#b.s. johnson

[phantomladyoverparis]

You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967), dir. B.S. Johnson

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

B.S. Johnson - Trawl - Panther - 1968

[mariocki]

Fat Man on a Beach (HTV, 1974)

"I'm going to read some more poems now. Erm. It may be that if you want to go and have a cup of tea, this would be a good time. I know that's what you masses are like. The mention of poetry and off you go."

[theblackestofsuns]

Albert Angelo (1964)

B.S. Johnson

New Directions

[joustingeclubbe]

A major subplot is that Moist needs to know the details of the existing sewer system (such as it is) to know how to hook up the sewage treatment plant. The trail of breadcrumbs eventually leads to the Unseen University, where the original plans and blueprints are locked deep in the bowels of the Library.

We learn that originally, the denizens of the city just dumped everything in the various creeks and streams that fed into the Ankh. When these got too foul, Tacitus ordered them bricked over and converted into enclosed culverts. This worked for a while, but gradually, the Ankh itself became too saturated.

After one particularly hot summer, when the stench rendered the city nearly uninhabitable. A massive overhaul was ordered, and Bloody Stupid Johnson was tasked with designing the new system. The original proposal had been to simply intersect the culverts with tunnels running parallel to the Ankh in order to divert the sewage downstream of the city, but Johnson saw this as not going nearly far enough. Instead, he designed a system that would literally leave future generations to deal with the problem: instead of going downstream, the sewage would be sent hundreds of years into the future.

Unfortunately, key components were installed backwards, so the sewage got sent into the past instead, causing the problem in the first place. Moist successfully arranges for the new treatment plant to be integrated into the system, cleaning up the Ankh throughout all time. So the people who say that the river has always been squeaky clean turn out to be correct as far as it goes. Except the river hadn't always been squeaky clean last week.

The Paris Olympics insisting that athletes compete in the Seine is so absurd it feels like something Terry Pratchett would want to make fun of. Like can you imagine him writing a Discworld story about a mad Ankh-Moorpark city official deciding to put on some ancient extravagant game, creating havoc in the city by bringing in all these foreigners to compete, and insisting the Ankh river, which is so filthy it's basically solid, is perfectly fine to swim in, because that's what they did in ancient times so that's how they're going to do it now. I feel like it would be a Night's Watch story about the people hired to clean the river and all the friends and horrors they discover along the way.

Good luck to all the athletes swimming in the poop water.

[nicethingsthose]

I said, it was all I had, what else could I do, I said, I'll get it all down, mate. It'll be very little, he said, after a while, slowly, still those eyes. That's all anyone has done, very little, I said.

B.S Johnson

[planet4546b]

all mirages cast real shadows.

kentucky route zero, 2013-2020/georgia o'keeffe, twilight canyon, lake powell, utah, 1964, todd webb/the archive of alternate endings, lindsey drager/house of leaves, mark z. danielewski/sunset, matthew cusick/letters from the hole, everything everything/the museum at purgatory, nick bantock/kentucky route zero, 2013-2020/andrei tarkovsky on the set of the sacrifice, unknown/heart: the city beneath, grant howitt and christopher taylor/the forgetting room, nick bantock/urge to mean (anything) ii, leo wijnhoven/in the dream house, carmen maria machado/kentucky route zero, 2013-2020/the beginner's guide, 2015/underdark: plein air paintings from caves, tomas honz/colossal cave adventure, willie crowther and don woods/season: a letter to the future, 2023/software greatman, everything everything/invisible cities, italo calvino/annihilation, jeff van der meer/the beginners guide, 2015/where the water tastes like wine, 2018/the unfortunates, b.s. johnson/house of leaves, mark z. danielewski/the painting that includes all paintings, richard siken/waiting for godot, samuel beckett

[positivexcellence]

Walker 4x04 “Insane B.S. and Bloodshed”

SECRETS & LIES – Walker’s (Jared Padalecki) lies about the Jackal case finally catch up to him, testing his friendship with his old partner, Captain James (Coby Bell). Cassie (Ashley Reyes) works a lead in the Jackal case alongside Detective Luna (guest star Justin Johnson Cortez) and learns a hard lesson. Stella (Violet Brinson) makes a shocking realization. Also starring Keegan Allen, Molly Hagan, Mitch Pileggi, Odette Annable, Kale Culley, and Jeff Pierre. Ben Hernandez Bray directed the episode written by Casey Fisher (#404). Original airdate 4/24/2024. (x)

[laf-outloud]

SECRETS & LIES – Walker’s (Jared Padalecki) lies about the Jackal case finally catch up to him, testing his friendship with his old partner, Captain James (Coby Bell). Cassie (Ashley Reyes) works a lead in the Jackal case alongside Detective Luna (guest star Justin Johnson Cortez) and learns a hard lesson. Stella (Violet Brinson) makes a shocking realization. Also starring Keegan Allen, Molly Hagan, Mitch Pileggi, Odette Annable, Kale Culley, and Jeff Pierre. Ben Hernandez Bray directed the episode written by Casey Fisher (#404). Original airdate 4/24/2024.

Ooh! Interesting title.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Oliver Darcy at CNN:

Vladimir Putin’s information war in U.S. media paid off this weekend with a key victory halfway around the world. [...] As a Republican, Johnson is in a tough spot, politically speaking. While the Republican Party was once vehemently hawkish toward Russia, viewing the post-Soviet country as its chief adversary on the international stage, it has softened considerably in recent years and much of the party actively opposes sending additional dollars to Ukraine to continue fighting Russia. It was little more than a decade ago when Mitt Romney, then the party’s standard-bearer, famously declared Russia to be “our number one geopolitical foe.” In the years since, the party has dramatically changed its tune on Russia. A CNN poll conducted last summer found that a staggering 71% of Republicans do not support additional aid to thwart Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Much of the GOP’s softening toward Russia is owed to a near-total reversal in rhetoric from right-wing media personalities and outlets, prompted in large part by Donald Trump’s ascension to power in GOP politics. While the biggest players in right-wing media once fervently championed the foreign policy doctrines of the neo-conservatives, they now follow in the footsteps of Trump and vehemently reject the views once held by the George W. Bush administration. This transition is perhaps best exemplified by Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News host was once sharply critical of Putin, characterizing him in no uncertain terms as a cruel “dictator.” But in recent years, Carlson has reversed his stance, flooding the right-wing information space — which he once reigned as king over — with pro-Putin rhetoric that effectively amounts to Russian propaganda. Carlson’s stance was put on display in stark fashion recently when he traveled to Moscow to conduct a widely denounced softball chat with Putin and then proceeded to record a series of propaganda videos touting Russia’s supposed greatness.

While figures like Carlson have promoted Russia and Putin, they have simultaneously trashed Ukraine and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky, promoting conspiracy theories that the country interfered in the 2016 election and was hiding biological weapons labs. Carlson, for example, has likened Zelensky to vermin and vigorously spoken out against U.S. support for Ukraine. Right-wing commentators like Carlson have questioned why taxpayer dollars are being spent to help Ukraine defend its borders when the U.S. struggles to secure its own southern border (though a recent bipartisan bill intended to tackle both issues was rejected by hardline Republicans.)

[...] “The GOP’s shift away from support for Ukraine shows how in the Republican Party, everything flows downstream from the obsessions and priorities of right-wing propagandists,” Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the progressive watchdog Media Matters, told me Tuesday. “Tucker Carlson and his ilk wanted to back Putin’s invasion, their relentless lies won over the party’s base, and ultimately its elected officials have adopted their position.” “We’ve seen this same pattern time and again: Fox News and the like take basic concepts like ‘it’s a good idea to get vaccinated against the coronavirus’ and ‘the January 6 insurrection was bad’ and turn them on their heads — and Republican elites inevitably follow,” Gertz added. “Governing based on what gets ratings for B.S. artists is no way to run a country.”

CNN's Oliver Darcy wrote in the Reliable Sources newsletter that the right-wing media's anti-Ukraine/pro-Putin disinformation campaign has had fatal consequences in the fight against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Republican Party and much of the right-wing commentariat were once resolutely anti-Russia; however, beginning in the 2010s that began with Vladimir Putin's enactment of anti-LGBTQ+ laws and then Russian asset Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and eventual "Presidency", the GOP shifted from anti-Russia to pro-Russia (and consequently anti-Ukraine).

[walkergirlsposts]

I honestly wonder how people like the weirdo stalking your blog even functions in real life. If they have a job and a life, then why are they here? Imagine if their coworkers found out their favorite pastime is defending the marriage of some actor who isn’t even a household name and his even less famous wife. Embarrassing. They’re no JLO and Ben. Most would be like a Johnson Ankles and who?

Haha right? I've never once gone to a Jared hating blog and send ask after ask after ask. I just call out the b.s. on my blog. Like, the people you're defending with your life aren't even world famous! They're C listers and one isn't even on any list! D to be generous! I can see if they were Blake Lively, but it's a C Lister and his loser wife you are defending. Defend someone with class, at least.

[phantomladyoverparis]

You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967), dir. B.S. Johnson

[reasoningdaily]

GREENWOOD Dist.–With data from the state’s own health department showing Black mothers are nearly twice as likely to die from childbirth as White mothers, a grassroots coalition is stepping up to fill in the gap in solutions.

A Tulsa-based coalition of Black reproductive health advocates, dubbed “The Persevere Cohort,” is hosting an event to update the community on their efforts over the last year and their plan for what comes next on Saturday, May 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at OSU-Tulsa inside the B.S. Roberts room.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, despite Republican Gov. Stitt repeatedly voicing efforts to make Oklahoma a top 10 state, Oklahoma consistently ranks in the bottom 10 of U.S. states for some of the worst rates of pregnancy-related deaths. The Governor’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Oklahoma’s annual report, “Oklahoma Maternal Health, Morbidity and Mortality,” shows that Black women account for 40.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 25.4 for White women, 24.9 for Native American women, and just 4.4 for Hispanic women. The overall maternal mortality rate for Oklahoma women was 23.5, according to the report. Rates for Native Hawaiian and Asian/Pacific Islander women were not available.

In recent years, local organizations such as Tulsa Birth Equity Initiative have also stepped up to address the crisis. The organization has trained 71 community duolas and supported 119 births since 2019.

Oklahoma maternal mortality in bottom 10 as abortion access banned

Advocates for reproductive choice have warned that banning access to abortion would disproportionately impact Black women. Even so, Oklahoma has become one of strictest anti-abortion states after Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law a bill that bans abortion at fertilization. According to the CDC, Oklahoma is 40th in the nation for overall maternal mortality rates.

National rates of maternal mortality are already three times higher for Black women and have been climbing each year, a fact The Persevere Cohort is determined to address at the local level.

On Saturday, the cohort will discuss the next phase of its plans to advance Black reproductive health through an initiative called “Reproduce U.”

“Beginning summer 2023 Reproduce U. will bring together community members, industry professionals, systems leaders and elected officials to have critical conversations about black reproductive health outcomes and to form research teams that will craft attainable policy solutions,” the cohort announced on Monday.

Reproduce U. will focus on Increasing Humanity in Healthcare and Creating Equity in the Economics of Healthcare over a 10-month span, the group announced.

The May 6th Initiative and The Persevere Cohort are supported by OSU-Tulsa Center For Public Life and Standpipe Hill Strategies in partnership with Hillcrest Medical Center, St.Francis Hospital Tulsa and Ascension St. John Medical Center through funding from The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.

[mariocki]

Thirty Minute Theatre: Not Counting the Savages (BBC, 1972)

"I didn't look round, of course, but when I went round to tidy the other side of the grave, I... became aware of a man standing up against the wire fence. At first I thought that he'd caught his handkerchief or something white on it, and then I realised what it was."

"What?"

"He was exposing himself. Exposing himself to me."

"Well, you've seen one before."

"But I was... I was terribly upset. You can't know how distressed I was! I still am."

"Why? You're an old woman. Why should you be upset? It was play-acting. You're an old woman."

[steviexjohnson]

name: stevie johnson goes by: sj, doc age: thirty-six birthday: september 17, 1987 gender & pronouns: cis-female & she/her label: the scholar orientation: heterosexual & heteromanticrelationship status: single hometown: manhattan, new york city, new york current town: tonopah valley, nv neighborhood: downtown

occupation: self-employed (unemployed) academic degrees: doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences, b.s. in pharmaceutical sciences affiliation: pozolero for los santos

biography & headcanons & plots (tw: cancer & parental death)

biography (tw: cancer & parental death) →

stevie lost her mom to brain cancer at age 6. her father never recovered from the grief and as she grew older, gave less and less of himself to her.

stevie is a stem girlie, always doing far better in the subjects where logic and reason prevailed. math and science were her besties.

she went to school for pharmacy at NYU getting her bachelors & pharmacy degree in six years.

her father had lost most of their fortune, but stevie was smart so she got a lot of scholarships. she's scrappy for a former rich kid.

when she graduated school, she went on a trip across the country to see what she had been kept from seeing as a kid--and found herself mixed up in the los santos gang by accident. apparently, if you're willing to give tasting notes on the product their selling....be prepared to put your money where your mouth is.

lucky for her, she could and quickly rose up the ranks to find herself as a valued pozolero for the organization. at first, she struggled with how antithetical it was to her plan of saving lives.

after a while though, it stopped mattering to her so much and it wasn't really like she could just...get out anyway. she didn't desire too. los santos was as much of a community as anyone else, and as the little girl that came from a broken world--she liked that she had a group of people. maybe not all of those people--but at least she belonged somewhere.

so over the years, her morales have grown grey and she's stopped being so picky about what happens. at the end of the day, the hero and the villian are decided by nothing more than what side of the street you're on.

headcanons →

stevie usually goes by sj, its simpler and easier and sometimes she gets less weird looks

big state fair girlie. huge, even.

as mentioned above, she's a total nerd. will geek out over all sorts of silly things, but some to note: some academic journals, getting a perfect category on jeopardy, random youtube videos, marvel, star wars, the lore behind video games....so decidedly not your stereotypical gang member. but then again, stereotypes aren't always right anyway.

she's not like a nerd in the "introveted, keeps to yourself" kind of way either--she loves meeting people and going out to hang. she is decently involved in her community and has even been known to volunteer at the local hospital for drug take back days.

she loves horses. full stop.

she also loves cooking. is like...creative chemistry that generally can't kill people. baking too--though she does find the specificity of it a little more like work and she doesn't love that.

plots →

neighbors

friends! local friends, new friends, old friends, friends from the past--anything!

enemies! we love angst here

romantic relations! could be exes, crushes, former flings, current flings

work associates (friendly or nah)

literally anything i suck at coming up with plots in a list way but i love to develop with folks!

[rugessnome]

the vibe B.S. Johnson was going for with certain of his landscaping features

Hi pay attention to me I’m so cute and impregnable