#feinberg wins again

[hbg-builds-houses]

That Naughty Nice Penguin meme, but its HBG Building Houses

This meme went through like 4 versions but this is the final version for the week.

Shout out to fulham cord, who is responsible for this entire thing, and also my very boring lecture, which compelled me to do anything else but study.

Feinberg building that house took me totally by surprise. Man locked in. Hermitcraft when.

[youronlybean]

I know for a fact that TIES stand no chance at winning MCC, however they will be the guaranteed funniest POV without a doubt in my mind. I think I’ll end up watching Chilled’s VOD, someone else shall have to be designated PR1 liveblogger lmao

[mavcancees]

Coldified about the Feinberg stuff:

I wanted to talk about Feinberg, because I was on that Dream video. This is my opinion: it's fucking insane. This whole thing is insane. I don't like Feinberg that much, to be clear. But we recorded that video together that Dream invited us to, and look at how his community is reacting. [ reads Feinberg's messages in a sarcastic tone ] And Feinberg never complained before this, he hadn't talked about the event, he never raised an issue, nothing. And if his chat had never said anything, he would have never said he wasn't going to record with the DTeam again. If nobody had said anything, he'd have made more videos with them. 100%. [ chatter as a joke says "he's just like you" ] No dude, I don't spend streams shitting on Dream (* THIS IS NEWS TO ME *), just to turn around and go to his events 3 minutes later, and then have my leash pulled by my community and submitting to them. And the craziest part is that he didn't even win. That's the most insane part. He sold out his morals. And he didn't even sell himself out for 1k. He sold himself out for the CHANCE of getting 1k. It's fucking insane. Sold yourself for the 1 in 20 chance of getting 1k.

[ethobslabbin]

thought it would be fun to put together a bingo card for the upcoming S6 playoffs!! very much an outsider looking in when it comes to mcsr but hopefully this is at least kind of balanced lmao

(sorry for crunchy quality im too lazy to fix it)

more details on the refrences/how i plan to judge each square below the cut:

hackingnoises boat craft(tm): will count any miscraft made by hax but bonus points if its actually a boat. this is a reference to how much hackingnoises has struggled to accurately craft his items especially last playoffs. for an example, watch the first fulham analysis from his finals against doog

scariest opponent selected early: the season 5 and 6 playoffs are structured so that runners with higher seeds get to select who out of 4 lower seeded runners they want to play. will count if anyone makes a +100 aura pick. last season bigbigmongey chose to play silverrruns (ranked season 1 winner) during round 2, shocking literally everyone. it was based as fuck. (he then lost 0-3)

feinberg strays: will only count if casters audibly/visibly react to the number of strays feinberg gets. this is a refrence to feinberg often getting incredibly lucky with the stray blazes that spawn in his fortresses. strays can greatly increase how fast a runner can get all their rods, and are one of the only things not standardized between runners in ranked.

LCQ player wins set: LCQ player is in refrence to the 4 runners that made it through the last chance qualifier. they are typically seen as underdogs, and an LCQ runner beating an auto-qualified player in a best-of-5 is pretty rare. last playoffs none of the LCQ players made it past the round of 16.

ALERT: will only count if fulham circles something and then draws an arrow towards it during an analysis segment. this is a refrence to the ALERT emote, which is of a flashing red circle with a red arrow pointing towards it. fulham uses a drawing tablet to underline and emphasize his analyses.

muted: will count if feinberg, nerdi, or fulham speak without realizing they are muted at any point during playoffs.

rowl luck: will count if 7rowl gets extremely unlucky OR his opponent gets extremely lucky during their match

runner misses stronghold: will only count if the runner completely whiffs. getting caved/hitting but needing to dig down or up to actually hit starter will not count

HBG vs HBG: feinberg, dandannyboy, silverruns, and doogile are all members of HBG. will count if any combination of these four face each other during playoffs.

repeat winner: will count if any previous playoffs winner wins again

new player introduction video: will count if a player who has not given an interview for playoffs before gives one. feinberg doesn't count.

[lifestealupdates]

Lifesteal Season 6, Week 9 Recap

Another exciting week! Before we get into the lore, the Lifesteal Updates admins would like to congratulate the Pink Parrots, a team made up of Squiddo, PrinceZam, Ashswag and Blockfacts, for winning MCCR on Saturday! Weirdly enough, this actually had impacts on Lifesteal lore...

As usual, major spoilers under the readmore, Lifesteal members please do not interact.

Early Week Shenanigans

The main lore earlier this week involved Kaboodle giving up on pacifism. Kaboodle has been acting as Lifesteal's news reporter recently, investigating various server-wide events and putting them on a billboard at spawn.

Whilst exploring the server, she spoke to Wemmbu, who convinced her to kill Planetlord after Wemmbu trapped him in cobwebs. Planet was at 3 hearts at this point. Kaboodle told chat that they actually enjoyed killing, and later threatened to kill Midmysticx if she didn't give up a heart. After Planet then died in lava, she and Wemmbu then camped spawn to try and extort another heart out of Bacon with the threat of banning Planet. (Planet was actually on 2 hearts at this point, having crafted a third again).

Mane then killed Kab (on Mid's orders, unknown to Kaboodle), Kab killed Planet again thinking Bacon had put the hit on her, and was once again killed by Mane. Kab later claimed to chat that they were peer-pressured by Wemmbu into killing Planet.

Wemmbu also revealed to Kab that, because he doesn't have a base, he doesn't have anywhere to regear. This means if he was killed once, he'd be made harmless, but the amount of pacifists on the server means this is unlikely.

During the same day, the Spacewaffles team spoke about the war ongoing with spawn being griefed. Neither of them are entirely sure what Gaia's Hand is (Zam's team, dedicated to repairing spawn to annoy Flame) despite being members.

4C has also been spending much of this week working on his plans to build Lifesteal City / Downtown Lifesteal. This is currently a creative world plan for a giant city he eventually wants to build on the server.

Sunday Session

The session this week was postponed to Sunday due to three Lifesteal members playing in MCCR. As a celebration of their win, the fourth Pink Parrot member Blockfacts and their coach Feinberg were invited to the server for the day as guests.

The Empire decided they wanted to get lots of kills, and started a fight with Flame which became increasingly chaotic when it was revealed that Flame has an army of hundreds of dogs. During this fight, Flame killed many innocent bystanders including Bacon and Blockfacts.

Whilst this was ongoing, Hannah killed Derapchu for his role in leaking the Mice' Base location, which eventually led to it being blown up by Manepear.

Kaboodle, Blockfacts and Squiddo decided to escape Spawn and eventually made their way to Peace Island after a brief detour to Kaboodle's Box.

Spoke managed to get a dripstone kill on Leowook from height limit at this point. Pentar and Leo had joined the fight on Flame's side.

Mapicc and Spoke then created a huge network of sky bridges and tried to drop dripstone on the players below them, using Minute's instructions who was on the ground speaking to Feinberg and other players. They were unsuccessful, and after running out of dripstone resorted to dropping TNT minecarts on players, which was still unsuccessful and only annoyed Minute.

On the way to Peace Island, Blockfacts had given all bar one of his hearts to Squiddo and Kaboodle as prizes for giving him Minecraft trivia. This led to him being extremely vulnerable.

Bacon had told everyone about Kab killing Planet, and Kab was upset by this as they were planning on giving Planet's hearts as an apology.

Eventually, they got both Blockfacts and Feinberg to Peace Island, and decided the two VIPs should play dodgebolt on one heart to mimic MCCR. Hannah had arrived by this point. They did so, and Blockfacts banned Feinberg on accident. After discussing reviving Fein and deciding against it, Squiddo killed Blockfacts in another dodgebolt game, banning him. Squiddo, Kaboodle and Hannah then shared the 8 hearts they'd won between themselves, agreeing to keep it secret and claim they buried the hearts.

Post Session

Bacon is basically broke, having died multiple times and having no gear.

Zam was upset by the state of spawn after his absence for MCCR training, hoping his new teammates would have helped keep it in a good condition but finding it instead littered with explosions. He is also unhappy with Kaboodle leaving pacifism behind, as he used to think he could trust her.

[arpov-blog-blog]

..."One year from now, President Joe Biden will either be a victorious first-term president preparing for his second and final four years in office, or a defeated one-termer presiding over a transition for a man who tried to prevent him from taking office four years earlier and spent the last four years undermining him and denying his very legitimacy, all with the aim of reshaping the American government into an instrument of personal revenge.

At the moment, it’s not clear at all which of those outcomes will come to pass. But with the days until next year’s general election passing with what seems to be increasing speed each month, Mr Biden’s team appears confident in their plan to win the coming rematch which their putative opponent — former president Donald Trump — has called “the final battle” for the country itself.

And despite the more than 90 felony charges he faces as he runs to be the first ex-president to reclaim the White House since Grover Cleveland accomplished that unprecedented feat more than a century ago, the team behind Mr Trump has reason to smile as the year comes to a close.

With a GOP structural advantage in the US electoral college that essentially forces any Democratic presidential candidate to overperform in terms of turnout and a popular vote advantage if he or she harbours any hope of winning the presidency, one might think Mr Biden’s inner circle would be alarmed, particularly given Mr Trump’s designs on using the executive branch as a cudgel against his real or perceived enemies — and their families.

But Mr Biden’s camp isn’t wringing their hands just yet.

In public, the president’s most visible lieutenants have made a point to avoid invoking this year’s election or crossing the line into partisan politics, lest they run afoul of a New Deal-era law known as the Hatch Act.

But in private conversations with The Independent and in publicly released documents, both the Biden White House and the Biden re-election campaign are confident that next year will bring a reversal of fortune in the 46th president’s poll results, particularly since it is almost certain that Mr Trump, the man who Mr Biden bested nearly four years ago, will once again be his opponent next November.

“There are deep fears about our freedoms being eroded and our democracy being dismantled – election denialism, efforts to undermine our country’s democratic institutions, and forces that aim to restrict the right to vote itself. All at the direction of Donald Trump, who remains a real and credible threat to our democracy,” she writes, adding later that Americans “should expect to hear more from President Biden, Vice President Harris, and our campaign drawing this important and sharp contrast – but also about how this fundamental difference between the candidates impacts our future”.

And in a conference call with reporters held on Tuesday, the Biden-Harris campaign manager made even more clear that the president’s brain trust believes this year’s campaign will be “about protecting our democracy and every American's fundamental freedoms” rather than a contest “between competing philosophies of governing”.

“When Joe Biden ran for president four years ago, he said we are in the battle for the soul of America. And as we look towards November 2024, we still are,” she said. “The threat Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has only grown more dire”.

Another top Biden campaign aide, deputy campaign manager Quinton Fulks, told reporters that Mr Biden will use upcoming appearances this month — including one on the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol — to highlight the threat posed by Mr Trump and hammer home how the defeated former president has become yet more dangerous as a challenger to the sitting president."

[xpoolboy]

also, he was in a speedrunning tournament called speedrun showdown where the concept is a 2v2 race to beat the game on the same world (PVP is enabled). on most of the duo teams, one player was a speedrunner while the second player was a non-speedrunner. however, that doesn't mean the teams are of equal strength. for example, purpled, an mcc s-tier and general event goat, was one of the non-speedrunners, while boomerNA, who doesn't really play minecraft events or competitively as much, was also one of the non-speedrunners.

so team chorus fruit, made up of fruitberries (known speedrunning, movement, and PVP goat) and purpled (again, one of the top MC event player) is generally the team to beat. they've won almost all of their rounds and have so far dominated the tournament.

however, it comes to final bracket, where they are faced off against a team of feinberg and ant venom. and while i appreciate ant venom very much, he's not much of a speedrunner in the 1.16 era. he's an average minecraft event player, but obviously pales in comparison to purpled.

somehow, with very little help from his teammate, feinberg basically 2v1s this event. antvenom helps out here and there in fights, but leaves almost if not all the entire speedrunning part to feinberg. and feinberg? feinberg, basically ON HIS OWN, out-PVPs and out-speedruns not one, but TWO of the best minecraft CCs in order to get the win.

yknow sometimes i wonder if tumblr mcyt fans like, understand how insane feinberg is. like i know at this point yall know who he is bc of mcc if nothing else but like. do you know how insane he is. do you know how well known he is within mcsr. do you understand what makes him the person everyone within mcsr thinks of when theyre asked about insane minecrafters.

[bisexualbaker]

Giveaway: Audiobook of Fearless by Shira Glassman

Lana Novak has spent years with her interests in the closet: Her love of women for her safety, and her love of playing the violin for practicality. Having finally come out as a lesbian, she's finding it difficult to fit looking for a girlfriend around her work schedule and keeping up with her two socially and extracirricularly active kids; she hasn't picked up a violin in over twenty years.

All of this changes when Lana and her clarinet whiz daughter Robin get snowed in at the hotel hosting All State. There, Lana meets Melanie Feinberg, Robin's hunky butch band director, who seems to be interested in Lana as well. As the two of them bond over music, Mel learns of Lana's history with the violin, and encourages her to pick up the instrument again. But Lana is afraid that it's been too long; can she find the courage to play again?

Written by Shira Glassman, this hour-long audiobook is warm and gentle, a perfect treat to listen to while crafting or doing chores.

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[couripacepals]

Weekly Roundup

World Records and Notable Runs Java Beta 1.9 Pre 6 Duos - k4yfour, Feinberg - 44:xx Java Pre 1.9 any% Quads - Spinnaker, RainOrSmthn, xheb_, felipinhu - 19:39 (unverifiable) Java 1.13 RSG any% - Contaria - 28:43 IGT Java 1.15 RSG any% - DougThePig - 16:00 (absolutely fucking deserved) Java 1.15 RSG any% (Classic) - DoyPingu - 20:30 (pre-retime, deserved as hell as well) Java 1.16 RSG any% (no pickaxe) - Dylqnnnn - 23:36 Java 1.16 RSG All Advancements - Feinberg - 3:33:56 (First sub 4 hour holy fucking shit)

Personal Bests Java 1.7 RSG any% - Funderful - 23:26 Java 1.14 RSG any% (classic) - DougThePig - 22:17 Java 1.16 SSG any% (dolphin seed) - HanabiYaki - 2:13 Java 1.16 RSG any% - crookst - 10:03, 10:13 Java 1.16 RSG any% - Benex - 11:51, 11:54 Java 1.16 RSG any% - Fyroah - 13:39 Java 1.16 RSG any% - Fulham (@colon-tf-colon) - 13:17 (FUCK YEAH! VERIFIABLE PB YEAH YEAH YEAH!) Java 1.16 RSG any% - @inoutoftherain - 44:xx, 46:xx (FeelsStrongMan) Java 1.16 RSG any% Trios - Reignex, Silverrruns, Feinberg - 12:04 Java 1.16 RSG All Advancements - the_yuukster - 7:48:xx Java 1.16 RSG All Advancements (Former World Record) - WetSockBoi - 4:10:55 Java 1.16 RSG Icarus - @s3er - 18:04, 18:59, 19:14 (EZ Clap)

Events and Other News Elysaku's 100 AA Runs Without Resets (17 out of 100 runs) MoleyG's 1001 1.16 RSG any% Runs Without Resets (154 out of 1001 runs) Method King of the Hill Tourney - won by Feinberg yet again Not Very Frightening Invitational - Fyroah and T_Wagz have won their respective matches and move on in the bracket. Here's the bracket for more info! Minecraft Relay Cup Qualifiers - (Started Jan. 27 and just ended today) , Main Brackets will be starting soon, join their Discord for more information! Artist Relay Cup (Starting Jan. 27) - in partnership with MRC, this is a relay for MCSR's lovely artists to marathon art alongside with the runners, join their Discord to see the art and the artist's progress! MCSR COW (Community Weekend) - has ended, it was great fun, don't forget to join the Discord as we wait for news about the next event! 1.15 k4hr (Feb. 4) - DougThePig, DoyPingu, and Pangomii faced off in their iteration of k4hr, attempting as many completions as possible in a 4 hour time frame. Pingu wins with 7 completions, Doug and Pango each finished with 6 completions each. Go Next Gang Tournament (Starting Feb. 5, hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/antidotess) - where members of GNG face off Pixelmon Minecraft Tournament (Feb. 5) - Fruitberries has participated in this tourney MSL Open Week 9 (Feb. 5 to Feb. 6) - This is last week of the open before the finals begin!

Upcoming Events Not Very Frightening Invitational - more matches will be happening, stay tuned for the annoucements! MTM (Minecraft Trading Mayhem) (February 19th) - a tournament for every 1.14 player who wants to sign up, similar to MSM for 1.16 last year TTEG (The Tournament at the End of the Game) - will be happening on February 12th! TST 2 (The Sub-X Tournament) - have their sign-ups open until March 4, join their Discord to sign up!

[route22ny]

Meet the New Yorkers Who Say They’ve Given Up on the Subways

by Jose Martinez, March 1, 2021

Florin Petrisor swapped the No. 7 train for an electric scooter and never looked back.

Claire McLeveighn started walking to work and hasn’t been on the subway since last March.

Isaac Himmelman began the pandemic without a bike or a car but now he’s “the proud owner of both.”

They are among the millions of New Yorkers who once rode the subway daily, but who, one year into the pandemic, have found other ways to get around — while largely staying away from the transit system.

“It’s the freedom of riding the scooter wherever I want, at any time and it’s much more reliable,” said Petrisor, 40, a dog walker who commutes between Queens and Manhattan on an electric scooter he bought last March for $1,200. “This is how I look at it: I used to buy the unlimited MetroCard every month, but with this scooter, I have gotten my money’s worth and then some in 10 months.”

MTA data shows subway ridership stayed north of five million on weekdays throughout the first week of March 2020 as COVID-19 began to climb. As late as March 6 — five days after the first confirmed coronavirus case in the city emerged — there were 5.2 million daily trips.

But it marked a fleeting ridership peak that, within weeks, would crumble by more than 90% as the pandemic took hold and the subway system turned into what one commuter described last April as “an underground ghost town.”

While ridership has rebounded to nearly 1.8 million trips a day — or about 30% of what it was prior to the pandemic — the MTA is still trying to win back straphangers who have continued to stay away from the subway in large numbers.

The collapse in ridership has also forced the transit agency to repeatedly seek billions of dollars in emergency federal aid as officials call for more police amid a disturbing spate of crimes in a less-trafficked system.

Business leaders say the return of safe and efficient subways is crucial to the city’s economic recovery, and hailed the recent restoration of overnight service to all but two hours daily as a good sign.

Meanwhile, some transportation advocates say there’s a bigger opportunity to transform how New Yorkers get around: On Monday, Transportation Alternatives released a report calling for 25% of city car space to be dedicated to use by people by 2025.

‘Everything Changed’

Asked how the subway can regain riders, MTA officials pointed to cleaning and disinfecting efforts in the subway, along with mask-wearing requirements.

“We are pleased that millions of New Yorkers are once again relying on public transportation on a daily basis,” said Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit. “Our commitment to providing a safe and dependable way for customers to get where they need to go remains steadfast.”

But the MTA must contend with riders reluctant to return not only because of safety concerns, but who have moved on to other ways of getting around.

“It was my sole method of transportation before, but once the pandemic started, everything changed,” said Meghan Addison, 31, who used to get to work by subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. “I just don’t foresee myself using transit unless it’s in the winter or for longer distances.”

Addison, who is now working remotely for her job at a tech company, travels almost entirely by bicycle and said that’s unlikely to change even after COVID-19 is under control.

“There are just so many things you can’t prepare for or predict in New York,” she said. “There is something really liberating about not having to rely on a subway.”

McLeveighn, who previously commuted on the No. 4 train from The Bronx to Lower Manhattan, now treks more than a mile from her home in Kingsbridge to an office in Morris Park on days when she isn’t working remotely.

“It’s a good [long] walk,” she said. “But after having been in a lockdown, it’s kind of enjoyable to walk to the office.”

‘People Aren’t Rushing Back’

Edgardo Rivera, 42, has relied on his yearly Citi Bike membership to commute from Bushwick to his job in DUMBO, Brooklyn, saying the 25-minute ride is “for my health” and tops what would be a 45-minute trip by subway.

“We’re a city of commuters and people aren’t rushing back,” he said. “There is a big mental hurdle and you’re talking to a native New Yorker who’s not afraid of the train system, like someone from out of town might be.”

The number of bicycle trips across East River bridges has gone up, according to city Department of Transportation data, along with usage of Citi Bike, the bike-sharing network.

More New Yorkers are buying automobiles, too, as THE CITY reported last summer. In four of the boroughs, the number of vehicle registrations increased by nearly 40 percent between August and October.

Beatrice Lors-Rousseau, 33, of Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, said she has not been on the subway since going on maternity leave in December 2019, choosing instead to travel by car.

“We’re thinking about our exposure to others,” said Lors-Rousseau, 33, whose parents live with her family.

Rivera said elected officials, the MTA and employers need to “be on the same page” about encouraging people to eventually return to the subway.

“They’ve got to do something about saving mass transit,” he said. “New York is a city that relies on mass transit whether there is a pandemic or not.”

***

Photo: A commuter rides an empty 6 train in Manhattan, July 1, 2020 (photo by Ben Fractenberg)

https://www.thecity.nyc/transportation/2021/3/1/22308401/new-yorkers-stop-riding-subways-pandemic

[zero-cycle]

I added 368 tags in 2021

#mcc - 87 posts

#dsmp - 47 posts

#hermitcraft - 41 posts

#last life spoilers - 37 posts

#mcsr - 34 posts

#discord shenanigans - 31 posts

#last life - 29 posts

#eret - 23 posts

#don't mind me just watching a tournament - 20 posts

#nare writes - 19 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#dsmp is not the end-all of mcyt and some of you would greatly benefit to just take a week off of dsmp streams and watch some other creators

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Yeah Minecraft Monday sucked on so many levels that cannot even be described anymore but it also gave us George and Dream literally jumping into Bad and Skeppy's teamspeak to help them win and those moments still live rent free in my mind.

89 notes • Posted 2021-10-10 16:09:15 GMT

#4

Been thinking about MCC recently and reading too much fanfiction about Illumina becoming the universe and this was the result I guess.

There is a record on the practice server that has never been broken.

It doesn’t make sense, doesn’t it? It’s a practice server. The entire point is to practice, to beat old records over and over and over again until you’ve done everything you can and learned everything there is to learn. If you came on for the first time, those might be the questions you ask, the questions you pester everyone else with but never get an answer to. Until you learn better, until you learn to accept that this record will stay until the end of times, until the universe crashes and burns and every last trace of that player will be gone.

65:02:25, the numbers read in floating yellow letters.

It’s a beatable time, you might think. Maybe you go and ask around the others there - training, competing, always trying to improve - why they haven’t yet.

“He was a crackhead,” Dream says and the words sound like they’re supposed to be mean but they seem fond and a little bit sad. “If he wanted to waste an hour of his life for that, he can do that but I won’t.”

“It doesn’t give enough coins,” Sapnap shrugs. “Not worth it.”

“Already beat it,” Mefs answers with a cheeky grin. “But trying to beat it legitimately...I’m not insane enough for that.” “I already have the Ace Race record, that’s enough for me,” Seapeekay laughs.

“It doesn’t matter in the real event anyway,” Quig explains. “The walls come from all sides, this isn’t good training for that.”

“Believe me, I’ve tried,” 5up sighs.

Fruitberries just blankly stares at you and when you blink, he’s already disappeared.

“He always got them beaten so quickly it was unfair,” Tapl says, quiet and sad. “He should get to keep that one at least.”

[rest is deleted to not murder your dashboard]

104 notes • Posted 2021-10-30 23:55:19 GMT

#3

People joke that there’s three things you can always recognize speedrunners on: They wear a mask that covers at least half their face, they’re either ridiculously lucky or unlucky and they carry a necklace with a dragon tooth.

The rumours aren’t wrong. Many of the runners prefer masks, for one reason or the other. Most people have never seen Illumina’s face. Red cloth covers the lower half of Benex’ face at all times. Dylan, when he decides to look more human, does the same with a green scarf. Feinberg’s helmet has never been taken off in public.

And luck does like to toy with them, her favourites. Sometimes she will give out her generosity and the runners celebrate those rare, few times. Other times….well. There’s a reason the world record hasn’t been broken in months.

As for the necklace: It’s tradition to take the teeth of the first dragon you kill.

[rest is deleted to not murder your dashboard]

191 notes • Posted 2021-12-06 22:51:46 GMT

#2

This is horribly rough because I speedran this in less than half an hour but I got inspired and this wanted to be written now. Snippet of @dreamsmp-au-ideas Archetype AU. Hope you'll forgive me for any inaccuracies or typos, it's the middle of the night for me.

Something is wrong.

Foolish knows something is wrong because his companion doesn’t normally disappear without a word. Sure, they’ve taken off on their own before but they’ve always told them when to expect them back before. But this time they’ve just said “Be back soon” and left without any more information.

So Foolish searched for them. He wouldn’t, normally. Eret deserves their freedom and his respect of their decisions. But Foolish hasn’t been a God and a Protector for so long without listening to his instincts.

And even if Eret isn’t in trouble, they’ll appreciate the help, right?

[rest deleted to not murder your dashboards]

194 notes • Posted 2021-04-02 23:03:08 GMT

#1

Etho's run this season of Last Life is frankly insane. Not only has he brought back a red former ally twice, but he's also been the boogeyman twice, successfully killed somebody both times and is still on basically nobody's shit list and has one of the last still-standing bases. This man. He signs Scar's contract one episode and threatens to break it the next one and Scar doesn't even try to argue but instead retreats. Hell, he put Mumbo on red and got away scot-free despite multiple of Mumbo's former allies being there.

And he hasn't died a single time this season.

440 notes • Posted 2021-10-27 21:56:57 GMT

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 12, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Today’s news all centered around the Big Lie that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Yesterday, Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the audience cheered through his meandering speech, in which he insisted that he won the 2020 election. “The entire system was rigged against the American people and rigged against a fair, decent and honest election,” he said. CNN’s Daniel Dale, who has fact-checked Trump’s speeches for years, called the speech “untethered to reality.”

But Trump was not alone: the whole three-day event featured speakers, including Representatives Ronny Jackson and Louie Gohmert, both Texas Republicans, focused on that Big Lie.

Just how untethered from reality this argument is became clear today when U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker held a hearing on whether the lawyers who tried to overturn the 2020 election results in Michigan should face sanctions. Those lawyers, dubbed the “Kraken�� by one of their leaders, Trump-affiliated lawyer Sidney Powell, produced close to 1000 pages of affidavits intending to cast doubt on the election results. Michigan and the city of Detroit filed complaints with the bar after the lawsuits failed, calling for punishment for the lawyers who had signed on to the effort.

As today’s hearing proceeded, it became clear that the so-called Kraken lawyers had made no effort to verify much of anything they presented to the court. Repeatedly, Parker asked if anyone had tried to verify any of the affidavits they had filed; repeatedly, they indicated they had not. At one point, Parker said, "I don't think I've ever really seen an affidavit" like this. "This is really fantastical," Parker said. "How can any of you, as officers of the court, present this type of an affidavit?"

Parker suggested that the whole point of the lawsuits in the first place was to spread lies to make people think the election wasn’t legitimate. "My concern is that counsel here has submitted affidavits to suggest and make the public believe that there was something wrong with the election...that's what these average affidavits are designed to do, to show there was something wrong in Michigan….”

Although Kraken lawyer Juli Haller began to cry during the hearing, Trump-affiliated lawyer Sidney Powell made it clear that, far from backing down, she wanted to move forward. Repeatedly, she and other lawyers demanded a trial or at least an evidentiary hearing, clearly trying to legitimize their claims by presenting them in an official setting. Like other Trump supporters, Powell is hoping to use official procedures to legitimize lies. We saw this in the hearings before Trump’s first impeachment, when lawmakers such as Jim Jordan (R-OH) used the official proceedings to construct a narrative for rightwing media.

David Fink, an attorney representing Detroit, called that pattern out: "Because of the lies spread in this courtroom, not only did people die on January 6, but many people throughout the world...came to doubt the strength of our democratic institutions in this country.”

Also today, news broke that, back in November, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, Justin Riemer, called claims that Trump had won the election “a joke.” Speaking of the lawyer pushing such claims, Riemer said, “They are misleading millions of people who have wishful thinking that the president is going to somehow win this thing.”

And yet, the Republican Party itself is tethering itself to Trump.

In Oklahoma and Alaska, state Republican Party leaders have backed Trump-supporting challengers to James Lankford (R-OK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Lankford was actually speaking on the floor of the Senate on January 6, preparing to object to some of the certified ballots, when the rioters broke into the Capitol. After the insurrection riot, Lankford chose not to continue his objection to the counting. He now faces a primary challenger.

So does Murkowski, who, when party leaders similarly primaried her with someone backed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2010, won a write-in campaign. Shortly after the insurrection, Murkowski said to a reporter: "I will tell you, if the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me.”

In Pennsylvania, the chair of the state senate's Intergovernmental Operations Committee, Trump-ally state senator Doug Mastriano, is demanding an Arizona-type recount of the 2020 vote in his state. Blocked by Democratic governor Tom Wolf and the state’s attorney general, Mastriano today issued a statement saying he would continue to fight for what he called a “forensic investigation.”

Meanwhile, in Texas, at least 51 of the 67 Democratic lawmakers are leaving the state to block Republicans from passing voter restriction laws. By fleeing the state, they will deprive the legislatures of enough lawmakers to do business, a number called a “quorum.” The Texas legislature is in special session this summer in part because the Democrats blocked these laws in the same way in May. In response, Texas governor Greg Abbott vetoed funding for the legislature. Today, once again, he accused them of abandoning the duties for which voters elected them.

And yet, the Republicans’ argument for further restricting the vote is based on the Big Lie that the state needs to be protected from voter fraud after the 2020 election.  

Tomorrow, President Joe Biden will go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to make a speech on voting rights. He is expected to call out the Big Lie and to talk about “actions to protect the sacred, constitutional right to vote.”

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Notes:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/fact-check-trump-cpac-election-lies/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/12/1015315950/texas-democrats-leave-state-in-effort-to-block-gop-voting-restrictions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/12/cpac-dallas-trump-election/

https://news.yahoo.com/time-lisa-murkowski-join-democrats-093326694.html

https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/videos/watch/senator-lankfords-floor-speech-is-interrupted-when-protestors-enter-the-us-capitol

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/fight-over-trump-loyalty-okla-gop-chairman-endorses-sen-lankford-n1273269

https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-lin-wood-michigan-lawsuit-sanctions-hearing-2021-7

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/pa-republican-asks-counties-hand-over-ballots-effort-start-arizona-n1273275

Senator Doug Mastriano @SenMastrianoDespite attempts of obstruction by the Wolf Administration and the Attorney General, the Intergovernmental Operations Committee will press forward in the pursuit of a forensic investigation:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/12/trumps-kraken-gets-an-intense-grilling-testy-court-hearing/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-trump-stop-the-steal/2021/07/12/79e58a02-e320-11eb-934f-7e6c1927f261_story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/12/joe-biden-donald-trump-big-lie-speech

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/12/texas-democrats-walk-out-voting-bill/

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[rapeculturerealities]

“BUTCH” HAS LONG been the name we’ve given a certain kind — that kind — of lesbian. The old adage applies: You know her when you see her. She wears men’s clothing, short hair, no makeup. Butch is an aesthetic, but it also conveys an attitude and energy. Both a gender and a sexuality, butchness is about the body but also transcends it: “We exist in this realm of masculinity that has nothing to do with cis men — that’s the part only we [butches] know how to talk about,” says the 42-year-old writer, former Olympic swimmer and men’s wear model Casey Legler. “Many people don’t even know how to ask questions about who we are, or about what it means to be us.”

Many of us wear the butch label with a certain self-consciousness, fearing the term doesn’t quite fit — like a new pair of jeans, it’s either too loose or too tight. The graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, 59, doesn’t refer to herself as butch but understands why others do. “It’s a lovely word, ‘butch’: I’ll take it, if you give it to me,” she says. “But I’m afraid I’m not butch enough to really claim it. Because part of being butch is owning it, the whole aura around it.”

What does owning it look like? Decades before genderless fashion became its own style, butches were wearing denim and white tees, leather jackets and work boots, wallet chains and gold necklaces. It isn’t just about what you’re wearing, though, but how: Butchness embodies a certain swagger, a 1950s-inspired “Rebel Without a Cause” confidence. In doing so, these women — and butches who don’t identify as women — created something new and distinct, an identity you could recognize even if you didn’t know what to call it.

By refuting conventionally gendered aesthetics, butchness expands the possibilities for women of all sizes, races, ethnicities and abilities. “I always think of the first butch lesbian I ever saw,” says the 33-year-old actor Roberta Colindrez. “This beautiful butch came into the grocery store and she was built like a brick house. Short hair, polo shirt, cargo pants and that ring of keys … It was the first time I saw the possibility of who I was.” And yet, to many people, “butch style” remains an oxymoron: There’s a prevalent assumption that we’re all fat, frumpy fashion disasters — our baseball caps and baggy pants suggest to others that we don’t care about self-presentation. But it’s not that we’re careless; it’s that unlike, say, the gay white men who have been given all too much credit for influencing contemporary visual culture, we’re simply not out to appease the male gaze. We disregard and reject the confines of a sexualized and commodified femininity.

ETYMOLOGICALLY, “butch” is believed to be an abbreviation of “butcher,” American slang for “tough kid” in the early 20th century and likely inspired by the outlaw Butch Cassidy. By the early 1940s, the word was used as a pejorative to describe “aggressive” or “macho” women, but lesbians reclaimed it almost immediately, using it with pride at 1950s-era bars such as Manhattan’s Pony Stable Inn and Peg’s Place in San Francisco. At these spots, where cocktails cost 10 cents and police raids were a regular occurrence, identifying yourself as either butch or femme was a prerequisite for participating in the scene.

These butches were, in part, inspired by 19th-century cross-dressers — then called male impersonators or transvestites — who presented and lived fully as men in an era when passing was a crucial survival tactic. We can also trace butchness back to the androgynous female artists of early 20th-century Paris, including the writer Gertrude Stein and the painter Romaine Brooks. But it wasn’t until the 1960s and early 1970s that butches, themselves at the intersection of the burgeoning civil, gay and women’s rights movements, became a more visible and viable community.

From their earliest incarnations, butches faced brutal discrimination and oppression, not only from outside their community but also from within. A certain brand of (mostly white) lesbian feminism dominant in the late ’70s and early ’80s marginalized certain sorts of “otherness” — working-class lesbians, lesbians of color and masculine-of-center women. They pilloried butchness as inextricably misogynist and butch-femme relationships as dangerous replications of heteronormative roles. (Such rhetoric has resurfaced, as trans men are regularly accused of being anti-feminist in their desire to become the so-called enemy.) Challenged yet again to defend their existence and further define themselves, butches emerged from this debate emboldened, thriving in the late ’80s and early ’90s as women’s studies programs — and, later, gender and queer studies departments — gained traction on North American and European college campuses.

The ’90s were in fact a transformative decade for the butch community. In 1990, the American philosopher Judith Butler published her groundbreaking “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,” and her theories about gender were soon translated and popularized for the masses. In her academic work, Butler argues that gender and sexuality are both constructed and performative; butch identity, as female masculinity, subverts the notion that masculinity is the natural and exclusive purview of the male body. Soon after, butch imagery infiltrated the culture at large. The August 1993 issue of Vanity Fair featured the straight supermodel Cindy Crawford, in a black maillot, straddling and shaving the butch icon K.D. Lang. That same year, the writer Leslie Feinberg published “Stone Butch Blues,” a now classic novel about butch life in 1970s-era New York. In Manhattan, comedians such as Lea DeLaria and drag kings such as Murray Hill took to the stage; it was also the heyday of Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For,” the serialized comic strip she started in 1983. In 1997, Ellen DeGeneres, still the most famous of butches, came out. Two years later, Judith “Jack” Halberstam and Del LaGrace Volcano published “The Drag King Book” and the director Kimberly Peirce released her breakthrough film, “Boys Don’t Cry”; its straight cisgender star, Hilary Swank, went on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon Teena, a role that still incites contentious debates about the nebulous boundaries between butch and trans identity. These artists and their legacies are the cornerstones of our community. As Legler says, “This is where we’ve come from, and the folks we look back to. If you identify with that lineage, then we’d love to have you.”

LIKE ANY QUEER subculture, butchness is vastly different now than it was three decades ago — though the codes have been tweaked and refined over the years, younger butches continue to take them in new and varied directions: They may experiment with their personas from day to day, switching fluidly between masculine and feminine presentation. There are “stone butches,” a label that doesn’t refer to coldness, as is often assumed, but to a desire to touch rather than to be touched — to give rather than receive — and is considered slightly more masculine than “soft butch” on the Futch Scale, a meme born in 2018 that attempted to parse the gradations from “high femme” to “stone butch.” (“Futch,” for “femme/butch,” is square in the middle.) And while there remains some truth to butch stereotypes — give us a plaid flannel shirt any day of the week — that once-static portrait falls apart under scrutiny and reflection. Not every butch has short hair, can change a tire, desires a femme. Some butches are bottoms. Some butches are bi. Some butches are boys.

Different bodies own their butchness differently, but even a singular body might do or be butch differently over time. We move between poles as our feelings about — and language for — ourselves change. “In my early 20s, I identified as a stone butch,” says the 45-year-old writer Roxane Gay. “In adulthood, I’ve come back to butch in terms of how I see myself in the world and in my relationship, so I think of myself as soft butch now.” Peirce, 52, adds that this continuum is as much an internal as an external sliding scale: “I’ve never aspired to a binary,” she says. “From day one, the idea of being a boy or a girl never made sense. The ever-shifting signifiers of neither or both are what create meaning and complexity.”

Indeed, butch fluidity is especially resonant in our era of widespread transphobia. Legler, who uses they/them pronouns, is a “trans-butch identified person — no surgery, no hormones.” Today, the interconnected spectrums of gender and queerness are as vibrant and diverse in language as they are in expression — genderqueer, transmasc, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming. Yet butches have always called themselves and been called by many names: bull dyke, diesel dyke, bulldagger, boi, daddy and so on. Language evolves, “flowing in time and changing constantly as new generations come along and social structures shift,” Bechdel says.

If it’s necessary to think historically, it’s also imperative to think contextually. Compounding the usual homophobia and misogyny, black and brown butches must contend with racist assumptions: “Black women often get read as butch whether they are butch or not,” Gay says. “Black women in general are not seen, so black butchness tends to be doubly invisible. Except for studs: They’re very visible,” she adds, referring to a separate but related term used predominantly by black or Latinx butches (though, unsurprisingly, white butches have appropriated it) who are seen as “harder” in their heightened masculinity and attitude. Gay notes that “people tend to assume if you’re a black butch, you’re a stud and that’s it,” which is ultimately untrue. Still, butch legibility remains a paradox: As the most identifiable of lesbians — femmes often “pass” as straight, whether they want to or not — we are nonetheless maligned and erased for our failure of femininity, our refusal to be the right kind of woman.

ANOTHER LINGERING stereotype, one born from “Stone Butch Blues” and its more coded literary forebears, particularly Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” (1928), is the butch as a tragic and isolated figure. She is either cast out by a dominant society that does not — will not — ever see her or accept her, or she self-isolates as a protective response to a world that continually and unrelentingly disparages her.

When a butch woman does appear in mainstream culture, it’s usually alongside her other: the femme lesbian. Without the femme and the contrast she underscores, the butch is “inherently uncommodifiable,” Bechdel says, since two butches together is just a step “too queer.” We rarely see butches depicted in or as community, an especially sobering observation given the closure of so many lesbian bars over the past two decades. But when you talk to butches, a more nuanced story emerges, one of deep and abiding camaraderie and connection. Despite the dearth of representation, butch love thrives — in the anonymous, knowing glances across the subway platform when we recognize someone like us, and in the bedroom, too. “Many of my longest friendships are with people who register somewhere on the butch scale,” Peirce says. “We’re like married couples who fell in love with each other as friends.”

Legler, for their part, recognizes a “lone wolf” effect, one in which some young queers initially love “being the only butch in the room.” In organizing the group portrait that accompanies this essay over the past months, Legler was curious “what it would be like for butches to just show up together and to be able to display all of their power, all of their sexiness, all of their charisma, without having it be mitigated in some way.” And not only for butches of an older generation, but for those still figuring things out, transforming the scene in ways that both defy and inspire their elders. “It’s been centuries in the making, the fact that we are all O.K.,” Legler adds. “That our bodies get to exist: We have to celebrate that. You can do more than just survive. You can contribute.”

[catastrfy]

surprise! some people are trans even if you don’t want them to be!

lately i've seen this weird ... thing where transphobes try to define "transgender" very narrowly while stating that person [x] "wasn't trans [because reasons]" or accuse those of us who disagree as "transing the dead". show of hands: who doesn't know who the late leslie feinberg was? feinberg was an anti-racist white, working-class, secular jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist who used zie/hir pronouns. zie was the opening speaker at stonewall 25 in nyc and was one of the inaugural 50 people on the national lgbtq wall of honor (which was installed in jun 2019 as part of the 50th anniversary of stonewall). others included in that inaugural 50 include gilbert baker, james baldwin, stormé delarverie, diana hemingway, marsha p. johnson, crystal labieja, audre lorde, del martin, harvey milk, sylvia rivera, matt shepard, and soni wolf. feinberg was also an award winning author. hir books included: transgender liberation; a movement whose time has come (1992, pamphlet, world view forum) trans liberation; beyond pink or blue (1992, beacon press and 1999 beacon press) stone butch blues (1993, firebrand butch; won the lambda literary award and the american library association gay and lesbian book award) transgender warriors (1996, beacon press; won the 1996 the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Non-Fiction) drag king dreams (2006, carroll & graaf/avalon) feinberg received an honourary doctorate from the starr king school of the ministry for hir transgender and social justice work. i'm think specifically right now of marsha p. johnson and sylvia rivera. let's look at that. feinberg, as noted above, was front and center in the transgender movement in the us and a well respected leaded in the community. feinberg dedicated hir 1996 "transgender warriors" to two people: brandon teena and marsha p johnson--and included both in the portrait gallery. feinberg included a 1998 interview with sylvia rivera in the updated edition of "trans liberation; beyond pink and blue". tell me again how they weren't really transgender when they were accepted as transgender by a leader in the community over almost a quarter of a century ago... what i find vastly amusing is that the same people trying to erase marsha and and sylvia point to stormé delarverie--who was also part of the transgender community and happy to be interviewed and featured in the portrait gallery of "transgender warriors". and for those who don't believe it was trans folx at stonewall and insist it was gay men and lesbians, a quote from stormé: "The cops got the surprise of their lives - those queens were not going to take it any longer."

[irvinenewshq]

Stormers stun Lions with excellent Ellis Park comeback

The Stormers surprised the Lions with an excellent second half efficiency to get better from a 12-point deficit to finally run out 31-22 (halftime 10-22) winners of their United Rugby Championship conflict at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon. The Lions will probably be bitterly disenchanted after a robust first half was adopted by a limp second half displaying, because the Stormers ran in three unanswered tries and 21 factors within the second 40 to clinch a improbable come from behind bonus level win. ALSO READ: Lions will probably be proud to see gamers crack Bok, SA A squads In the beginning of the match the Lions had been handed a superb begin as early Stormers infringements gave flyhalf Jordan Hendrikse two straightforward penalties to place the house aspect 6-0 up after six minutes. The guests then struck again with their first bit of fine play within the Lions 22m, as they earned a penalty 10m out, took a fast faucet and slung the ball out vast to wing Angelo Davids, who got rid of his reverse quantity Quan Horn and went over to attain. Flyhalf Manie Libbok nailed the touchline conversion to provide the Stormers a 7-6 lead after 11 minutes, earlier than Hendrikse put the Lions again in entrance with a penalty within the 17th minute. 5 minutes later a excessive sort out from Hendrikse noticed him yellow carded, with Libbok slotting the penalty to place the Stormers right into a 10-9 lead. The guests nonetheless then wasted the person benefit, conceding two penalties in that point, with Lions scrumhalf Sanele Nohamba stepping up and slotting them each, the primary from a tough place, to maneuver the house aspect again in entrance 15-10 after 31 minutes. With 4 minutes left within the half the Lions then scored their ultimate factors of the match, as fullback Andries Coetzee fielded an up and beneath from the Stormers and set off, beating just a few gamers on his strategy to the midway line the place he was tackled. Just a few offloads then noticed flank Emmanuel Tshituka break to the 22m, the place he discovered outdoors centre Henco van Wyk in help, with him ankle tapped, solely to stand up and energy over the road to attain, with Hendrikse’s extras giving the Lions a 22-10 lead which they took into halftime. Second half comeback A significantly better second half from the Stormers then noticed them battle again, with them first held up over the road, adopted by a maul strive being overturned after the TMO noticed obstruction. Nonetheless they bought the strive their play deserved within the 56th minute, as they attacked into the Lions half, bought to the 22m the place a fragile chip over the defence allowed inside centre Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu to discipline the ball and go over, with Libbok changing to make it 22-17. The Lions then had an opportunity to get themselves additional than a transformed strive forward with two penalties within the Sormers 22m, the second from useless in entrance, however they opted to faucet and go on each events, with the guests then incomes a penalty on their strive line. The Stormers then completed the match robust, with two tries within the ultimate 11 minutes, as fullback Clayton Blommetjies scythed via untouched and substitute free ahead Nama Xaba dotted down on the again of a strong maul, each transformed by Libbok to provide them a formidable comeback win. Scorers Lions: Strive – Henco van Wyk; Conversion – Jordan Hendrikse; Penalties: Hendrikse (3), Sanele Nohamba (2) Stormers: Tries – Angelo Davids, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Clayton Blommetjies, Nama Xaba; Conversions – Manie Libbok (4); Penalty: Libbok Originally published at Irvine News HQ

[screenandcinema]

Coming Attractions September 2021

As usual, we present monthly previews of new movies being released. These are the movies that will be hitting your local cinemas (and streaming services) this month:

September 3rd

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - The second of Marvel Studios’ four films in five months 2021 sprint is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The film marks Marvel’s first solo origin of a new character since 2018′s Captain Marvel and their first without an established co-character since 2016′s Doctor Strange. Not to mention, while the character has been around since 1973, he is probably the least known character to date to land his own film. Though Shang-Chi represents more than that, it is the first Marvel film from an Asian director and predominantly Asian cast. Not to mention the longest MCU title to date. If the trend follows that only one or maybe two movies a month during the pandemic are box office draws, you can guarantee that Shang-Chi will be September’s.

Cinderella - Camila Cabello stars as the titular future Disney princess in this Amazon Prime musical from Kay Cannon (the writer of the Pitch Perfect films). Rounding out the case include Idina Menzel as Cinderella’s evil stepmother, Minnie Driver and Pierce Brosnan as the land’s queen and king, and Billy Porter as Cinderella’s fairy godparent.

Worth - If you are looking to stay in during Labor Day weekend, check out Worth on Netflix starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan. The film revolves around the story of Kenneth Feinberg, the attorney tasked with running the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and calculating what each life lost that day was worth. The story is due to be depressing, but an important watch nonetheless.

September 10th

Malignant - Coming to theaters and HBO Max is a new horror film from director James Wan. This film looks bonkers and terrifying. Watch it with the lights on.

The Card Counter - Paul Schrader writes and directs this crime drama about a gambler hunted by his military past. Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe star.

Kate - Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as an assassin with only 24 hours left to live who is on the hunt for her would-be killers in this new Netflix film.

Queenpins - The release strategy for Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s new comedy caper co-starring Paul Walter Hauser and Vince Vaughn is a unique one. The film will be released exclusively in Cinemark Theaters on September 10th, then will be available to subscribers on Paramount+ on September 30th. Funny enough, it isn’t even a Paramount Studios film, Paramount+ just offered the most, apparently north of $20M, which isn’t too shabby for a film with a $7M budget. Which doesn’t include whatever Cinemark is shelling out for the exclusivity (unless they are the only one who wants it with the short theatrical window). Queenpins is a rare film that is profitable before it even opens.

Come from Away - AppleTV+ bought the rights to stream a recording from May 2021 of the Broadway musical Come from Away. The musical, set a week after the September 11th attacks, tells the true story of stranded plane passengers diverted to the small town of Gander in Newfoundland and Labrador. For years I have wanted to see Come from Away and I am looking forward to watching it finally very soon.

September 17th

Cry Macho - At 91 years old, director and actor Clint Eastwood is at it again with his adaptation of a novel of the same name that will be hitting both theaters and HBO Max this month. That’s all I got.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Jessica Chastian is Tammy Fake Bakker in this biographical drama about the life of the controversial televangelist and her husband Jim Bakker (played by Andrew Garfield).

Prisoners of the Ghostland - Nicolas Cage turns everything up to 11 in this neo-noir western action film from Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono. Early reviews had been fairly positive for the film that looks absolutely batshit crazy.

Copshop - Joe Carnahan directs Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo in this action thriller about a hitman, a con artist, and a small-town police officer.

September 24th

Dear Evan Hansen - Ben Platt returns to his Tony-award-winning role (and high school) in the film adaptation of the 2015 acclaimed Broadway musical of the same name. Kaitlyn Dever, Amanda Stenberg, Julianna Moore, and Amy Adams co-star.

Now for a quick look ahead to October, my top picks for next month are Dune, Last Night in Soho, The French Dispatch, and No Time to Die.

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