#denmark 1988

[rabbitcruiser]

On January 6, 1998, The Little Mermaid statue (by Edvard Eriksen) was decapitated again the culprits were never found, but the head was returned anonymously to a nearby television station, and reattached on February 4.

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Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F 1985

"Axel F" is an electronic instrumental track by German musician Harold Faltermeyer. It served as the theme song for the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop, its eponymous character (as portrayed by Eddie Murphy) and the film franchise it is based from, which became an international number-one hit in 1985. The track reached number one in Ireland as well as on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Additionally, it was a number two hit in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, and West Germany. In addition to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, the song appears on Faltermeyer's 1988 album Harold F. as a bonus track.

Faltermeyer recorded the tune using five instruments: a Roland Jupiter-8 provided the distinctive saw lead, a Moog modular synthesizer 15 provided the bass, a Roland JX-3P provided chord stab brasses, a Yamaha DX7 was used for the marimba sound, and a LinnDrum was used for drum programming. All instruments were played by Faltermeyer. According to Faltermeyer, the initial reaction to his first presentation of the track to the film's producers and director did not result in an immediate approval; it was not until director Martin Brest voiced his approval that the producers showed enthusiasm. A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by Faltermeyer.

"Axel F" has been sampled in many songs, including "Champion" by South Korean singer Psy. In 2005, Crazy Frog's version became a summer hit. It topped the charts in the UK, with some of the best weekly sales of the year, and remained at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks to become Britain's third-best-selling single of 2005, outselling and outperforming the original version. It also reached number 1 in Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, Spain, and Sweden. In France, the song stayed at number 1 for thirteen weeks, only to be dethroned by Crazy Frog's second single, "Popcorn". This was only the second time that an artist had ever dethroned themself in that country. It peaked at number 3 on the US Digital Sales chart, and number 2 on the US Adult Contemporary Top 20. In 2024, as part of a tribute to celebrate the release of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the Crazy Frog Youtube Channel made a special crossover music video with Netflix, featuring scenes from the movie, but re-edited to feature Crazy Frog in them, being chased by the Beverly Hills Police and Axel Foley.

"Axel F" received a total of 88,3% yes votes!

[tiaramania]

Tiara Highlights of 2024

Going into 2024 I expected it to be a boring year for tiara but I was glad to be wrong!

The New Queen Mary

Last January, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark shocked everyone by abdicating in favor of her son Frederik. The most exciting part to me of course was getting to see the new Queen Mary start to use the Danish Crown Jewels and the jewels from the Danish Royal Property Trust. Mary didn't disappoint and quickly wore the Emerald Parure Tiara for her first official portrait and the Pearl Poiré Tiara for the state visit to Norway. But not content with now having access to all three of the Danish big guns tiaras, Queen Mary worked with the Danish Royal Collection to create a new Diamond Bandeau Tiara out of the largest rose cut diamonds from a diamond belt in the crown jewels that hadn't been worn in a century. She's truly embodying the spirit of her namesake and patron saint of royal jewelry fans, Queen Mary of the United Kingdom. There are still quite a few pieces that she hasn't worn so I'm excited for the future.

Rediscovery of Queen Mary's Lozenge Tiara

Probably the biggest news for us royal jewelry watchers was the rediscovery of Queen Mary's Lozenge Tiara in the collection of Queen Azizah of Pahang. Saad Salman from The Royal Watcher noticed the similarities of the two tiaras while at the wedding of Prince Muhammad and Natasya Adnan in October. He mentioned it to Queen Azizah who graciously allowed him to examine the tiara and determined that they were indeed the same piece. She had purchased the "lost" tiara in New York City in 1988 with no idea of it's previous royal provenance and it's been worn by her family ever since.

Malaysian Tiara Buying Bonanza

I don't know what was going on in Malaysia this year but everyone decided they needed a new tiara. Did they get some sort of Groupon or maybe a BOGO deal? This doesn't even include two tiaras that were made from previously owned necklaces. Crown Princess Zaheeda of Kedah, Princess Julie of Kedah, Princess Aminah of Johor, Queen Zarith Sofiah of Johor, Princess Afzan of Pahang, and Queen Norashikin of Selangor all debuted brand new tiaras.

Princess Sofia's Surprise

In April, Princess Sofia debuted London blue topaz gemstones for the top of her signature Palmette Tiara bringing the total different versions of the tiara up to seven. But that somehow wasn't the biggest tiara news for her this year because in December she surprised us all by wearing the Aquamarine Kokoshnik Tiara for the first time! She had worn the Palmette Tiara for every single tiara event since 2017 and 27 times in a row!

Opening of the Buckingham Palace Vault

With a new reign means a new person in charge of loaning out jewelry and King Charles and Queen Camilla seem to have a much more 'jewelry is meant to be worn' approach than the late Queen. In addition to her standard Greville Honeycomb Tiara, Queen Camilla has worn six new to her tiaras since becoming queen. I didn't expect her to wear new ones quite so quickly but I have really enjoyed seeing her explore the vault. They also have a jewelry is meant to be shared mentality that I am loving! Queen Elizabeth II tended to give out a few long term loans to each person and that was the only person that wore that piece of jewelry. This year, the Duchess of Edinburgh wore the Lotus Flower Tiara which was on loan to the Princess of Wales and Queen Camilla wore the Five Aquamarine Tiara that was on loan to the Duchess of Edinburgh. I don't think the BRF are suddenly going to be at the level of Dutch or Swedish jewelry sharing but they are certainly moving in the right direction.

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … February 4

1893 – A Gay sex scandal begins in Denmark and later Friedrich Hammerich, son of a prominent judge, is arrested. The press claims that Hans Christian Andersen started a seduction chain leading to the present scandal.

Jared French, as painted by his lover Paul Cadmus

1905 – Born: American painter Jared French (d.1988) who devised a pictorial language to explore human unconsciousness and its relation to sexuality. Most of his works consist of strange, statue-like, somnambulant figures with eerily blank facial expressions positioned in austere landscapes and plazas. Rendered in a technique so precise that they seem more real than real, French's paintings capture and maintain the viewer's interest and imagination.

At Amherst College in 1926, French met artist Paul Cadmus, who was briefly his lover and who became a life-long friend. After leaving Amherst, French took a job on Wall Street and then toured Europe with Cadmus between 1931 and 1933. During the 1930s and 1940s, French was a member of the Cadmus circle that included such gay literary and artistic figures as George Platt Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein, George Tooker, Glenway Westcott, and Monroe Wheeler. In 1937, French married artist Margaret Hoening, his and Cadmus's mutual friend. Cadmus did not seem upset with the marriage and the three were soon collaborating as members of the PAJAMA photographic group (the name of which was comprised of the first two letters of each of their given names).

The photographs taken by French, Hoening, and Cadmus are particularly important for documenting the gay and artistic community coalescing at Fire Island in the period from 1937 to 1945.

French's paintings reveal the central role sexuality plays in the artist's conception of humanity. In the tempera painting entitled Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone (1939), American Indians symbolically wash away Boone's European ancestry to make him part of the collective unconscious. Boone's metamorphosis includes a sexual awakening. Surrounded by incredibly muscular, nearly nude male Indians, he stands in the middle of the canvas, arms outstretched, wearing obtrusively feminine underwear: tight, light pink hip-huggers laced up the center with a dark blue ribbon. This scenario suggests that the painting is an exploration of Jung's concept of man's repressed feminine aspect.

Nest

During the 1960s, French radically altered his imagery. He began drawing fantastic biomorphic creatures that, on closer inspection, are fragments of human torsos, heads, pelvises, and genitalia emerge. French made paintings out of only a few of these arresting drawings. In one such work, entitled Nest (1968-1969), a mass of fleshy, cartilaginous forms appears to mutate atop a seaside cliff. Somewhat horrifically, this hermaphroditic creature, made up of orifices, buttocks, faces, and spines, seems to have impregnated itself and is hatching its egg on a nest of flesh and bone.

In the latter part of his career, French fell out of favor with art critics and art collectors. At the end of his life, he was living in Rome, virtually in seclusion.

de Rede with Marie-Helene Rothschild, Liz Taylor and Liza Minnelli

1922 – Oskar Dieter Alex von Rosenberg-Redé, 3rd Baron von Rosenberg-Redé (d.2004), also known as Alexis, Baron de Redé, was a prominent French banker, aristocrat, aesthete, collector, and socialite. In 2003, he was appointed a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his restoration of the Hôtel Lambert where he was known for hosting opulent costume balls. Involved in horse racing, in 1972 he won the Prix de Diane and came in second at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Oskar Dieter Alex von Rosenberg-Redé was born in Zurich, Switzerland, the third and youngest child of Oskar Adolf Rosenberg, Baron von Rosenberg-Redé, a banker from Austria-Hungary.He had two siblings. Born in 1919, his brother Hubert von Rosenberg-Redé was the heir to the barony, while his sister Marion von Rosenberg-Redé (born 1916) was handicapped.

The children were brought up Protestant and raised in a 16-room hotel suite at the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich, attended by a great many maids, nannies, porters, and valets. Their father visited occasionally. As their finances decreased with the onset of World War II, they moved into a two-bedroom suite. Diagnosed with leukemia, their mother died in 1931, when Redé was nine years old. Redé and his brother were then sent to be educated together at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.

On account of bankruptcy, his father committed suicide in 1939 at the family's estate (Villa Rosin) in the Austrian town of Kaumberg. Living on an insurance policy income of $200 a month, Redé moved to New York City, where he briefly attempted to acquire American citizenship. He traveled to California to work for an antique dealer, where he earned money to support his sister and befriended Elsie de Wolfe (known as Lady Mendl), as well as Salvador Dalí. He returned in New York in 1941.[8] His brother committed suicide in 1942 in Hollywood, California, whereupon Redé became the third and last Baron von Rosenberg-Redé, which was typically abbreviated as Baron de Redé in France.

In a New York restaurant, the 19-year-old Redé caught the eye of businessman Arturo López Willshaw and they became lovers in 1941. A married Chilean millionaire, Lopez-Willshaw lived with his wife Patricia Lopez Huici in a lavishly decorated house in Neuilly, France and was "famous for his extravagant costume entertainments." Shortly after they became a couple, Lopez-Wilshaw allegedly offered Redé $1 million to return with him to France.

By his own account, Redé was largely uninterested in affection or sex, and had only ever loved a Polish classmate at Le Rosey, an interest he never acted on. Redé was romantically involved with Arturo Lopez-Willshaw until Lopez-Wilshaw's death in 1962. Upon meeting Lopez-Wilshaw, Redé recollected losing his virginity to the man at the "sleazy" hotel Winslow on East 55th Street.

As Redé recalled of the beginning of the relationship, "I was not in love. But I needed protection, and I was aware that he could provide this." In addition, he observed, "The money gave me the security I craved, and it would also enable me to look after my handicapped sister."

After their move to Paris, Lopez-Wilshaw unofficially lived with Redé at the Hôtel Lambert while maintaining a formal residence with his wife in Neuilly.

With his wealth deriving from his lover, Redé's social notoriety rested on being a kept man. In 1953, author Christian Mégret published Danaé, a popular roman à clef based on Redé's and Lopez-Willshaw's life together. The racy details were provided by one of their close friends and Mégret's companion, Princess Ghislaine de Polignac. Lopez-Willshaw promptly banned Polignac from his home, although Redé later relented and became friends again.

Redé maintained his apartment at the Hotel Lambert throughout his later years, remaining an active host. He died suddenly at the home of a friend, Carmen Saint, at the age of 82, of heart issues. Redé's estate, notably the contents of his apartment at the Hôtel Lambert, was auctioned after his death by Sotheby's and realized £5.2 million. His memoirs, Alexis: The Memoirs of the Baron de Redé, were published posthumously in 2005.

1938 – Martin Greif was born in the Bronx, New York and was an editor, publisher, writer and lecturer. (d.1996)

In 1982 he published a book called The Gay Book of Days ��� 'An evocatively illustrated who's who of who is, was, may have been, probably was, and almost certainly seems to have been gay during the past 5,000 years'. The book was published in the UK in 1985. This history and many other blogs and sites have used it as a starting point.

Martin Greif also published and edited a large number of other books, mostly through the two publishing houses he and his partner founded, Main Street Press in the US and Orchard Hill Press in Ireland.

He spent his latter years with his longtime work and life partner, Lawrence Grow, in County Cork, Ireland. Larry Grow died from an AIDS-related stroke in 1991 and Martin Greif died from AIDS in 1996.

Evan Wolfson (R) and Cheng He wedding

1957 – Born: Evan Wolfson is an American attorney and gay rights advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, a group favoring same-sex marriage in the United States. Wolfson, who many consider to be the father and leader of the same-sex marriage movement, authored the book Why Marriage Matters; America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, which Time Out New York magazine called, "Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written..."

Returning to the United States after his service in the Peace Corps in Togo, Wolfson entered Harvard Law School. His interest in glbtq rights led him to discover John Boswell's book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980), which had a profound impact on him.

Wolfson took an important step in his personal life: he came out to his family. Describing the moment to reporter Mark S. Warnick, he stated,

"I think they were all surprised. I think that their main reaction was sadness, that I was not going to have the kind of life they expected and were familiar with. But they were always loving and supportive. They're very proud of what I do and they've always been there for me.

From 1989 until 2001 Wolfson worked full-time at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay rights advocacy non-profit. He directed their Marriage Project and coordinated the National Freedom to Marry Coalition, the forerunner to Freedom to Marry. Wolfson co-wrote a brief in Baehr v. Miike, in which the Supreme Court of Hawaii said prohibiting same-sex marriage in the state constituted discrimination, and worked on Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court case that led to the creation of civil unions in Vermont by the state legislature as a compromise between Wolfson's group and those objecting to same-sex marriage. Wolfson called the unions a "wonderful step forward," but not enough.

Wolfson appeared before the United States Supreme Court in 2000, to argue on behalf of Scoutmaster James Dale in the landmark case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Court ruled that the Boy Scouts organization had the right to expel Dale for revealing that he was gay. The Court ruled 5-4 against Dale, but Wolfson, said, "We are succeeding in getting people to rethink how they feel about gay people."

On April 30, 2001, Wolfson left Lambda to form Freedom to Marry. Wolfson described his vision for the new organization: "I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live."

He is adamant that victory means the right to marry, not to have different and less beneficial systems such as civil unions or domestic partnerships for gay and lesbian citizens. "You don't ask for half a loaf," he declared. "We don't need two lines at the clerk's office when there's already an institution that works in this country, and it's called marriage. One of the main protections that come with marriage is inherent in the word: certainly in times of crisis any other word than marriage would not bring the same clarity or impart the same dignity."

Wolfson takes inspiration from the words of Gandhi on the process of change: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."

Wolfson and his partner (now husband), Cheng He, a Canadian-born microbiologist, reside in New York.

Fittingly, Wolfson and Freedom to Marry were deeply involved in the successful struggle to achieve marriage equality in the Empire State. Freedom to Marry became a founding member of the New Yorkers United for Marriage coalition, which was put together by Governor Andrew Cuomo to forge a coherent strategy to build support for marriage equality in the state. Freedom to Marry invested over $1,000,000 in the campaign, including more than $500,000 for television, newspaper ads, and direct mail, and over $100,000 in polling, all aimed at making sure legislators heard from the couples affected, their loved ones, and the 58% of New Yorkers who supported the freedom to marry.The New York legislature finally passed the marriage equality bill in a historic vote on June 24, 2011.

Wolfson and Dr. Cheng He were married in New York City on October 15, 2011. They have been a couple since 2002. In an interview with Nate Schweber of the New York Times for a feature story on their marriage, Wolfson said, "For me, getting married is not about making a political statement; it's about wanting to build a life together, wanting to have protections for one another, wanting to make a commitment in front of your family and friends, just like everyone else."

1974 – Lee Pearson CBE is a 10-times paralympic games gold medallist having represented British para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. He also has six world-championship and three European titles.

Pearson was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and first came to public attention in 1980 when then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher carried him up stairs in 10 Downing Street having awarded him a 'Children of Courage' medal. He currently lives in Bagnall, Staffordshire.

He turned professional after he was inspired by the Atlanta Olympics. He won three gold medals in the championship dressage, freestyle dressage, and team dressage events at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics. He won gold in the team dressage event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, silver in the championship dressage and bronze in the freestyle.

He noted after his failure to win gold in the freestyle competition in London that he had been voted down by the British judge but said that he would compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, on a different horse.

Lee Pearson CBE currently is the title holder of no less than 34 Gold medals at European, World and Paralympic level. Probably making him the most successful Equestrian Athlete ever.

Pearson runs his own dressage yard in Staffordshire and teaches many around the countryIn August 2012 the Independent reported that Lee had a new, 18 year-old boyfriend Ben after "He broke up with [Lincolnshire fireman Mark] Latham in February [2012] and is now in the process of a messy divorce" from their civil partnership which began in August 2010. Mark Latham responded to explain, "Mr. Pearson is not 'ending' the Civil Partnership as I am the one petitioning against him on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour."

In 2014, ahead of a planned trip to decry anti-gay propaganda at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Pearson almost dared Russian President Vladimir Putin to throw him in jail, becoming one of the UK's highest-profile gay athletes.

1975 – The first Gay-oriented television commercial in the U.S. aired on two network affiliate stations in Washington D.C.. Lambda Rising Bookstore sponsored the ads on episodes of Phil Donahue and Marcus Welby, M.D. Stations balked at airing the ads, but relented after getting approval from the Association of Broadcasters Standards Office.

1981 – U.S. Congressman Jon Hinson is arrested for performing an act of "oral sodomy" with a twenty-eight-year-old man in the restroom of a House of Representatives office building. He pleads no contest and is given a thirty-day suspended sentence. Following his 1981 resignation, he became an LGBT activist in metropolitan Washington D.C.Hinson died of respiratory failure resulting from AIDS in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1995 at the age of fifty-three.

2010 – The national parliament of Albania passed a comprehensive LGBT rights law. The bill does not include marriage equality as had been promised by the president, but the Albanian Alliance against the Discrimination of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) welcomed the law as a powerful legal tool to protect against any kind of discrimination.

2017 – The Movie, Kept Boy, written by Robert Rodi, is released.

Robert Rodi (b.1956) is an American writer and author of satiric novels and comic books.

Robert Rodi was born 'in a cosy middle-class suburb of Chicago, right around the time cosy middle-class suburbs were feeling the firsts blasts of scorn from the burgeoning counterculture. Twenty-two years later, he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy just as the curtain went up on the hyper-materialist Reagan era. Not long afterwards, he came out of the closet just as gay men were dealt the first crushing blow of the AIDS crisis … It was thus perhaps inevitable he turned to writing comedy.'

His first novel, Fag Hag, was published in 1991 and was swiftly translated into Italian, French, German, and Japanese. It was followed in quick succession by Closet Case (1992), What They Did to Princess Paragon (1994), Drag Queen (1995), Kept Boy (1997) and Bitch Goddess (2002) and When You Were Me (2007).

Rodi's shorter fiction can be found in a number of anthologies, including Men On Men 5, His, and Sandman: Book of Dreams. His novella Glad, Gladder, Gladys was serialised online at USAToday.com. His literary criticism has appeared in the pages of The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, NewCity, and The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review.

Rodi is the creator of several comic-book series, including 4 Horsemen, Codename: Knockout, and The Crossovers. He was a founding member of the Chicago-based gay performance art troupe, The Pansy Kings, who were active throughout the 1990s, and he wrote sketches for the Live Bait Theater's revues Junk Food and Dear Jackie: The Queen of Camelot Remembered.

Rodi still lives in Chicago, in a century-old Queen Anne house with his partner Jeffrey Smith and a constantly shifting number of dogs.

Warner Brothers took an option on his novel Kept Boy, and Rodi adapted it it for the screen with David Ozanich. It was released in 2017 to mixed reviews.

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Their Favorite Eurovision Songs 1956 - 2024 (Headcanons)

Rise!Turtles + Bonus!

A/N: I was just so hyped to see that Albania had chosen Shkodra Elektronike with Zjerm to represent them in Eurovision 2025, that I just HAD to write this. Two songs into 2025! Let’s see if it will get as chaotic this year like it did last year😂😅💚

Warnings: Flashing lights

Raphael:

1 points: TiTAN - Besa (Albania🇦🇱, 2024)

2 points: Ai Coração - Mimicat (Portugal🇵🇹, 2023)

3 points: Satellite - Lena (Germany🇩🇪, 2010)

4 points: Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest (Denmark🇩🇰, 2013)

5 points: Take Me to Your Heaven - Charlotte Nilsson (Sweden🇸🇪, 1999)

6 points: Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi - Céline Dion (Switzerland🇨🇭, 1988)

7 points: J’aime La Vie - Sandra Kim (Belgium🇧🇪, 1986)

8 points: We Will Rave - Kaleen (Austria🇦🇹, 2024)

10 points: Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden🇸🇪, 1974)

12 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

Leonardo:

1 points: Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz (United Kingdom🇬🇧, 1981)

2 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

3 points: Take Me to Your Heaven - Charlotte Nilsson (Sweden🇸🇪, 1999)

4 points: Zorra - Nebulossa (Spain🇪🇸, 2024)

5 points: La Noia - Angelina Mango (Italy🇮🇹, 2024)

6 points: Zitti E Buoni - Måneskin (Italy🇮🇹, 2021)

7 points: Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden🇸🇪, 1974)

8 points: Soldi - Mahmood (Italy🇮🇹, 2019)

10 points: SloMo - Chanel (Spain🇪🇸, 2022)

12 points: Fuego - Eleni Foureira (Cyprus🇨🇾, 2018)

Donatello:

1 points: Because Of You - Gustaph (Belgium🇧🇪, 2023)

2 points: Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest (Denmark🇩🇰, 2013)

3 points: Popular - Eric Saade (Sweden🇸🇪, 2011)

4 points: The Code - Nemo (Switzerland🇨🇭, 2024)

5 points: Tattoo - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2023)

6 points: Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden🇸🇪, 1974)

7 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

8 points: Before The Party Is Over - Mustii (Belgium🇧🇪, 2024)

10 points: Shum - Go_A (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2021)

12 points: Europapa - Joost Klein (Netherlands🇳🇱, 2024)

Michelangelo:

1 points: Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw (United Kingdom🇬🇧, 1967)

2 points: 10 Years - Dadi og Gagnamagnid (Iceland🇮🇸, 2021)

3 points: Moustache - Twin Twin (France🇫🇷, 2014)

4 points: Give That Wolf A Banana - Subwoofer (Norway🇳🇴, 2022)

5 points: No Rules! - Windows95man (Finland🇫🇮, 2024)

6 points: Run Away - SunStroke Project and Olia Tira (Moldova🇲🇩, 2010)

7 points: Rim Tim Tagi Dim - Baby Lasagna (Croatia🇭🇷, 2024)

8 points: Dancing Lasha Tumbai - Verka Sandurchka (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2007)

10 points: Stefania - Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2022)

12 points: Cha Cha Cha - Käärijä (Finland🇫🇮, 2023)

Bonus!

Splinter:

1 points: In A Moment Like This - Chanée and N’evergreen (Denmark🇩🇰, 2010)

2 points: Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest (Denmark🇩🇰, 2013)

3 points: Voila - Barbara Pravi (France🇫🇷, 2021)

4 points: Özülne Apar - Fahree (ft. Ilkin Dovletov) (Azerbaijan🇦🇿, 2024)

5 points: Refrain - Lys Assia (Switzerland🇨🇭, 1956)

6 points: Tout L'univers - Gjon’s Tears (Switzerland🇨🇭, 2021)

7 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

8 points: Fly On The Wings Of Love - Brødrene Olsen (Denmark🇩🇰, 2000)

10 points: Teresa & Maria - alyona alyona, Jerry Heil (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2024)

12 points: Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden🇸🇪, 1974)

Baron Draxum:

1 points: De Troubadour - Lenny Kuhr (Netherlands🇳🇱, 1969)

2 points: Rock Bottom - Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran (United Kingdom🇬🇧, 1977)

3 points: Tout L'univers - Gjon’s Tears (Switzerland🇨🇭, 2021)

4 points: Calm After The Storm - The Common Linnets (Netherlands🇳🇱, 2014)

5 points: Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids - Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan (Ireland🇮🇪, 1994)

6 points: Beautiful Mess - Kristian Kostov (Bulgaria🇧🇬, 2017)

7 points: Hold Me - Farid Mammadov (Azerbaijan🇦🇿, 2013)

8 points: Molitva - Marija Serifovic (Serbia🇷🇸, 2007)

10 points: 1944 - Jamala (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2016)

12 points: Amar Pelos Dois - Salvador Sobral (Portugal🇵🇹, 2017)

April:

1 points: Running Scared - Ell and Nikki (Azerbaijan🇦🇿, 2011)

2 points: Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest (Denmark🇩🇰, 2013)

3 points: La Noia - Angelina Mango (Italy🇮🇹, 2024)

4 points: Everyway That I Can - Sertab Erener (Turkey🇹🇷, 2003)

5 points: My Number One - Helena Paparizou (Greece🇬🇷, 2005)

6 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

7 points: Shady Lady - Ani Lorak (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2008)

8 points: Évidemment - La Zarra (France🇫🇷, 2023)

10 points: Rise Like A Phoenix - Conchita Wurst (Austria🇦🇹, 2014)

12 points: The Code - Nemo (Switzerland🇨🇭, 2024)

Cassandra:

1 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

2 points: Jezebel - The Rasmus (Finland🇫🇮, 2022)

3 points: Promise - Voyager (Australia🇦🇺, 2023)

4 points: Ulveham - Gåte (Norway🇳🇴, 2024)

5 points: Blood & Glitter - Lord Of The Lost (Germany🇩🇪, 2023)

6 points: Zitti E Buoni - Måneskin (Italy🇮🇹, 2021)

7 points: Dark Side - Blind Channel (Finland🇫🇮, 2021)

8 points: We Could Be The Same - Manga (Turkey🇹🇷, 2010)

10 points: Doomsday Blue - Bambie Thug (Ireland🇮🇪, 2024)

12 points: Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi (Finland🇫🇮, 2006)

Casey Jr:

1 points: Brividi - Mahmood and Blanco (Italy🇮🇹, 2022)

2 points: Euphoria - Loreen (Sweden🇸🇪, 2012)

3 points: The Code - Nemo (Switzerland🇨🇭, 2024)

4 points: Soldi - Mahmood (Italy🇮🇹, 2019)

5 points: Promise - Voyager (Australia🇦🇺, 2023)

6 points: Fairytale - Alexander Rybak (Norway🇳🇴, 2009)

7 points: What’s Another Year - Johnny Logan (Ireland🇮🇪, 1980)

8 points: Zitti E Buoni - Måneskin (Italy🇮🇹, 2021)

10 points: We Could Be The Same - Manga (Turkey🇹🇷, 2010)

12 points: Stefania - Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine🇺🇦, 2022)

[operafantomet]

Hi there! I have a request that might be tricky so feel free to ignore this ask. So I'm extremely fascinated by these certain types of vintage Christine's wedding dress bodices that were used in 1990s atleast in Hamburg and Japan and more recently in Brazil. The bodice was made of "stripy" fabric and the basque/belt was quite wide. I wondered could you make a photoset of those bodices? Thank you!

YES! These bodices are absolutely masterpieces. They are so dramatic, so hourglass shaped, so period looking. So... Bjørnson. I love them to pieces and pretty much screamed of joy when they decided to use them for the principals in the Sao Paulo revival.

Their origin is in very early West End days, as well as the first European productions in Stockholm, Vienna, Scheveningen, Hamburg, Basel etc. As the Japanese production replicated West End at the time, they could also be seen there, and is more or less made in that style today. Here's some:

Ryoko Nomura, Tokyo 1988:

Anna Maria Kaufmann, Hamburg c. 1990:

Elisabeth Berg, Stockholm c. 1990:

Jill Washington, West End c. 1994:

Kyoko Suzuki, Tokyo c. 1992:

Eriko Murata (?), Hiroshima 1992:

Ute Baum, Basel 1995:

Colby Thomas, Hamburg 1998 (which is a bit different in fabric and in basque than the others, but the latest incarnation of the style in Germany before they started doing the current look):

Emma Frost, Copenhagen 2009:

Giulia Nadruz, Sao Paulo 2019:

Raquel Paulin, Sao Paulo 2019:

A detail shot of an old German or Dutch bodices used in Brazil:

And a detail shot of an old Swedish bodice used in Denmark:

Aaaaaaaah, bliss!!!!!!

[fishfooddude]

The Bear Timeline

This is based on this article, but there are a few flaws within it. They cite The French Laundry as a New York restaurant, but it is located in Northern California.

We don't know how old Carmy is, but this article says he's supposed to be 26 in season 2, and the season 1 screenplay portrays him as 25

I can't explain the barbeque incident that Richie and Carmy discussed in Season 1 because Carmy was not alive when Mikey turned 15. My conspiracy theory is that the line got mixed up, and it happened on Carmy's 15th birthday.

Birth Years: Mikey 11/15/1979, Sugar 11/10/1988, Carmy 1997

2015

If Carmy was, in fact, born in 1997, he would have been Class of 2015 He wants to work at The Beef, but Mikey says no, so Carmy goes to culinary school in France. Culinary programs seem to be between 3-9 months (let's split the diff and say Carmy finished in 6 months) So Carmy graduates high school in June of 2015. Let's say he takes a month off between graduating high school and starting culinary school.

2016

Carmy finishes culinary school and maybe stages somewhere in France, or the kid is just really lucky and lands a gig at The French Laundry straight out of culinary school *the logistics confuse me on this part* Works at The French Laundry in California Works at Ever in Chicago and meets Luca Works at Noma (Denmark) with Luca

2017

Carmy returns from Denmark The Fishes Dinner

2018 -2021

Carmy moves in with Michelle and Steven. Carmy works at Empire and eventually becomes a CDC Carmy turns 21 and wins The Best Up & Coming Chef He also wins a James Beard Award

2022

Mikey dies by suicide in February, Carmy doesn't return to Chicago until the Summer of 2022 (Let's call it June since Richie was running The Beef alone for four months before Carmy comes home) Season 1 Episode 3 takes place in November (Sugar calls to say it was Mikey's birthday at the end of the episode) So Season 1 is presumably over by the end of 2022

2023

The Beef changes to The Bear. Sugar's pregnancy (Beginning of season 2-almost end of season 3) The Fridge Scene is supposed to happen in March of 2023, which means season 3 is the spring/summer of 2023

[wrestlinghistorywithkay]

Queen of The Ring : Get To Know The Women’s Wrestlers In The Movie

It’s March 1st which means it’s Women’s History Month and I wanted to kick it off with a special article . The movie, ‘ Queen of The Ring ’ is coming to theaters on March 7, 2025. The film is written by and directed Ash Avildsen . The plot is the story of legendary women’s wrestler , Mildred Burke , a single mother who became a pro wrestler when women’s wrestling was considered taboo in America . This article is going to tell the real story of a few of the women’s wrestlers in the movie and who is portraying them on screen.

Mildred Burke was born on August 5, 1915 in Coffeyville, Kansas. Before wrestling , she would drop out of school at the age of 15 years old and work as a waitress. Burke would become interested in pro wrestling when husband took her to a show. She would be pregnant with their son at the time . She would also work as stenographer before stepping into the ring . Burke would be trained by her husband and manager, Billy Wolfe , as well as fellow women’s wrestler , Cora Livingston . Wolfe didn’t want to train Burke at first , however , he ordered a male wrestler to bodyslam , thus , she reversed it and gave him a bodyslam . She would make her debut in 1935. Thus , she would defeat Clara Mortensen for the Women’s World Championship in 1937. She was the inaugural NWA Women’s World Champion ( 1950) , World Women’s Wrestling Association ( WWWA) World Heavyweight Champion (1937) . She retired in 1956 and ran an all women’s wrestling school where two of her students would be WWE Hall of Famer , The Fabulous Moolah , and Bertha Faye . Mildred Burke passed away on February 18,1989 at the age of 73. She would help introduce women’s wrestling across the world and was inducted into the Legacy Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016. Mildred Burke is portrayed by Emily Bett Rickards in ‘ Queen of The Ring ’.

Clara Mortensen was born on June 21, 1916 , in Sioux City, Iowa . She was born into a family where wrestling was important to them. Her father, Fred , was a wrestler in his home country of Denmark , being known as ‘ The Terrible Dane ’. He would wrestle in Oregon as he began to train Clara and her brother , Leo , to follow into the family business. Clara was introduced to tumbling at three years old before having matches against boys. Instead of getting upset about being slammed , she learned to take the bumps and to be tough. She would make her debut at the age of 9 on July 18,1925. Her opponent would be her brother , Leo. At 16 years old , she would use his signature move , the Flying Head Scissors, to defeat Barbara Ware . However , it is unknown if Ware is the wrestler Mortensen defeated. She would have huge matches against Betty Brown and Dot Lee, thus, her biggest opponent would be Mildred Burke in 1937. Clara Mortensen would continue to wrestle after having her five year winning streak snapped by Burke and retired in 1951. Mortensen passed away on November 6, 1988 at the age of 72 . Clara Mortensen is portrayed by 4x All Elite Wrestling Women’s World Champion, ‘ Timeless ’ Toni Storm , in ‘ Queen of The Ring ’.

Ethel Johnson , Babs Wingo, and Marva Scott were sisters who followed each other into the wrestling business . Ethel was born on May 14,1935 . Johnson began her training for pro wrestling following in her sister’s , Babs Wingo’s, footsteps as Wingo became the first Black woman to desegregate the sport of professional wrestling. Their younger sister , Marva Scott, would soon join them. Marva Scott was born on November 21, 1937. They would be trained by Mildred Burke and Billy Wolfe. She would make her debut in 1952. The sisters would work together in a tag team and Ethel would also work a singles competitor. She was known for her athleticism. Ethel would also be a tag team champion with her sister , Marva , and June Byers . She would also be a 5 time world champion . Ethel Johnson retired in 1976 and passed away on September 14, 2018 at the age of 83 from Heart Disease. She was inducted into the Legacy Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021. Marva Scott is a one time tag team champion, with her sister , Ethel , as her partner . Marva would retire in 1979. She passed away on August 15,2003 at the age of 65 from cancer . She was inducted into the Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2023. Babs Wingo passed away on November 4, 2003. Not much is known about her . Ethel Johnson is portrayed by former Smackdown Women’s Champion, two time WWE Tag Team Champion, and one time TNA Knockouts Champion, Naomi , Babs Wingo is portrayed by Damaris Lewis , and Marva Scott is portrayed by Cameren Jackson in ‘ Queen of The Ring ’. The sisters are also the topic of the documentary, ‘ Lady Wrestlers ’.

June Byers ( DeAlva Sibley ) was born on May 25,1922 ) in Houston , Texas . Her uncle worked for a local wrestling promoter and as she got older , she would go to the shows and hang around wrestlers to learn different moves if she asked them to teach her . As she was playing in the ring , she caught the eye of Billy Wolfe . She would be taken under his wing and be trained by not only him , but Mae Young. Her ring name would come from her childhood nickname , ‘ June ’ and her ex-husband’s last name , ‘ Byers ’. She would debut in 1944 and would be an enhancement talent for the champion , Mildred Burke , and Mae Young . Her first championship would come in 1952 as she and her tag team partner , Millie Stafford , would defeat Young and her partner , Ella Waldek. In 1953, Byers would win a 13 woman tournament to win the NWA Women’s Championship after Mildred Burke had to vacate the championship due to her divorce from Billy Wolfe. She would become over with the fans and make appearances on TV game shows . She would be stripped of the championship in 1956 as the Baltimore Athletic Commission heard her plans of retiring as champion. Another 13 woman tournament would take place with The Fabulous Moolah winning . However , June would come out of retirement to face Moolah for the championship, but would lose. She retired in 1964 due to being in a car accident . June Byers would pass away on July 20, 1998 at the age of 76 from Pneumonia. She was inducted into the Legacy Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017. June Byers is portrayed by former NWA World Women’s Champion, and current AEW Wrestler , Kamille.

Johnnie Mae Young was born on March 12,1923 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. She got her start in wrestling at the age of 15 as a member of her high school wrestling team. She was the only girl on the all boys’ team. In order to make the team, she was trained by her brothers. Young would go to a professional wrestling show and challenge the champion, Mildred Burke , to a match . Therefore , she was told by the promoters that she couldn’t have a match with Burke , so she had to face Gladys Gillem. She would defeat Gillem in a shoot match , catching the eye of Billy Wolfe. Wolfe encouraged her to start training to become a wrestler. Young would be trained by Mildred Burke. She would meet long time friend and rival , The Fabulous Moolah , after leaving home to train in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is unknown when Young had her debut match as a wrestler , therefore , reports of it were in 1941 , when she was 18. Along with Mildred Burke , Mae Young would bring women’s wrestling to Canada, as they would work for promoter and Patriarch of the Hart family, Stu Hart. They would also be two of the first women to tour Japan after World War II. Young became the Inaugural NWA Florida Women’s Champion in 1951. She was also the Inaugural NWA Women’s United States Champion, winning in 1968. She would also wrestle in the Worldwide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ) , now World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) in 1969 and 1972. It is unknown if she retired around this time . In the late 1970s into the 80s, she would venture into the real estate business . She would go on to make appearances in the WWF/E in 1994 , being in the crowd at Wrestlemania X alongside The Fabulous Moolah , ‘ Classy ’ Freddie Blassie , Nikolai Volkoff, and ‘ Captain ’ Lou Albano. She would make her WWF/E debut in 1999 as a part of the company’s ‘ Attitude Era ’. She would continue to make appearances for the company alongside Moolah. Mae Young would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008 by her friend , Pat Patterson . She would make her last WWE appearance in 2013 on WWE Raw for her birthday as she was given her own custom Divas Championship belt by Triple H and Vince McMahon. Mae Young passed away on January 14, 2014 , at the age of 90 . Mae Young is portrayed by Francesca Eastwood, the daughter of legendary actor , Clint Eastwood , in ‘ Queen of The Ring ’.

My Final Thoughts;

The women featured in this article are trailblazers. Their stories are inspiring and will be amazing to see on the big screen. I had a lot of fun working on this article . I’ll probably do another article like this soon. Would you like to see it ? Let me know !

Love You All,

- Kay

[slack-wise]

Napalm Death live @ Club Paramount, Roskilde Denmark November 1988

[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 87th birthday to Princess Alexandra!

Born on 25 December 1936, Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936) is the only surviving granddaughter of George V and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II through her father Prince George, Duke of Kent. Alexandra's mother was Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. At the time of her birth, she was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne; as of 2023, she is 57th.

On 24 April 1963, she married The Hon. Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, at Westminster Abbey. Angus Ogilvy declined the Queen's offer to be created an earl upon marriage, so their children carry no titles. Angus Ogilvy was knighted in 1988 (when Princess Alexandra assumed the style of The Hon. Lady Ogilvy).

Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy had two children, James Robert Bruce Ogilvy (born 29 February 1964) and Marina Victoria Alexandra Ogilvy (born 31 July 1966) and four grandchildren: Flora Ogilvy (29), Alexander Ogilvy (27), Zenouska Mowatt (33) and Christian Mowatt (30).

Beginning in the late 1950s, Princess Alexandra carried out an extensive programme of engagements in support of the Queen, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. Taking part in roughly 120 engagements each year, Princess Alexandra was one of the most active members of the royal family. She made 110 engagements in 2012. However, in late June 2013, she cancelled her engagements due to arthritis.

[austincompany]

Huey, Dewey and Louie; Test (1988)

Yeah, I'm not JUST translating mainly Italian stories.

"Kwik & Kwek en Kwak; Proefwerk" is a short story straight from the Netherlands, one of the biggest hub worlds when it comes to European Disney Duck stories.

Like alot of comics from the Netherlands and Denmark (as you will slowly see later on down the line), the artwork is solid AF. Expressive, cleaned-up layouts with barely any mistakes or sloppy line work. The characters are also, for the most part, heavily in-character, unlike the chaos most early Italian stories have (which is either an upgrade or a downgrade, depending on how you feel)

When you open it on Terabox, if downloading it doesn't work, the best option is to press "save to terabox" if you have an account there. it's free ^^

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, July 22nd:

Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, 1210

Philip I, King of Castile and Léon, 1478

Catherine Stenbock, Queen of Sweden, 1535

Marguerite of Lorraine, Duchess of Orléans, 1615

Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1848

Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland, 1899

Constantin, Prince of Nassau, 1988

Noriko Senge, Japanese Princess, 1988

Felix of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, 2002

George of Wales, British Prince, 2013

[brookston]

Holidays 11.15

Holidays

Advocacy Action Day

American Enterprise Day

America Recycles Day

Bitcoin Independence Day

Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

Conscript’s Day (Russia)

Day of the 8 Billion (2022)

Day of the German Community (Belgium)

Day of the Imprisoned Writer

Don't Try To Do Everything At Once Day

Dynasty Day (Belgium)

Equal Pay Day (EU)

European Music Therapy Day

Family Civility Day

Fast For An Abundant World Harvest

Festival of Total Submission

George Spelvin Day

German Community Day (Belgium)

GIS Day

Gundam Day (New York)

I Love To Write Day

Indonesia Marine Corps Day (Indonesia)

International “Addict to Angel” Awareness Day

International Day for the Prevention of & Fight Against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime

International 15q Day

Kimono Day (Japan)

Koningsfeest (King's Feast; Belgium)

Leopoldstag (a.k.a. Goose Day; start of Heurigen, new wine season, Austria)

Little Red Wagon Day

Love, Light, & Hope National Day of Yoga & Meditation

Lutetia Asteroid Day

Mason-Dixon Line Day

More Than One Role Day

National Ample Time Day

National Camp T-Shirt Day

National Career Development Day

National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

National Currency Day (Kazakhstan)

National Drummer Day (a.k.a. National Drumming Day)

National DTC Day

National Dylan Day

National Educational Support Professionals Day

National Entrepreneurship Day

National Family Civility Day

National Meme Day

National Philanthropy Day

National Shop with Your Dog

National Stormwater Day

National Swag Day

National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)

Pack Your Mom’s Lunch Day

Peace Day (Cote d’Ivoire)

Pheasant Day (French Republic)

Producer Day

Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency Awareness Day

Rock Your Mocs Day

Sadie Hawkins Day (Original Date)

Safety Razor Day

School Board Member Day (Illinois)

Shichi-Go-San (Seven-Five-Three; Japan)

Sing in Your Car Day

Smoke and Tobacco Day

Steve Irwin Day

TechDay (NYC)

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Wear Purple Day (Ontario)

Wendy’s Day

World COPD Day

World Cord Blood Day

World Day Without Alcohol

World Gold Day

The World Needs More Touch Day

World Ohtahara Syndrome Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Australian Gin Day

National Bundt Day

International Cheese & Bread Day (UK)

International Pilsner Day

International Whole Grain Day

National Raisin Bran Cereal Day

National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day

Independence & Related Days

Articles of Confederation (Adopted; U.S.; 1777)

Canterbury Province Day (New Zealand)

Commonwealth of the Philippines (Inauguration; Philippines; 1935)

Northern Cyprus (from Cyprus, 1983) [partially recognized]

Oriental Mindoro Day (Philippines)

Palestine (Unilaterally Declared, 1988)

Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)

3rd Friday in November

Children in Need Appeal Day (Ireland, UK) [Friday of 2nd Full Week]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

International Stand Up to Bullying Day [3rd Friday] (Also 3rd Friday in Feb)

Music T-Shirt Day (Australia) [3rd Friday]

National Agriculture Day (Australia) [3rd Friday]

Substitute Educators Day [3rd Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

World Sustainable Toy Day [3rd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 15 (2nd Full Week of November)

National Donor Sabbath (thru 11.17) [Fri-Sun 2 Weeks before Thanksgiving]

Virginia Cider Week (thru 11.24)

Festivals Beginning November 15, 2024

Budapest Christmas Market or Vörösmarty Square Christmas Market (Budapest, Hungary) [1.1.2025]

Christmas Market and Parade in Valkenburg aan de Geul (Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands) [thru 1.5.2025]

Copenhagen Christmas Market in Tivoli Gardens (Copenhagen, Denmark) [thru 1.5.2025]

Edinburgh Christmas Market (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) [thru 1.4.2025]

EuroChocolate (Perugia, Italy) [thru 11.24]

Gijón International Film Festival (Gijón, Spain) [thru 11.23]

Gingerbread House Competition & Display (Lahaska, Pennsylvania) [thru 1.19.25]

Harvest Festival (Boone, Iowa)

Innsbruck Christmas Market in the Old Town (Innsbruck, Austria) [thru 12.23]

International Indian Film Academy Awards (Abu Dhabi, UAE) [thru 11.17]

Leon International Balloon Festival (Leon, Mexico) [thru 11.18]

London Jazz Festival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 11.24]

Strawberry Fields (Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia) [thru 11.17]

Three Continents Festival (Nantes, France) [thru 11.23]

WhiskyFest Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)

Feast Days

Abibus of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Albert the Great (Christian; Saint)

Awkwardly Honest Day (Pastafarian)

Birsa Munda Jayanti (Parts of India)

Caius of Korea (Christian; Blessed)

Celtic Advent (Pagan) [40 Days Until Xmas]

Changeling Restitution Day (Goblins; Shamanism)

Descending Day of Lord Buddha (Bhutan)

De Witt (Positivist; Saint)

Didier of Cahors (a.k.a. Desiderius; Christian; Saint)

Eugonius (Christian; Saint)

Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feronia (Pagan Goddess of Fire, Fertility & Woodlands)

Fintan of Rheinau (Christian; Saint)

Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)

Georgia O’Keeffe (Artology)

Gerhart Hauptmann (Writerism)

Gertrude (Christian; Saint)

Gilles de Raid Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Gurias, Samoanas, and Abibus (Christian; Martyrs)

Hugh Faringdon (Christian; Blessed)

J.G. Ballard (Writerism)

Leopold III of Austria (Christian; Saint) [Lower Austria and Vienna]

Liane Moriarty (Writerism)

Malo (a.k.a. Male or Maclou; Christian; Saint)

Marianne Moore (Writerism)

Mechell (Christian; Saint)

Mr. Pelican (Muppetism)

Nidhogg’s Blot (Pagan)

Philip the Apostle (Christian; Saint)

Prophet’s Birthday (Mouloud; Shi’a Muslims) [17th of Rabi’al-awwal]

Shichi-Go-San (Shinto; Japan)

Sigid (Ethiopian Jewish) [Cheshvan 29]

Wayne Thiebaud (Artology)

Zachariah (Christian; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Full Moon [10th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Beaver Moon (Amer. Indian, Colonial, Traditional)

Dark Moon (Celtic, North America)

Digging Moon (Traditional)

Flower Moon (South Africa)

Freezing Moon (Alternate)

Frost Moon (Alternate)

Hunter’s Moon (North America)

Ill Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Loy Krathong (Floating of the Lamps Festival; Thailand)

Palden Lhama Festival (Tibet)

Rutting Moon (Traditional)

Sassafras Moon (Choctaw)

Snow Moon (England, Wicca)

Southern Hemisphere: Corn, Flower, Hare, Milk

Tazaugmone (a.k.a. Thasaung Mong; Festival of Lights; Myanmar)

That Luang Festival (Theravada Buddhism; Laos) 

Trading Moon (Cherokee)

Tree Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Whitefish Moon (Traditional)

White Moon (China)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [28 of 32]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [52 of 60]

Premieres

Aladdin’s Lamp (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Alice Helps the Romance (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Alice Hunting in Africa (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1924)

Alice Rattled by Rats (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

At Last!, by Etta James (Album; 1960)

Black Wings Has My Angel, by Elliott Chaze (Novel; 1953)

Charlie’s Angels (Film; 2019)

China (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Crackpot King (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1946)

CrazySexyCool, by TLC (Album; 1994)

Dear Mr. Watterson (Documentary Film; 2013)

Death in Captivity, by Michael Gilbert (Novel; 1952)

The Dice Man, by Luke Rhinehart (Novel; 1971)

Electric Holiday (Disney Cartoon; 2012)

The English Patient (Film; 1996)

Football Fever (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Ford v. Ferrari (Film; 2019)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos (Novel; 1925)

Gopher Broke (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)

The Great Hunt, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #2]

Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds, by the Yardbirds (Album; 1965)

Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger (Gossip Book; 1965)

I Bet You Think About Me, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2021)

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Movie; 1987)

Jungle Rhythm (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Licensed to Ill, by the Beastie Boys (Album; 1985)

The Lord of the Rings (Animated Film; 1978)

Love Me Tender (Film; 1956) [Elvis Presley #1]

Th Magic Pencil (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

Nebraska (Film; 2013)

The Novelty Shop (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1936)

Offering (a.k.a. Ticket to Ride), by The Carpenters (Album; 1969)

Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion (Novel; 1970)

Rabbit’s Kin (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Rio Grande (Film; 1950)

The Saint Goes On, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1934) [Saint #15]

Saturday Night Fever, by the Bee Gees (Soundtrack Album; 1977)

Science Friction (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)

Simple Simon (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Somebody To Love, recorded by Jefferson Airplane (Song; 1966)

Space Jam (WB Animated Film; 1996)

Steel Magnolias (Film; 1989)

Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, by The Fireman (Album; 1993) [Paul McCartney]

3, by Violent Femmes (Album; 1989)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Film; 1944)

Tom & Jerry: Snowman’s Land (WB Animated Film; 2022)

The Undiscovered Self, by C.G. Jung (Philosophical Theory; 1958)

With Poopdeck Pappy (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Today’s Name Days

Albert, Leopold, Leopoldine (Austria)

Albert, Berto, Paulin, Sidonija (Croatia)

Leopold (Czech Republic)

Leopold (Denmark)

Vaige, Vaigi, Vaike, Vaiki (Estonia)

Janette, Janika, Janina, Janita (Finland)

Albert, Arthur, Léopold, Malo, Victoire (France)

Albert, Leopold, Leopoldine, Nikolaus (Germany)

Albert, Lipót (Hungary)

Alberto (Italy)

Leopolds, Lipsts, Unda, Undīne (Latvia)

Albertas, Leopoldas, Vaidilas, Žadvydė (Lithuania)

Oddfrid, Oddvar (Norway)

Albert, Alberta, Albertyna, Artur, Artus, Idalia, Leopold, Leopoldyna, Przybygniew, Roger (Poland)

Paisie (Romania)

Leopold (Slovakia)

Alberto, Eugenio, Leopoldo (Spain)

Leopold (Sweden)

Leopold, Leopolda, Leopoldo, Leopoltine, Talia, Thalia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 320 of 2024; 46 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 46 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 15 (Guide-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 13 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 20 Wood; Sixthday [20 of 30]

Julian: 2 November 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 12 Frederic (12th Month) [Ruyter]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 54 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 23 of 30)

[gijoe-forever]

VH toys at Sorø Denmark 1988.

[thatrickmcginnis]

BOBBY McFERRIN, TORONTO 1988

Bobby McFerrin was about to have his life changed when I photographed him in the spring of 1988. McFerrin had been developing his unique vocal style for years before he released his first album in 1981, and he had released two more well-reviewed records before Simple Pleasures and its massive hit single was released in 1988. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" would win three Grammy, top the Billboard Top 100 and win gold records in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark. (It would go platinum in Germany.) But its reputation as a one-hit wonder and a novelty record made it stand out uncomfortably in McFerrin's career, and he rarely if ever performs the whole song in concerts any more.

Bobby McFerrin comes from a musical family - his mother was a singer and teacher and his father an operatic baritone - and he was famous for his vocal skills before the hit that changed his life, bringing a capella and vocalese back into jazz over a decade after it had its heyday in the '50s and early '60s with acts like Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Influenced by Keith Jarrett's improvisations, he has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, the Marsalis brothers and Tony Williams, and he guest conducts symphony orchestras all over the world. In the last few years he has focused on working with vocal ensembles, on record and at a weekly session he holds at a venue in Berkeley, California.

I still have no idea why Bobby McFerrin was moved to mug constantly during my portrait session with him back in 1988, and with time I have also forgot where this was shot and who I was working for. What I do know was that McFerrin restlessly pulled faces for most of the shoot, and that the memory of being unable to control my subject cast a shadow over this session - so much that I skipped it altogether when I was going through my files for my old blog several years ago. Since then, however, the strangeness of these photos has papered over whatever lingering memory I might have had, and legendary Welsh photographer Chalkie Davies recently told me that McFerrin did the same thing with him. So this is probably the first time these photos have been seen since whoever hired me for this assignment published them, nearly forty years ago.

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