#Russell Steinberg

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P. A. Announcer News - May 15, 2024

What do we find in today’s P. A. Announcer News? More reason to research names, if you’re helping with commencement make sure you have each person write their name phonetically because it’s really hard to get it right on the spot. Wade Minter of the Carolina Hurricanes is a PA by night, and a software developer by day; Leighton Area High School P. A. announcer gets support; the boxing announcer…

[gogoosecross]

I wanted to do something full-fledged, but I put off the idea of dressing up as Hellsing characters for a long time... I'm so tired... So far the first batch.

Old sketches.

[emiliosandozsequence]

black sails (2014-2017) cr. jonathan e. steinberg & robert levine / the sparrow, mary doria russell

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Puberty Blockers? Gay Teens Aren't Sick! (May 2022)

Why is the NHS sterilising hundreds of teenagers?

As soaring numbers of children are referred to gender identity clinics, prescriptions for 'puberty blockers' are increasing.

"We really don't know what suppressing puberty does to your brain development. We are dealing with unknowns." -- Prof. Russell Vinder CBE

Puberty begins when the brain sends a hormone called GnRH to a tiny gland the size of a pea, the pituitary gland. This triggers a cascade of hormones that transforms a child's body.

'Puberty blockers' are synthetic GnRH and stop these vital processes that are crucial to us developing into adults. The radical process of changes in our bodies during puberty is matched by even more extraordinary changes in the brain.

"The brain changes characteristic of adolescence are amongst the most dramatic and important to occur during the human life span." -- Prof. Laurence Steinberg

As the brain develops, adolescents learn how to think for themselves, bond socially, and regulate their emotions.

By prescribing 'puberty blockers' the NHS is stopping the natural transformation of teenagers' bodies and brains.

'Puberty blockers' also have physical and emotional risks in their own right.

Patients can suffer with abnormally low bone density, which is associated with a high risk of osteoporosis.

"The blocker is said to be completely reversible, which is disingenuous because nothing is completely reversible." -- Dr. Polly Carmichael

"It is not known what the psychological effects may be." -- NHS Guidance, 2020

Up to 2020, GIDS has treated over 1000 children with 'puberty blockers.' 230 were under the age of 14. The youngest was 10.

The tragedy is that the latest evidence suggests 'puberty blockers' may not reduce gender dysphoria.

A Tavistock report defending 'puberty blockers' showed their use:

"does not impact positively on the experience of gender dysphoria."

A child that takes puberty blockers at Tanner Stage 2 and follows this with cross-sex hormones at 16 is effectively sterilised as their gametes will miss the window to mature.

Finland, France and Sweden have recently restricted the use of 'puberty blockers' as concerns over safety and lack of evidence continue to grow.

Why do we care so much?

The vast majority of teens effectively being sterilised are lesbian, gay or bisexual.

Please don't medicalise LGB teens.

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The UK recently joined with Finland, Sweden and France in heavily restricting puberty blockers.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-puberty-blockers-nhs-investigation-fh7pngj0v

When Gids asked adolescents referred to the service in 2012 about their sexuality, more than 90 per cent of females and 80 per cent of males said they were same-sex attracted or bisexual. Bristow came to believe that Gids was performing “conversion therapy for gay kids” and there was a bleak joke on the team that there would be “no gay people left at the rate Gids was going”.

The on-label use of these drugs includes treatment of end-stage prostate cancer, and are the same drugs used to chemically castrate Alan Turing - among thousands of other gay men - to "cure" his homosexuality. Which makes it rather perverse when LGBT "allies" are scolding right-wing bigots about how they owe their computer and phone to a gay man on the one hand, while advocating for the treatment that lead to him taking his own life as "life-saving care" on the other hand.

Puberty is not a medical disorder. Gay and bi kids don't need to be sterilised and given cosmetic surgery to "fix" them.

[oldshowbiz]

RIP Mark Russell.

Unfairly maligned by many, Mark Russell was a very kind man with a unique career and incredible stories about Lenny Bruce and Tom Lehrer. 

I spent an evening with him on a rural porch about five years ago, listening to him swap showbiz stories with Alan Zweibel, David Steinberg, W. Kamau Bell, and Lewis Black . I found him incredibly charming and endlessly fascinating. 

His many PBS specials were not for me, but getting to know him personally was a whole different experience. Funny guy, good guy.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 6.15

Beer Birthdays

John Lofting (d. 1742)

William Ogden (1805)

Sonia Gover, Miss Rheingold 1943 (1921)

Ron Lindenbusch (1961)

Alexandre Cardona (1991)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sophie Amundsen; character in Sophie's World (1976)

Edvard Grieg; composer (1843)

Neil Patrick Harris; actor (1973)

Mike Holmgren; Green Bay Packers coach (1948)

Harry Nilsson; singer, songwriter (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Wilbert Awdry; writer (1911)

Jim Belushi; actor (1954)

Robert Russell Bennett; composer (1894)

"The Black Prince," Edward of Woodstock (1330)

Wade Boggs; Boston Red Sox 3B (1958)

Mary Carey; porn actor (1981)

Courtney Cox; actor (1964)

Ice Cube; rapper (1969)

Mario Cuomo; politician (1932)

Erroll Garner; jazz pianist (1921)

Terri Gibbs; pop singer (1954)

Julie Hagerty; actor (1955)

Xavier Hollander; Dutch writer, madam (1943)

Jack Horner; paleontologist (1946)

Helen Hunt; actor (1963)

Brian Jacques; writer (1939)

Waylon Jennings; country singer (1937)

Ken Jeong; actor, comedian (1969)

Lash LaRue; actor (1917)

Tim Lincecum; San Francisco Giants P (1984)

William McFee; writer (1881)

Nicola Pagett; actor (1945)

Leon Payne; country singer (1917)

Nicolas Poussin; French artist (1594)

Hugo Pratt; Italian comic book artist (1927)

Lee Purcell; actor (1947)

Leah Remini; actor (1970)

David Rose; composer (1910)

Herbert A. Simon; economist (1916)

Saul Steinberg; Romanian cartoonist (1914)

Morris Udall; politician (1922)

Jim Varney; comedian, actor (1949)

Steve Walsh; rock singer, "Kansas" (1951)

Bob Wian; Bob’s Big Boy founder (1914)

Billy Williams; Chicago Cubs LF (1938)

[female-buckets]

if I was a player I'd be taking notes as to who is throwing the toys out the pram about this. I wouldn't be trusting them with boundaries I set and I wouldn't be looking to work with them.

Exactly!!! Make a list.

Honestly, even as a fan, I'm making a list. Just for future reference, here's the reporters who are mad about the locker room boundary:

Several well known WNBA reporters: Michelle Smith, Em Adler, Nancy Armour, Chantel Jennings, Lindsay Gibbs, Mitchell Northam, Russell Steinberger, Howard Megdal, Nicole Auerbach, Brady Klopfer, Marisa Ingemi, Peter Kilkelly

And some less well known ones: Patrick Borzi, Alec Sturm, Dave DuFour, Kim Doss, Chris Bumbaca, Dylan Manfre, Tommy Beer, Jim Alexander, Darren Sabedra

And The Next published a whole thinkpiece about why they need to be in the locker rooms. Because of course they did. I'm not surprised by the names on this list. And I'm not surprised The Next is choosing this hill to die on.

[thepeoplesmovies]

Video Interview - Russell Steinberg (Laguna Avenue)

Video Interview - Russell Steinberg (Laguna Avenue) @fetchpublicity #LagunaAve #RussellSteinberg @ArrowFilmsVideo #interview @Movie_Analyst

Out now on Arrow Player is David Buchanan‘s indie sci-fi comedy Laguna Ave. At the end of last month Shane A.Bassett had a chat with Felixe De Becker, today it’s the film male lead. Shane caught up with Russell Steinberg, who was freshly shaven in conversation from his car in New York on the making of the film, his career and working with the one and  only Miley Cyrus. Related Post: Film Review –…

[moviesandmania]

LAGUNA AVE (2021) Reviews and Arrow streaming release news

LAGUNA AVE (2021) Reviews and Arrow streaming release news

Laguna Ave is a 2021 American sci-fi comedy film about a middle-aged slacker who gets involved in an accelerationist conspiracy. Directed by David Buchanan from a screenplay written by Paul Papadeas. Produced by Ali Barone, Paul Papadeas and Gordon Gee. The House Angus Productions-Succulent Films production stars Russell Steinberg (Days Out of Days, Adventureland), James Markham Hall Jr. (Snake…

[visionsofopulence]

Hyper-fixations of the month!

[shapeshiftersandfire]

The Woman at 29 Wilson - pt 1

@whumpinggrounds​ @sie-werden-nie-vergessen​

okay kids, buckle up, grab a box of tissues and a stuffed critter to hug, this is where it starts getting Sad

Verna Bellows

Washington, DC

29 Wilson Drive

20002

Stella stares at the address all the way down. The bus is hot and cramped and uncomfortable, full of people from states all along the bus route going to one place or another, but Stella’s eyes are all for the four lines of red text in the middle of an otherwise blank page.

Verna Bellows

Washington, DC

29 Wilson Drive

20002

Sarah is leading them right to Verna. Sarah herself is telling them exactly where to go to find her missing, dead aunt…and Stella can only guess why.

It has to be a cemetery. Verna’s family, her real family, whoever they were, must have set up a memorial of some kind for her. A headstone with nothing buried underneath it. A marker on a family plot where one space will always remain unoccupied.

But why would Sarah lead them there? Why would Sarah lead them anywhere? She’s never shown any inclination to cooperate with them, much less give them the exact information they need. What changed?

Stella runs her fingers over the words. They’ve dried since they were first written; she can touch the words without smearing them, without leaving streaks of red ink behind on her skin. They don’t seem real, they don’t feel real, none of this feels real. And yet, just a few hours after saving Ruth from her own horrific end—Sarah hadn’t spare them a story, after all—she’s on a bus on her way to Washington, DC, with Chuck and Ramon in tow, and into the heart of the nation on the brink of turning on itself, in search of a woman who has been dead for the last seventy years.

She’s not sure what she’s expecting to find, or if she’s expecting to find anything. She’s not sure what’s going to happen as they follow the address through the city, where it’s going to take them.

They’ll just have to wait and see.

Stella turns to the window, watching the landscape roll by, lost in thought at the leg of their search that awaits them, and it’s just after the driver announces that they’ve crossed the Maryland border that something on the paper moves. Stella’s heart leaps; she sits up, ,thinking another story is being written before her eyes and she’s on a bus, unable to do anything about it.

But instead of being a story, it’s a message.

Tell her I’m waiting for her.

                                                     [***]

The address is not a cemetery at all, like Stella assumed, but a one-story house with beige siding. The neighborhood is quiet, not a soul in sight, driveways either empty or occupied with empty vehicles. The drive at 29 Wilson is occupied by a single white pickup truck, rusty and dirty with a cracked headlight. Stella looks around the property, at the lawn strewn with colorful autumn leaves, the short evergreens on either side of the perimeter blocking it off from the neighbors’ homes. One tree at the corner of the driveway is bare; the other is mid-loss, with great patchy areas empty of leaves. Wind chimes blow somewhere in the distance. The leaves in the yard rustle. The whole place seems empty and abandoned, feels empty and abandoned; there’s a heavy, sorrowful feel over the house, as though something so horrible happened here that the nature itself was never able to shake the weight of it.

Stella looks around at the house. It seems so quiet, unnaturally so. She dares to take a peak through the sliver in the front window curtains, but the slightest look in gives her shows her a house with the lights off and no one wandering around inside. When she listens closely, there’s not even the sound of the television on.

Is anyone even home?

She goes up to the door and knocks anyway.

For a long while, nothing happens. Then there’s the faint sound of shuffling from the other side, the door clicks and swings opened, and in the doorway stands a woman in a pair of gray capri sweatpants and a ratty old yellow t-shirt, looking as though she’s just rolled out of bed despite it being late in the afternoon. Her copper hair is tied back in a loose ponytail and haphazardly thrown over one shoulder. She looks at the trio with a distant kind of curiosity, as though she’s grown used to having people come to her front door and having yet more strangers show up is nothing new.

“Can I help you?” She doesn’t sound unfriendly, just…tired.

For a moment, all Stella can do is stare at the woman. She looks vaguely like Verna, she thinks, something in her face that resembles the woman in the drawing in the newspaper. A distant relative, maybe?

“We’re, um, we…” She wrings her hands, glancing at the boys standing behind her. She takes a breath. “Did Verna Bellows live here?”

The woman leans back with a deep breath, jaw clenched. She doesn’t answer the question. Something in her eyes darkens. She says nothing, but steps away from the door, letting the trio inside and shuts it behind them. She gives them a firm look before she disappears down the hall and around the corner. They don’t follow.

Stella adjusts her bag. It feels heavier, being in the house. The weight she felt outside on the porch was nothing compared to what it feels like on the inside. There’s a sense off warm homeyness, but it’s suffocated by a thick, sorrowful fog.

Something awful happened in this house.

She adjusts her bag again and tries to listen as the woman has a muffled conversation with someone in another room. She can’t make out the words, and the voices are almost hard to distinguish, but one of them sounds noticeably more pained and tired than the other. Then a chair rolls along the hardwood floor, someone sniffs, and the floors creak as they walk. The copper-haired woman reappears around the corner, followed by someone else who looks…eerily familiar.

The new woman is shorter than the first by a few inches, with shoulder-length black hair and a black dress that comes down in a short V. Her heels click on the floor, her step sluggish and slow and aching. Dark circles line her eyes as though she hasn’t slept well, or at all, in quite some time.

Stella’s breath catches in her throat. Chuck grabs her arm. “Holy shit, it’s her.”

All Stella can do is stare. She’s supposed to be dead. Everyone always said she was dead. No way, there’s no way, there’s no damn way. Why isn’t she dead?

Verna Bellows herself stands before them, alive and well, and not looking a day older than she had in her portrait in the newspaper.

[itspoliticallyincorrect]

Look what you did Russell.

[vernorsgingerale]

all the books i read in 2021

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Females by Andrea Long Chu

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys by Francesca Lia Block

Jeeves and the Tie that Binds by P. G. Wodehouse

Live Oak, with Moss by Walt Whitman (reread)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block

Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block

Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Machine by Susan Steinberg

Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee

Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Nancy Springer

Girls Against God by Jenny Hval, translated by Marjam Idriss

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, translated by Marjam Idriss

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Red Doc> by Anne Carson

In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, translated by Chris Clarke

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange, translated by Natasha Lehrer

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Tokyo Fiancée by Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

Eden’s Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond by Elizabeth Callaway

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton

Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo by Sandra Cisneros

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Finna by Nino Cipri

Assembly by Natasha Brown

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday (reread)

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu

[livelycadaver]

SNM 3/11/20 Show Cast List

WIB: Ginger Kearns

MIB: Alec Funiciello

Oracle: William Popp

Singer: Julia Haltigan

Macbeth: Isaies Santamaria Perez

Lady Macbeth: Kristen Stuart

Macduff: Amadi Washington

Lady MacDuff: Kelly Todd

Banquo: Brandon Coleman

Malcolm: Sean Higgins

Duncan: John William Watkins

Porter: Jason Cianciulli

Mrs. Danvers: Risa Steinberg

Agnes: Kayla Farrish

Hecate: Stephanie Jean Lane

Sexy Witch: Ingrid Kapteyn

Bald Witch: Aliza Russell

Boy Witch: Nate Carter

Fulton: David Lee Parker

Speakeasy: Elias Rosa

Taxidermist: Marc Cardarelli

Nurse Shaw: Demetia Hopkins

Matron: Camara McLaughlin

6th Floor Nurse: ???

[ulkaralakbarova]

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Lee Wakefield Lacker: Meryl Streep Bessie Wakefield: Diane Keaton Hank Lacker: Leonardo DiCaprio Wallace “Wally” Carter: Robert De Niro Marvin Wakefield: Hume Cronyn Ruth Wakefield: Gwen Verdon Charlie Lacker: Hal Scardino Robert “Bob” Carter: Dan Hedaya Charlotte Samit: Margo Martindale Retirement Home Director: Cynthia Nixon Coral: Kelly Ripa Lance: John Callahan Beauty Shop Lady: Olga Merediz Bruno: Joe Lisi Gas Station Guy: Steve DuMouchel Janine: Bitty Schram Novice: Lizbeth MacKay Nun on Phone: Helen Stenborg Nun #3: Sally Parrish Film Crew: Costume Design: Julie Weiss Producer: Robert De Niro Producer: Scott Rudin Producer: Jane Rosenthal Original Music Composer: Rachel Portman Executive In Charge Of Production: Meryl Poster Production Design: David Gropman Casting: Ilene Starger Editor: Jim Clark Dialogue Editor: Magdaline Volaitis Supervising Sound Editor: Wendy Hedin Dolly Grip: Dave Lowry Still Photographer: Phillip V. Caruso Co-Producer: Bonnie Palef Music Editor: Dan Lieberstein Hair Designer: Alan D’Angerio Director of Photography: Piotr Sobociński First Assistant Director: Ellen H. Schwartz Set Decoration: Tracey A. Doyle Co-Producer: Adam Schroeder Script Supervisor: Anne Rapp Director: Jerry Zaks Screenplay: Scott McPherson Camera Operator: Rob Hahn Art Direction: Peter Rogness Executive Producer: Tod Scott Brody Leadman: Scott Rosenstock Boom Operator: Andrew Schmetterling Associate Producer: John Guare Stunt Coordinator: Frank Ferrara Orchestrator: Jeff Atmajian Co-Producer: David Wisnievitz First Assistant Editor: Mitchel Stanley Property Master: Tommy Allen Construction Coordinator: Nick Miller Chief Lighting Technician: Russell Engels ADR Editor: Lisa J. Levine Makeup Artist: Allen Weisinger Art Department Coordinator: Rhonda Moscoe Wardrobe Supervisor: Timothy Alberts Wardrobe Supervisor: Patricia Eiben Location Manager: Antoine Douaihy Seamstress: Laurie Buehler Construction Foreman: Gordon Krause Dialogue Editor: Stuart Emanuel Foley Editor: Raymond Karpicki Dialogue Editor: Michael Shore First Assistant Editor: Debra C. Victoroff Music Supervisor: Chandra Beard Executive Producer: Lori Steinberg Associate Producer: Craig Gering Movie Reviews:

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 6.15

Beer Birthdays

John Lofting (d. 1742)

William Ogden (1805)

Sonia Gover, Miss Rheingold 1943 (1921)

Ron Lindenbusch (1961)

Alexandre Cardona (1991)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sophie Amundsen; character in Sophie's World (1976)

Edvard Grieg; composer (1843)

Neil Patrick Harris; actor (1973)

Mike Holmgren; Green Bay Packers coach (1948)

Harry Nilsson; singer, songwriter (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Wilbert Awdry; writer (1911)

Jim Belushi; actor (1954)

Robert Russell Bennett; composer (1894)

"The Black Prince," Edward of Woodstock (1330)

Wade Boggs; Boston Red Sox 3B (1958)

Mary Carey; porn actor (1981)

Courtney Cox; actor (1964)

Ice Cube; rapper (1969)

Mario Cuomo; politician (1932)

Erroll Garner; jazz pianist (1921)

Terri Gibbs; pop singer (1954)

Julie Hagerty; actor (1955)

Xavier Hollander; Dutch writer, madam (1943)

Jack Horner; paleontologist (1946)

Helen Hunt; actor (1963)

Brian Jacques; writer (1939)

Waylon Jennings; country singer (1937)

Ken Jeong; actor, comedian (1969)

Lash LaRue; actor (1917)

Tim Lincecum; San Francisco Giants P (1984)

William McFee; writer (1881)

Nicola Pagett; actor (1945)

Leon Payne; country singer (1917)

Nicolas Poussin; French artist (1594)

Hugo Pratt; Italian comic book artist (1927)

Lee Purcell; actor (1947)

Leah Remini; actor (1970)

David Rose; composer (1910)

Herbert A. Simon; economist (1916)

Saul Steinberg; Romanian cartoonist (1914)

Morris Udall; politician (1922)

Jim Varney; comedian, actor (1949)

Steve Walsh; rock singer, "Kansas" (1951)

Bob Wian; Bob’s Big Boy founder (1914)

Billy Williams; Chicago Cubs LF (1938)