#dallas anti aging

[healthcareservicesdallas]

Tips and Tricks for Anti Aging in Dallas

Are you ready to turn back the clock and reclaim your youthful glow? Aging is a natural process, but with the right tips and tricks, you can slow it down and maintain radiant skin for years to come. In Dallas, there are plenty of options for anti aging treatments that can help you look and feel your best. From skincare routines to innovative procedures, let’s explore some easy-to-follow tips and tricks to help you achieve ageless beauty.

Understanding Anti Aging

Before we dive into specific treatments and techniques, it’s essential to understand what causes aging and how we can address it. Aging occurs due to a combination of factors, including genetics, lifestyle choices, and environmental influences. As we age, our skin loses elasticity, collagen production slows down, and wrinkles start to appear. However, by taking proactive steps, we can minimize the visible signs of aging and maintain a youthful appearance.

Skincare Essentials

A solid skincare routine is the foundation of any anti aging regimen. Start by cleansing your skin twice daily to remove dirt, oil, and impurities that can clog pores and lead to breakouts. Choose a gentle cleanser suited to your skin type, whether it’s dry, oily, or combination. After cleansing, apply a moisturizer to hydrate and nourish your skin, helping to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Look for products containing ingredients like retinol, vitamin C, and hyaluronic acid, known for their anti aging properties.

Protect Your Skin from the Sun

One of the most effective ways to prevent premature aging is by protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays. Exposure to sunlight can accelerate the aging process, leading to wrinkles, age spots, and sagging skin. Make sunscreen a daily essential, even on cloudy days, and reapply every two hours when outdoors. Opt for a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher to ensure adequate protection against both UVA and UVB rays.

Eat a Balanced Diet

What you eat can have a significant impact on your skin’s health and overall appearance. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and healthy fats provides essential nutrients that support skin health and combat aging from within. Incorporate foods high in antioxidants, such as berries, leafy greens, and nuts, to help protect your skin from free radical damage and promote a youthful complexion. Additionally, staying hydrated by drinking plenty of water helps maintain skin elasticity and suppleness.

Get Plenty of Sleep

Quality sleep is essential for skin rejuvenation and repair. Aim for seven to nine hours of sleep per night to allow your body ample time to rest and regenerate. During sleep, your body produces collagen, a protein that helps keep your skin firm and youthful. Lack of sleep can lead to dark circles, dull skin, and fine lines, so prioritize getting enough shut-eye for a radiant complexion.

Explore Anti Aging Treatments

In addition to a diligent skincare routine and healthy lifestyle habits, there are various anti aging treatments available in Dallas to address specific concerns and target signs of aging. From facials and chemical peels to injectables like Botox and dermal fillers, there’s something for everyone looking to rejuvenate their skin. These treatments are performed by skilled professionals who can customize a plan tailored to your unique needs and goals.

Top Notch Vitality: Your Supporter in Ageless Beauty

When it comes to anti aging treatments in Dallas, Top Notch Vitality is a name you can trust. With a team of experienced professionals and a commitment to excellence, Top Notch Vitality offers a range of innovative treatments designed to help you achieve your desired results. From personalized skincare routines to advanced procedures, their experts will guide you every step of the way to a more youthful, radiant complexion.

Conclusion

Achieving ageless beauty is possible with the right combination of skincare practices, healthy habits, and professional treatments. By following these tips and exploring anti aging options available in Dallas, you can maintain a youthful appearance and feel confident in your skin at any age. Remember, consistency is key, so stick to your skincare routine and prioritize self-care to reap the benefits of a glowing complexion. With Top Notch Vitality by your side, your journey to ageless beauty starts here!

So why wait? Schedule a consultation with Top Notch Vitality today and discover the transformative power of advanced anti aging treatments in Dallas. Your skin will thank you for it!

Original Source: https://healthcareservicesdallas.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/tips-and-tricks-for-anti-aging-in-dallas/

[momo-kanjaki]

THIS.

I risk repeating myself, but this is for all those who say that Zutara can't happen because of the age difference of the actors :

Let's be clear, if Zutara does not arrive, it will certainly be because they want to stick more to the original series. But not for a question of age. Whether you like it or not, whether you find it moral or not (and it is your most total and legitimate right), Netflix has already proven that the age difference between the actors does not stop them (especially that physically, it will not cause a shock like with Kataang).

So please stop saying that the ship won't happen because of the age difference between the actors, it's getting ridiculous and infuriating. If Zutara doesn't happen, it will be for different reasons.

[cosmos-tent]

🎪🌠System Intro🌠🎪

It has recently come to our attention that we haven’t posted an intro on this blog so here you go this may be crude but it’ll do.

Hey sysblr we’re the Greaser System a mixed origins system of 100+.

Collective Name(s): Cosmic, Alien, Star

Collective pronouns: ve/vim, angel/angels or it/its

Frequent Fronters

Jaybird: Host, Hypochondria-holder, will probably be posting the most uses xe/xir pronouns, therian, rq neu. 🦇⭐

Kyle: Co-host, Moralist, Gateway of South Parks Kyle. Uses he/him or alien/alienself, alienkin, rq neu leaning to pro.

Darry: Protector, Caregiver, doesn’t post often uses he/him only. rq-neu

Dallas: Persecutor/antagonist/HPD-holder, interact with care/at your own risk, posts a lot, is dating Jeff, uses he/him, radqueer.

Jeff: Persecutor/aggressor, interact with care, posts frequently, dating Dallas (and annoying about it), uses he/him, maim/maims, and torture/tortures. pro-rq.

DNI: basic dni, pro-contact paras, ANTI-RADQUEER, anti endos, transmeds, TERFs, Gender Criticals, exclusionists, those who believe in “cluster b abuse”, those who believe in “spiritual psychosis”, anti age/pet regression, and due to personal issues blogs about food/food intake, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and/or other fatal illnesses because they trigger our hypochondria.

Credit for the 2nd userbix goes to @/thestarscapesystem

proud partnerer of @byrder

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Kissinger’s unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin America

In Chile, leftists were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped. In Argentina, many were “disappeared” by members of the brutal military dictatorship that held detainees in concentration camps.

It all happened with the endorsement of Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state who died Wednesday at age 100.

As tributes poured in for the towering figure who was the top U.S. diplomat under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the mood was decidedly different in South America, where many countries were scarred deeply during the Cold War by human rights abuses inflicted in the name of anti-communism and where many continue to harbor a deep distrust of their powerful neighbor to the north.

“I don’t know of any U.S. citizen who is more deplored, more disliked in Latin America than Henry Kissinger,” said Stephen Rabe, a retired University of Texas at Dallas history professor who wrote a book about Kissinger’s relationship with Latin America. “You know, the reality is, if he had traveled once democracy returned to Argentina, to Brazil, to Uruguay — if he had traveled to any of those countries he would have been immediately arrested.”

Continue reading,

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

A house in virginia.

House in Virginia clinics are hard. Just emotionally. A couple of my patients joke about it in the way you have to alleviate the pain, "let's call it a house in virginia"

All the history particularly of the older patients who lived this crazy experience in the 80s epidemic days before the age of HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapies) can be particularly soul destroying - if it wasn't for their upbeat outlook on life having survived. I had a hard time but an illuminating one watching the Dallas Buyers Club. Because now we treat it like we treat any other chronic disease, it's mostly manageable, liveable. So long as you take that one tablet a day.

Think about my LGBTQIA friends all the time after these clinics. How different everyone's lives are now compared to 30-40 yrs ago. We are the lucky ones. Would my friends have survived had they been born in another country or another decade. They have access to PrEP if they need it. I try not to contemplate this. But these clinics do hit me in the face from time to time.

[92til]

Train Your Brain Effortlessly For Optimal Performance

There are more than a couple dozen legitimate companies producing brain entrainment software, then there are subliminals both video and audio, software to take advantage of brain plasticity and even anti-aging software. Brain games, teasers, brain music, logic puzzles, strategy games, chess and more are found everywhere including smart software that learns from your performance to crossword click here to learn more puzzles found at your grocery store... Discover what's the driving force behind this mind brain explosion and what kind of results can you expect.

As you age past 30 and well beyond, evidence shows the brain will slow down but only if not maintained through challenging new brain exercise and stimulation. You can speed your brain up and improve even your most basic cognitive abilities at any age.

Recent studies have shown that brain training software can be effective in cognitive functions including visual and auditory processing, working memory, attention, and decision-making. As a result , effects can increase IQ , improve focus and concentration, experience clearer and quicker thinking, increased alertness and awareness,  spur creative and profitable ideas, improve relationships, even model success and attract wealth, really. There has been significant breakthroughs and approvals in brain training software for rehabilitation of stroke and traumatic brain Injury patients as well

Bob Moos of the Dallas Morning News recently reported and listed testimonials and proof that seniors are using brain training software to sharpen their minds and maintain more than enough brain function to enjoy activities once thought taboo for the elderly as motorcycle riding. He also states  this new audio PC based brain training software is part of a $225 million-a-year brain fitness industry. Even during the recession , experts show explosive growth.

Consumers can choose from brain enhancement software as brainwave entrainment, subliminal audio and visual training, audio cortex training , brain fitness software, brain entrainment and subliminals for your MP3 player or phone,  even Nintendo has popular hand held brain improvement games . There are brain workout websites and games , puzzles , brain teaser designed to exercise your brain in a fun and stimulating way. Mental exercise improves blood flow to the brain over the long term and the benefits of brain health that comes with this.  Brain music has been proven to optimize and stimulate brainwaves, neurons while you're simply listening to comforting music.

In another recent study reported by a Washington post staff writer, mentally challenging activities for adults also prove them performing  better in ordinary tasks such as checking the ingredients on a medicine bottle or looking up a number in a phone book -- and this effect can last for years...  Optimizing intellectual skills can strengthen your mind analogous to the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body.  A new study from London, even shows that winded physical exercise is more of a boost to mental skills and quickness of thought processing.

[jerzwriter]

List of Your Ten Childhood Ships

Thanks @thefirstcourtesan for tagging me. I'm so showing my age here, lol I'm going to count "childhood" right up through the end of high school for these purposes. God, I'm straining my brain. lol What's sad is, outside of Jodie Dallas on Soap, I cannot even recall a queer character, much less pairing, from my childhood. How sad is that? So this list is def hetero as it comes.

This is in no order - not really...

Princess Leia and Han Solo - Star Wars: OK, this was THE couple of my childhood. I was OBSESSED and still am. There was NO better movie than The Empire Strikes Back. The "I love you." "I know." sequence. Goddamn, I've always had a type; it goes back to childhood. I'm ashamed (not really).

Lando Calrissian & Princess Leia - Star Wars: OK - this is bringing back memories - and this is fucking crazy - I did write fanfic as a kid, and it was a Han/Leia/Lando triangle (as good as a 5th grader can write...). God, I'd kill to have that notebook now, and OMG, what a predictor for DTI. 😂😂😂 Even as a tween, I knew that would have been some juicy triangle that never came to be. lol

Sandy & Danny - Grease: Some asides. I was WAY too young to be watching this when it was out (my Mom was insane). Most of it went over my head, and in retrospect, I am so anti-most messages in Grease - but that doesn't mean I don't still love it. I do. And OMG How I loved Sandy & Danny and danced around my living room pretending I was them. lol

Jessie & Angie - All My Children: I was a soap junkie, so I have a lot of soap ships - but this is one of my all-time favorites. A modern-day Romeo & Juliet, and the soap world's first true black super-couple. Angie's well-to-do family forbade a relationship with her obvious soulmate, Jesse. They eventually got together, but in true soap fashion, that didn't last. A death that wasn't really a death, among other things, impeded. But how I remember watching those summers and rushing home from school to check the VCR and pray it recorded. lol OLD SCHOOL!

Kevin & Winnie - The Wonder Years: This was the sweetest show and first love story. The ending was so poignant and probably led to my penchant for beautiful but heart-wrenching endings. I need to rewatch this sometime.

Maddie & David - Moonlighting: This one makes me sad, thinking of Bruce Willis's current condition. 😢 These two drove each other crazy, but the sexual tension radiated from the TV screen. They were the ultimate "will they???" couple, and even when they did, they still never really got it together, but that didn't mean I stopped rooting for them. Sadly, this show is just about completely not available on streaming/reruns due to musical copyright issues.

Nina Cortland & Cliff Warner - All My Children: Told you. I was a soap addict, and AMC will forever be my favorite show. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember that their wedding took place THE DAY that we went back to school, and my prepubescent little girlfriends and I LOST OUR SHIT. This wasn't the days of reruns, this wasn't the days of DVR, this wasn't even the days of Soap Central (y'all don't even know what that is). These were the days of "You missed it, bitch - so sad." And I was...I was...

Maria & Georg - The Sound of Music: OK - I loved musicals from a very young age, and I am forever obsessed with The Sound of Music. I had a mad crush on Georg as a young girl, proof that assholes with a heart underneath it all have ALWAYS been my thing. lol

Dwayne & Whitley - A Different World: It was not a pairing I liked the idea of - initially. Whitley was such a spoiled, obnoxious, rich princess at the start, and Dwayne didn't seem like he'd ever have a chance, but as time moved on, they made it work, and I tuned in each week, dying for them to finally get together.

John & Claire: The Breakfast Club - What can I say - I have a type? lol This was the iconic couple of my teen years, and if had been writing fanfic at that time, I would have had a treasure trove for them.

Tagging @jamespotterthefirst @liaromancewriter @lucy-268 @genevievemd @angelasscribbles @icecoffee90 @cariantha @doriopenheart @peonierose @potionsprefect @coffeeheartaddict2 @lilyoffandoms @storyofmychoices @annoyingmillenialnewbie @utterlyinevitable and anyone who wishes to jump in and play!

[infinitemonkeytheory]

It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous place for abortion providers than Texas. Doctors who perform abortions face up to life in prison, with civil penalties of at least $100,000. That’s to say nothing of the physical risks: violence against providers and clinics has skyrocketed since Roe was overturned, with a 2022 study showing major increases in stalking, death threats, and invasions.

So you can imagine how OBGYNs felt when they got an email last month from the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG) telling them they’d have to take their certifying exams in Texas this year.

[…]

ABOG, headquartered in Dallas, is telling candidates that they “should not be at legal risk” because Texas’ criminal and civil penalties only apply to abortions performed in the state. But the group hasn’t addressed the danger for doctors in pro-choice states who ship abortion medication to Texas patients via telehealth—potentially a tremendous criminal risk.

It was also just last week that a group of Republican attorneys general, including Texas AG Ken Paxton, pushed the Biden administration to allow them access to medical records of those who get out-of-state abortions. So if there’s a question of how broadly Texas law enforcement plans to interpret their ban, it seems fair that doctors would want to err on the side of caution.

Especially considering that the exam itself necessitates that some doctors talk about their work in abortion care: In order to be certified, OBGYNs must prepare a list of cases that they’ve worked on and are ready to discuss with a panel of examiners.

For OBGYNs of reproductive age, the threat of traveling to Texas goes beyond legal concerns. Those who are pregnant or considering becoming pregnant aren’t keen on being in a state that would rather let them die than provide them an abortion.

And while ABOG says they have a partnership with a nearby hospital offering “high standards of obstetrical care in medical emergencies,” pregnant OBGYNs know better than anyone what the standard of care is—and that they’ll be unable to get it in Texas. After all, the state is being sued right now by 15 women whose lives and health were endangered by the ban.

There’s also something uniquely terrifying about the idea of hundreds of OBGYNs, many of whom perform abortions, all descending on one publicly-listed building at the same time in a state filled with anti-abortion sentiment, few gun regulations, and a recent spate of mass shootings. (ABOG’s emailed promise that their staff is trained in “active shooter response” isn’t all that reassuring.)

Given the legal, physical, and emotional threats to doctors—testing-taking is anxiety-inducing enough in a state where you’re not afraid of being arrested or killed—there’s no real justification for ABOG’s decision.

It’s plainly unethical to ask doctors to put their freedom and lives at risk over an exam that could be given remotely or in another state.

[…]

Given that the exams have been successfully conducted remotely, and that ABOG is explicit in their support for reproductive rights—even threatening to revoke the board certification of doctors who spread misinformation about the procedure—some OBGYNs believe the organization’s insistence on holding the exams in Texas must be a financial one.

[healthcareservicesdallas]

Identify the Causes of Golfer's Elbow

Golfer’s elbow Dallas, a condition characterized by pain and inflammation on the inner side of the elbow, is not exclusive to golfers. It can affect anyone engaging in repetitive wrist and forearm motions. At Top Notch Vitality, we recognize the importance of identifying the causes of golfer’s elbow to empower individuals with the knowledge needed for prevention and effective treatment.

Repetitive Movements:

A primary culprit behind a golfer’s elbow is repetitive movements, particularly those associated with sports like golf. Whether you’re perfecting your swing on the golf course or participating in activities involving continuous gripping and flexing of the wrist, the repetitive nature of these motions can lead to strain and inflammation in the tendons.

Incorrect Technique:

Using improper techniques during physical activities can significantly increase the risk of a golfer’s elbow. It’s crucial to pay attention to your form, especially in sports like golf, tennis, or weightlifting, where incorrect techniques can place excessive stress on the inner tendons of the elbow.

Overuse and Strain:

Overusing the forearm muscles without allowing sufficient time for rest and recovery is a common cause of the golfer’s elbow. Intense physical activities without proper breaks can contribute to the development of this condition.

Lack of Warm-up and Stretching:

Skipping warm-up exercises and neglecting proper stretching before engaging in physical activities can leave your muscles and tendons vulnerable to injury. Adequate warm-up routines and stretching are crucial in preventing a golfer’s elbow.

Age and Health Factors:

Age can be a contributing factor, as tendons become less flexible with aging, making them more susceptible to injury. Additionally, individuals with certain health conditions, such as arthritis, may be at a higher risk of developing a golfer’s elbow.

Prevention Strategies:

Preventing a golfer’s elbow involves adopting proper techniques, incorporating regular breaks, warming up adequately, and maintaining overall arm strength and flexibility. Top Notch Vitality recommends consulting with healthcare professionals or specialists for personalized advice based on your specific needs and activities.

Seeking Timely Treatment:

If you suspect you have a golfer’s elbow or are experiencing persistent pain, seeking timely treatment is essential. Rest, ice, physical therapy, and, in some cases, anti-inflammatory medications may be recommended to alleviate symptoms and promote healing.

Conclusion:

Understanding the causes of golfer’s elbow empowers individuals to take proactive steps toward prevention and seek timely treatment when needed. At Top Notch Vitality, we advocate for a holistic approach to health, emphasizing the importance of informed choices for a pain-free and active lifestyle.

By embracing this knowledge and incorporating preventive measures, individuals can confidently navigate their activities, knowing they are taking the necessary steps to protect their elbow health. For more insights into health and wellness, trust Top Notch Vitality as your partner in achieving and maintaining a vibrant life.

Original Source: https://jacobjose.livejournal.com/315.html

[kirsten-is-writing]

Angel Of Death

SYNOPSIS

‘ WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, WE TAKE IT DAY BY DAY — IF YOU WANT IT YOU’RE GOING TO BLEED, BUT IT’S THE PRICE YOU PAY ’

Kaya has been struggling to make ends meet for months - working at a local coffee shop in downtown Dallas that doesn’t pay her well, her ancient car keeps breaking on her, and her landlord keeps changing rent every other month so his niece can live there in luxury. When she goes to get her car back from the dealership, she meets a new face there—Ezekiel. Over the coming months, she starts seeing him here and there…then down the hall from her apartment’s door. As the two slowly get more comfortable with each other, so do his secrets.

CAST

Kaya Blackfoot | ‘resting place’, ‘restoration’ the tired one thrusted into a world of anti-heroes and those who crave destruction

Ezekiel Huerta-Tochihuitl | ‘strength of God’ the broken oldest and only son fighting for his murdered father

Buster Easton | ‘tough guy’ the “righteous” one who wants to right the wrongs to his city

Ethan Anders | ‘strong’, ‘safe’, ‘solid’, ‘firm’ the trusted one

Laura | ‘bay laurel plant’ the coworker

Maria Huerta-Tochihuitl | ‘of the sea’, ‘bitter’, ‘beloved’, ‘rebellious’ the oldest sister and a nurse

Lucia Huerta-Tochihuitl | ‘light’ the second oldest sister

Verónica Huerta-Tochihuitl | ‘she who brings victory’, ‘true image’ the last and youngest sister

Mama Frida | ‘peace’ the mother to the four siblings

PLAYLIST

Welcome To The Jungle | Guns N’ Roses

Little Dark Age | MGMT

Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) | Journey

AVOID ME | KUTE

Delicate | Taylor Swift

Look What You Made Me Do | Taylor Swift

The Great War | Taylor Swift

Reborn | Colin Stetson

Flight | Hans Zimmer

The Only Thing They Fear Is You | Necromorphic Despair

Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Taylor’s Version) | Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar

Judas | Lady Gaga

Gilded Lily - Sped Up | Cults

Blue Monday | Alala

human | Christina Perri

American | Lana Del Rey

Superman (Taylor’s Version) | Taylor Swift

Pompeii MMXXIII | Bastille, Hans Zimmer

Can You Feel My Heart | Bring Me The Horizon

Mastermind | Taylor Swift

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, known for his anti-LGBTQ+ views, has sued a doctor in the state for providing gender-affirming care to young people, the first such suit in the nation. Paxton filed the suit Thursday in Collin County District Court against May C. Lau, MD, a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a practitioner at that city's Children's Health Center. He alleges that Lau violated Texas’s law against gender-affirming care for transgender minors by providing cross-sex hormones to at least 21 young people for the purpose of gender transition. He also claims she violated the state’s business and commercial code by engaging in “false, misleading, and deceptive acts and practices to mislead pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions are for something other than transitioning a child’s biological sex or affirming a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex,” as the suit puts it.

“Growing scientific evidence strongly suggests that ‘gender transition’ interventions prescribed to or performed on children in an attempt to anatomically or hormonally alter their biological sex characteristics have damaging, long-term consequences,” says a press release from Paxton’s office. “Additionally, the prohibited treatments are experimental, and no scientific evidence supports their supposed benefits.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, known for his anti-LGBTQ+ views, has sued a doctor in the state for providing gender-affirming care to young people, the first such suit in the nation. This is not true. Such treatments are not considered experimental, and they have been shown to have positive and even lifesaving effects on youth people. This care is supported by every major medical group in the U.S.

Anti-trans extremist Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) files a politically-motivated lawsuit against Dr. May C. Lau, MD, a practitioner at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Children's Health Center for providing gender-affirming care services for trans youths.

The Texas v. Lau suit pushed the lie that gender-affirming care treatments are “experimental” and “dangerous.”

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Texas sues doctor for providing gender-affirming care in first of its kind lawsuit

[eternalhealingau]

Things I should clarify:

Before I start posting that is….

I don’t condone drug use or any kind of alcoholic/addictive consumption. But this AU might contain those themes

Because it involves Greek Mythos, there will be a bunch of nsfw themes (for instance…..Zeus…..need I say more). So if you’re under the age of 18 or if you’re not mature enough to handle such matters where you’re not desensitized to it, then this AU might not be your your alley.

I do touch on certain current news topics to make it seem lively or more of a direct jab at it so it’s more funny. (South Park’s way of doing things kinda….i still don’t wanna see any anti-ship or hate/narcissistic pov’s over here. This is a positive space y’all. Let’s keep it that way).

Now that we got the negatives out of the way:

✅ You’re gonna be seeing a lot of Texas culture things come to light. Expect there to be a bunch of current local things you aren’t in the know of to come up! Hey it’s a learning experience yall!

Such as:

✅ highschool mums

✅ Wurstfest

✅ Whataburger references

✅ local shops you ain’t heard of maybe

✅ references to the Dallas Cowboys and San Antonio spurs (among other teams lmao)

Anyways, more to come with this AU! Look out for the first post soon…. It’ll most likely be a sketch dump or a quick comic.

🍓✨

[amostexcellentblog]

George Maharis, September 1, 1928 – May 24, 2023

Mr. Maharis played Buz Murdock and Mr. Milner was Tod Stiles, friends who embark on a cross-country odyssey after Tod inherits the Corvette. They are among the least fleshed-out lead characters in television history, jarringly so by standards today, when Tony Soprano has inspired entire books. Buz was a hard-slugging guy from New York (not unlike Mr. Maharis himself), and Tod seemed rather preppy, but their main purpose each week was usually to get the show, literally and figuratively, to a place where it could tell a story about someone else.

And what stories they were. This was an era when television hadn’t yet settled into the pattern of silly sitcoms and not-too-taxing dramas that would define it for decades. A TV script — Mr. Silliphant, who died in 1996, wrote many for “Route 66” — could still aspire to be literature. That made for some clunkiness. Writers hadn’t fully grasped that television shows were not stage plays. But even at its most awkward, “Route 66” reached high.

Take, for instance, this slice of dialogue from a 1962 episode called “Aren’t You Surprised to See Me?” A religious nut takes Buz hostage in Dallas and threatens to kill him if the city’s population fails to follow the Ten Commandments for the next 24 hours. The man (played by David Wayne) explains himself in a dizzying monologue that foreshadows both the anti-establishment mood of the Vietnam era and the current laments of the religious right.

“Drop the scales from your eyes,” he tells Buz. “Consider the present society of the world. Are we still individuals, or are we prisoners of bureaucracy? Insects in vast, grinding systems, carrying out antlike, apparently rational actions with no human idea of the ends they serve? Ours is no longer a guilt culture in which control of wrongdoing is self-imposed by conscience. Instead we have a shame culture, one in which acts are judged good or evil solely on the basis of whether one is caught or not, in which the worst punishment is public humiliation, not private guilt. Ours is a world, Murdock, in which conscious morality is treated with derision and reason with scorn. This is an age which no longer waits patiently through this lifetime for the rewards in the next, but instead mills anxiously about overindulging, driven to cheat, driven to crime. So I have killed six men.

“Well, let me tell you that each time, I died with them. Each time I killed myself, too. So what is that insignificant sacrifice against the gigantic moral collapse of the world?”

-A Half-Century-Old Road to Today

[nouveauwitchontheblock]

Is that [Josh Dallas]? No, that's Arthur Pearson. The 33 year old Witch Alpha Dual-natured Male is a [Museum Director]. If you ask their friends, they're known to be [Flirtatous] & [Mischevious], but they urge you to be cautious, because they're also known to be [arrogant] & [cocky]. Their friends also say that they're into [Roughness, Breeding, Body Worship] but don't even think about trying [Gore, watersports, or scat] with them. (bio updated: 8/7/2023)

BASICS Name: Arthur Pearson Nickname(s): n/a Age: 33 Date of Birth: Ferburary 14, 1990 Place of Birth: Elsewhere Race / Ethnicity: Caucasian Gender: Dual-Natured Male Secondary Gender: Alpha Pronouns: He/Him Occupation: Museum Director Species: Witch Magic Type: Ancestral Marital Status: Single Mate: None yet

APPEARANCE

Height: 6′0″ Weight: 190 pounds Build: Muscular Hair Color: Blond Eye Color: Blue Tattoos: None Piercings: None Distinguishing Features: He enjoys styling his facial hair. From a full beard to a handlebar mustache or even clean shaven, Arthur will try out any style.

PERSONALITY

Positive Traits: Attentive, Curious, Focused. Negative Traits: Dismissive, Closed Off, Mysterious. Pet Peeves: Hobbies & Interests: Arcane History, Magical Theory, Urban Legends and Folklore.

NSFW

Kinks: Light BDSM, Praise, Breeding, Semi/Public Sex, Multiple Partners, Toys, Flip-fucking(with said toys). Anti-Kinks: Misgendering, watersports, scat, vore, gore, basically any bodily fluids that aren't slick or cum. Safeword: Red(stop), Yellow(wait), Green(go) Signal: Three taps onto the skin(nonverbal) Dick Size: None, dual-natured. Sexual Alignment: Switch Verse

BIO

Every night it's the same dream. Every night the witch sees himself reach out with arms outstretched towards a red glowing sun. As he gets closer to it, a shroud of void engulfs him and the sun shrinks before his eyes. Arthur still reaches out towards the slowly dimming speck of red, pushing against the pressure and weight of the void enveloping him. Every night, the speck barely manages to land on the witch's hand. The little warm that it gives can be felt by Arthur, but it struggles to keep itself lit while submersed within void. Every night, Arthur hears the booming voice behind him. The void seemingly growing deep and more prominent with each syllable.

"And what will you give me?"

████████

Arthur had been born into a coven of witches. While it wasn't the biggest or the most prosperous coven in their homeland, they had managed to keep to themselves and kept their community fed. Arthur's parents, Faust and Clovis Pearson, were simple witches in an ancestral coven. Unfortunately for them, their coven had a rival clan of witches. However, it seemed the coven's misfortune wouldn't be due to their rivals, but rather from within their own.

The rival coven, by all accounts, was stronger than the one the Pearsons had been a part of. Their mastery over a demonic spirit caused their crops to die and their children to spoil. On occasion, some have said to have seen the beast as it killed friends, family, lovers, and neighbors. Arthur himself had seen it with his own eyes, experienced him in his own skin. Most would call him luck, but from that day forth, Arthur had wished he had been killed instead.

He remembers the beast dragging him across the ground, it's embellishment of antlers and horns scraping against the then young witch's skin and garments. Arthur remembers its talons dug at the sides of his neck, the way he was picked up from the ground he stumbled around as he tried to run away. He remembers the way they felt, the tension around his neck, taut and always on the brink of breaking open. Not knowing the beast's true demonic nature, Arthur pleads to the creature.

"Please." Arthur pleads to the beast. "I wish to survive."

The demon drags the backside of his hand across the young witch's face, tilting Arthur's face as it moved closer towards him. The young alpha could feel it's horns graze themselves against the temples of his head. Arthur remembers how he shivered in fear against his touch and how its hot, thick, and odorless breath caught itself in the young alpha's throat. He remembers the low deep voice of the demon, now a refrain of the young alpha's failure, wisped that same thick and hot breath down the witches throat as he asked:

"And what will you give me?"

" ████████ "

Arthur was never a religious man, hasn't changed much now, but if any close calls counted, this thing would have been it. The thing which had guided him into ensnaring his own soul, Arthur would have followed. He watches as fire spreads across his family's home, seeing the homes of his coven ablaze as well. Arthur unintentionally gotten his wish, he had survived their rival coven's attack. The thing he had payed with the feel of talons across his neck and a split tongue across his.

Since the beginning of the two coven's rivalry, the only idea the coven leaders could think of was to move. To move far and often. Keeping their location secret in hopes of finding an end to the rival coven's blood thirst. It would be a tradition Arthur would begin familiarizing himself with as the rival coven had continued to interrupt Arthur's search for normalcy. Upon doing so, Arthur finds himself in New Haven and for a moment, Arthur finds peace.

For a moment.

Every night it's the same dream. Every night the witch reaches out with arms outstretched, towards a red glow surrounded by the engulfing void and every night the same voice as he shields the red glow in his hand.

"What will you give me?"

"Anything."

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Top 5 Bob Dylan myths, explained

TULSA — Has Bob Dylan ever stepped foot inside the Bob Dylan Center?

“No, he hasn’t. And we don’t expect he ever will,” a staff member replied in a quick, measured manner that implied she’d heard your question a thousand times before.

It’s hardly a surprise that Dylan hasn’t visited his own museum.

After all, he didn’t acknowledge winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for several weeks and blew off the annual Nobel ceremony in Sweden.

Ever since singing the phrase “don’t look back” in 1965, Dylan has mostly refused to examine his hallowed place in music and culture.

The singer — who’s still touring and recording at age 83 — had almost no involvement in the center other than selling his vast archives to the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation, which opened the 30,000-square-foot museum in 2022 next door to its other project, the Woody Guthrie Center.

But even if the elusive artist won’t take part in a remembrance of things past, millions of fans are doing just that.

Not just in Tulsa, where a steady stream of visitors pored over hundreds of interactive displays about his career on a cold gray weekday in late November.

The main event takes place in movie theaters nationwide on Christmas Day with the opening of A Complete Unknown, the aptly titled biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as the young, curly-haired Dylan.

Directed by James Mangold, who also oversaw the Johnny Cash story Walk the Line, the film takes a mostly factual look at Dylan’s uneasy rise to fame from ’61 to ’65.

But according to news reports, the singer instructed filmmakers to include at least one scene that is totally fictional.

That’s par for the course with Dylan, who fabricated stories about being a carnival worker and a male prostitute before he was discovered in Greenwich Village folk clubs.

He also blurred reality in the 2019 pseudo-documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.

“That came from Bob. He loves to mix fact and fiction,” T Bone Burnett, Dylan’s longtime friend, told The Dallas Morning News in October.

So who is the real Bob Dylan?

Your guess is as good as anyone’s.

To help Dylan neophytes unwrap the enigma, here’s a look at five common myths.

Spokesman of his generation

After writing topical masterpieces like “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Dylan was hailed as the mouthpiece for the anti-war and civil rights movements and a half dozen other causes.

“And here he is: Take him, you know him, he’s yours,” singer Ronnie Gilbert said, introducing him at 1964′s Newport Folk Festival.

There was just one problem.

You can’t be a spokesman if you refuse to speak.

Within months of being called the new prophet of social progress, Dylan stopped writing political songs, ceased giving interviews and publicly disavowed his role as “the prince of protest,” as he later dubbed it with a sneer.

In a Dylan Center exhibit on 1965 — the year he went electric and alienated folk purists — a concert review quotes him as telling fans:

“I’m sick of people asking ‘What does it mean?” It means nothing.’”

Years later, he said hearing the word “spokesman” made him physically ill.

Just a Guthrie clone

Some critics slammed Dylan for mimicking Woody Guthrie on his first few albums.

Yet for all his Guthrie-isms (the voice, the lyrics, the Greek fisherman’s cap), he was far from a Guthrie clone.

He was more of an equal-opportunity sponge.

He borrowed melodies from countless old country, folk and gospel songs — sometimes credited, sometimes not.

Most of all, he borrowed heavily from the blues.

He filled his ’62 debut album Bob Dylan with a half dozen blues songs, including “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” by Dallas legend Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson — who recorded half of all his songs at 508 Park Ave. in Dallas — was another huge influence.

“From the first note, the vibrations from the loudspeaker made my hair stand up,” Dylan wrote about hearing Johnson’s music in Chronicles: Volume One, his impressionistic 2004 memoir.

“The stabbing sounds from the guitar could almost break a window. When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”

His peers love him

Most of them do.

But the love is far from universal.

Judy Collins, who met him in ’59 when he was still Robert Zimmerman, practically tripped over her tongue describing him to The News earlier this year:

“He was a magical chisel into the preconceived idea of what this country was all about.”

He gets a mixed review from onetime girlfriend Joan Baez.

She’s depicted in A Complete Unknown calling him “kind of an a--hole.”

Yet she was fairly glowing when The News asked her about him in 2019.

“I mean, he’s a genius,” Baez said.

“He gave us the best songs we’ve ever had.”

And then there’s Joni Mitchell.

Though the two were friendly in the ‘70s, she lashed out at him in a 2010 Los Angeles Times interview:

“Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.”

Refuses to sell out

Everyone knows Dylan marches to his own beat.

But what’s often forgotten is that he isn’t above making a quick buck.

At the Bob Dylan Center, you can buy his Heaven’s Door whiskey, supposedly “co-created” by the singer and named after his 1973 song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”

In 2004, he appeared in a Victoria’s Secret TV ad, brooding and flashing his glimmering blue eyes like a fashion model.

And in 1996, he licensed “The Times They Are A-Changin’” for use in a Bank of Montreal ad campaign.

As he put it so well on Bringing It All Back Home, “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”

You gotta see him in concert

Some musicians really need to be witnessed in the flesh for you to fully appreciate them.

Dylan?

Not so much.

In the 13 concerts I’ve seen, he’s been brilliant a few times, unveiling bold new arrangements of old songs and singing with soulful urgency.

More often than not, a Dylan show is an exercise in frustration, especially for newcomers.

Performing in April at the Music Hall at Fair Park, he stayed hidden in the shadows behind a keyboard, barely acknowledged the audience and skipped all his best-known songs in favor of tunes from his 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways.

Some die-hard fans loved the show. But most of the audience simply seemed puzzled — which is precisely how Dylan wants it.

Did Bob Dylan Invent Bootcut Jeans?

This holiday season, if you find yourself parked in a theater seat to witness Timothée Chalamet embody an early-1960s Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, keep an eye out for the changing hems of Dylan’s blue jeans.

Indeed, while the new James Mangold-directed film follows a four-year period in Dylan’s career, from his 1961 arrival in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village to his “going electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, it also traces the musician’s shifting self-presentation—most notably through his changing hairstyles, but also his denim.

When Dylan lands in New York City with little more than a snap-buttoned cap, an acoustic guitar, and a dream of meeting Woody Guthrie, he wears a farmer-ish pair of late-’50s Levi’s 501s; by the time he plugs in his amp at Newport, he’s rocking a leather jacket and ultra-skinny jeans.

“I realized that the onus would really be on costume and hair to help guide the audience through this visual growth of this 19-year-old kid to a 24-year-old man,” says costume designer Arianne Phillips, who previously earned Oscar nominations for her work on Mangold’s 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, as well as Quintin Tarantino’s 2019 mid-century epic Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.

“I was really looking for threads of continuity in Bob’s character and his taste level,” Phillips says, “and one thing I can say for sure in that excavation was denim. Bob has always worn jeans.”

During pre-production, Phillips connected with Paul O’Neill, the design director of Levi’s Vintage Clothing, the brand’s sublabel that recreates and reimagines archival designs.

Back in 2019, O’Neill and his team developed a capsule collection based on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s called “Folk City,” and he’d already done a good deal of research into the wardrobes of Dylan, Karen Dalton, and Joan Baez (who also features in A Complete Unknown, as portrayed by Monica Barbaro).

While reading A Freewheelin’ Time—a memoir by Dylan’s then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, a version of whom appears in the film as Elle Fanning’s Sylvie Russo—O’Neill uncovered a great sartorial tidbit:

In the mid-1960s, Rotolo used to sew inverted-U-shaped panels into the inseams of Dylan’s 501s, widening the hems so that he could more easily wear the pants over boots. In other words, Rotolo was DIY-ing bootcut jeans years before Levi’s started manufacturing them in 1969.

“I can remember me and my colleague high-fiving each other when we found that out,” says O’Neill.

“Arianne said they had Dylan experts consulting on the film, and none of them had even heard about this before or seen it.”

Bob Dylan in 1964.

It was a lucky nugget for the costume team, one that not only explains one of the musician’s style idiosyncrasies but also adds narrative depth to Dylan and Rotolo’s dynamic.

(The real-life Rotolo also appeared on the cover of Dylan’s 1963 album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan; for that photoshoot, Dylan himself wore a pair of 501s.)

Once O’Neill and Phillips discovered the detail about Dylan’s custom flares, they started noticing them everywhere—including on the album artwork for his fourth LP, Another Side of Bob Dylan.

To commemorate A Complete Unknown and its costumes, Levi’s Vintage Clothing produced a capsule collection featuring a reproduction of Dylan’s customized XX 501s complete with hand-sewn bootcut inserts and a D-ring leather belt, as well as toffee-hued suede work jacket based on a jacket Dylan wore during the era.

The full assortment will hit the brand’s website on December 20.

In A Complete Unknown, Dylan’s classic denim also contrasts with Baez’s trendier silhouettes, which often included Levi’s with a white or black logo tab on the back pocket, which the company produced in the early 1960s to denote hipper styles geared towards young people.

In this case, that meant more denim storytelling: Dylan, like his customized jeans, was sly and rugged; Baez, fresh and forward-thinking.

But by the mid ’60s, the folk scene—and with it, Dylan’s tastes in music, clothing, and otherwise—was in metamorphosis.

And the jeans, they were a-changin’.

Phillips gleaned that after Dylan had toured England in spring 1965, he “clearly had come back with his Cuban-heeled boots, his skinny jeans, his military peacoat, that whole look. He was a big fan of the Beatles, and he met the Beatles and he was hanging out with Donovan [Phillips Leitch],” she says.

“It was Carnaby Street mod time, and he definitely brought that look back.”

The costume designer consulted with O’Neill to identify the super-skinny jeans that Dylan wore during his historic Newport performance that summer.

In 1965—the same year Bob went electric—Levi’s introduced the Super Slims, which O’Neill says “were basically the skinniest jeans you could make without using stretch fabric.”

He sourced fabric produced at a defunct mill in North Carolina to recreate a pair for the scene.

Though there was no photographic evidence to verify for certain that Dylan wore Super Slims that night at Newport, for the film, they fit the bill.

But Dylan’s trailblazing Newport ’65 performance held another fashion mystery.

Per photos from the era, Dylan wore an uncharacteristically loud mint-green, polka-dotted blouse during a soundcheck for his electric set;

he later wore the same shirt on the cover of one of his 1966 EPs.

When Phillips first showed images of the shirt to Mangold, she recalls, “Jim wasn’t so sold on it.”

But Chalamet himself had a vision for how the shirt might make sense in the movie.

(Hint: Chalamet’s Dylan wears it in a scene opposite Boyd Holbrook’s Johnny Cash, a character whom Phillips—having costumed Walk the Line—relished the chance to revisit “in a totally different film and with a different actor.”)

“Timmy loved that shirt and I loved the shirt, too,” says Phillips.

“It really seeds what we know Bob goes on to in ’65, where his style really explodes.”

Over the course of the film, as O’Neill puts it, we see Dylan morph “from this rough-and-ready traveling character into this peacock with the big hair and the shades and the skinny jeans and the polka dot shirt.”

Even so, the blue jeans provided a through-line.

“Denim is so beautiful because it’s the signature of a youth culture movement [and] when we think about today, we take it for granted,” says Phillips.

“I’ve done a lot of mid-century films, but denim, there are so many dress codes [where] you couldn’t wear denim in the workplace, you couldn’t wear it to school, you couldn’t wear it to church. It was really relegated to the blue-collar workers [or] how we dressed on the weekends until it became a signature of the youth movement in the Sixties. And that really, that rebellion—I mean, that was punk rock before punk rock, right?”

Movies If Bob Dylan didn’t exist, “A Complete Unknown” would be an absorbing if conventional drama about a fictional folk singer with that name who, in the nineteen-sixties, shows up in New York and turns himself into a rock star at a time when the concept was novel.

But, given the complex ubiquity of Dylan’s music and life story, the movie’s synthetic simplicity is bewildering.

The director, James Mangold (who wrote the script with Jay Cocks), emphasizes the protagonist’s own sense of self-invention, and offers a bland and smooth official portrait—which nonetheless remains fascinating.

Timothée Chalamet stars, delivering an impressive yet emotionally muffled impersonation of Dylan; the rest of the cast—principally, Edward Norton, as Pete Seeger; Monica Barbaro, as Joan Baez; and Elle Fanning, as the pseudonymous Sylvie Russo—push vigorously against the narrow limits of their roles.