin vs. J. R. R. Tolkien

ENFP: George Carlin vs. Richard Pryor

ISTJ: Terminator vs. Robocop

ESTJ: Master Chief vs. Leonidas

ISFJ: Mother Teresa vs. Sigmund Freud

ESFJ: Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga (I'm so sorry guys)

ISTP: Clint Eastwood vs. Bruce Lee

ESTP: Theodore Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill

ISFP: Skrillex vs. Mozart

ESFP: Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley

[artisticlegshake]

RADIX GLENDALE RESULTS 2023

TEEN SOLOS: 1st Caleb Abea - LARKIN OTE!

1st Maliah Howard - MLDA OTE!

1st Sloane Dawson - EVOKE OTE!

2nd Lexi Goodwin - EVOKE OTE!

2nd Gage Davis - DANCE DELUXE OTE!

2nd Arden Lujan - CLUB OTE!

3rd Coltrane Vodicka - EVOKE OTE!

3rd Payton Stowe - CLUB OTE!

4th Avery Land - MLDA OTE!

4th Presleigh Kreiensieck - MLDA OTE!

4th Isabella Pham - SGSDANCE OTE!

5th Zachary Gibson - CANDANCE OTE!

5th Alyvia Chen - PREMIER BALLET OTE!

5th Avery Lee - DANCEPLEX OTE!

5th Emmerson Gestring - EVOKE OTE!

5th Amariah Gooden - THE COLLECTIVE PHX OTE!

5th Allie Scrimpshire - CANDANCE OTE!

5th Lyla Bovich - AMD OTE!

5th Kanon Greer - CLUB OTE!

5th Kasey Blackman - THE COLLECTIVE PHX OTE!

5th Claire Wirick - DANCE CONNECTION SCOTTSDALE OTE!

5th Asyah Lewis - AURORA MONROE OTE!

5th Kortlynn Rosenbaugh - CLUB OTE!

5th Garrett Leo - ELEKTRO OTE!

5th Soleil Partes - AMD OTE!

5th Rylee Roper - AMD OTE!

5th Tiana Luna - THE COLLECTIVE PHX OTE!

6th Capro Doolin - CANDANCE

6th Kenzie Cole - AMD

6th Cooper Macaladad - THE BASE

6th Devon Stutz - MLDA

6th Eliana Weiss - ELEKTRO

7th Jinger Richey - SUMMER’S DANCEWORKS

7th Berkley Felstead - IMPACT

7th Amelia Bonham - IMPACT

7th Tyler Pesca - ELEKTRO

7th Ryleigh Hutta - AMD

7th Emery Anderson - MLDA

7th Mia Elizabeth Africa - THE BASE

8th Alyssa Elser - MLDA

8th Logan Marumoto-Kaleimamahu - 24-7

8th Vahnabelle Sor - PREMIER BALLET

8th Carlin Ciocchetti - PREMIER BALLET

8th Ellah Perry - SUMMER’S DANCEWORKKS

8th Lily Douglas - PREMIER BALLET

9th Makayla Blake - THE BASE

9th Dempsey Foxson - THE COMPANY

9th Racquelle Arallano - DANCE CONNECTION SCOTTSDALE

9th Kennie Shen - MATHER

9th Sofia Martinez - THE BASE

9th Sophya Lopez-Prieto - MATHER

9th Kandyce Martinez - THE COLLECTIVE PHX

9th Addy Griffin - ELEKTRO

9th Adeline Purtzer - EVOKE

9th nevada Roberts - IMPACT

10th Kennedy Boyd - THE COLLECTIVE PHX

10th Alexa Zakaras - DANCE STUDIO C

10th Ryleigh Pruett - LA DANCE AZ

10th Logan Adams - DANCE DELUXE

10th Faith Kramb - CANDANCE

[betomirandaart2]

Adventurers Saga

Meet this diverse party of brave adventurers: Alexander, a rugged Paladin with a revised orc oath; Carlin, a sneaky gnome rogue; Druscilla, a former royal turned caring orc druid; Kral, a selfless Barbarian protector; Robert, a down-to-earth cleric; and Roscoe, a cheeky bard.

[httpiastri]

hi!! so i’m very new to f2 (i’ve only started educating myself on it recently so that i can watch this season and know the teams + drivers), but when it comes to teams, is there a certain team that is capable of winning championships but also isn’t like, the best? like for example, one of their drivers can win the championship while the other driver may not perform as well that season.

(this is so specific i’m so sorry 😭)

dont apologize love!! it's a great question <3

you've chosen a good season to start watching, i think 2024 will be great!! with the new car, everyone will be kind of starting on the same level, and we have a lot of great drivers who will try to prove themselves this year. it's going to be wonderful 🤭

the way i see it, f2 is much more equal than f1, but it's still not completely equal. some teams just don't usually get good results, but there are several teams who are up in the fight for the titles every year. but different teams have different budgets, different levels of skill in their engineers & other staff members, and so on.

so i think i would say that the short answer is yes, some teams occasionally will win the driver's championship with one driver while the other driver finishes far from the top in the standings. i'm not sure if it's because the team has invested more money and time into only one car, because the car just fits one driver better, or because one driver is just better – i guess that differs a lot from year to year.

but i wouldn't say that there's just one team that fits into that category. in 2017-2019, the team's championship was won by another team than the team of the driver who took the driver's title. in those years, the drivers of other teams were just more consistent i guess. in 2020 and 2021, prema had two good years with two drivers who constantly were in the top of the points. in 2022, felipe drugovich was very dominant and only finished out of the points twice. and in 2023, it was a very close fight between the art gp drivers and the prema drivers, but the art gp drivers were more consistent.

i made a quick lil summary of the seasons since f2 (the version we have today) started, feel free to skip it if you want to;

2017 - charles leclerc won the driver's championship, driving for prema, but prema lost the team's championship to russian time (now virtuosi racing) as their drivers came 2nd and 4th in the championship (charles's teammate came 8th).

2018 - george russell took the win in the driver's championship, but his team, art gp, lost the team's championship to carlin (lando's team).

2019 - nyck de vries took the most points, giving art gp their second consecutive driver's title, but the team only came third in the driver's standings with 277 points, since his teammate nikita mazepin only scored 11 points all season. dams scored 418 points and their drivers came in second and fourth in the standings.

2020 - prema took the title, after having come second to last in the 2019 team's championship. mick schumacher won the driver's championship, but only 14 points ahead of virtuosi driver callum ilott. mick and robert shwartzman scored a total of 392 points for prema, while callum and teammate zhou guanyu took home 352.5 points for virtuosi.

2021 - oscar's year <3 in 2021, the team's championship wasn't really that exciting; oscar took 252.5 points, robert (who came second) took 192, for a total of 444.5 points for prema. the second best team, virtuosi, scored 288 in total.

2022 - felipe drugovich was quite dominant, scoring over 100 points more than second-place theo pourchaire (265 points vs 164). his teammate in mp motorsport, clement novalak, came in 14th with a total of 40 points – but without those 40 points, mp would've finished third in the championship instead of first. carlin and art gp were 8 and 24 points behind the team, respectively.

2023 - well, i don't wanna say too much about this season because if i start i think i might not ever finish. but i think you could say that all four drivers (theo pourchaire, frederik vesti, victor martins and ollie bearman, finishing in that order in the standings) of the top two teams (art gp and prema) all showed great pace all season. art gp took only two race wins throughout the season, whereas prema took ten. fred and ollie were extremely unlucky at times, though, and i'm not sure if it's because of the team or truly just bad luck. though, fred losing both of his rear tyres was definitely the team's fault... but other drivers had good pace too, like jack doohan and ayumu iwasa who finished 3rd and 4th, while their teammates finished 15th and 20th in the total standings.

hope this wasn't too long and i wasn't too confusing.... feel free to stop by if you have any other questions or anything love!! 💓

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Outrageous Fortune (1987) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #comedy #OutrageousFortune #shelleylong #AnthonyHeald #petercoyote #GeorgeCarlin #ripgeorgecarlin #robertprosky #JohnSchuck #florencestanley #robertpastorelli #riprobertpastorelli #christophermcdonald #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

[scotianostra]

Happy birthday Scottish actor Iain Robertson, born on May 27th 1981 in Glasgow.

Robertson grew up in a family of seven in a tenement in Govan. He held no thoughts of becoming an actor until a primary school teacher pointed out his talent for drama. Robertson has said: "growing up in Govan put fire in my belly, made me push harder and also appreciate the things that have come my way".

His acting training started at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and was still a pupil when he started working in the long running kids drama Grange Hill.

Back home in Scotland TV audiences through the acclaimed BBC Scotland film Small Faces. He wasted no time in following up on his success and movie fans next saw him opposite Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle in Plunkett And Macleane. Small screen outings include small roles in Silent Witness, Kavanagh QC and Rebus, but it was the wartime drama Band Of Brothers which significantly raised his profile.

I think a certain element among us will remember Iain Robertson as the second actor to play Gash Nesbit, son of our anti-hero Rab C.

Iain is currently on our screens as Stevie O'Hara in the Scottish soap River City.

By coincidence, Stevie O'Hara celebrated his birthday in River City last week turning a year older than Iain himself. In 2021 he appeared with Timothy Spall in the excellent wee independent film The Last Bus.

Iain is also known to audiences for his Scottish walking show 'Iain Robertson Rambles', where viewers can join him and Molly the Collie on his long distance walks around Scotland, series 3 aired earlier in 2023.

Iain was involved with the charity single and album Leave a Light On for the Trussell Trust and Help Musicians UK, along with Kevin McKidd, Celtic Woman's Mairead Carlin, Bryan Tolland of Del Amitri and many others to record the song of the same name.