#dean william inge

[mlobsters]

trying to adjust some s3 clips to have the look and feel more like s1-2 led me to reading this very long and interesting interview with serge ladouceur, director of photography on supernatural all 15 years and

There were all these wonderful daylight exteriors in the woods, as Sam and Dean search for missing campers who have been abducted by this creature. But the shadows are so crushed, it almost feels like they’re in moonlight as opposed to sunlight — it’s so dark and foreboding. It really gives the feeling of that contrast.  That episode is a very good example. This is the bleach-bypass look that we implemented, which we pulled back a little bit from over the course of the first two seasons, culminating in Season 3, which was almost full color, probably the most extreme in terms of color, going the other way. Because The CW at the time wanted the show to be more colorful, we complied. But by the beginning of Season 4, I wrote to Eric Kripke, “We should go back toward what we had, because this is the look of the show, this is what we’re all about, darkness and shadows.” And he agreed. So we went back closer to the look that we had at first, but for specific scenes, the scary ones, while keeping a good relationship with The CW! [Laughs.]  - Serge Ladouceur

Family Business: Supernatural March 8, 2020 in American Cinematographer by David E. Williams

so it's the cw's fault. good to know. i will direct all future bitching their way

i think the great orange-ing of s8 though is still falling somewhere on the crew's side

[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

[ceekbee]

Xtra Thoughts

October 15

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

–Carl Jung

“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”

–Jim Rohn

I may not be where I want to be, but Thank God I am not where I used to be.

–unknown

I am at peace today knowing that God is doing for me what I cannot do for myself.

–Ruth Fishel

God, let my hard times be healing times.

–Melody Beattie

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

–Dean William Inge

Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, and make well-being a reality.

–Emmet Fox

Don’t quit before the miracle happens.

–unknown

[tenth-sentence]

In Britain, eugenics united such social radicals as Havelock Ellis, Ottoline Morrell, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, and Beatrice and Sidney Webb with such establishmentarians as Leonard Darwin, who after twenty years in Her Majesty's Royal Engineers had retired to good causes and the country gentry, and Dean William Inge of St. Paul's Cathedral – the Gloomy Dean, as he was known – who relished the Duke of Wellington's alleged remark that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eton.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[futurespacehoppers]

A (Nottingham) Forest.

As I write this Villa sit in sixth place in the table and there is a real positivity around the club that I've not seen in a long while, maybe even as far back as the 10 game winning streak under Dean Smith that lifted us up into the play-offs and back up into the Premier League. I've got a soft spot for Forest, a hangover from the Brian Clough years but I have to say I wasn't overly impressed with what I saw from them yesterday. It's obvious that they've hit a slide at the wrong time and I really saw nothing to convince me that the relegation trap door won't swing open on them. But, back to Villa.

The first half wasn't really much to write home about, I can't recall Forest Keeper Navas having much to do in the first half and if Emi Martinez (Best in the World lest we forget) has an easier clean sheet in his career I'd love to see it.

There's been a lot said about Bertrand Traore this week and rightly so, his goal against Leicester was top draw and I'm happy to see him back on the pitch for us, I thought he may have started but Bailey's injury gave him more minutes and once again he repaid that time with a goal, not quite the fizzer from midweek but after some good work initially and a ball back from Shelvey that will be giving the Premier League's top Voldermort tribute act sleepless nights for weeks it was another first time shot that fizzed it's way into the back of the net. I've seen a few posts, mainly on Twitter amongst our fans questioning the sometimes flat atmosphere at Villa Park and there were definite lulls during the match, I expect this anyway, nobody can sing at the top of their voices for 90 minutes but that goal definitely lifted the crowd, it was a great surprise that I'd "sprinted" down from my seat to the front of the North Stand to join the celebrations! The second goal was a long time in coming but I'm pleased for Ollie Watkins, his recent upturn in form is well deserved, Emery's logic in selling Danny Ings and loaning out Cameron Archer may have raised a few eyebrows, I know we have Jhon Duran and he's been used sparingly but his first international goal shows definite promise but Ollie has really stepped up and deserves all the plaudits he's rightfully receiving. A European place looks like it can happen, Newcastle will be a tricky match next week but walking down Witton Lane last night, getting hugs from random blokes and singing songs was one of the best moments of the season, I love my club, I often say it's the love of my life and it almost seems wrong to dare to dream after so many ups and downs but I'm going to live in the moment and embrace the prospect of a European Tour. Oh, and I'm no stretch of anyone's imagination a royalist but it was good to see Prince William and his lad once again loving a Villa win.

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

if you marry the Spirit of your own generation you will be a widow in the next.

William Ralph Inge

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Monday 7 March 1836

6 25

11 55

no kiss fine morning hard frost F31 ½° at 7 20 at which hour went out till 9 ¼ - with Mark Hepworth and 2 carts and 2 drivers and a chain hose and 2 fillers (Robert Mann’s men) who began this morning deepening out Wheat field glen - and with Robert Mann + 4 who began this morning throwing out a hollow for open drain between upper brook Ing and Godley Ing in the old line of hedge and boundary between the two townships of Southowram and Northowram - saw Mawson - he stick to the specification as read at the letting, do the sodding right (in horizontal layers) and leave it to Mr. Harper to do what he thinks right about allowing anything extra - Mr. Husband came up to me and walked with me to the house - I gave him Mr. Harper’s letter and calculations about the water wheel to read over - Mr. Husband to see Mr. George Bates on the subject this afternoon - breakfast at 9 ¼ - a few minutes with my father in the little sitting room - then reading in the blue room (A- drawing) from p. 30 to 283 of the notes and reflections during a Ramble in Germany published in 1826 till near 11 when Ingham came to speak to A- about the walling at upper Hagstocks - took him with us

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and A- and I set off to walk to the spot at 11 - went by Spa house across the fields and returned by Boy Lane and Horley Green, much pleased with the views in returning - took my take with me and Ingham and the new tenant James Dean measured the length of walling to be done = 125 roods = £58.2.6 exclusive of 16 roods about (around) the house at 6/. per rood which may be spared - looked about thoroughly and into the barn - the man would like a 3 stall stable (dry walling against the east end of the barn) 5 yards square within - 4 20 hour away and home at 3 20 A- not tired - but set off immediately (ready and off in ¼ hour) without luncheon to Cliff Hill - took nothing - dinner at 7 and coffee and French as usual and ¼ hour with my aunt (I longer) and then calculating till near 10 about the walling etc (she will have about £80 to lay out or more) and really she does not seem more than ordinary ready for bed - from 3 20 to 6 ¾ out with the men -just went up to the glen for a minute or 2 then at the cascade bridge - Mark Hepworth at H-x binding his son William apprentice as wheel-right and carper to Mosey of Halfhouses near Hove edge and Frank attending to the Northgate carts (bringing soil) in Mark’s stead - then with Robert Mann + 4 at cutting out the hollow for open drain and stubbing bits of the old hedge between Godley land and sour Ing and upper brook Ing - had Joseph Mann and Mr. Husband in the courtyard - the one complaining of Holt’s not having come today - the plan now is to get the upper bed water off the Listerwick Engine by a goit down to Mytholm - SW- to come and level - and Mr. Husband apologizing for Mr. George Bates having forced him to drink more spirits than he liked - but still he was merely rather fresh - very rational and knowing what he was about and gave me back Mr. Harper’s letter - had had a strong contest with Bathes - the new estimate to come in tomorrow - wrote all the above of today till 10 40 - fine but dull day - 2 or 3 drops of rain about 3 but the rain held off till a smartish short shower about 6 - F33 ½° now at 10 40 pm.

[blackkudos]

Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks, April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. He is most recognizable to the public for his more than 100 roles in films, television, and stage. Most famously, Hooks, along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, founded The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). The NEC is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.

Biography

Early life

The youngest of five children, Hooks was born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. to Mae Bertha (née Ward), a seamstress, and Edward Hooks who had moved from Rocky Mount, North Carolina with their four other children, Bernice, Caroleigh, Charles Edward "Charlie", and James Walter "Jimmy". Named Bobby Dean Hooks at birth, Robert was their first child born "up-north" and the first to be born in a hospital. His father, Edward, died in a work accident on the railroad in 1939.

Hooks attended Stevens Elementary School. In 1945, at the insistence of his sister Bernice who was doing community arts outreach for youngsters at Francis Junior High School, he performed the lead in his first play, The Pirates of Penzance, at the age of nine. From the ages of 6 to 12, Bobby Dean journeyed with his siblings to Lucama, North Carolina to work the tobacco fields for his uncle's sharecropping farm as a way to help earn money for the coming school year in D.C.

In 1954, just as Brown vs. Board of Education was being implemented in the north, he moved to Philadelphia to be with his mother, her second husband, and his half-sister, Safia Abdullah (née Sharon Dickerson). Hooks experienced his first integrated school experience at West Philadelphia High School. Hooks soon joined the drama club and began acting in plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He was graduated in 1956, passing on a scholarship to Temple University in order to pursue a career as a stage actor at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre (alongside Charles Dierkop and Bruce Dern, with whom he second-acted plays doing their pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia) while working at Browning King, a men's tailor shop at Fourteenth and Chestnut streets.

Career

Having trained at the Bessie V. Smith School of Theatre in Philadelphia, and after seeing A Raisin in the Sun in its Philadelphia tryout in February 1959, Hooks moved to New York to pursue acting. In April 1960, as Bobby Dean Hooks, he made his Broadway debut in A Raisin in the Sun replacing Louis Gossett, Jr. who would be doing the film version. He then continued to do its national tour. He then stepped into the Broadway production of A Taste of Honey, replacing Billy Dee Williams; then repeating the same national tour trajectory as he had done for "Raisin..." the previous year. In early 1962 he next appeared as the lead in Jean Genet's The Blacks, replacing James Earl Jones as the male lead, leaving briefly that same year to appear on Broadway again in Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright before stepping back into the lead role in The Blacks in 1963. He then returned to Broadway, first in Ballad for Bimshire and then in the short-lived 1964 David Merrick revival of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More (as a character created by Tennessee Williams for this revival) and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter in his only stage performance. Immediately thereafter, in March 24, 1964 he originated the role of Clay in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman. With this play, on the advice of Roscoe Lee Brown, Hooks became known as, Robert Hooks. He also originated roles on the New York stage in Where's Daddy? for which he won the Theatre World Award and he was nominated for Best Male Lead in a Musical for Hallelujah Baby while he was simultaneously starring in David Susskind's N.Y.P.D.—the first African American lead on a television drama.

In 1968 Hooks was the host of the new public affairs television program, Like It Is.

Hooks was nominated for a Tony for his lead role in the musical, Hallelujah, Baby!, has received both the Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. He also won an Emmy for his PBS special, Voices of Our People.

Significant roles for which Hooks is known include Reeve Scott in Hurry Sundown (1967), Mr. T. in the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), grandpa Gene Donovan in the comedy Seventeen Again (2000), and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). He also appeared on television in an episode of the NBC crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978 and portrayed Doctor Walcott in the 1980s television series Dynasty.

Activism

Arts and Culture

In 1964, as a result of a speaking engagement at the Chelsea Civil Rights Committee (then connected to the Hudson Guild Settlement House) he founded The Group Theatre Workshop (GTW), a tuition-free environment for disadvantaged urban teens who expressed a desire to explore acting. Among the instructors were Barbara Ann Teer, Frances Foster, Hal DeWindt, Lonne Elder III, and Ronnie Mack. Alumni include Antonio Fargas, Hattie Winston, and Daphne Maxwell Reid.

The Group Theatre Workshop was folded into the tuition-free training arm of the The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) founded in 1967 with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone with a $1.3 million grant from the Ford Foundation under the auspices of W. McNeil Lowry.

From 1969-1972, Hooks served as an original board member of Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL) (located in New York) alongside C. Eric Lincoln, President; John O. Killens, Alvin F. Poussaint, and Charles White. Chartered by the State of New York, BAAL's mission was to bring together Black artists and scholars from around the world. Additional members included: Julian Adderley, Alvin Ailey, Margaret Walker, James Baldwin, Imamu Baraka, Romare Bearden, Harry Belafonte, Lerone Bennett, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Davis, St. Clair Drake, Ernest Dunbar, Katherine Dunham, Lonne Elder III, Duke Ellington, Alex Haley, Ruth Inge Hardison, Vertis Hayes, Chester Himes, Lena Horne, Jacob Lawrence, Elma Lewis, Henry Lewis, Paule Marshall, Donald McKayle, Arthur Mitchell, Frederick O’Neal, Gordon Parks, Sidney Poitier, Benjamin Quarles, Lloyd Richards, Lucille D. Roberts, and Nina Simone.

In response to the violence in his home town of Washington, D.C. in the wake of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, and aided by a small grant from the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, Hooks took a leave of absence from the Negro Ensemble Company to create The D.C. Black Repertory Company (DCBRC, 1970-1981). As Founder and Executive Director, the DCBRC was intended as a further exploration of the ability of the arts to create healing. The a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock was created and developed within its workshop process.

The Inner Voices (Lorton Prison arts training program, 1971) proved to be a result of the beneficial effect of the DCBRC in the D.C. area. In response to a direct plea from an inmate, Rhozier "Roach" Brown, who was serving a life sentence in Lorton, Hooks' D.C. Black Repertory Company structured the first prison-based arts program in the United States. While it is the norm now, it was then a revolutionary attempt at rehabilitation through the arts. Eventually The Inner Voices performed more than 500 times in other prisons, including a Christmas special entitled, "Holidays, Hollowdays." Due to Roach's work, President Gerald Ford commuted his sentence on Christmas Day, 1975.

His relocation to the West Coast redirected Hooks' approach to parity in the arts with his involvement with The Bay Area Multicultural Arts Initiative (1988) as a board member and grant facilitator-judge. Funded by monies from a unique coalition made up of the San Francisco Foundation (a community foundation); Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts, the function of this organization was the funding of deserving local multicultural arts organizations.

In 1992, Hooks co-founded (with writer Lonne Elder III) Arts in Action. Located in South Central Los Angeles, this was a film and television training center established to guide individuals who aspired to careers in film production. It formulated strategies and training for securing entry-level jobs. Courses included: career development workshops; pre-production and production for film and television; creative problem solving in production management; directing for stage and screen—principles and practices; also the craft of assistant directors, script supervisor, technicians, wardrobe, make-up, etc.

The Negro Ensemble Company of Los Angeles (NEC-LA) (1994-1997) was created because so many New York members and original members had relocated to the west coast. Hooks, as founder and executive director enlisted alumni from his New York Negro Ensemble Company to serve as board members: Denise Nicholas, Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson. NEC-LA's goal was to be a new and innovative multi-ethnic cultural project that strived to achieve the community effectiveness and professional success of its parent organization.

Personal life

Hooks is the father of actor, television and film director Kevin Hooks. He married Lorrie Gay Marlow (actress, author, artist) on June 15, 2008. Previously, he was married to Yvonne Hickman and Rosie Lee Hooks.

Awards

1966 - Theatre World Award (1965–66 ) for "Where's Daddy?" (The Billy Rose Theatre)

1979 - American Black Achievement Award - Ebony Magazine

1982 - Emmy Award for Producing (1982) Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry (KCET-TV/PBS)

1966 - Tony Nomination, Lead Role in a Musical for Hallelujah, Baby

1985 - Inducted into The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, recipient Oscar Micheaux Award (1985)

1986 - March 2nd declared Robert Hooks Day by the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley

1987 - Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities from CEBA (Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities)

2000 - Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa honorary degree, Bowie State University

2000 - May 25th declared Robert Hooks Day in Washington, D.C.

2005 - Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement

2005 - Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Trailblazer Award to the Negro Ensemble Company

2005 - Trailblazer Award – City of Los Angeles

2006 - The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), Lifetime Achievement Award (Dallas)

2007 - The Black Theatre Alliance Awards / Lifetime Achievement Award

2015 - Living Legend Award (2015) National Black Theatre Festival

2018 - October 18th proclaimed Robert Hooks Day by Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C.

2018 - Hooks is entered into The Congressional Record by the Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton, September 4, 2018, Vol. 164

2018 - Visionary Founder and Creator Award - D.C. Black Repertory Company on its 47th anniversary

Acting Credits

Film

Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) .... Keel Robinson

Hurry Sundown (1967) .... Reeve Scott

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) .... Chicken

Carter's Army (1970) .... Lt. Edward Wallace

Trouble Man (1972) .... Mr. T

Aaron Loves Angela (1975) .... Beau

Airport '77 (1977) .... Eddie

Fast-Walking (1982) .... William Galliot

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) .... Admiral Morrow

Passenger 57 (1992) .... Dwight Henderson

Posse (1993) .... King David

Fled (1996) .... Lt. Clark

[bmaatuga]

Homecoming 1973: Dawgs vs. Cats

The homecoming game tomorrow pits us against the University of Kentucky Wildcats, just like it did in 1973! Here are some throwback images from the parade and events of that homecoming week 46 years ago, as filmed by the cameramen of the Public Relations/Public Affairs division, found on a reel of outtakes.

For the parade, beloved Dean of Students, William Tate, was the parade’s Grand Marshall, seated in the rumble seat of an old car with his trademark red cap on:

We like the play on the movie THE MAN WHO  LOVED CAT DANCING in this fraternity’s effigy titled  THE DOG WHO LOVED CAT DANCING, featuring a Bulldog tango-ing with a Wildcat and the words “Love Thy Neighbor” next to it:

This one says “Cream the Cats” with a giant Bulldog covering a cat in shaving cream:

And check out how full the stands were for the game!

Enjoy the game this weekend, and all the Homecoming festivities! And Cream the Cats!

[peacefulrestvalley]

I just finished Alexey's route which was kind of eh even though I did appreciate that it was kind of different. Although I think that was the character more than anything because Alexey is so much better for me in event stories and subsequent routes.

Sure I could finish some characters I haven't done yet like Angelo, William, Lex, or the infamous Dean route...

...BUT GUESS WHOSE ROUTE I COULD ALSO BE 100%ING!!!!

[drsilverfish]

DrSilverfish S9 Meta Masterpost

Blog housekeeping cont!

S9 was a bit of a hot mess of a season, in my view, summed up by this quote from my 9x08 Rock and a Hard Place meta-review:

“If you are going to use sexual dub-con as a “metaphor” for Dean’s control of Sam [the Ezekiel/ Gadreeel possession by trickery, and all its season’s assault/ dub-con mirrors] and yet you insist on mixing that with sex jokes and the sexualisation of violence via the camera, an unholy mess is pretty much to be expected...”

Nevertheless, there were some lovely gems of episodes in the season (as well as plenty of queer subtext) and I enjoyed meta-ing it, notwithstanding the grossness of the larger theme. These shone through, for me; Beren’s first episode Heaven Can’t Wait (9x06) is stlll one of my top SPN episodes of all time; Glass’ deeply touching Bad Boys (9x07) was illuminated by Dylan Everett’s excellent performance as young Dean. Robbie Thompson also delivered an awesome happy ending for Charlie Bradbury with her queer Dorothy in Oz, in Slumber Party (9x04) which I insist on considering her true exit from the show (yes, this blog is still repressing Dark Dynasty 10x21 hard). Plus, Robbie’s Metafiction (9x18) was a glorious meta goldmine (I continue to miss Robbie and Edlund in the SPN writers’ room, among other things for their sense of meta fun).

Also, now, looking back on the season from the vantage point of being several years into the future, it is apparent that (however unpleasant it was to live through it at the time, and despite its often problematic execution) what the writers’ room set out to do in S9 was hold up to the light, via the Zeke/ Gadreel possession metaphor, the tragic toxicity of Dean and Sam’s co-dependency. This was a season in which Dean’s care-taking of Sam (a historic responsibility thrust upon him as a child, through no fault of his own) became a violation. The tragic consequence of which, was Dean’s desertion of his angel, whom his heart had wanted so much, and for so long, to have by his side (witness Dean’s long search for Cas in Purgatory in S8 and his “Nobody wants him here more than I do, Okay?” in 9x04) just when (fallen and newly human) Castiel needed him most. 

Yes, Carver took us down a dark road, into the roots of the Winchesters’ psychic dysfunction in S9 (the Mark of Cain narrative of S10 and 11 being the cumulative consequence) so that Dabb could, from the turning point of 11x23, bring us back up, gradually, towards the light. 

S9 Meta

1) 9x01 I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here - Who is Ezekiel, Angel of Death?

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/63578850731/who-is-ezekiel-angel-of-death

2) Who is on the Chessboard in S9? Heaven and Hell and In-Between

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/63742883512/who-is-on-the-chessboard-in-season-9-heaven-and

3) 9x02 Devil May Care and the Metaphysics of Violation (CW: for discussion of rape)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/64225291819/spn-9x02-and-the-metaphysics-of-violation-tw-for

4) 9x03 I’m No Angel 

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/64899857448/drsilverfish-peruses-im-no-angel-9x03-spoilers 

5) Queer Subtext in 9x03 and Its Problematic Execution

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/65335878559/queer-siubtext-in-9x03-and-its-problematic 

6) 9x04 Slumber Party Meta-Review

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/65562193440/drsilverfishs-slumber-party-9x04-review 

7) Dorothy and Queer-Coding in 9x04 (response to an ask on the previous meta)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/65605250789/miles-to-go-before-i-sleep-drsilverfishs-slumber 

8) Dean and Cas and the Violence of Intimacy

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/65880351538/art-by-barbara-kruger-no-homo-fist-bumped-the 

9) Sam, Dean and Man’s Best Friend With Benefits

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/66177750491/sam-dean-and-mans-best-friend-in-9x05-spoilers 

10) “Bestiality” and 9x05

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/66316186054/bestiality-and-9x05-response-to-an-ask

11) Dean and Ezekiel

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/66573033478/the-path-of-the-righteous-man-is-beset-on-all

12) DrSilverfish’s Heaven Can’t Wait Destiel-Centric Meta-Review (9x06) 

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/66932619155/drsilverfishs-heaven-cant-wait-destiel-centric

13) Nobody Said it Was Easy/ Oh Take Me Back to the Start  - DrSilverfish Meta-Reviews 9x07 Bad Boys

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/67596701624/nobody-said-it-was-easy-oh-take-me-back-to-the

14) Damn Straight Between a Rock and a Hard Place - DrSilverfish 9x08 Meta-Review

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/68292904893/damn-straight-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place

15) Losing Paradise: DrSilverfish’s (Destiel-Centric) Holy Terror 9x09 Meta-Review

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/69016033105/losing-paradise-drsilverfishs-destiel-centric

16) Supernatural 9x09 The Little Things (Set Dressing Narrative)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/69166320221/supernatural-9x09-the-little-things-spoilers

17) Hail Castiel, Full of Grace: A Meditation on the Nature of Grace in the SPN Universe (9x09)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/69291532196/hail-castiel-full-of-grace-meditation-on-the 

18) 9x10 Road Trip and Noir Cinematography

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/76258139601/dean-winchester-walking-away-from-his-brother-and

19) Abaddon and the Femme Fatale (9x10 Road Trip)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/79204466961/victoriavantoch-abaddon-in-9x10-road-trip

20) 9x10 Road Trip - Dean and Cas as Shirley and Laverne

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/81787352715/spn-queer-subtext-instance-no-29996-oh-just

21) A Discussion on Bees, Cain and Castiel with @isthemachinesinging and @x-cetera (latter deactivated) (9x11 First Born)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/74885442456/isthemachinesinging-x-cetera-the-beekeeping

22) Sharp Teeth (9x12) Quick Review

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/74906805501/sharp-teeth-quickie-review-supernatural-9x12

23) DrSilverfish’s Destiel-Centric Captives Meta-Review (9x14)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/78134538414/drsilverfishs-destiel-centric-captives-review

24) So Many Queer Subtext: DrSilverfish Meta-Reviews #Thinman (9x15)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/78828364438/so-many-queer-subtext-drsilverfish-reviews-spns

25) 9x16 Blade Runners Illuminated by Blade Runner (1982)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/80113492162/how-does-the-spn-9x16-episode-blade-runners

26) The Curse of “Old Donkey Teeth”: DrSilverfish Meta-Reviews 9x16 Blade Runners

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/80310421877/the-curse-of-old-donkey-teeth-drsilverfish

27) The Jawbone of an Ass: Dean as Sampson (9x16)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/80414070819/the-jawbone-of-an-ass-dean-as-samson-spn-9x16

28) Demons Walk Among Us: DrSilverfish Meta-Reviews 9x17 Mother’s Little Helper

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/80978944870/demons-walk-among-us-drsilverfish-reviews-spns

29) Metatron’s “Metafictional” Spell: The Ingredients (9x18 Metafiction)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/82933467509/metatrons-metafictional-spell-the-ingredients 

30) 19x18 Metafiction - The Trench-Coat and Free Will

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/82948619070/9x18-metafiction-the-trench-coat-and-free

31) Metatron and Robbie Thompson’s Metafictional Send-Up of TPTB (19x18)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83026009934/supernaturals-metatron-has-been-painted-thus

32) What Makes a Story Work? Robbie Goes Meta in Metafiction (9x18) (endnote discussion with @newyeardad )

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83116451392/mixgoldenphoenix-newyeardad-what-makes-a 

33) Metafiction’s Subtextual Boner, FYI (9x18)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83202304892/metafictions-subtextal-boner-fyi-spn-9x18 

34) Note on Castiel/ Jesus Parallels in S9

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83245109970/tw-this-is-a-scene-from-9x03-im-no-angel

35) Spec on Dean Going Full Dark-Side (9x18 Metafiction)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83307390112/why-was-metatron-using-a-very-supernatural

36) Metatron Links Cas to Bisexual Poet Muriel Rukeyser (9x18 Metafiction)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83318897321/muriel-rukeyser-the-us-poet-metatron-quotes-to

37) “Vampiric Stockholm Syndrome”: DrSilverfish Meta-Reviews Alex, Annie, Alexis, Ann (9x19) 

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/83659732157/vampiric-stockholm-syndrome-dr-silverfish

38) The Godfather with Fangs Lacks Bite: 9x20 Bloodlines

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/84346671959/the-godfather-with-fangs-lacks-bite-spn-9x20

39) 9x21 King of the Damned and Addictions

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/85142976459/spn-king-of-the-damned-9x21-and-addictions 

40) 9x21 Gematria and Jacob’s Ladder

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/85543224799/jacobs-ladder-by-william-blake-1805-in-9x21 

41) DrSilverfish’s Network Advice for an SPN Spin-Off

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/85926475349/drsilverfishs-network-advice-for-an-spn-spin-off 

42) S9 “Love and.... Love”

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/85936817759/castielandmoriarty-its-killing-him-to-say

43) DrSilverfish’s Destiel-Centric Musings on Do You Believe in Miracles (9x23)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/86535731704/drsilverfishs-destiel-centric-musings-on-do-you 

44) Beheadings, Democritus, and S9 Demon!Dean Foreshadowing

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/86543231314/democritus-meditating-on-the-seat-of-the-soul 

45) Crowley, Queer King of Hell and Seducer of Dean Winchester

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/86731441939/crowley-queer-king-of-hell-and-seducer-of-dean 

[ceekbee]

Xtra Thoughts

October 15

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

–Carl Jung

“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”

–Jim Rohn

I may not be where I want to be, but Thank God I am not where I used to be.

–unknown

I am at peace today knowing that God is doing for me what I cannot do for myself.

–Ruth Fishel

God, let my hard times be healing times.

–Melody Beattie

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

–Dean William Inge

Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, and make well-being a reality.

–Emmet Fox

Don’t quit before the miracle happens.

–unknown

[writsgrimmyblog]

On the Fourth Wall and Transformative Works in RPF Fandoms

The fourth wall is a massively complicated area, which engages debates around fan labour, the power dynamics between TPTB and fandoms, the power dynamics between celebrities and celebrity oriented fandoms and the silencing/shaming of transformative works, specifically erotic fanart and fanfiction. 

Derived from the abstract notion of the fourth wall in the theater (i.e. the three walls of the stage and the ‘invisible’ wall between action on stage and the audience) discussions of the ‘fourth wall’ have extended into film, television and take on its own definition as part of fandom parlance, with its increasingly more illusory and permeable construct in today’s social media driven world. 

Fandoms are under more scrutiny than ever as non-fandom people pick up on intra-fandom activities and ships, and the fourth wall disintegrates as a result. It’s not just fans that break the fourth wall. It’s frequently dismantled by celebrities, the media, talk show hosts, TPTB and so on. There are a lot of convincing articles that suggest the fourth wall actually should come down, because clinging on to its last bricks heightens the sense that we should be ashamed of creating fanfiction, fanart, vidding and so on, particularly stuff with an erotic and/or ship focused slant. However, I think the conversation, when it comes to RPF, is different. 

Here’s why.

Celebrities who have no real understanding of fandom space, often get weirded out when they find they are the subject of RPF fanfic. In a hot button moment in my early days of being active in this (Radio One RPF) fandom, I expressed views on that which I have since refined. Honestly, I do think a bemused response is understandable from people with zero knowledge of the role of fandoms in pop culture or the creative freedoms those spaces have historically provided to participants operating within them. Where I sit now is that I wish celebrities who benefit enormously from a large fandom with a significant transformative element might invest a little time to work out what these spaces are all about, and certainly not disingenuously exploit those spaces for humour and/or financial gain, but I get the understandable moment of not being sure what’s going on and reacting in a way that doesn’t jive well with fandom. By way of early caveat I’m also stripping out debates around any kind of harassment (ship related, stalking and so on) from this post, because if I haven’t been abundantly clear about it before, I think that is NOT okay. This post focuses on the celebrity response to RPF - real person fiction - and specifically erotic works of fanfiction. It does not deal with how celebrities might respond to attempts to establish any kind of ‘real person fact’, because that’s a whole different ballgame. FWIW, on that, I’m with V. Arrow’s excellent essay on RPF in Anne Jamison’s ‘Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World.

Some celebrities have been confronted with the information that the fictional characters they play are the subject of transformative works, and even that breaking of the fourth wall has historically not gone great for fandoms. With the exception of some fandom darlings like Tom Felton in Harry Potter fandom, it has frequently been met with the dreaded ‘no homo’ response or convention circuit engagement which makes fandom at large feel ashamed for seeing slashy potential in subtext. As much as people want to hold creators to account for capitalising on large slash ships without offering any meaningful endgame, there are also large portions of those fandoms that wish those questions wouldn’t get asked in public forums in the first place, because of the spectacular potential they have to go wrong. See, Jensen Ackles on bisexual Dean Winchester, William Shatner on Kirk/Spock, Benedict Cumberbatch on Johnlock, the Phelps twins on Weasleycest and countless others. 

The difference with analysing how these conversations play out in the case of the examples above and RPF, is that the former engages debates around text/subtext, queer readings of texts, authorial control over narrative, queerbaiting in media and so on. There are undoubtedly all kinds of blurred lines which include debating the utility of shutting down slash ship questions in fan-driven forums when shows actively play with those ships in canon, the issues with framing shipping as activism and so on, but these are all big topics in and of themselves. The tl;dr is that celebs can get weird about transformative fandom activity, even if such fandom activity is centered on the fictional characters they portray. When it comes to transformative works in an RPF context, you might argue the image a celebrity cultivates as a fiction in and of itself and to an extent there is an artificiality in terms of what gets presented to the world at large, but fundamentally, a lot of the language we use to talk about fictional narratives doesn’t easily translate in the context of real people, because they’re not fictional characters. They are real people, living real lives. 

That’s not to say I think people creating transformative works in RPF fandoms should feel more squeamish about doing so, but I do think the conversation around the sanctity of the fourth wall is different in RPF fandoms. For a start, for some people part of being in an RPF fandom is actually all about breaking the fourth wall. Interacting with your faves in a publicly visible way is part of celebrity fandom. However, I question the extent to which it is appropriate/helpful to extend that celebrity/fan interaction to the workings of transformative fandom and the slashing, femslashing, shipping and headcanoning associated with it. Let’s be very real about the fact that if celebrities are responding negatively to what fandom does with its interpretation of the fictional characters they depict (and oh boy I have thoughts on that which I will shelve for another day), the potential for a celebrity to find erotic works of fiction about themselves or their friends weird must surely be heightened.

This is ultimately why, in my view, @ ing celebs about fictional ships and headcanons rarely, if ever, ends well, with the possible exception of celebrities who are fannish themselves - i.e. the ones who can speak back to fandom in their own language. It most frequently ends up in a situation where not only the person sending the original message - but the fandom at large - is led to feel like your fave disapproves of something you put a lot of unpaid labour into producing and feel proud of, and it’s a pretty awful feeling. I’m staunchly in defense of RPF and I will bring out all the receipts which back up my perspective if required, but I have no desire for any of the stars of my RPF fiction to ever become aware of the fiction I’m writing about them in real life. I don’t want their approval, I certainly don’t invite their censorship, and I ultimately produce transformative works for the people that are here for it, i.e. the people in fandom who want to read the stuff I write.

When it comes to debates about the fourth wall with fictional narratives, there’s an element of holding the fiction to account, of exploring how shipping finds its way into the narrative but the actual (invariably queer) ship doesn’t. That is all part of a broader campaign for diversity in media, which in and of itself is loaded with the complications of vitriolic ship wars, skewed perceptions of fan/creator control, investing in commercially viable content where the queerness resides within subtext and is hyped within fandom space as opposed to less commercialised and already diverse queer content and so on.

With RPF and the fourth wall, you strip away a lot of those issues around diversity in media because - aside from debates about problematic faves - your faves just are. The fiction that exists is the facade of celebrity, but it has a real person behind it all and the possibility of ‘changing the narrative’ doesn’t hold weight in the same way as it does with fiction. For many celebrities their ‘celebrity’ image is very much part of showing the world their authentic selves. 

When the transformative side of RPF fandom intersects with the actual celebrities in question, I always come back to who benefits from the works produced within these communities. Aside from the arguments about the financial benefits a large ship can wield, primarily, transformative works offer a space of great creativity, solace and freedom for the participants within those fandoms. That’s the thing I feel most strongly about protecting. When celebrities are confronted with transformative works featuring even the characters they represent on screen, let alone fiction or theories about themselves or their friends, their response to that has the potential to upset the fandom at large, and that just makes everyone feel like shit. I would dearly love to see the fourth wall as an impenetrable construct in these spaces for that reason, but it’s not always to be. This post is a slight subtweet to something that happened in the particular fandom I’m in today, but it has, I hope, broader application. 

I struggle to see the upside of showing RPF celebrities transformative works featuring them, but, if you have counter perspectives, please do share. I’d love to know your thoughts. 

[letterspatentbrf]

1,000th Knight of the Garter - Prince William

22nd of April, 2008

(original press release via wayback machine)

weblink: https://web.archive.org/web/20080604123701/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page6247.asp

Buckingham Palace press releases

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW APPOINTMENT TO THE ORDER OF THE GARTER

22 April 2008 THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales to be a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Prince William becomes the 1000th Knight in the Register.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable the Lord Luce, GCVO, DL and Sir Thomas Dunne, KCVO, to be Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Notes for Editors: Members of the Royal family are additional to the established number of 24 Companions.  The Duke of Edinburgh was created a Knight in 1947 by King George VI, The Prince of Wales in 1958, The Duke of Kent in 1985, The Princess Royal in 1994, The Duke of Gloucester in 1997 and Princess Alexandra in 2003.  The Duke of York and The Earl of Wessex were both created Knights in 2006.

The appointment of the Knights and Ladies of the Garter is in The Queen's gift (i.e. without Prime Ministerial advice).  Appointments to the Order of the Garter are therefore in the same category as the Order of the Thistle, the Order of Merit and the Royal Victorian Order which are also in The Queen's gift.  Today's announcement brings the number of Companion Knights to the maximum number of 24.

Lord Luce was Lord Chamberlain from 2000 to 2006.  Sir Thomas Dunne is Lord-Lieutenant of Hereford (since 1977) and Chairman of the Lord Lieutenants Association. Find out more about the Order of the Garter

THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER

SOVEREIGN OF THE ORDER THE QUEEN

LADIES OF THE ORDER HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL, 23rd April, 1994. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, THE HONOURABLE LADY OGILVY, 23rd April, 2003.

ROYAL KNIGHTS COMPANION HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, 19th November, 1947. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, 26th July, 1958. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT, 9th October, 1985. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, 23rd April, 1997. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, 23rd April, 2006 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE EARL OF WESSEX, 23rd April, 2006 EXTRA KNIGHTS COMPANION AND LADIES OF THE ORDER HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GRAND DUKE JEAN OF LUXEMBOURG, 14th June, 1972. HER MAJESTY MARGRETHE II, QUEEN OF DENMARK, 16th May, 1979. HIS MAJESTY CARL XVI GUSTAF, KING OF SWEDEN, 25th May, 1983. HIS MAJESTY JUAN CARLOS I, KING OF SPAIN, 17th October, 1988. HER MAJESTY BEATRIX, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 28th June, 1989. HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY AKIHITO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN, 26th May, 1998. HIS MAJESTY HARALD V, KING OF NORWAY, 30th May, 2001.

OFFICERS OF THE ORDER Prelate The Bishop of Winchester (The Right Reverend Michael Charles SCOTT-JOYNT) Chancellor The Right Honourable Lord CARRINGTON, K.G., G.C.M.G., C.H., M.C. Register The Dean of Windsor (The Right Reverend David John CONNER) Garter King of Arms Peter Llewellyn GWYNN-JONES, ESQ., C.V.O. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Lieutenant General Sir Michael Alan WILLCOCKS, K.C.B. Secretary Patric Laurence DICKINSON, L.V.O. Richmond Herald of Arms COMPANIONS (maximum 24) The Most Noble Hugh Denis Charles, Duke of GRAFTON, K.G.  23rd April, 1976. The Right Honourable Gordon William Humphreys, Lord RICHARDSON OF DUNTISBOURNE, K.G., M.B.E., T.D.  22nd April, 1983. The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert, Lord CARRINGTON, K.G., G.C.M.G., C.H., M.C.  23rd April, 1985. The Most Noble Arthur Valerian, Duke of WELLINGTON, K.G., L.V.O., O.B.E., M.C.  23rd April, 1990. Field Marshal the Right Honourable Edwin Noel Westby, Lord BRAMALL, K.G., G.C.B., O.B.E., M.C.  23rd April, 1990. The Right Honourable Matthew White, Viscount RIDLEY, K.G., G.C.V.O., T.D.  23rd April, 1992. The Right Honourable John Davan, Lord SAINSBURY OF PRESTON CANDOVER, K.G.  23rd April, 1992. The Right Honourable John Francis Harcourt, Lord ASHBURTON, K.G., K.C.V.O.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Robert, Lord KINGSDOWN, K.G.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Sir Ninian Martin STEPHEN, K.G., A.K., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.B.E., Q.C.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda, Lady THATCHER, L.G., O.M., F.R.S.  22nd April, 1995. Sir Timothy James Alan COLMAN, K.G.  23rd April, 1996. The Most Noble James, Duke of ABERCORN, K.G.  23rd April, 1999. Sir Erskine William GLADSTONE, Bt., K.G.  23rd April, 1999. Field Marshal the Right Honourable Peter Anthony, Lord INGE, K.G., G.C.B.  23rd April, 2001. Sir Antony Arthur ACLAND, K.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.  23rd April, 2001. The Most Noble Gerald Cavendish, Duke of WESTMINSTER, K.G., O.B.E., T.D.  23rd April, 2003. The Right Honourable Frederick Edward Robin, Lord BUTLER OF BROCKWELL, K.G., G.C.B., C.V.O.  23rd April, 2003. The Right Honourable John, Lord MORRIS OF ABERAVON, K.G., Q.C.  23rd April, 2003. Mary, The Right Honourable Lady SOAMES, L.G., D.B.E.  23rd April, 2005. The Right Honourable Thomas Henry, Lord BINGHAM OF CORNHILL, K.G.  23rd April, 2005. The Right Honourable Sir John MAJOR, K.G., C.H.  23rd April, 2005.

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[bigboxochristmas]

Yuletidings 2010, Part One: Marley's Ghost (Rasta Reindeer Riddims)

1. Jingle Bells-Tennesse Brown and the Silvertones 2. Merry Merry Christmas-Alton Ellis & The Lipsticks 3. Deck the Halls-Jacob Miller & Ray I 4. Santa Claus is Ska-ing to Town-Williams-Granville Orchestra 5. Breadfruit Roasting on an Open Fire-Yellowman 6. Christmas Behind the Bars-Gregory Isaacs 7. Sound the Trumpet-Bob Marley & The Wailers 8. Happy Xmas (War is Over)-John Holt 9. Drummer Boy-Michigan & Smiley 10. All I Want for Christmas-iNi Kamoze 11. Jah Rasta Santa Claus-Cosmo 12. Irie Christmas-Freddie McGregor 13. Frosty the Snowman-Dean Fraser 14. Silver Bells-Jacob Miller & Ray I 15. Yellowman Rock-fellowman 16. Christmas in Jamaica-Brent Dowe

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A twofer this year: one reggae, one big-band/swing jazz.

The title for this holiday-reggae compilation was inspired by The Muppet Christmas Carol.  In it, as you may recall, Scrooge (Michael Caine) gets visited by two Marleys, played by those perennial hecklers Statler and Waldorf.  One of them is called Jacob Marley, of course, but the other is called Robert Marley, and I must admit it took me a while to get the joke: Bob Marley.  Hence, Marley’s Ghost.

Not surprisingly, holiday-themed reggae is a fairly limited genre, but I managed to find some festive tracks.  Highlights include: Tennessee Brown and the Silvertones playing fast and loose with both the lyrics and the melody of “Jingle Bells”; Bob Marley himself, along with the Wailers, with an early recording of theirs, “Sound the Trumpet”;  John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in a chugging arrangement by John Holt; Michigan & Smiley jamming on “Drummer Boy”; and the soulful “Christmas in Jamaica” by Brent Dowe.

For the cover art I’m pretty sure I just did an image-search for “Rasta Santa” and this was the best one.  I like it a lot.

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[neurogreys]

Xfile reboot trailer

XFILE REBOOT TRAILER TV

(Despite the fact that she’s currently starring in The Fall.) Anderson and hosts Chris Hardwick and Matt Mira encouraged listeners to tweet the hashtag #XFiles2015 and the response was overwhelming. ABC on Tuesday released the first teaser for the series, showing Williams in character as 12-year-old Dean Williams, who comes of age in Montgomery, Alabama, in the late 1960s.

XFILE REBOOT TRAILER TV

Earlier this month on The Nerdist podcast, Anderson said she would be “f-ing overjoyed” to make more episodes of the show that jumpstarted her career. Williams is up at bat in early footage of the highly anticipated Wonder Years reboot, announced last year. THE X-FILES Season 11 New Trailer (2018) Mulder & Scully, TV Show HD 2017 - FoxComedy, Kids, Family and Animated Film, Blockbuster, Action Cinema, Blockbus. The X-Files - The Investigation Continues official trailer (2016) 94,287 views 667 Dislike Share Save moviemaniacsDE 1.84M subscribers official trailer for The X-Files The X-Files. It came from Scully herself, Gillian Anderson. That is to say, they were checking to make sure they could get all the original players back and available at the same time because, Fox promised, they’re not doing The X-Files without Mulder and Scully.īut the big push to revive The X-Files didn’t come from Fox or even from the show’s creator, Chris Carter. The role of his partner, Agent Dana Scully, was played by Gillian Anderson. The actor played the role of a conspiratorial-minded FBI agent named Agent Fox Spooky Mulder. David Duchovny explains why he wont be writing for The X-Files season 11. Fox is set to debut the all-new X-Files revival for fans at New York Comic Con on October 10. See the trailer for The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird. The return of Fox’s X-Files, which gives us six more episodes of spooky, conspiracy-driven bliss starting next January 24, is much like the show itself: hinged on a tenuous faith in the unknown. Over the weekend, Fox confirmed that they were in the logistical phase of rebooting the series. David Duchovny would return for another installment of the sci-fi series, X-Files. Watch the First Official Trailer for The X-Files Reboot. The actors are much older and they have already seen so much.how can Scully continue with her cynical skeptic shtick And Mulder knows better than to just hook up with only Scully. Sure, what’s next, Firefly? But we’re living in a post- Arrested Development/24/Veronica Mars/Twin Peaks reboot world and, if Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Chris Carter, and Fox are all game, then I want to believe. From the trailer, it looks like they are going to give us original X-Files style, but it is neither original or fresh anymore. A few short years ago, the rumors that Fox might be rebooting the The X-Files might have been dismissed as fanboy wishes. The next mind-bending chapter of THE X-FILES debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, January 24th and continuing with its time period premier.