#bill Clinton fan art

[formulanni]

As requested

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@foolishrunt enjoy?!

If you're taking requests can you draw 41st US president bill clinton?

I am not taking requests but absolutely I can draw 41st US President Bill Clinton do u have any additional things to add here

[thecittiverse]

Citizen Kang - Frinktober 2024 - Day 31

"Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos." Frinktober 2024 Day 31: Kang and Kodos

It is an election year in the US after all, so why not finish up the month with the famous bodysnatcher election of 1996 between Bill Clin-Ton and Ka- uh, Bob Dole from "Citizen Kang."

[intricatedemonicrituals]

Canon Destiel Timeline Masterpost

I wrote this all in a fugue state while listening to Green Grow the Lilacs on repeat so forgive any mistakes. @gay-fae ask and ye shall receive

So much has happened in the long and storied history of his fandom so I've decided to try to document it. I've started by looking up every time that canon destiel, destiel event, misha collins, jackles, or some other search terms have spiked on Google and cross referenced them with tumblr or twitter posts from that day. I know a lot of this is Misha stuff, but he does tend to be the one to say things

November 5th, 2020: Season 15, Episode 18 "Despair" airs and Castiel declares his love to Dean. The presidential election, Georgia turning blue, the presumed retirement of Vladamir Putin, Dabi from My Hero Academia, Ouran Host Club season 2, Sherlock season 5, the president of Bolivia being attacked with dynamite, ongoing BLM protests, a twitter artist making racist art of Ted Bundy, Hetalia returning, a dead man being elected Representative for North Dakota, V for Vendetta, scientists discovering a "hell" planet that rains rocks and has lava oceans, and half of Europe being in lockdown all became tumblr news around the same time. Some of these are true, some not.

November 8th, 2020: Misha Collins, in a panel with Richard Speight, states that the confession scene was a "declaration of homosexual love", and that when Castiel goes to the Empty, it is an example of the "Kill your gays" trope.

November 19th, 2020: The finale airs and it is not well loved to say the least. The episode is short, Dean dies by falling on a nail to death fighting vampire clowns, and there are several characters left with dangling unresolved plot threads and arcs, including Castiel. The car is in heaven though. There is very little heard from the cast and crew, if anything.

November 22nd, 2020: Misha Collins, in a livestream, tells a fan that Castiel and Jack are remaking heaven together, Cas has his wings back, and they are rainbow-colored. He had, however, mentioned the rainbow wings before.

November 24th, 2020: The Spanish dub of the confession is released and a "rogue" translator has written "Y yo a ti" or "I love you too" as Dean's response. Destiel goes canon in Spanish. Tumblr stops working as a result.

November 25th, 2020: tumblr user @thebloggerbloggerfun claims Jensen Ackles said "I had a member of the film crew record the confession scene on my phone for me" #unsourced #releasethetapes

November 26th, 2020: Misha doesn't appreciate the rogue translator, but walks that opinion back later the same day

November 27th, 2020: A "leaked" Italian dub of the confession scene shows a mutual confession.

November 28th, 2020: President Obama follows a destiel account on Twitter

November 30th, 2020: The supposed "Italian dub" is revealed as a fake created by user @iotiamo using sound clips from other parts of the Italian dub on show.

December 1st, 2020: Twitter user @mothdean says "misha I know you have a stan acc and spy on us so can we have a hazel update please"

December 3rd, 2020: Misha tweets about Hazel snoring and this is taken as possible confirmation of Misha's secret stan account

December 11th, 2020: A script from Cas's perspective leaks. It says "We see Cass's POV of Dean again - his face drawn, drained of hope. But still beautiful. Still Dean Winchester."

December 16th, 2020: Newsweek runs an article about an article that Misha wrote about the Lewinsky affair while interning in the Clinton White House in which Misha comes off as rather thirsty for Bill

December 20th, 2020: All Supernatural related materials disappear off the CW's website due to a copyright dispute with Warner Brothers

December 31st, 2020: Mishapocalypse redux

February 9th, 2021: Spn cast members Chad Lindberg and Samantha Ferris tweet about a party at the Roadhouse and it grows to become a full Destiel wedding

February 16th, 2021: @steveyockey made a fairly benign post about Jensen Ackles. The notes went wild in a variety of ways and started a rumor that Spn writer Steve Yockey was dead

February 20th, 2021: Steve Yockey is not dead and he should say it

March 3rd, 2021: The German dub drops and it is also romantic in tone

March 6-8th, 2021: A virtual con happens where Jensen discusses Chaos Machine and Jared says he wants to be in their next project. They also show that WAP video. Jensen is giving full mountain man preparing to play Soldier Boy.

March 10th, 2021: The French dub is released. Cas says, "I love you, Dean" and Dean now responds, "Don't do this to me, Castiel"

March 13th, 2021: The company Amazon tweets about Castiel and Misha Collins asks if they ship Deancas or Wincest. Subsequently apologizes.

March 16th, 2021: Misha says he can't speak as Castiel because Warner Brothers" specifically forbade it. #cwsniperconfirmed

March 17th, 2021: Sam and Eileen are getting married! I have no idea how this came about but I'm happy for them

March 23rd, 2021: Chad Lindberg and Samantha Ferris claim on Twitter that the Roadhouse party was about Valentine's day and not a wedding. Ferris specifically said that she worked on the show and that people tried to make Dean/Cas into "something that it wasn't", She also stated she doesn't "know what queerbaiting is" and that it was due to an "agenda". This led to #deanisbi trending on Twitter and Tumblr.

March 31st, 2021: Some possibly fake leaked scripts come up for sale on eBay. Also, Jensen is Batman.

April 1st, 2021: Mishapocalypse redux

April 6th, 2021: Leaked scripts from the 2 final episodes pop up and have several mentions of Cas in them that were omitted. Dean even thinks about Cas's confession when confronting Chuck.

April 18th, 2021: Scripts from seasons 12 and 13 leak. These include scenes from after Cas's death

May 17th, 2021: Jensen's band Radio Company releases an album including the song Watching Over Me

June ~5th, 2021: Misha says at a convention that Watching Over Me is about Castiel. Jensen neither confirms nor denies this when asked about it

June 11th, 2021: It is announced that Misha is publishing a book of poetry

June 18th, 2021: The Russian dub airs and Dean's line is changed to "Don't you dare, Cas"

June 24-28th, 2021: Jensen and Daneel Ackles reveal that they are making a Supernatural prequel series following John and Mary Winchester (a story that NOBODY was asking for). Jensen will reprise his role as Dean and will narrate. Misha hints that he would like to be involved, as do Ruthie Connell, Samantha Ferris, Matt Cohen, and Julie McNiven (the perils of having a cast of mostly immortal characters). But Jared Padalecki first says that he is happy for the Ackles's, he later said he was "gutted", then responded to Robbie Thompson's tweet calling him a "coward" and saying "what an awful thing you've done". The next day, Jensen and Jared both do damage control and say they'll always be brothers

July 17th, 2021: People are asking if Destiel will be canon in Space Jam, Misha's poetry book's cover is revealed to lukewarm reviews and people are talking about a particular poem about piss, and Perfume Genius releases an article that is a self-insert vore fanfiction about having sex with Jensen Ackles

August 2nd, 2021: Perfume Genius is at it again with "Last Friday, I had my eyes removed by Jared Padalecki". No, I do not know why she is doing this.

August 9th, 2021: Destiel fics hit 100k on Ao3. Misha tweets his support and people remember that he sometimes reads fanfiction and theorize he has an A03 account

September 1st, 2021: Misha makes his first Tiktok. There is a short intro before he calls cut, walks behind a screen, and strips his clothes off

September 3rd, 2021: Jake Abel uses Michael and Adam to help sell his hot sauce brand

September 4th, 2021: Misha confirms that the love between Castiel and Dean was "reciprocated"

September 9th, 2021: A clip of the real Italian dub of the confession scene goes viral as it is revealed that, unlike the Spanish dub, they change the line to "ti voglio bene" or essentially "I love you like family". Misha responds with a video saying "Ciao Italia, ti amo" with the subtitle "Love is love in any language"

September 21st, 2021: Misha drops the fact that one of his poems is from Castiel's perspective.

September 30th, 2021: Jensen will be appearing at a con on the same day as Misha and not with Jared for "professional reasons"

October 4th, 2021: Misha responds to a fan's tweet by saying that Jensen has "crazy eyes and a knife in his pocket"

October 10th, 2021: Daneel posts a picture of Jensen intently reading Misha's poetry book in front of a roaring fire on Instagram. Misha responds that he misses them even more

October 12th, 2021: Jensen is cast in Rust, a (rather ill-fated) western and Misha says "Yippie-ki-yay" and calls him a stud in the comments

October 16th, 2021: Denvercon. Jensen and Jared reunite for the first time since THE INCIDENT

April 24th, 2022: Misha Collins says in terms of being an extrovert, an introvert, or a bisexual, he joked "I'm all three". This led to the internet celebrating Misha's newly revealed bisexuality.

April 25th, 2022: Misha Collins comes out as straight. Oops!

June 19th, 2022: According to Misha, Dean's heaven was supposed to be at the Roadhouse with all his friends and Cas was going to be there with him

November 7th, 2022: Misha calls Elon Musk a snowflake

November 12th, 2022: Tumblr starts planning another Mishapocalypse

January 24th, 2023: Jensen and the cast of the Winchesters throw Dean Winchester a birthday party, including wearing silly little hats

February 26th, 2023: At JIBcon 11, Jensen sings an improvised song about an angel while Misha sits cross-legged on the floor looking up at him

April 1st, 2023: 10 year anniversary of the Mishapocalypse

April 16th, 2023: A year after his bisexual whoopsie daisy, Misha says that Warner Brothers asked him to "let it go" and keep pretending to be bisexual.

August 23, 2023: Rogue Spanish translator is revealed to not have gone rogue at all but instead to have followed the script he was given, confirming the existence of a mutual love confession that was cut at some point.

If you can remember any events and dates that I haven't found, please let me know and I'll add them! I haven't really rounded out 2022 and 2023 yet.

[catoperated]

Let me tell you about the (Bill) Clinton campaign. The big thing was he charmed everyone by playing the saxophone on late night talk shows, which in retrospect was a clever way of dodging too much policy talk. Granted, just about anyone could outcharm HW Bush… especially after he vomited sushi on the prime minister of Japan.

The Clintons had a cat named Socks (and a dog named Buddy, just to cover all their bases) and that damn cat was everywhere during the Clinton years. He almost got a video game, but a recovered rom is now freely available. The image Clinton was projecting during his campaign is perfectly incapsulated in the box art.

He’s hip! He’s cool! He’s not like those other square presidents! He has a cat (and once in office they had this whole “for kids” thing revolving entirely around Socks) and plays saxophone! The perfunctory handwringing over a child running around the historic White House (not even the first) couldn’t stop him, and his lingering reputation as a ladies man in college only improved his image—until the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I learned what sex was thanks to it being all over the news. Meanwhile I already knew about marijuana (another minor scandal) from the DARE program at school.

All the shit that happened during the Clinton years paved the way for George W Bush to play cowboy to show he was a traditional sort of cool, only to get into office and fumble his way through every press conference. Sound familiar? He was widely considered a buffoon, everyone knew Dick Cheney was pulling the strings, and he probably wouldn’t have been re-elected if not for 9/11. Discuss conspiracy theories amongst yourselves.

I’m telling you this because even politicians with a nice, friendly, progressive images are not your friends. They are not adoptive parents or cool uncles. They’re not people to be fans of because they’re goddamn civil servants. They’re supposed to be for the people, which in a perfect world would be true, but Harris suddenly turning pro-frakking and all for tighter border control (but with nicer cages! /s) just highlights how they’re bought off by lobbyists. You all need to come to grips with the fact this is how the system works, but that doesn’t mean you have to stand for it.

Shut up about Trump. I know. I’m trans and disabled. I know.

Republicans backing Harris should tell you everything about what’s happening in the US right now. The political situation is looking a lot like the 19th century with factions splintering off, dying, or absorbing others… oh, and the looming threat of civil war. History loves repeating itself, huh?

@decolonize-the-everything has done a much better job than I ever could detailing how to be realistic and take action. I’m exhausted just thinking about the Bush administration. I’d show you what political memes looked like back then, but tumblr won’t let me add any more links. Look up “bush fuzzy math” on YouTube sometime for both the debate the phrase came from and the song remixes.

Someon made a Bush version (the old way, where you had to cut the words from all his speeches and splice them into a song) of Sunday Bloody Sunday. Go look that up too if you want, I’m gonna to bed.

And for the last time (I swear), this isn’t me telling you not to vote, this is me telling you to stop gushing over what a nice guy Tim Walz seems like and other such fandom behavior.

No cop, politician, or fed is your friend. Get that through your head if you want to survive.

[twopercentboy]

I stumbled across the Bill/Hillary Clinton side of tumblr a couple months ago and it's so entertaining to view from afar I just stumbled across a Bill Clinton/Al Gore fan art and this is a fascinating side of RPF

[hillaryisaboss]

Dear Roseanne Barr (former feminist & LGBTQ icon):

You claim your children are “libtards” for caring about gender & pronouns. But my question is: why do you care that they care? How does any of it harm or impact your life? Many children play with both toy dolls, Barbie’s, and yes — even toy guns. Gender is a social construct. Why are you so triggered by your children caring about such issues? Again: how does any of it impact your life? Kids should be free to be who they are from Day 1.

As for your claims about vaccines: do you want the measles, mumps, & polio back? Don’t step on a rusty nail! Tetanus shots hurt.

Your gun rhetoric is dangerous & proves you haven’t been paying attention to what is happening in American schools. More die in schools than in the American military.

You may hate Hillary, but her & Bill gave us the Family & Medical Leave Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, reduced gun violence, raised MINIMUM WAGE 70%, lifted 7 million people out of poverty, freed those in Northern Ireland, protected millions more acres of land, and funded the arts, education, & HIV/AIDS research.

Donald (your false prophet con-man) gave you a job at his bankrupt casino in the 1990s, while using immigrant & slave labor to build his casinos. Are you proud of working with a man that ripped off hard working tax-payers? Meanwhile, Don-the-Con used fraud to cheat the tax code. Sorry Roseanne, he isn’t your guy & you are now in a cult.

Roseanne Conner needed to die because the Real Roseanne went so far left she looped full-circle to the right. Internet propaganda is smart & effective. It turned a once progressive icon into a MAGA cultist. Sad but true.

I’ll forever watch the 1990s Clinton Era Roseanne show. However, Roseanne Barr is a cautionary tale of the effectiveness of 21st century propaganda. Scary!

I’m sorry you lost your show. I don’t think you are racist. Nor should you be censored. But we, the fans, are also in mourning, too: we lost a champion to internet propaganda.

Trump is in it for himself. You are a pawn for the true fascists that want to ban abortion nationwide — a huge betrayal of women & their human rights.

[world-cinema-research]

Hard Boiled (1992) by Michael Bump

Hard Boiled (1992) by Michael Bump 

Hard Boiled was directed by John Woo and was released in 1992. The plot of the production is a Police Officer who finds himself in a conflict with gang members that kill his fellow officers. Inspector Tequila Yuen is played by Chow Yun-Fat, and he is the star of the film. I have heard of John Woo before, but I have never heard of his films. Woo is known for introducing the world to a style of action film called “gun-fu” which incorporates heavy gunfights mixed with martial arts. The film is originally spoken in Cantonese and is filmed in Hong Kong. The budget was 4.5 million dollars. The film made 19.7 million dollars after it was released, it only made a little over seventy thousand dollars here in the states. The movie was well received and people who love action films had positive reviews. The film was released in the early 1990s and has a similar feel to 1980s action films. Although the iconic 90s Jazz background music is prevalent in Hard Boiled, making it quintessential 1990s. The film is also known for the stylish flourishes such as slow-motion shots and sweeping camera movements which add to the film's visual impact. Hard Boiled was an enormous influence on the action genre not just in Hong Kong but around the world as well. Hard Boiled continues to be a fan favorite to this day.  

The story of Hard-Boiled follows Inspector Tequila while a fights with a prominent group of triads. Tequila is a dedicated police officer who is determined to take down the leader of the gang that killed his partner. His partner Alan, played by Tony Leung, joins forces to take down the gangs of arms dealers. As the police officers work together, they become close friends and they also befriend a female Assassin along the way. The climax of the movie is when they must fight their way through a bunch of rooms to stop the arms dealers from selling to the terrorists. The relationship between Tequila and Alan is a substantial portion of the film and they form a strong emotional bond. The fighting scenes are loud with lots of gunfire. Woo was not shy with the explosives in this film either. The movie was conventional and had many similarities to conventional Hollywood Action movies. The feel of the movie was like Scarface and had eerie music playing during the dialogue scenes. The acting by Yun-Fat was good, he is a great actor. Some of the action is overexaggerated during the action scenes.  

The film was released in 1992. The first major historical event that occurred was Bill Clinton was elected President. The second historical event in 1992 was when the Cold War was officially declared over. Bill Clinton had a historic presidency, but it was tarnished when he had an affair and was the first president to be impeached. The end of the decades-long Cold War could not be understated. The world’s superpowers were on the brink of destroying each other for 50 years.  

There are many similarities to this film and the Terminator from 1984. The conflict between the people and police officers. The style of dress and the music. The loud explosive action scenes that are long with intense music in the background. The Terminator and Hard Boiled are two iconic films that have left a lasting impact on the action genre. While the gfilms are quite different in terms of plot, characters, themes, and style, they both share a common thread of action and violence. The Terminator deals with this idea of a dystopian future and fate, while Hard Boiled explores the themes of loyalty and betrayal. Both films feature strong lead characters and intense action scenes that have become synonymous with action. I enjoyed watching Hard Boiled and I would watch it again and recommend it to my friends. Anyone who likes action films. The Terminator and Hard Boiled differed in many ways, but both films introduced an intensity that is still seen in action movies today.  

The video is of the “Teahouse Shoutout.” I chose this scene because I found it to epitomize John Woo’s style. I like how loud and explosive it is. The second textual resource is an image of the main protagonist, played by Chow Yun-Fat, and he plays the hero police officer that saves the day. I found that particular still shot with the shotgun favorable because it was like any conventional Hollywood action movie.  

Hard Boiled - Teahouse Shootout 

[wladimirkaminer]

Wo waren wir 31 Jahre

In der Hektik des bevorstehenden Karnevals, endlich ohne

Coronamaßnahmen, ist beinahe mir ein wichtiges Jubiläum untergegangen.

Exakt vor einunddreißig Jahren, am 1 Februar 1992 wurde nämlich der

Kalte Krieg offiziell für beendet erklärt. Zu diesem Zweck trafen sich

im Camp David der erste demokratisch gewählte russische Präsident Boris

Jelzin mit dem amerikanischen Kollegen George Bush, dem älteren, und

unterzeichneten gemeinsam eine Erklärung. Damit war der Kalte Krieg

formal und juristisch zu Ende, Amerika und Russland keine Feinde mehr,

sondern Freunde und Partner.

 Der Tag war gleichzeitig Jelzins Geburtstag, er wurde 61 Jahre alt und

befand sich in besonders guter Laune. An Geschenken seitens der

Amerikaner mangelte es nicht. Der russische Gast bekam von Bush

persönlich eine „echte amerikanische Torte“ und ein Paar Cowboy-Stiefel

mit den gestickten Initialen des Geburtstagskindes „B.J.“

 Jelzin war für seine offene Art bekannt, er nannte den Amerikaner ab

sofort nur noch „Freund George“ und wollte die Cowboy-Stiefel gleich

anziehen. Die Stiefel drückten, sie waren ihm eindeutig zu klein. Doch

Jelzin ließ sich nichts anmerken. „Es ist mir peinlich“, sagte er zum

Freund George, „dass ich gar nichts zum Verschenken habe. Aber komm doch

zu uns nach Moskau, dann gehen wir zusammen in die Sauna.“ Der Freund

George nickte zustimmend, obwohl er Sauna nicht mochte. Zum Glück musste

er gar nicht hin, Ende des Jahres wurde er abgewählt.

 Bill Clinton kam ins Weiße Haus, er fuhr als offizieller Besuch nach

Moskau und ging an Stelle von Bush mit Jelzin in die Sauna. Jelzin war

hinterm Ural aufgewachsen und wollte Härte zeigen. Wir Russen, sagte er

zum amerikanischen Kollegen, gehen in die Sauna erst, wenn innen drin

100 Grad sind. Bei geringerer Hitze schwitzen wir nicht. Bill Clinton

blickte verständnisvoll. Er ist in der Sauna beinahe erstickt, wollte

aber wegen solcher Kleinigkeiten die neugewonnene Freundschaft nicht

aufs Spiel setzen.

  „Und wenn wir aus der Sauna rauskommen, springen wir in ein Eisloch,

das macht richtig Spaß“ sagte Jelzin. Neben der Sauna war ein

zugefrorener Teich mit glasklarem Wasser. Clinton stand sofort auf, ging

raus und sprang ins Loch. Der Freund Boris wackelte langsam nach

draußen, prüfte die Wassertemperatur mit dem großen Zeh und blieb im

Trockenen. Er hatte mit Helmut Kohl übrigens die gleiche Nummer vollzogen. Schon damals begriff die westliche Diplomatie, mit den

Russen stimmt etwas nicht. Sie tun nie das, was sie sagen und meinen

nicht, was sie denken. Nach dem Machtwechsel im Kreml wurde Clinton von

Putin in Moskau empfangen. Ich habe gehört, Sie sind ein Sauna-Fan,“

fing Putin an. „Nein, gar nicht, Sie wurden falsch informiert,“

erwiderte Clinton. Er traute dem Russen nicht.

[dankusner]

Document No. 5

When Alt Goes Mainstream:

PW Talks with Peter Ames Carlin

In The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. (Doubleday, Nov.), journalist Carlin traces how the rock group shaped the genre.

Why did you decide to write about R.E.M.?

They’re an amazing band that created this deep catalog.

When they broke through, the sense was that they had never sold out; they didn’t move away from the ideals they had starting out.

In a way, their contribution is how they continued to focus on their artistry without losing themselves in the mainstream.

As I point out in the beginning of the book, they wouldn’t write songs with traditional structures, or lyrics that could be interpreted literally.

The focus on music also sets them apart from other artists of the time, like Bruce Springsteen;

they were articulate and eager to talk about their work, but they made a point not to discuss heir personal lives.

What was it about Athens, Ga., in the early and mid-’80s that produced bands like R.E.M. and the B-52s?

A lot of it had to do with the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, where many of these folks, like Michael Stipe, were students. There was a bohemian subculture that filtered through the school, and many of the professors were interested in music or involved in making it. The shared aesthetic in the school was easily applied to music, focusing on expression and experience rather than mastery. Catharsis in art was more important than perfection. At the same time, the punk movement was taking place, and the music focused on expression rather than mastery. So a bunch of different currents came together: punk, with its idea of being able to do it yourself, and the school’s focus on folk art and expression.

What might readers be surprised to learn about the band?

They were very serious about getting their message across and having a big audience. As they got more popular, people would say they’d sold out, but that was the project from the beginning. I was also a little surprised to learn from Scott McGaughey—the fifth or sixth member of R.E.M., depending on how you count it—that the whole time the band’s popularity ebbed in the U.S., it never did in Europe. R.E.M. was filling stadiums in Europe in the early aughts while they were playing smaller venues in the U.S.

Is there a message you hope readers take from the book?

I’d like people to remember that R.E.M. made music because they had something important to say. I hope people will see that R.E.M.’s success grew out of music that expressed the same hopes that their fans had in the possibilities presented by events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the election of Bill Clinton. I hope readers will remember their music as full of art, creativity, and joy.

A version of this article appeared in the 07/15/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: When Alt Goes Mainstream

Journalist Carlin (Sonic Boom) brilliantly captures how a “spunky alternative band whose singer spoke in riddles” became a powerhouse that brought alt rock into the mainstream. After

meeting in the college town of Athens, Ga., Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe made their debut as R.E.M. at a house party in 1980.

Shaping their sound in an Athens alt rock scene built by such bands as the B-52s—and embracing an “outsider” label amid what they viewed as the era’s social and political conformity—the band amassed enough of a following to play arena shows, despite relatively modest sales for their 1982 debut EP Chronic Town.

Thanks to hit song “Losing My Religion,” their breakout album, 1991’s Out of Time, sold more than three million copies in the U.S. in its first year, propelling the band to mainstream success with “catchy,” energetic songs paired with “melancholic” lyrics and paving the way for groups like Nirvana.

Vividly bringing to life the political and cultural ferment of the 1990s—the waning optimism of the Clinton era, Kurt Cobain’s suicide—Carlin examines how R.E.M. balanced their “countercultural” ethos with the commercial appeal it brought them, touching on what it means for rock when the “rebels” become the “dominant culture.” Kinetic prose elevates this perceptive portrait of one of America’s most vital bands. (Nov.)

In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia.

Within a few short years, they had taken over the world – with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster and Green.

Raw, outrageous, and expressive, R.E.M.’s distinctive musical flair was unmatched, and a string of mega-successes solidified them as generational spokesmen.

In the tumultuous transition between the wide-open 80s and the anxiety of the early 90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive sound.

In this rich, intimate biography, critically acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends – Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry – who stuck together at any cost, until the end.

Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic, steeped in 80s and 90s nostalgia, The Name of This Band is R.E.M. paints a cultural history of the commercial peak and near-total collapse of a great music era, and the story of the generation that came of age at the apotheosis of rock.

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Nana Visitor appeared alongside Chase Masterson and Alexander Siddig at the convention Star Trek: Mission Chicago, and during a conversation about how well the show has aged, Visitor shared an interesting tidbit about how audiences viewed Kira during the show versus how she’s viewed now. Visitor explained she first saw the shift around the same time Deep Space Nine was first made available to stream on Netflix, and a young fan came to talk to her at a convention. Said Visitor:

The attitude towards me, my character, has certainly changed. Where I was [once] viewed as, ‘Oh, why is she always angry?’ Now, I remember when it happened, it was just when the show went on Netflix. I went to a convention, and there was a 15-year-old boy, and that is telling. He was like, ‘I have a big crush on you.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? Wait, wait, let’s talk about this. I’m not too angry? I’m not threatening you in any way? He’s like, ‘Oh, I think it’s great.’ So that has changed.

Kira was once seen as “too angry” or brash back during the first run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but decades later, when strong women who take charge are one of the more celebrated archetypes of modern pop culture, she’s viewed differently (similar to Jeri Ryan's return to the franchise as Seven of Nine). It’s always cool to see a show’s characters age well or when they’re brought in and given character growth that deepens their character’s meaning, like what Picard recently did with revelations about the titular captain's parents.

11 notes - Posted April 25, 2022

#4

Desire of the Endless and Rio of the Duran Duran

Neil Gaiman

@neilhimself

Yes. Patrick Nagel was the artist and I suggested Mike Dringenberg use his art style as an inspiration.

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squash157

@squash157

 · Jan 16, 2019

@neilhimself was Desire from The Sandman inspired by the album cover for Rio by Duran Duran? Was listening to the album and I couldn't get the thought of Desire out of my head. Thank you for writing such fantastic stories!

7:32 PM · Jan 16, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

23 notes - Posted August 7, 2022

#3

The West Wing: "The Short List"

THE WEST WING'

THE SHORT LIST' (1 x 09)

STORY BY: AARON SORKIN & DEE DEE MYERS

TELEPLAY BY: AARON SORKIN & PATRICK CADDELL

DIRECTED BY: BILL D'ELIA

westwingtranscripts.com

FADE IN: INT. THE OVAL OFFICE - DAY

Bartlet and Harrison are now with Sam and Toby.

HARRISON

Judges are bound to interpret the Constitution within the strict parameters of the text itself. The Constitution doesn't provide for a right of privacy. The right doesn't exist.

SAM

The third amendment says soldiers can't be quartered in private homes. The fifth provides protection against self-incrimination, and the fourth against unreasonable searches. You deny the right to privacy lived in those passages?

HARRISON

No. I do not deny it, but the fact that the framers enumerated those specific protections is all the more reason to believe that they had no intention of making privacy a de facto right.

SAM

They just fought a revolution but they had no question of their freedom. The Bill of Rights wasn't meant to codify the most crucial of those rights not to limit the others.

HARRISON

I do this for a living, Mr. Seaborn.

SAM

So do I, your honor.

BARTLET

Peyton, do I have the right to put on an ugly plaid jacket and a loud polka-dot tie and walk down Main Street?

HARRISON

Yes.

BARTLET

Where in the Constitution is that right guaranteed?

HARRISON

First Amendment. Freedom of expression.

BARTLET

See the full post

34 notes - Posted May 3, 2022

#2

"With sorrow"

“With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent.” 

--Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan

dissenting to the decision to strike down Roe v Wade

35 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Quotes from viewers included in the article:

“If you’re planning to see Thor: Love and Thunder and are sensitive to cancer/cancer treatment, it is an extremely prevalent theme and plot driver in the movie,” one viewer warned, adding: “Prepare yourself and take care of yourself if you need to.”

Another viewer said: “No spoilers, but Thor: Love and Thunder SHOULD have had a trigger warning for graphic depiction of cancer and the fact that we didn't know going in is atrocious.”

“If you have medical or cancer triggers, I’d do some light googling on the plot before deciding to see it or not,” another added, with one person stating: “I knew in the comics that Jane has cancer. It’s been mentioned many times since this movie was announced and yet the cancer scenes still hit hard. Prepare yourselves, if you’ve lost anyone to cancer.”

82 notes - Posted July 12, 2022

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[orangcs]

hey, can i walk ya home?

[merry-kuroo]

So, I just read about how Sonic the Hedgehog's personality was modeled after Bill Clinton's.

What am I supposed to do with this information?????

[the-good-the-bad-the-old]

JENSEN FRECKLES

dean and his cute freckles for @feeddoughnut ♡

[marisatomay]

i don’t go here but i just saw a fan art of dean winchester that made him look like bill clinton

[sparksly-mage-of-light]

Started briefly considering past Dottore/Lisa after seeing a bit of fan art, and now I can't stop thinking about it in the context of John Mulaney's bit about his mom and Bill Clinton

[pray4jensen]

i hate this so much. all these newbies are coming in and making shitposts that spread to fucking newsweek and i would not blame misha if he distanced himself from us. i don't care if he joked about it years ago i think all the memes last night went way too far.

i’ve been taking a bit of a break from fandom these last two weeks but yeah, every time i do come on, there’s old news being dredged back up and it’s kind of funny sometimes, but a lot of it is bringing back old discourse and wank? apparently there is an ageism thing going on where new, younger fans think everybody over a certain age is a pervert??? this is literally one of the oldest fandoms on tumblr. i was a teen when i joined this fandom and now i’m in my mid-twenties. there are a lot of fans here in their 60s. literally all the best fic and art and creations on this site are made by older fans??? wild. 15 years of a show!!! @youngfans this isn’t riverdale lmao

but yeah, as for misha, i think he’ll just find the bill clinton stuff funny, but also, he’s been far more involved with politics lately than before, and seeing an old article where he joked about an old president does not reflect well on him when he’s got ties with the upcoming president. we laughed about obama unfollowing that one destiel twitter account but it sure would not be funny if biden unfollowed misha from instagram. that one would hurt.

it’s nice and refreshing to see new faces in fandom! but everybody should take a moment to reflect before they hit post on whatever they’re thinking about. if it’s old news, it’s not new news and chances are, we’ve already seen it! don’t tweet about cockles to celebrities. rps is for fan eyes only. and don’t ask the cast about stuff they did a decade ago! people grow and learn!