#colin hogan

[justalittlesolarpunk]

I’ve teased it. You’ve waited. I’ve procrastinated. You’ve probably forgotten all about it.

But now, finally, I’m here with my solarpunk resources masterpost!

YouTube Channels:

Andrewism

The Solarpunk Scene

Solarpunk Life

Solarpunk Station

Our Changing Climate

Podcasts:

The Joy Report

How To Save A Planet

Demand Utopia

Solarpunk Presents

Outrage and Optimisim

From What If To What Next

Solarpunk Now

Idealistically

The Extinction Rebellion Podcast

The Landworkers' Radio

Wilder

What Could Possibly Go Right?

Frontiers of Commoning

The War on Cars

The Rewild Podcast

Solacene

Imagining Tomorrow

Books (Fiction):

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed The Word for World is Forest

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Phoebe Wagner: When We Hold Each Other Up

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

Brenda J. Pierson: Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

Justine Norton-Kertson: Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology

Sim Kern: The Free People’s Village

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden

Sarina Ulibarri: Glass & Gardens

Books (Non-fiction):

Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom

George Monbiot: Feral

Miles Olson: Unlearn, Rewild

Mark Shepard: Restoration Agriculture

Kristin Ohlson: The Soil Will Save Us

Rowan Hooper: How To Spend A Trillion Dollars

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom At The End of The World

Kimberly Nicholas: Under The Sky We Make

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass

David Miller: Solved

Ayana Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson: All We Can Save

Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are The Weather

Colin Tudge: Six Steps Back To The Land

Edward Wilson: Half-Earth

Natalie Fee: How To Save The World For Free

Kaden Hogan: Humans of Climate Change

Rebecca Huntley: How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future We Choose

Jonathon Porritt: Hope In Hell

Paul Hawken: Regeneration

Mark Maslin: How To Save Our Planet

Katherine Hayhoe: Saving Us

Jimmy Dunson: Building Power While The Lights Are Out

Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin: Prefigurative Politics

Andreas Malm: How To Blow Up A Pipeline

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Almanac For The Anthropocene

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

William MacAskill: What We Owe To The Future

Mikaela Loach: It's Not That Radical

Miles Richardson: Reconnection

David Harvey: Spaces of Hope Rebel Cities

Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth

Zahra Biabani: Climate Optimism

David Ehrenfeld: Becoming Good Ancestors

Stephen Gliessman: Agroecology

Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia

Jon Alexander: Citizens

Leah Thomas: The Intersectional Environmentalist

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book

Jen Bendell, Rupert Read: Deep Adaptation

Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac

Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope

Vandana Shiva: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement

Minouche Shafik: What We Owe To Each Other

Dieter Helm: Net Zero

Chris Goodall: What We Need To Do Now

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote: The Cambridge Companion To The Environmental Humanities

Bella Lack: The Children of The Anthropocene

Hannah Ritchie: Not The End of The World

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry For The Future

Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall: Black Ops & Beaver Bombing

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

Lynne Jones: Sorry For The Inconvenience But This Is An Emergency

Helen Crist: Abundant Earth

Sam Bentley: Good News, Planet Earth!

Timothy Beal: When Time Is Short

Andrew Boyd: I Want A Better Catastrophe

Kristen R. Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia

Elizabeth Cripps: What Climate Justice Means & Why We Should Care

Kylie Flanagan: Climate Resilience

Chris Johnstone, Joanna Macy: Active Hope

Mark Engler: This is an Uprising

Anne Therese Gennari: The Climate Optimist Handbook

Magazines:

Solarpunk Magazine

Positive News

Resurgence & Ecologist

Ethical Consumer

Films (Fiction):

How To Blow Up A Pipeline

The End We Start From

Woman At War

Black Panther

Star Trek

Tomorrowland

Films (Documentary):

2040: How We Can Save The Planet

The People vs Big Oil

Wild Isles

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Generation Green New Deal

Planet Earth III

Video Games:

Terra Nil

Animal Crossing

Gilded Shadows

Anno 2070

Stardew Valley

RPGs:

Solarpunk Futures

Perfect Storm

Advocacy Groups:

A22 Network

Extinction Rebellion

Greenpeace

Friends of The Earth

Green New Deal Rising

Apps:

Ethy

Sojo

BackMarket

Depop

Vinted

Olio

Buy Nothing

Too Good To Go

Websites:

European Co-housing

UK Co-housing

US Co-housing

Brought By Bike (connects you with zero-carbon delivery goods)

ClimateBase (find a sustainable career)

Environmentjob (ditto)

Businesses (🤢):

Ethical Superstore

Hodmedods

Fairtransport/Sail Cargo Alliance

Let me know if you think there’s anything I’ve missed!

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Here are 10 2024 election day races I'll be watching other than the big one. For the record, just because I want to fuck someone, does not mean I'd vote for someone. Unlike emotionally weak people, I can differentiate between the two.

10. West Virginia Gubernatorial Matchup

Incumbent Jim Justice cannot run for re-election in 2024 due to term limits. But I'll get to him later on the list.

Steve Williams (D) vs Patrick Morrisey (R)

Kinda a toss up here as I could live with either one. BUT… if I had to pick, it's going to be Williams. Although I prefer the big boys like Morrisey, Steve is better looking. But going by the polls, Morrisey is the next governor of West Virginia.

9. Maryland Senate Matchup

Incumbent Ben Cardin not running for re-election in 2024.

Angela Alsobrooks (D) vs Larry Hogan (R)

Well… I'm rooting for Hogan here mainly for the thing I had for him. But the the polls have Alsobrooks taking the seat here.

8. Rhode Island Senate Matchup

Incumbent Sheldon Whitehouse (D) vs Patricia Morgan (R)

According to the polls, Whitehouse's seat is safe.

7. Virginia Senate Matchup

Hung Cao (R) vs Incumbent Tim Kaine (D)

According to the polls, it could be a close race, but I think Kaine's seat is safe. Which is good as expect big things from in the future. Maybe another vice presidency run?

6. California House Matchup

Will Rollins (D) vs Ken Calvert (R)

An openly gay man vs a closeted gay man. Allegedly. Allegedly. According to the polls, it's a toss up.

5. Nebraska House Matchup

Don Bacon (R) vs Tony Vargas (D)

I'm rooting for Bacon here. Why you ask? He's handsome. Plus he has a nice set of man tits. And I love tits. Sadly, the polls say he's behind.

4. Missouri Gubernatorial Matchup

Incumbent Mike Parson cannot run for re-election in 2024 due to term limits. Sad as I love Mike.

Mike Kehoe (R) vs Crystal Quade (D)

Mike has it in the bag according to the polls.

3. West Virginia Senate Matchup

Incumbent Joe Manchin not running for re-election in 2024.

Aww… I barely got to know ya.

Jim Justice (R) vs Glenn Elliott (D)

Justice is ahead big. Just like the rest of him.

2. Texas Senate Matchup

Incumbent Ted Cruz (R) vs Colin Allred (D)

According to the polls, this one will be tight. Like I want Ted's ass to be. That right, I'm rooting for Cruz. I know a lot of you hate him, but I still want to leave my goo in him.

1. Montana Senate Matchup

Tim Sheehy (R) vs Incumbent Jon Tester (D)

Currently, Jon is behind. But hopefully he'll pull it out in the end. Something I thought I'd never say about Jon.

[aautiemiller-rockcenter]

NYCDA Nationals Senior Solo Awards

1st-2nd Scored Above 299 3rd-6th Scored Above 298 7th-15th Scored Above 297

Erik Barker - Larkin Dance Studio!

Izzy Howard - Westside Dance Project!

Charlie Head - Downtown Dance Factory

Kendall Moshay - TopFlight Dance

Ava Luna - Dance Academy North Jersey

Koda Nayback - Artflux Dance Lab

Caleb Abea - Larkin Dance Studio

Hannah Elzbet - Performing Dance Arts

Melanie Kalogritsas - Performing Dance Arts

Ayla Rodriguez - Artistic Fusion

Alyssa Carpeneto - Performing Dance Arts

Emerson Rogers - Artistry In Motion WA

Mia Edmonds - The Dallas Conservatory

Ava Crean - Mary Alice's Dance

Nathaniel Chua - NINE Dance Academy, Olivia Gannon - New Dimensions Dance

Raina Wu - Yoko's Dance

Ava Greenwaldt - Golden State Ballet

Zada Britton - Canadian Contemporary Theatre

Noelle Hogan - Brava Dance Center Juliet Judkins - Mid-Atlantic Center

Hayley Wilson - Renner Dance Company

Jaicey Thomas - Renner Dance Company

Luke Barrett - Dance Attack Los Gatos

Malcolm Takumi - CAP The Company

McKenzie Lambert - Renner Dance Company

Jackson Conley - Hoffmans School of Dance

Audrey Zhu - Embody Dance Company

Colin Gross - The Dallas Conservatory

Ella Beatty - Patti Eisenhauer Dance

Gracen? - Artists Revealed Dance

Presli James - North Austin Dance Artists

[dannyreviews]

Veteran British born/based film/TV actors born before and including 1936 still alive:

With the recent death of Dame Maggie Smith, I thought I'd detail the legendary actors of UK cinema and television that are still living as of the date of this post:

Eileen Bennett (b. 1919)

Arnold Yarrow (b. 1920)

Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)

Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1921)

Elisabeth Kirkby (b. 1921)

Sara Luzita (b. 1922)

Annabel Maule (b. 1922)

Paul Harding (b. 1923)

Vincent Ball (b. 1923)

David Lawton (b. 1923)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Donald Pelmear (b. 1924)

Thelma Ruby (b. 1925)

Pete Murray (b. 1925)

Michael Beint (b. 1925)

Shelia Mitchell (b. 1925)

Kerima (b. 1925)

David Attenborough (b. 1926)

Elizabeth Benson (b. 1926)

Margaret Barton (b. 1926)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)

Stanley Baxter (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

William Glover (b. 1926)

Josephine Stuart (b. 1926)

Patricia Davidson (b. 1926)

Barbara Clegg (b. 1926)

Glen Michael (b. 1926)

Araby Lockhart (b. 1926)

Eileen Page (b. 1926)

Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)

Cleo Laine (b. 1927)

Lee Montague (b. 1927)

Genevieve Page (b. 1927)

Neville Phillips (b. 1927)

Jean Lodge (b. 1927)

Barbara Ashcroft (b. 1927)

Jill Freud (b. 1927)

Jean Southern (b. 1927)

Antonia Pemberton (b. 1927)

Peter Cellier (b. 1928)

Jeanette Landis (b. 1928)

Sheila Ballantine (b. 1928)

Dorothea Phillips (b. 1928)

Jeannie Carson (b. 1928)

Hazel Ascot (b. 1928)

Brenda Hogan (b. 1928)

Philip Guard (b. 1928)

Raymond Llewelyn (b. 1928)

Pauline Brailsford (b. 1928)

Leonard Weir (b. 1928)

Kevin Scott (b. 1928)

Tony Hughes (b. 1928)

Joan Plowright (b. 1929)

Patricia Routledge (b. 1929)

Colin Jeavons (b. 1929)

Michael Craig (b. 1929)

Thelma Barlow (b. 1929)

Peter Myers (b. 1929)

Paul Williamson (b. 1929)

John Gale (b. 1929)

Phillip Ross (b. 1929)

Jimmy Fagg (b. 1929)

Hazel Phillips (b. 1929)

Mignon Elkins (b. 1929)

Margaret Stallard (b. 1929)

Maya Koumani (b. 1929)

Clive Revill (b. 1930)

Charles Kay (b. 1930)

Roy Evans (b. 1930)

Una McLean (b. 1930)

Roddy Maude-Roxby (b. 1930)

Ruth Trouncer (b. 1930)

Cyril Appleton (b. 1930)

Vera Frances (b. 1930)

Gary Watson (b. 1930)

Keith Alexander (b. 1930)

Libby Morris (b. 1930)

Pauline Jefferson (b. 1930)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)

Vivian Pickles (b. 1931)

Stanley Meadows (b. 1931)

Gerald Harper (b. 1931)

Patricia Greene (b. 1931)

Ellen McIntosh (b. 1931)

Elvi Hale (b. 1931)

Maureen Connell (b. 1931)

June Laverick (b. 1931)

James Martin (b. 1931)

Denyse Alexander (b. 1931)

Arthur Nightingale (b. 1931)

Eileen Derbyshire (b. 1931)

Carl Held (b. 1931)

Shelia Bernette (b. 1931)

George Eugeniou (b. 1931)

Corinne Skinner-Carter (b. 1931)

Tusse Silberg (b. 1931)

Petula Clark (b. 1932)

Prunella Scales (b. 1932)

Phyllida Law (b. 1932)

Ray Cooney (b. 1932)

Brian Murphy (b. 1932)

Edward De Souza (b. 1932)

Alan Dobie (b. 1932)

John Turner (b. 1932)

Roland Curram (b. 1932)

Gabriel Woolf (b. 1932)

Johnnie Wade (b. 1932)

Eileen Moore (b. 1932)

Laurie Leigh (b. 1932)

William Roache (b. 1932)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

Carmen Munroe (b. 1932)

Norman Bowler (b. 1932)

Marcia Ashton (b. 1932)

Thelma Holt (b. 1932)

Antony Carrick (b. 1932)

Sally Bazely (b. 1932)

Michael Caine (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Sian Phillips (b. 1933)

Sheila Hancock (b. 1933)

Elizabeth Seal (b. 1933)

Shani Willis (b. 1933)

Patrick Godfrey (b. 1933)

Caroline Blakiston (b. 1933)

Donald Douglas (b. 1933)

Ann Firbank (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Frederick (b. 1933)

Marla Landi (b. 1933)

Monte Landis (b. 1933)

Mary Germaine (b. 1933)

Ruth Posner (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

W.B. Brydon (b. 1933)

Robert Gillespie (b. 1933)

Brian Patton (b. 1933)

Arthur White (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

Sally Bazley (b. 1933)

Madhur Jaffrey (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Ann Rogers (b. 1933)

Barbara Knox (b. 1933)

John Boorman (b. 1933)

Derek Martin (b. 1933)

Michael Aspel (b. 1933)

Bill Edwards (b. 1933)

Judi Dench (b. 1934)

Eileen Atkins (b. 1934)

Tom Baker (b. 1934)

Alan Bennett (b. 1934)

Jean Marsh (b. 1934)

Annette Crosbie (b. 1934)

Wendy Craig (b. 1934)

Richard Chamberlain (b. 1934)

Millicent Martin (b. 1934)

John Standing (b. 1934)

Vernon Dobtcheff (b. 1934)

Nanette Newman (b. 1934)

David Burke (b. 1934)

Christopher Benjamin (b. 1934)

Mary Peach (b. 1934)

Geraldine Newman (b. 1934)

Renny Lister (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Leila Hoffman (b. 1934)

Simone Lovell (b. 1934)

Magda Miller (b. 1934)

Robert Aldous (b. 1934)

Ram John Holder (b. 1934)

Jamila Massey (b. 1934)

Margaretta D’Arcy (b. 1934)

Leslie Saeward (b. 1934)

Maurice Podbrey (b. 1934)

Steve Emerson (b. 1934)

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Michael Darlow (b. 1934)

Barbara Archer (b. 1934)

Joy Webster (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Ellis (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Jones (b. 1934)

Julie Andrews (b. 1935)

Julian Glover (b. 1935)

Jim Dale (b. 1935)

Anne Reid (b. 1935)

James Bolam (b. 1935)

Christina Pickles (b. 1935) 

Judy Parfitt (b. 1935)

Wanda Ventham (b. 1935)

Amanda Barrie (b. 1935)

Derren Nesbitt (b. 1935)

Nadim Swalha (b. 1935)

Gary Raymond (b. 1935)

Janet Henfrey (b. 1935)

Melvyn Hayes (b. 1935)

Susan Engel (b. 1935)

Amanda Walker (b. 1935)

Delena Kidd (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Allister Bain (b. 1935)

Derry Power (b. 1935)

Phyllis MacMahon (b. 1935)

Rowena Cooper (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Jill Dixon (b. 1935)

Des Keough (b. 1935)

Barbara Angell (b. 1935)

Lucille Soong (b. 1935)

Anita West (b. 1935)

June Watson (b. 1935)

David Daker (b. 1935)

Shirley Cain (b. 1935)

Bobby Pattinson (b. 1935)

George Roubicek (b. 1935)

Brian Blessed (b. 1936)

Richard Wilson (b. 1936)

Tommy Steele (b. 1936)

Edward Petherbridge (b. 1936) 

Ursula Andress (b. 1936)

John Leyton (b. 1936)

Jess Conrad (b. 1936)

Elizabeth Shepherd (b. 1936)

Sandra Voe (b. 1936)

Doug Sheldon (b. 1936)

John Golightly (b. 1936)

Peter Ellis (b. 1936)

Andria Lawrence (b. 1936)

Jon Laurimore (b. 1936)

Tony Scoggo (b. 1936)

Barry MacGregor (b. 1936)

Frank Barrie (b. 1936)

Kenneth Farrington (b. 1936)

Eileen McCallum (b. 1936)

Frederick Pyne (b. 1936)

Philip Lowrie (b. 1936)

Marian Diamond (b. 1936)

Anthony Higginson (b. 1936)

Elsie Kelly (b. 1936)

Ann Taylor (b. 1936)

Heidi Erich (b. 1936)

Keith Faulkner (b. 1936)

Ruth Meyers (b. 1936)

Julia Blake (b. 1936)

[alldancersaretalented]

Showbiz National Diamond Title Winners and Runner-Up 2006

Daytona Beach

Petite Mr. Showbiz and Petite Miss Showbiz

Nathan Maas - Larkin, Annelisa Ritacca - Temecula

Kaylin Flores - Temecula

Maddie Woltman - Larkin

Junior Mr. Showbiz and Junior Miss Showbiz

Colin Fuller - New Dimensions, Emma Young - Juliana's AoD

Arcadian Broad - New Dimensions, Kelsey Sutter - Larkin

Alec Abercrombie - Larkin, Kiersten Benzing - Robin Dawn APA

Teen Mr. Showbiz and Teen Miss Showbiz

Dare Kujava - Larkin, Brittney Brewer - Temecula

Justin Duke - Temecula, Jenny Kelly - New Dimensions

Lee Gumbs - Fokus PAS, Deidre Rogan - Robin Dawn APA

Senior Mr. Showbiz and Senior Miss. Showbiz

Evan Kasprzak - Juliana's AoD, Nicole Fishman, Fokus PAS

Trumpie Card - Larkin, Rachael Hopkins - Rolann's SotD

Josh Green - Larkin, Christen Snyder - Juliana's AoD

Palm Springs

Petite Mr. Showbiz and Petite Miss Showbiz

Celina Aranda - Dance Rage Elite

Kiana Mariano - DP

Gia Ferrero - Rocky Mountain SoD

Junior Mr. Showbiz and Junior Miss Showbiz

Nicholas Stich - Dance Connection PA, Kartlyn Kazanjian - DP

Brandon Beltran - DP, Kristen Fukuto - WCSA

Nicola Aranda - Dance Rage Elite, Jasmine Mason - DP

Teen Mr. Showbiz and Teen Miss Showbiz

Galen Higgins - Dance Shoppe, Paula Van Oppen, DP

Robert Vail - Dance Connection PA, Ashley Gonzales - DP

Nathan Trasoras - DP, Julianne Jouglard - WCCSA

Senior Mr. Showbiz and Senior Miss. Showbiz

Cooper Zamorano - WCSA, Brittney Baker - WCSA

Justin Boulet - Rocky Mountain SoD, Jessica Gillan - Rocky Mountain SoD

Marshea Kidd - DP, Francine Espiritu - DP

Dallas

Petite Mr. Showbiz and Petite Miss Showbiz

Kennedy Huff - Plano's Dane Expression

Kassidy Buth - Unity Dance Co

Sloan Marak - Ms. Karen's Dance Studio

Junior Mr. Showbiz and Junior Miss Showbiz

Sierra Tuthill - Dallas Power House of Dance

Kate Alberger - Plano's Dance Expression

Courtne' Lee - Chorus Line DC

Teen Mr. Showbiz and Teen Miss Showbiz

Caleb Eklofe - Starstruck PAC, Meredith Jones - Dallas Power House of Dance

Nick Rusin - Stage Door PA, Marissa Vandanacker - Stage Door PA

Anthony Gabriel - Stage Door PA, Taylor McKie - Dancin' Feet

Senior Mr. Showbiz and Senior Miss. Showbiz

Grant Johnson - Stage Door PA, Laurin Hogan - Storm!

Jonathan Maize - Dancer's Studio Etc., Ariel Swinney - Starstruck PAC

Lacee Franks - Stage Door PA

[stevishabitat]

Did I never post this??? Found it in a folder and then searched my posts and apparently I didn't.

Anyway...

My Notes While Watching Daredevil 2003

First, the NYC building lights changing to braille, changing to text? Cool.

DD draped around the cross? Iconic.

DD splatting on the floor of the church? Typical.

My kiddo giggled.

Me: Oh Matty, you're so good at superheroing...

Oh wow, the young!Matt actor looks shockingly like Charlie Cox. Even more so than the kid in the Netflix series (which is fine though, that kid was a hell of an actor!)

Is his dad already retired from boxing at this point?

Special effects for Matt's senses is pretty cool. Possibly better than the 'world on fire' stuff in the series.

Ah, I see. Jack is going back to boxing, to get out from under Fallon's thumb?

No Stick? He's training himself?

Parkour!Matt

Oh damn, he's there in person? Hearing the whole murder?

OK this is all a little over-dramatic.

TF? He's in a sensory isolation tank? Weirdo.

Yikes, that is truly some hair.

LOL, Foggy is Happy Hogan, OMG.

Matt is a little too uptight for my liking. Maybe he'll feel better after punching somebody.

Woah, he's gonna start something in front of all those people? No back alley? Dude, at least take him out to the hallway...

Fuck. Flashing lights. There wasn't even a warning on this.

And apparently no descriptive audio??? Fail. HBO. Absolute fail.

Got my kiddo to tell me when the flashing lights were over. God I hate that shit. My head was already splitting.

Woah. Did he just let that guy die???

No no no. He left a calling card? Who is this? #NotmyMatthew.

He has a secret lair? And/or his apartment is in the church crypt? What even...

Why does Heather sound like she's calling from the 80s?

He just pulled out a tooth. Gross.

Wait wait wait... He *sleeps* in the isolation tank? Dramatic bitch.

Oh, they went full 'Irish priest' on the priest, huh? Irritating. Offensive.

Matt really is uptight. And do he and Foggy even like each other?

Oh its the hot girl radar.

Aaaaaand we get our first blind joke as Foggy has a coronary in the background. This feels more normal.

Oh, Matt, creepy stalker is not a good look.

WTF is this? In broad daylight? I assume this is Elektra?

Did not like any of that.

Well here we have someone who is obviously Fisk. Smarmy looking weasel is Wesley?

Mr. Natchios *daughter* would willingly and easily take your head off, Wilson.

Bullseye is a skinhead? A skinhead who is also Colin Farrell. OK then.

Oh look, finally a good fucking hallway.

You're not the bad guy, huh? You just stand in the rain like a sad puppy and convince yourself.

I love how Foggy assumes he's the plus one.

Why does Foggy put up with him being like that?

Self pity?? Get ahold of yourself Matthew.

"What happens to that lie detector of yours when it detects your own bullshit?"

Good question Fog.

Foggy has to know about his senses then, yeah? But it doesn't seem like he knows about Daredevil? That's... strange.

Oh god, it's the rain trope.

Definitely prefer the boxing ring sex scene. This is boring. Zero chemistry. Possibly because Ben Affleck has no emotional range.

Party time.

All the cigarettes and cigars must be hell for Matt.

Eww, he *sniffed* her. My Matt would never.

Aaaaaand the glasses trope. And now we're sad about his blindness. Gross.

Fight time!

Meh.

Oh damn, that was unexpected. Are we going to pit Elektra against Daredevil now?

Damn, more flashing lights.

Time for guilt and self flagellation...

No no no no.... It's Evanescence, I can no longer take this movie seriously.

Matthew left his billy club behind like an amateur.

Also, I just realized his cane is really short. Like... really short. That's weird. His sighted guide technique seems inconsistent too. Somebody needed more practice.

More Evanescence. Please send help.

Elektra's training montage looks like it was copied straight from BTVS. Could easily have been Eliza Dushku in that scene. In fact, maybe Eliza Dushku would have been better.

Well now what, kids? She's just gonna believe him that it wasn't his fault? Could we get a little emotion from these people?

Bullseye & Elektra fight! And it's over real fast.

Oh no, really? Is she getting fridged? Shit. That's disappointing. I wanted a full-on team-up to take down Kingpin.

Apparently Matt's radar has been knocked out a bit.

I dislike the smugness of this Bullseye. Our Dex was somehow more sympathetic, even if he was a horrible person. Granted, when is Colin Farrell ever sympathetic?

They really went for actors who refuse to emote. It's a whole theme here.

Oh damn, using the church bells against Matt? Clever.

None of these fights are doing it for me.

Damn, Wilson is just gonna Hulk smash our baby.

The lightning is killing me. And now with way too much rain. Like visual snow. Sensory nightmare. Can't even watch this fight.

Mr. Fisk, you've just made yourself an archenemy.

This is better Matt and Foggy banter. I guess Matt got some stuff out of his system. Apparently he's not that sad about Elektra?

Oh, that's a nice t-shirt.

Urich, you aren't gonna out him are you?

Nah, I didn't think so.

Woah. A mid-credits scene? That's a surprise. I recently watched The Incredible Hulk, and mentioned to kiddo that the final scene felt like it should have been a mid-credits scene. But I said that was less of a thing at the time. But this is even older. Weird.

OK. Thoughts. I feel like the entire script needed more editing. I feel like it didn't do enough to make Matt likeable. I needed more Foggy & Matt friendship and less snarking. Idk if part of it was Ben Affleck's acting, making Matt too stoic?

Elektra was incredibly disappointing. Especially the fridging. Yikes. Way to really counteract any build-up of the character and the little bit of agency she had, just to take her out like that. She should have been way more formidable.

There was definitely some cringey moments of ableism and stale blind tropes that easily could have been avoided if they'd had someone read the script with that in mind.

I've lost all respect for Joss Whedon over the years, but I feel like back in 2003, if he'd had the opportunity to edit this script, it would have been better. I kept looking at how they played Elektra, and all of the church imagery and stuff, and it felt almost like a knock-off of Buffy/Angel. So if you're going that route, just get the guy who knows how to do it successfully, right?

Anyway, it scratched a bit of the Daredevil itch. But there was a lot that I feel like could have been so much better with a little more effort on the script, and maybe a few different acting/directing choices.

And it could have had 100% fewer flashing light scenes. Damn, I really didn't remember movies being that bad about that in the early 2000s.

Speaking of the early 2000s, how about that soundtrack, huh? Ode to 2003 pop radio, lol. I had flashbacks to the office I worked in at the time and how the radio station was playing Evanescence like every third song all day long.

[shelbgrey]

Sorting my favorite fictional characters into hogwarts houses because I'm board and I have writers block.

If I have the motivation I'll explain why later or you can commit your thoughts and I'll post them.

Grey's anatomy:

Derek shepherd - Ravenclaw

Meredith Grey - Gryffindor

April Kepner - Hufflepuff

Owen hunt - Gryffindor

Callie Torres - Ravenclaw

Miranda Bailey - Gryffindor

Alex Karev - Slytherin

Jackson avery - Ravenclaw

Arizona Robinson - Hufflepuff

Christina Yang - Askaban

Bridgerton:

Anthony Bridgerton - Slytherin

Benedict Bridgerton - Hufflepuff

Colin Bridgerton - Ravenclaw

Daphne Bridgerton - Gryffindor

Elois Bridgerton - Ravenclaw

Francesca Bridgerton - Hufflepuff

Gregory Bridgerton - Gryffindor

Hyacinth Bridgerton - Hufflepuff

Kate Sharma - Gryffindor

Penelope Fetherington - Ravenclaw

Marvel:

Tony stark - Sylthrin

Steve Rogers - Gryffindor

Clint Barton - Gryffindor

Bruce Banner - Ravenclaw

Thor - Hufflepuff

Natasha Romanoff - Sylthrin

Marc Spector - Gryffindor

Steven Grant - Hufflepuff

Jake Lockly - Slytherin

Scott lang - Hufflepuff

Stephen Strange - Ravenclaw

Wanda Maximoff - Gryffindor

Sam Wilson - Gryffindor

Vision - Ravenclaw

T'challa - Ravenclaw

Bucky Barnes - Sylthrin

Loki - Sylthrin

X-men:

Scott Summers - Gryffindor

Hank McCoy - Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff

Charles Xavier - Gryffindor

Logan Howlett - Slytherin

Jean Grey - Slytherin

Erik Lehnsherr - Slytherin

Storm - Gryffindor

Kurt Wagner - Hufflepuff

Rogue - Gryffindor or Slytherin

Bates motel:

Alex Romero - Gryffindor

Norma Bates - Hufflepuff

Norman Bates - Slytherin

Dylan Massett - Gryffindor

Emma Decody - Ravenclaw

Chick Hogan - Slytherin

Supernatural:

Dean winchester - Gryffindor

Sam Winchester - Ravenclaw

Castiel - Hufflepuff

Charlie Bradbury - Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff

Bobby Singer - Ravenclaw

Jack Kline - Hufflepuff

Lucifer - Slytherin

Gabriel - Gryffindor

Jody Mills - Ravenclaw

Clair Novak - Slytherin

Ghostbusters:

Egon Spengler - Ravenclaw

Peter Venkman - Gryffindor

Ray Stantz - Hufflepuff

Winston Zeddemore - Gryffindor

Bones:

Seeley Booth - Gryffindor

Jack Hodgins - Ravenclaw

Temperance Brennan - Ravenclaw

Lance Sweets - Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff

James Aubrey - Hufflepuff

Zack Addy - Hufflepuff

Angela Montenegro - Gryffindor

Caroline Julian - Gryffindor

Camille Saroyan - Slytherin

Arastoo Vaziri - Ravenclaw

Vincent Nigel-Murray - Hufflepuff

Finn Abernathy - Gryffindor

Colin Fisher - Slytherin

Wendell Bray - Ravenclaw

Daisy wick she shall not be named here - askaban

Once upon a time in... Hollywood

Cliff Booth - Gryffindor

Rick Dalton - Hufflepuff

Sharon Tate - Hufflepuff

The Outsiders:

Sodapop Curtis - Hufflepuff

Ponyboy Curtis - Ravenclaw

Darry Curtis - Gryffindor

Dally Winston - Slytherin

Steve Randle - Hufflepuff

Johnny Cade - Hufflepuff

Two-bit Mathews - Gryffindor

Twilight:

Carlisle Cullen - Ravenclaw

Esme cullen - Hufflepuff

Edward Cullen - Ravenclaw

Emmett Cullen - Gryffindor

Rosalie Hale - Slytherin

Alice Cullen - Hufflepuff

Jasper Hale - Gryffindor

Eleazar Denali - Ravenclaw

Carmen Denali - Gryffindor

Tayna Denali - Hufflepuff

Kate Denali - Gryffindor

Irina Denali - Sylthrin

Garrett - Sylthrin or Gryffindor

Benjamin - Hufflepuff

The Great Gastby:

Jay Gastby - Hufflepuff

Nick Carway - Gryffindor

Jordan Baker - Ravenclaw

Dasiy Buchanan - Hufflepuff

Tom Buchanan - Askaban

Once upon a time:

David Nolan - Gryffindor

Snow white - Hufflepuff

Robin Hood - Gryffindor

Killian Jones - Slytherin

Emma Swan - Gryffindor

Regina Mills - Slytherin

Henry Mills - Ravenclaw

Mr. Gold - Askaban

Belle French - Ravenclaw

Ruby - Gryffindor

August Booth - Ravenclaw

Archie Hopper - Hufflepuff

Elvis Presley's movie characters:

Vince Everett - Gryffindor

Chadwick Gates - Ravenclaw

Clint Reno - Hufflepuff

Steve Grayson - Ravenclaw

Ross Carpenter - Hufflepuff

ER:

Doug Ross - Gryffindor

Mark Greene - Ravenclaw

Susan Lewis - Hufflepuff

Peter Benton - Slytherin

John Carter - Hufflepuff

Ocean's 11:

Danny Ocean - Gryffindor

Rusty Ryan - Slytherin

Linus Caldwell - Hufflepuff

[thealmightyemprex]

DAredevil thoughts part 1

1.Ah stylized credits ,as was the fashion of superhero movie openings at that time

2.so they give Colin Farrel the "And" credit and I dunno ,I think he should be billed third instead of Michael Clark Duncan,simply cause I recall Farrell being in the movie more .Also "And Michael Clark Duncan as the Kingpin " sounds more badass then"And Colin Farrell as Bullseye "

3.I dunno how I feel about the film begining in media res and being an extended narrated flashback

4.BEst version of Daredevils radar sense I have seen ,I like the use of blue

5.So I am not a Daredevil expert ,and I know he was added during the Frank Millar run ,so he hasnt always been apart of Daredevils orgin....But it feels so weird Stick isnt in this movie being Matts mentor

6.Matt stopping Stan Lee from crossing the road is one of my favorite cameos Stan made

7.This is the most 2000'sy soundtrack ever .I kind of love that

8.So while some of the refrences to marvel artists and writers is cute (Kevin Smith plays a character namesd after Jack Kirby and many of the boxers Matts dad faced are named after John Romita,Frank Miller,Brian Michael Bendis,etc ).....naming a rapist after Joe Quesada feels mean and odd

9.It is so weird seeing Jon Favereau in a non MCU Marvel movie.Also weird seeing him playing another put upon sidekick to a superhero , here being pretty perfectly cast as Foggy Nelson ,while in the MCU he is Happy Hogan

10.This movie wants to be both Blade and Spider-Man and you cant be both

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @goodanswerfoxmonster

[celtfather]

Return from County Mayo, Ireland #610

I’m off to travel Ireland on my Celtic Invasion of County Mayo. But I can’t leave without sharing Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #610.

Kalos, Sean Heely & Colin McGlynn, Lily Bentley, Fiddle Folk Family, Cantrip, Alli Johnson, Boxing Robin, The Langer's Ball, Mary Beth Carty, Wolf Loescher & Mark Kenneth, Amelia Hogan, The Elders, Fire In The Glen

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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC

0:02 - Intro: Tartanic

0:09 - Kalos "Nia's/Luke's New House/Roy Michael's" from Headland

4:40 - WELCOME

6:00 - Sean Heely & Colin McGlynn "Two Weeks to Go / Glen Ghillie" from Homeport ~ Port na Dachaigh

Port na Dachaigh  -  Port nah Dak - ig

Glen Ghillie  -  Glenn gilla  - try to through in an H (Gh - illa) there and make it a little guttural like in the Irish tune Mo Ghille Mear

10:53 - Lily Bentley "An Mhaighdean Mhara" from Ways of Calling

An Mhaighdean Mhara  -  Un Vagden Vara

13:06 - Fiddle Folk Family "The irish washerwoman" from Ungeschieden, ungekämmt, ungehört

14:56 - Cantrip "Puirt a’ Beul" from Undark

Puirt a’ Beul  -  This is Scottish, so I may be a little off: Port a bway - ul

21:49 - FEEDBACK

24:34 - Alli Johnson "Highwayman" from Into the Hollows

31:07 - Boxing Robin "An Dro -  Trois Matelots du Port de Brest" from The View From Here

34:56 - The Langer's Ball "Jigs: Charlie Hunter's/Cricket's March Over the Saltbox/Shores of Lough Gowna" from Appetite for Tradition

37:55 - THANKS

39:57 - Mary Beth Carty "Òran Boisdale (Fail ì Fail ò)" from Crossing the Causeway

Òran Boisdale (Fail ì Fail ò)  -  This might be scottish too (?)  -  Ore - awn Boisdale (fall ee fall oh)

44:01 - Wolf Loescher & Mark Kenneth "Rigs o' Rye" from Loescher+Kenneth

47:46 - Amelia Hogan "Dyin' Day" from Taking Flight

51:46 - The Elders "Sister Caroline" from Well Alright Then

56:11 - CLOSING

57:58 - Fire In The Glen "Star of the County Down" from Cutting Bracken

1:01:04 - CREDITS

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Tami Curtis emailed some St Patrick's Day pics: "Cavort had a spectacular week! Here are some shots from the “Big 3 - day weekend”…"

Cheryl Arvio emailed picutres: "Hi Marc, Actually, the St. Patrick's Day weather in Chicago was freeeezing this year, so here are a couple pics from last year. My partner is Walt and our dog is Tara (yeah, like the Hill).

Funny songs? Off the top of my head, you could do a whole set by Gaelic Storm: Johnny Tarr, Don't Go For the One, The Night I Punched Russell Crowe in the Head, The Night Pat Murphy Died, Darcy's Donkey.  Others, done by lotsa bands, Why Paddy's Not At Work Today, Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake, Tim Finnegan's Wake. Can you play the Prodigals? Uncle Arthur, The Drunken Warbler.

Sounds like a fun show, looking forward to it!"

Christine Manbeck emailed St Patrick's Day pictures: "from left: Mayor Frank Cownie, Des Moines; Aoife Scott, singer - songwriter; Tina Manbeck, Host of Celtic Music Show, KFMG 98.9 FM"

The Celtic Music Association of Des Moines in the Friendly Sons of St. Pat’s Parade.

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[cassnderson]

Movies I’ve Watched & Thoroughly Enjoyed

- The Unbelievable Truth (1989) - Dir. Hal Hartley•

- Near Dark (1987) - Dir. Kathryn Bigelow•

- High Plains Drifter (1973) - Dir. Clint Eastwood•

- Crimes of Passion (1984) - Dir. Ken Russel

- The Devils (1971) - Dir. Ken Russel

- True Romance (1993) - Dir. Tony Scott•

- Less Than Zero (1987) - Dir. Marek Kanievska

- Phantom of The Paradise (1974) - Dir. Brian De Palma•

- But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) - Dir. Jamie Babbit

- Sleeper (1973) - Dir. Woody Allen

- Magic in the Moonlight (2014) - Dir. Woody Allen

- Josie and The Pussycats (2001) - Dir. Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, & Marc Webb

- The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - Dir. Blake Edwards•

- Reality Bites (1994) - Dir. Ben Stiller

- Scream (1996) - Dir. Wes Craven

- Tank Girl (1995) - Dir. Rachel Talalay•

- Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - Dir. Steven Soderbergh

- The Before Trilogy (1995) (2004) (2013) - Dir. Richard Linklater

- Lady Bird (2017) - Dir. Greta Gerwig

- Jennifer's Body (2009) - Dir. Karyn Kusama

- Muriel's Wedding (1994) - Dir. P.J. Hogan•

- Blue Velvet (1986) - Dir. David Lynch

- Mulholland Drive (2001) - Dir. David Lynch

- Urban Cowboy (1980) - Dir. James Bridges

- Grey Gardens (2009) - Dir. Michael Sucsy

- Opera (1987) - Dir. Dario Argento - The Palm Beach Story (1942) - Dir. Preston Sturges•

- Weird Science (1985) - Dir. John Hughes•

- Election (1999) - Dir. Alexander Payne

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Dir. Mike Nichols•

- Bottle Rocket (1996) - Dir. Wes Anderson

- Raising Arizona (1987) - Dir. Coen Brothers

- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - Dir. Coen Brothers•

- The Love Witch (2016) - Dir. Anna Biller

- Dream Lover (1993) - Dir. Nicholas Kazan - One From The Heart (1982) - Dir. Francis Ford Coppola•

- Something Wild (1986) - Dir. Jonathan Demme

- Only You (1994) - Dir. Norman Jewison

- Moonstruck (1987) - Dir. Norman Jewison•

- Death Becomes Her (1992) - Dir. Robert Zemeckis

- So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) - Dir. Thomas Schlamme•

- Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Dir. Baz Luhrmann•

- The Craft (1996) - Dir. Andrew Fleming

- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Dir. Federico Fellini

- Society (1989) - Dir. Brian Yuzna

- Murder by Death (1976) - Dir. Robert Moore•

- Better Off Dead… (1985) - Dir. Savage Steve Holland - Trees Lounge (1996) - Dir. Steve Buscemi

- 12 Monkeys (1995) - Dir. Terry Gilliam•

- Death Proof (2007) - Dir. Quinton Tarantino

- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Dir. Frank Capra•

- Chef (2014) - Dir. Jon Favreau

- Possession (1981) - Dir. Andrzej Zulawski

- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) - Dir. David Mirkin

- Amélie (2001) - Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

- Night Shift (1982) - Dir. Ron Howard•

- Paris, Texas (1984) - Dir. Wim Wenders

- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - Dir. John Patrick Shanley•

- The Princess Bride (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner•

- SLC Punk! (1998) - Dir. James Merendino

- Practical Magic (1998) - Dir. Griffin Dunne

- Foul Play (1978) - Dir. Colin Higgins

- The Crush (1993) - Dir. Alan Shapiro

- Ghost World (2001) - Dir. Terry Zwigoff

- Crash (1996) - Dir. David Cronenberg

- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Dir. Robert Fuest

- Can't Buy Me Love (1987) - Dir. Steve Rash

- Cry-Baby (1990) - Dir. John Waters

- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

New in December - Hallmark Movies Now

USS Christmas (2020)  Starring Jen Lilley, Trevor Donovan, and Barbara Niven  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas

Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder (2019)  Starring Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock, Matthew MacCaull, Caitlin Stryker, Lauren Holly, Lucia Walters, Gabrielle Miller, Bruce Dawson, Johannah Newmarch, Nathan Witte, Sarah Smyth, and Nancy Grace  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 8 of 9 

Home for Christmas Day (2017)  Starring Catherine Bell and Victor Webster   Hallmark Movies & Mysteries 

Falling for Vermont (2017)  Starring Julie Gonzalo and Benjamin Ayres   Hallmark Channel / Fall Harvest 

Return to Christmas Creek (2018)  Starring Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar, Steven Weber, and Kari Matchett   Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021)  Starring Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha, Robin Thomas, and  Erin Cahill   Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 6 of 7 

Christmas at the Palace (2018)  Starring Merritt Patterson, Andrew Cooper, and Brittany Bristow   Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Enchanted Christmas (2017)  Starring Alex and Carlos PenaVega  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Our Christmas Journey (2021)  Starring Holly Robins Peete, Lyriq Bent, Aloma Wright, and Nik Sanchez  Hallmark movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

The Angel Tree (2020)  Starring Jill Wagner and Lucas Bryant  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

Jingle Bell Bride (2020)  Starring Julie Gonzalo and Ronnie Rowe  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Christmas Scavenger Hunt (2019)  Starring Kim Shaw, Kevin McGarry, and Tom Arnold  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Autumn Dreams (2015)  Jill Wagner, Colin Egglesfield, and Matty Finochio  Hallmark Channel / Fall Harvest 

Murder She Baked: Just Desserts (2017)  Starring Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven, Lisa Durupt, Gabriel Hogan, Toby Levins, David Lewis, James Rittinger, Karen Holness, Tammy Gillis, and Viv Leacock  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 5 of 5

A Christmas for the Books (2019)  Starring Chelsea Kane, Drew Seeley, and Chad Connell  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

December 1  

Christmas in Vienna (2020)  Starring Sarah Drew and Brennan Elliott  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Boyfriends for Christmas Past (2021)  Starring Catherine Haena Kim, Raymond Ablack, and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence (2019)  Starring Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock, Matthew MacCaull, Lauren Holly, Lucia Walters, and Matty Finochio  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 9 of 9 

December 2  

A December Bride (2016)  Starring Jessica Lowndes and Daniel Lissing  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Christmas in Evergreen (2017)  Starring Ashley Williams, Teddy Sears, Holly Robinson Peete, Jaeda Lily Miller, Marcus Rosner, Barbara Niven, Malcolm Stewart, and Rukiya Bernard  Hallmark Channel / Movie 1 of 4 / Countdown to Christmas 

Falling For You (2018)  Starring Taylor Cole and Tyler Hynes  Hallmark Channel / Fall Harvest

December 15 

Sister Swap: Christmas in the City (2021)  Starring Ashely Williams, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kevin Nealon, Keith D. Robinson, Anna Hollbrook, and Jim Byrnes 

December 22 

Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing (2020)  Starring Rukiya Bernard, Antonio Cayonne, Holly Robinson Pete, Barbara Niven, Malcom Stewart, Marci T. House, Marlon Kazadi, Colin Lawrence, Ashley Williams, ad Jaeda Lily Miller  Hallmark Channel / Movie 4 of 4 / Countdown to Christmas 

Eight Gifts of Hanukkah (2021)  Starring Inbar Lavi and Jake Epstein  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

The Wedding Veil (2022)  Starring Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, Karen Kruper, Fiona Vroom, Catherine Lough Haggquist, and Greg Rogers  Hallmark Channel / New Year New Movies

And More 

[elfwreck]

All 435 Representative seats are up for election (as they are every two years).

Every state is not a contested Senate state - every state doesn't even have senators running in this election. They're elected for 6 years each, in 2-year cycles.

34 Senate seats are up for election this year. 23 of those are currently held by Democrats or Independents, so the Republicans will be pushing hard to get one or two of them and take control of the Senate.

The grey states have no one in the running; there is no way to influence their existing senator balance.

Spots to watch:

West Virginia - Joe Manchin (I, former D) is stepping down; the state leans strongly red and pro-Trump, so this is one to push for activism. Glenn Elliott is the new Democratic candidate. He's running against Jim Justice, the current governor there, and the polls are not in Elliott's favor.

Montana - Jon Tester (D) - Another Democrat in a red state; the only one who holds statewide office in Montana. He's running for re-election against Sheehy.

Ohio - Sherrod Brown (D) running for re-election. Brown is a strong progressive; his opponent is Moreno, who is Trump's pick.

Nevada - Jacky Rosen (D) running for re-election. She's a first-term senator, and Nevada has been tilting blue but isn't strongly there. She's ahead of her opponent (Sam Brown) 47%-40% by some accounts, but almost tied at 41% each in others.

Arizona - Krysten Sinema (I) is stepping downn; Ruben Gallego is the Democrat running against Kari Lake, and numbers are so far in his favor.

Michigan - Debbie Stablenow (D) is retiring; Elissa Slotkin is very likely to be selected to run for her spot. Republicans haven't won a senator's race in Michigan for 30 years, but Trump is popular there. The likely R candidate is Rogers; polls have her about 9 points ahead of him.

Pennsylvania - Bob Casey (D) is running against McCormick; Casey is solidly leading in the polls.

Wisconsin - Tammy Baldwin (D) is likely going against Hovde - and while state polls put Trump ahead of Biden (...hah, those numbers are now all useless), she has a 5-pt lead in the polls.

Maryland - Angela Alsobrooks (D) won the nomination to go after retiring Ben Cardin's spot. This would be a non-competitive race (Biden was up 30 points in the last election), but she's running against a former governor, Larry Hogan. Hogan is trying to call himself a moderate; his track record doesn't show that.

Texas - Ted Cruz (R) is the incumbent; Colin Allred is his competition, and it's looking like a fairly close race - recent polls are 47/44 in favor of Cruz, but that's within the range of change.

This has a map with all the races:

even if you're resigned that trump is going to win, 1/3 of the country lives in states with competitive senate elections. if democrats win the senate, there is very little that trump can do (can't even appoint supreme court nominees)

the following states all have competitive senate elections:

arizona

florida

maryland

michigan

montana

nevada

ohio

pennsylvania

texas

wisconsin

even if you don't think your state is competitive at all, THESE SENATE RACES STILL ARE, SO IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THESE STATES, MAKE SURE TO VOTE

and even if you don't live in one of those states, you could live in a competitive house seat. if democrats win the house, then trump can't pass any bills

and even if you don't live in a competitive state or district, your local elections matter even more than federal ones because they have a much more direct impact on your life

so VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

[ivankahasbeentreatedsounfairly]

Former President Donald J. Trump drew criticism from several fellow Republicans on Sunday for his demeaning insults of Vice President Kamala Harris, a day after he called her “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired” at a rally.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pushed back on Mr. Trump’s remarks on Sunday. “I just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country,” Mr. Graham said on CNN, adding that he did not think Ms. Harris was crazy but did think her policies were.

Representative Tom Emmer — a Minnesota Republican who has been helping Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Trump’s running mate, prepare for his upcoming debate — also sought to distance himself from Mr. Trump’s personal attacks. “I think we should stick to the issues,” Mr. Emmer said on ABC News.

Larry Hogan, a former Republican governor of Maryland who is currently running for the Senate, offered a sharper rebuke.

“I think that’s insulting not only to the vice president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities,” Mr. Hogan, who has often criticized Mr. Trump in the past, said on CBS News. “I’ve said for years that Trump’s divisive rhetoric is something we can do without.”

Steven Cheung, the communications director for the Trump campaign, did not directly address Mr. Trump’s insults or the critical responses they had prompted. He instead argued that Ms. Harris’s record on immigration and border security made her “wholly unfit to serve as president.”

In a statement, Mr. Cheung added that “her abhorrent dereliction of duty” at the border allowed criminals to “pour into our country to terrorize communities.”

Mr. Trump has long made personal attacks against Ms. Harris, even as some campaign advisers and Republican allies have urged him to stick to bread-and-butter policy issues that appeal to large swaths of voters. He has often demeaned her and questioned her racial identity, but at a rally in Prairie du Chien, Wis., on Saturday, he escalated those attacks, with a series of insults questioning her mental fitness.

“Joe Biden became mentally impaired,” Mr. Trump said. “Kamala was born that way.”

Mr. Trump’s remarks — which he himself described as “dark” — came a day after Ms. Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches in a generation on immigration and border security. Mr. Trump repeated some of the insults at a rally Sunday afternoon in Erie, Pa., saying “there’s something wrong with Kamala.”

Democrats also seized on his comments. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois criticized Mr. Trump’s remarks as “name-calling” on CNN.

“Whenever he says things like that, he’s talking about himself but trying to project it onto others,” Mr. Pritzker said.

Eric Holder, the former attorney general who served in the Obama administration, went further, suggesting that Mr. Trump’s comments indicated “cognitive decline.”

“Trump made a great deal of the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden,” Mr. Holder said on MSNBC. “If this is where he is now, where is he going to be three and four years from now?”

After Mr. Trump’s remarks on Saturday, the Harris campaign declined to comment on his personal attacks. A campaign spokeswoman, Sarafina Chitika, said in a statement that Mr. Trump offered “darkness” to voters rather than inspiration.

Just hours after Mr. Trump made the remarks, “Saturday Night Live” was joking about them as it opened its 50th season. “I cannot believe that Trump admitted he lost the debate to a mentally disabled person,” Colin Jost said on the show’s “Weekend Update” segment.

The American Association of People with Disabilities, a nonpartisan advocacy group, criticized Mr. Trump’s comments as both inaccurate and harmful.

“Trump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,” Maria Town, the group’s president and chief executive, said in a statement. “Presidential history indicates that we’ve had many presidents who had disabilities.”

New York Times

By Simon J. Levien

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/politics/trump-insults-harris-republicans.html

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Book Review - The Phoenix Ballroom by Ruth Hogan

Little note: I received an ARC from a contest, but I hadn't gotten around to reading it until now, but all opinions are my own.

A lovely, cozy read that brings together so many lonely characters into one warm family. I adored Venetia and her spunk, completely refusing to be labeled into the elderly and helpless box just because of her age. Liberty and the slow but gradual way she found her own voice instead of letting things pass her by. Swan was absolutely hilarious, I've never thought I would see a person so much like the bird, but that older lady was an absolute hoot but also sweet in her own way too. Colin Firth, the rescued German Shepherd, stole my heart though with his fuzziness. The only reason I give this 4 stars instead of 5 is because I greatly disliked the solution to the secret left behind by Venetia's departed husband, which led to a secret life and relationship he held for years, and the whole thing felt a little unnecessary and like someone was checking off a box to make sure that certain themes were included, but still a great read. 

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Ship ideas or wishlists for Maria for the verses you have maybe? Canon and OC ofc

//Oooohhhh this is an excellent question.... uhm okay, I think this is a bit hard for me because I've had Maria so long and some ships like I adore but I don't know if they'd work with other rpers (i.e not the originals). I'm also not massively open about canon characters I could ship her with because I don't want anyone to feel.... pressure so to speak. The questions come up though so let's put my fears aside and go for it. I've also not added any canon characters that I'm already writing.

I'm not going to specify Original Characters because honestly just throw them all at me. I've divided the canon characters up by fandom but then I've put general scenarios at the bottom!

Bond!Verse I don't really have any additional ships that I'm like hungry for..... Marvel RP Verse

Canon Characters: Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, James Rhodey, Happy Hogan, Loki, Bucky, Yondu, Strange, Alexei, Ego, The Grandmaster, Hank McCoy, Logan, Colossus,

Batman RP Verse

Canon Characters: Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, Harvey Bullock, Jim Gordon, The Penguin (Colin Farrell specifically), Alfred Pennyworth, Zod, Ares.

Game of Thrones RP Verse

Canon Characters: Bronn, Sandor Clegane, Tywin Lannister, Tyrion, Jorah, Tormund, Petyr Baelish

Bridgerton RP Verse

Canon Characters: Benedict is honestly the only one that comes to mind for Bridgerton in terms of who people would actually play and the characters we've seen canon wise.....

General - From a variety of franchises

Canon Characters: Archie Hopper (OUAT), Sherlock (BBC Sherlock), Lestrade (BBC Sherlock), Hook (Hook), Giles (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean) - There have to be so many more. Various monsters - Vampires/Dracula, Werewolves, Frankensteins, Aliens...

Star Trek RP Verse (Though I haven't rewritten this verse yet). - Movie based/Original Series/Enterprise

Canon Characters: Leonard McCoy, Spock, Scotty, Phlox, Archer, Khan.

The Boys RP Verse

Canon Characters: Homelander, Billy Butcher, Hugh Campbell (YES Hughie's dad).

SCENARIOS/TROPES I LOVE:

SUNSHINE X GRUMPY (Maria is Sunshine)

Hard Stoic men soft for Maria

Maria saving the people she loves

Soft nice guys being protected by Maria

Maria teaching someone love/to love themselves

Maria showing people they're worthy of love.

Villains soft for Maria

Villains turning Maria into a villain

Evil Maria helping villains get more power/being in the most toxic relationships - power, blood, pain, all that.

Fighting for each other.

Mutual Pining

Different stations in life - rich/poor, lady/stable boy, knight/princess

Forbidden Romance.

Opposites attract.

Soft with soft.

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#ColinFirth se une a elenco de #YoungSherlock de #PrimeVideo y #GuyRitchie √

Colin Firth se ha unido a Young Sherlock, la nueva serie de Guy Ritchie para Prime Video, que cuenta la historia del origen del querido detective de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Se une al reparto anterior formado por Hero Fiennes, Zine Tseng, Joseph Fiennes y Natascha McElhone. Guy Ritchie, Hero Fiennes Tiffin / Imágenes cortesía Kathy Hutchins/Hutchins Photo; Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images Escrita por…